Innovating quality, driving success
Welcome to NextGen Quality & Lean Consulting
Transforming Quality into a Competitive Advantage
At NextGen Quality & Lean Consulting, we help organizations achieve higher levels of quality, operational excellence, and sustainable business performance.
Our experienced team supports organizations across aerospace, defense, oil and gas, medical, healthcare, and other highly regulated industries. We partner with leadership and teams to solve complex challenges, strengthen operations, reduce costs, and build a culture of continuous improvement.
Learning From People Who Have Done the Work
Our training is led by professionals who understand the realities of running and improving an operation. Our instructors and consultants have managed teams, led transformations, facilitated improvement events, solved complex business problems, and delivered measurable operational results.
For example, our Lean expertise includes leadership of major Lean transformations, multi-site continuous improvement programs, hands-on Kaizen facilitation, Lean Business System deployment, and the development and delivery of Lean training programs. Our team also brings a combination of extensive industry experience, formal education, and professional Lean training and coaching expertise.
This combination of industry leaders, hands-on practitioners, managers, directors, and educators enables NextGen to offer more than consulting. We help organizations learn, apply, improve, and sustain.
What We Do
We help organizations move beyond simply meeting compliance requirements. Our focus is on building practical, effective systems that improve performance and deliver measurable results.
Our expertise includes:
- Reducing the Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ)
- Developing and improving Quality Management Systems
- Achieving and maintaining audit readiness
- Improving process performance and operational efficiency
- Solving complex and recurring quality problems
- Strengthening supplier quality and performance
- Leading Lean transformation and continuous improvement initiatives
- Building internal capability for long-term success
Lean & Six Sigma Training and Certification
NextGen Quality & Lean Consulting is committed to developing people—not just improving processes.
We provide practical Lean and Six Sigma training and certification programs designed to help employees at every level become more effective problem solvers and improvement leaders.
Our programs include certification training for:
- Lean Foundations
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Six Sigma Black Belt
Our approach goes beyond traditional classroom training. Participants learn by applying Lean and Six Sigma tools to real projects and actual business challenges. We work directly with teams to identify improvement opportunities, define meaningful projects, solve problems, and deliver measurable results.
The goal is to help organizations develop their own internal capability—creating teams that can continue driving improvements in quality, cost, delivery, productivity, and customer satisfaction.
Quality, Compliance & Audit Readiness
Our experts have extensive experience supporting organizations in meeting demanding industry, regulatory, and customer requirements, including:
AS9100 • AS13100 • ISO 9001 • ITAR • FAA • NADCAP • Customer-Specific Requirements
We help organizations prepare for audits with confidence while building systems that are practical, sustainable, and aligned with business objectives.
Our Commitment
At NextGen, we believe that the best solutions create lasting capability.
We don't just identify problems and provide recommendations. We work alongside your leadership and teams to develop practical solutions, strengthen systems, train people, and implement improvements that can be sustained over time.
NextGen Quality & Lean Consulting
Developing People. Strengthening Systems. Delivering Results.
Our services
We offer specialized Quality, Lean, Six Sigma, consulting, training, and certification services designed to meet the unique challenges of aerospace, defense, automotive, oil and gas, medical, healthcare, and other regulated industries. Our goal is to deliver practical, customized solutions that strengthen teams and systems, improve performance, and drive measurable, sustainable results.
Quality system development
We help you build and optimize quality systems that meet industry standards and regulatory requirements, ensuring compliance and continuous improvement.
Audit readiness
Our comprehensive audit preparation services ensure you're fully prepared for regulatory and customer audits, minimizing risk and maximizing success.
COPQ reduction
We identify and eliminate the root causes of poor quality, reducing costs and improving efficiency through targeted lean methodologies.
Practical Lean and Six Sigma training and certification programs
Empower your team with our expert-led training programs and workshops, equipping them with the skills and knowledge to drive continuous improvement.
About NextGen Quality & Lean
NextGen Quality & Lean is built on experience, expertise, and a passion for developing people and improving organizations.
Founded and led by Thamer Bajory, NextGen Quality & Lean brings together a team of experienced industry professionals, operational leaders, quality experts, Lean practitioners, educators, and trainers. Our team members have served in hands-on leadership roles including managers, directors, executives, engineers, and continuous improvement leaders across complex and highly regulated industries.
Our experience spans aerospace, defense, automotive, oil and gas, medical, healthcare, and other demanding manufacturing and operational environments.
What makes NextGen different is the combination of real-world, hands-on experience and academic expertise. Our team includes professionals who have led organizations and improvement initiatives from the shop floor to the executive level, as well as experienced educators and instructors who bring strong teaching and training capabilities. This allows us to combine practical industry knowledge with proven learning methods to deliver training and solutions that people can understand, apply, and sustain.
We don't believe in simply providing presentations, reports, or generic recommendations. We work directly with leadership teams and employees to solve real problems, improve processes, and build internal capability.
Our Expertise
The NextGen team helps organizations:
- Train and certify employees in Lean and Six Sigma methodologies
- Build practical and audit-ready Quality Management Systems
- Reduce the Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ)
- Strengthen corrective action, CAPA, and root cause analysis processes
- Implement Lean and continuous improvement systems
- Improve quality, cost, delivery, productivity, and customer satisfaction
- Prepare for regulatory, certification, customer, and third-party audits
- Develop internal problem-solving and continuous improvement capabilities
Our team brings extensive experience implementing and improving systems based on AS9100, AS13100, and ISO 9001, as well as supporting organizations through demanding regulatory, accreditation, and customer audit requirements.
Our Mission
Our mission is to partner with organizations to develop people, strengthen systems, solve problems, and create sustainable improvements that drive quality, operational excellence, compliance, and profitability.
At NextGen Quality & Lean, we bring together the experience of practitioners who have done the work and the expertise of educators who know how to teach it—helping your people build the knowledge, skills, and confidence to deliver lasting results.
Real-World Experience. Expert Training. Sustainable Results.

Contact
Address:
65 Memorial Rd,
West Hartford, CT 06107
NextGen:
860-796-4469
860-919-8269
Opening Hours
Mon - Fri: 9am - 5pm
Socials: Thamer Bajory | LinkedIn