Become a Trainer

Join our LAP Alliance Family!

We currently have a global demand from organisations across all industries to become more effective in Procurement / Partner Management or even Sales. In order to scale and serve the demand closer to our customers, we're looking for more enthusiastic trainers from all over the world.

Only Certified LAP Trainers are allowed to deliver certification courses and use the Lean-Agile Procurement brand and it's proprietary content.. 

What you bring in:

  • An Agile and open Mindset, based on Agile Values

  • Proven Expertise in Agile and Procurement, or Sales, Account-/ Partner Management and workshop facilitation

  • Eager to Learn & Share your Knowledge to drive the Global Movement together

  • Transparency about your Average of your Course & Coaching Satisfaction Levels

  • Acceptance of the Certified LAP Trainer Agreement

What you will get:

  • Ability to contribute on the thougth Leadership and drive the Global Movement Lean-Agile procurement

  • Access to Exclusive Communication Channels for Trainers

  • Jointly sharing & learning from and with other Thought Leaders

  • Access to a Body of Knowledge of guiding resources, applicable exercises & a library of success stories & statistics

  • Ability to Certify Participants in LAP (all current & future courses)

  • An easy to use Course Management Platform

  • Free attendance of events and courses from other Trainer

Join the Family NOW..

.. and become one of the 1st Certified LAP Trainers in your Region

Path to become a Certified LAP Trainer

Currently there are 2 paths to become a Certified LAP Trainer:

1. Train-the-Trainer Workshop (3-days / just 1x per year / in person)

2. Mentored Self-learning & Co-Training (at your pace / online or in person)

Steps in more Detail

These are the required steps to become a Certified LAP Trainer:

✅ Step 1: Become a certified LAP Practitioner (Credential 1)

✅ Step 2: Generate Impact in the Field

  • Use LAP, it’s principles, or parts of it and apply it in the field in your mandates and increase your knowledge by a case

  • Make some noise in your Market/Community via Talks / Blog Posts / etc.

✅ Step 3: Get promoted by another LAP Trainer, or an Invitation by the LAP Certification Committee

  • Write a short motivational letter (5-10 sentences) why you like to join the LAP Alliance and how you would like to contribute to push our movement together

  • Pass the interview with the LAP Certification Committee

  • Sign the Certified LAP Trainer License Agreement & provide all necessary data so that we can setup your accounts (Slack and prepare all other platforms we use)

✅ Step 4.1 Train-Trainer workshop (Option 1) ..

  • Pay the invoice of the TtT before it’ll take place

  • Prepare yourself with your experiences / challenges / questions from the field for a Collaborative learning with your peers and real procurement professionals. You’re Supposed to coach!

  • Pass all the learning objectives of TtT workshop guided by a LAP Mentor (efforts up to 3 days in total)

✅ Step 5: final interview with the LAP certification committee

  • Self-Reflection of your learnings, focus points, etc.

  • Final interviewed with the LAP certification committee

  • Pay the yearly trainer license fee

  • Get access to our shared body of knowledge, tools, etc.)

Key Values & Principles

Our key principles for developing new LAP Alliance Members / Certified LAP Trainers are:

  • Social & Cultural Fit (between people and what/how they are doing - looking from the outside in)

  • Quality over Quantity (Senior Agile/Lean coaches preferred, becoming a LAP trainer is by recommendation and/or invitation only.)

  • NO Exclusivity / Politics (LAP trainers agree to our code of conduct and are not given an exclusive market, nor do we prevent new trainers from entering the same market.)

  • Independence (Each LAP trainer retains his independence in his business.)

  • Non for Profit (You are not a business case - the LAP Alliance simply wants to cover the costs of running the movement.)

or ✅ Step 4.2 Mentored Self-Learning & Co-Training (Option 2)

  • Pass all the learning objectives of your online self-learning journey guided by a LAP Mentor (we try to keep total efforts similar to the TtT)

  • Increase your knowledge in LAP as a trainer by co-training with a LAP Mentor (most experienced LAP trainers, that are not from the same company)

You are not a Business Case!

Lean-agile Procurement isn’t about certifications and making a lot of money with it. It’s about changing the world for the better. We work to keep our prices fair, but we need some money to keep the movement going.

We basically know 2 kind of fees. Both are determined using a location-dependent price index. 

  • Our Fees are invoiced annually. Prices are in Euros.

    • Category A countries: 806€ per year

    • Category B countries: 743€ per year 

    • Category C countries: 617€ per year 

    • Category D countries: 365€ per yearCategory E countries: 239€ per yeares here

  • Our hourly-based license fee applies to all courses and applications of our licensed contents:

    • Category A countries: 62€ per hour

    • Category B countries: 58€ per hour

    • Category C countries: 43€ per hour

    • Category D countries: 23€ per hour

    • Category E countries: 16€ per hour

    • Online Workshops:      43€ per hour

    Example: For a trainer offering a two-day course (16 hours) in Germany — we charge 928€ = 16 hours x 58€.

    The hourly-based license fees do not apply for all sessions lasting 2 hours or less, as we encourage you to spread the word. 

  • Bermuda, Brunei, Falkland Islands, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Jersey, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Monaco, Norway, Qatar, San Marino, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates

  • Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States

  • Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Chile, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Faroe Islands, French Polynesia, Gabon, Greece, Greenland, Guam, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malta, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay, US Virgin Islands

  • Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cape Verde, China, Colombia, Congo Rep., Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Fiji, Georgia, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Serbia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza

  • Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo Dem. Rep., Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Micronesia, Moldova, Mozambique, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Niue, North Korea, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, State of Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Location-based Pricing is a Fair Pricing

It is very important to us, that the fees we ask for our services are fair and easy to bear for trainers and participants worldwide.

That is why our annual Trainer License Fee as well as the hourly-based Licence and event fees depend on the average GDP level per capita, per country, divided into five categories. It is not a perfect system, but it’s fairer than charging the same price to everyone.