The clarity kit - The predictable excellence certification


Alignment. Visible progress.
Meaningful outcomes.
Together.

With The Clarity Kit, build 
a culture, where work and
attention flow smoothly,
achievements are benchmarks,
and meaningful progress becomes the new normal.

Lose the Box. Keep the Ideas.

Stop forcing human pegs into framework holes. 

Agile. Lean. Six Sigma. SAFe. They’re tools, not mandates.
Build with their best ideas, ditch the dogma, design your team’s workflows and culture for your real needs.

It's time to level up.

Mission Control Beats Project Management

Project management is false-certainty – Mission Control rooms drive clarity.
Mission Control rooms show workflows, surfaces bottlenecks, and aligns teams in real-time.
Demolish guesswork. See everything. Act decisively.
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What's a Kit?

A Modus Kit is a certification that provides a purpose-driven practical toolkit aimed at a common sticky problem. Blending self-paced online classes with live, small and focused global workshops, creating a learning journey where you master skills through applied practice and peer collaboration. Earn certification alongside a worldwide community, with the flexibility to learn at your pace while staying connected to structured milestones.

Sign up now, start studying immediately.

Life is too short not to have predictable flexibility.
Courses

Online Videos for Depth and Discussions

Workshops

Hands On Live Workshops for Direct Experience

Your Context

Learn Everything Through Your Real Needs

Support and Community

Learn With and From (not just near) Your Peers.

Details

4 Workshops
3 Classes
3 Certificates of Completion
1 Certification
Price:

$ 1997 US
 

Predictable Excellence Certification

Build a Sustainable Culture | Solve Problems Immediately and Together

What Our Current Students are Saying

I was blown away today
with the storytelling section
of our Obeya class.

~ Tim N.
I'm really enjoying this, and am learning so much.

I just want to express my gratitude for making these ideas accessible.

So many questions have been stacking up in my mind, and the class is just knocking them down in a very logical way. I deeply appreciate that.

~ Philip A.
The class
already hit me in the face
and woke me up.

~ Andy S.

The Contents

Powerful. Practical. Proven.

What's in the Clarity Kit & Predictable Excellence Certification

From Alignment to Personal Kanban to Value Stream Mapping to Mission Control, the clarity kit has both recorded online content and direct experiential workshops. Study at your own pace, while working directly with globally-recognized experts to immediately apply what you have learned.

Four Workshops, Three Classes, Three Certificates, One Major Certification

  • Alignment and Collaboration: Alignment Workshop
  • Systems Thinking & Workflow: Intro. to Personal Kanban Class
  • Work in Context: Board Review and Coaching Workshop
  • See Your Workflow: Value Stream Mapping Class
  • Hands-On Deployment: Value Stream Mapping Workshop
  • Build Your Intent-Based System: Mission Control Class
  • Know Your Context: Mission Control Workshop
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Our Instructors

Meet the Modus

Jim Benson

Co-Founder, Modus Institute
Co-founder of Modus Institute, co-author and creator of the Shingo-awarded Personal Kanban and Lean Coffee, Jim is an internationally-recognized speaker and authority on visualizing and managing knowledge work.

As a pioneering voice in applying Lean principles and collaboration to knowledge work, he transforms how individuals and organizations approach complex challenges.

Senior faculty at the Lean Enterprise Institute, he brings decades of experience in making work visible, collaborative, and manageable. 

Through his latest book, The Collaboration Equation, Jim continues to evolve the practice of visual management, helping teams worldwide create more intuitive, collaborative, and productive workplaces.

His work bridges the gap between individual productivity and organizational success, showing how visualization can transform both personal effectiveness and team dynamics.

Tonianne DeMaria

Co-Founder, Modus Institute
Co-founder of Modus Institute, co-author of Shingo-awarded Personal Kanban, and faculty at Lean Enterprise Institute, Toni focuses on creating effective, brain-friendly workplaces. As a founding member of international research consortium Obeya Global, she helps organizations evolve through systems thinking and visual management.

An historian by training, she leverages a cross-disciplinary approach drawing from neuroscience, behavioral economics, and the work of W. Edwards Deming to help individuals and teams optimize through visualization tools and cognitive science. She integrates Lean methodologies with human-centered design to enhance both organizational value and human potential.

By aligning processes with natural thinking patterns, she builds workplace cultures where people and organizations thrive together.

Mark Kilby

Senior faculty, modus institute
Mark Kilby is an author and expert on distributed teams and remote work. In 2018, he published the book From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver, with co-author Johanna Rothman. In this book, Kilby provides advice and principles for managers and teams seeking to transition to working remotely using agile principles. Drawing on his extensive experience helping companies embrace location-independent work, Kilby offered practical guidance on topics ranging from managing remote workers to facilitating collaboration across distances. His writings and consulting have made him an influential voice in the growing field of distributed work.

Dave Prior

senior faculty, modus institute
Dave Prior, LAVM, PMP, PMI-ACP, CST, has been leading technology projects and helping individuals and teams find better ways to manage their work for over 25 years. He has managed projects, programs, PMOs, and portfolios and has focused on Agile since 1999.

Dave’s journey from waterfall to Agile was not an easy one, and this influences every aspect of his work and how he shows up every day with a simple goal: “...make the journey from waterfall to Agile less painful for others than it was for me."

Dave has been podcasting about Agile and Project Management since 2008. His podcast drunkenPM Radio’s Reluctant Agilist covers Agile basics, best practices for transitioning from waterfall to Agile, as well as guidance and advice from other Agile practitioners and thought leaders on how to address more advanced Agile topics.

In addition to his work at Modus, Dave is an Agile Coach and Consultant and he leads Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner , and Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner classes. He is also a member of the Scrum Alliance TAC. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.