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RCA: The Sensei Blueprint

The complete root cause process I learned from Japanese Sensei — at the speed of AI.

 ✔ Define the real problem — not the loudest symptom everyone's reacting to.

✔ Isolate the direct causes — before you ever chase a root cause. The step most investigations skip.

✔ Get to the actual root cause — the systems and standards that allowed the problem to exist.

✔ Sustain the corrective actions — so the problem becomes physically impossible to recur.

✔ Close the investigation formally — present updates that earn leadership buy-in and land across the organization.

✔ Use AI the right way — to pressure-test your thinking, not to think for you.

Sounds simple? Inside each of these are key steps that must be followed in a specific, sequential order to get results. That sequence is what I was taught by Japanese Sensei over more than a decade — and it's exactly what I'll teach you inside the course.

About Chad Burroughs

Chad Burroughs is the founder of LearnKaizen.com, a continuous improvement training platform built on nearly three decades of hands-on practitioner experience.

He holds an MBA from UNC Chapel Hill and a degree in Industrial Engineering — but the real education happened on the floor, under Japanese Sensei who didn't accept surface-level answers. No shortcuts. No templates to fill out. Just the problem, the process, and the standard expected of you.

That combination — rigorous academic grounding and years of direct Sensei training — is what this course is built on.

Since then, Chad has led investigations, built CI teams, and developed people inside some of the most demanding manufacturing organizations in the world — across Aerospace, Automotive, Biotech, and Life Sciences. Everything in this course comes from that work, translated into practical, repeatable skills that hold up under pressure, in front of leadership, and on the production floor.

What you get for free, right now:

The RCA Field Guide — a one-page framework with the three principles Sensei taught me for reaching a real root cause. Print it. Pin it to your wall. Use it Monday.

Two free lessons — on the single most important part of the whole methodology: how to define a problem before you try to solve it. It's where nearly every investigation goes wrong, right at the start.