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Planting the Seeds and Paving the Way for Successful Lean Leadership and Culture 10:00 a.m. -- 11:00 a.m. Harness the hearts and minds of your people to build a culture of continuous improvement. Ask any lean leader today and you'll get passionate discussion about what it takes to truly transform into a lean enterprise. Everyone will agree that it is imperative to change the mindset of people and that sustaining change requires passionate leadership. Lean leaders must translate the benefits of lean at every level of the organization. A lean leader creates an unwavering passion and excitement for a lean growth strategy and drives cultural transformation across the enterprise. The result: sustained competitive advantage and increased shareholder value. Join Bill Schwartz, Executive Vice President, TBM Consulting Group, as he and corporate executive coach, Jerome Davis, Jerome L. Davis & Associates, as they highlight the three key areas of leadership required to meet your full potential: development, technical competency and relationships and character. Explore common characteristics of lean leaders. Find out how to transition from being a leader to being a LEAN leader. They will highlight approaches to implementation and outline standard work for executing a lean transformation. Leave with energy and ideas to help clarify your role in creating a lean culture. In the end, you'll find ways to go faster and create a sense of urgency throughout your organization. Speakers  Jerome Davis, President, Jerome
L. Davis & Associates
Jerome Davis has more than 28 years of progressively responsible experience domestically and internationally in four Fortune 500 companies. He has been directly responsible for as many as 23,000 employees with revenues in excess of $3.1 Billion. Davis served in several Executive capacities for Electronic Data Systems, a business and technology services company. Including global vice president of service excellence, chief client executive officer worldwide and president of the Americas for business process management. Prior to joining Electronic Data Systems, Davis served as president and executive officer of the Commercial Solutions Division of Maytag Corporation, a home and commercial appliance company. And as senior vice president and officer of sales for Maytag Appliances Division. Davis also held executive positions with Frito Lay, a division of PepsiCo which included vice president of national accounts and area vice president for Frito Lay. Davis has also held senior positions in sales and marketing with Procter & Gamble. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors of two publicly traded corporations: Apogee Enterprises, Inc. based in Minneapolis, and as Director for GameStop, Inc. based in Dallas, Texas.  Bill
Schwartz, Executive Vice President, TBM Consulting Group, Inc.
A partner with TBM since 1991, Bill Schwartz is head of worldwide business development. He has introduced lean principles at dozens of companies over the years and often launches LeanSigma® initiatives for new clients. Schwartz has a widely recognized expertise in translating lean principles for business processes in manufacturing and service industries. He is currently responsible for marketing and new client development for TBM Consulting Group worldwide, and has consulted with such leading companies as Freudenberg-NOK, the Critikon Division of Johnson & Johnson, and Hill-Rom Company. Schwartz's expertise in streamlining and optimizing business processes makes him much sought after as a consultant. Earlier in his career, Schwartz was a senior consultant with Howell Management Corporation and was vice president of sales and marketing for Medallic Art Company. A graduate of Colgate University with a degree in mathematics, Schwartz earned his master's in business administration from New York University's Stern School of Business. Hoshin Planning: Vision-driven Leadership 11:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m. Learn how many organizations are using this proven approach to enhance and accelerate their Performance Excellence or Quality Improvement deployments. 'Ho-Shin Kan-Ri', or Hoshin Planning is a unique 'Japanese management tools' that can make breakthrough improvements during your strategic planning sessions! In this session you will learn about the history of Hoshin and walk through the key themes that are involved in its application. Specific topics will include:
Speaker  Wes
Waldo, Vice President for the Manufacturing Practice, Breakthrough Management
Group
Wes Waldo is a certified Lean Master with more than a fifteen years of quality, operations management and process improvement experience in diverse manufacturing environments. Waldo graduated from Appalachian State University with a bachelor's in chemistry. He became a Certified Lean Master at The Ohio State Fisher College of Business. He is also an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer. Waldo co-authored the BMG book A Team Leader's Guide to Kaizen Events, and is a contributor to the Idiot's Guide to Lean Six Sigma and forthcoming innovation tools book. Behavioral Approaches to Safety Excellence 2:00 p.m. -- 3:00 p.m. This presentation works with the Principles of Behavior-Based safety. The traditional approach to safety is to enforce safety performance on workers. As well, we have for years seen environmental conditions as the key contributor to accidents. This presentation demonstrates new approaches to having safety led by everyone. That one of the key contributors in injuries is employee behavior. And it will look at why we behave like we do and how many times what we do is influenced or induced by decisions of the organization. We will cover how new behavioral approaches including employee engagement obtain the best safety results. And even more, how these same methods and principles contribute systemically to the overall performance of the organization. This is a don't miss presentation that will have the attendees see not just how to make step function improvements in safety performance, but because the methodologies professed are systemically tied to all functional areas of the business, the impacts are very far reaching and will impact the organization's bottom line in multiple ways. Speaker  Bob Veazie, Senior Consultant,
Safety Performance Solutions
Bob Veazie earned a bachelor's in finance from Cal Poly SLO and a master's in business administration from Long Beach State. He spent 2 years each with Shell Oil and Fluor before joining Hewlett-Packard. At HP, Veazie spent time in accounting and production management, an internal safety consultant (including acting as HP's internal behavior-based safety consultant), an internal quality systems consultant (e.g., ISO 9000), culminating his 24 year HP career as a marketing change agent. Following his retirement from HP, Veazie worked as a safety management consultant for the State of Oregon and as quality manager at Nypro. While at HP, Veazie worked directly for the IJBU exec team for developing the behavior-based safety process for the business unit of 15,000 employees, introduced behavior-based safety at several sites around the world, and oversaw creating of HP's internal implementation guide / manual for behavior-based safety. Not coincidentally, HP's recordable injury rate declined by one-third during this period. Veazie has studied Organizational Development since 1992 reading hundreds of books on the topic, attending numerous conferences with key thought leaders Peter Senge, Meg Wheatley, David Whyte, Juanita Brown, Peter Block, Tom Peters and others. This background further enables Veazie to apply key principles of effective organizational change to safety and management process development. Starting with his work with quality systems, Veazie began to see the parallels between behavior-based safety, quality and management processes. Working for the State of Oregon and Nypro allowed him the opportunity to see the direct intersection of safety and quality systems. It was then Veazie realized he could make a bigger impact in the consulting world. Veazie has been a keynote speaker at numerous conferences and conveys his message with passion and energy, focusing on the direct application of concepts and principles using simple, easy to understand examples helping create value for the organization. He has also published safety articles in Professional Safety and ISHN. Everybody Everyday: Managing for Daily Improvement 3:15 p.m. -- 4:15 p.m. Lean is not just about deploying lean tools. It is about engaging every person for continuous improvement every day. The pace of this continuous improvement is what defines a genuinely lean company. In this session you will learn principles, tools and systems for managing daily improvement. Principles guide every person through daily continuous improvement no matter what role they play or what time of day. Learn how to build a culture on true behavior-based principles. Also learn how to build a true ideas system, not the suggestion systems that most people deploy, that allow people to engage quickly and easily in continuous improvement of their own work. Finally, learn the critical success factors that make daily improvement work, including the REAL purpose of lean tools such as pull and 5S. Speaker  Jamie Flinchbaugh, Founder and
Partner, Lean Learning Center
Jamie Flinchbaugh is a founder and partner of the Lean Learning Center in Novi, Michigan, and the co-author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road. He shares his successful and varied experiences of lean transformation as a practitioner and leader through companies such as Chrysler and DTE Energy. He also has a wide range of practical experience in industrial operations, including production, maintenance, material control, product development, and manufacturing engineering. Flinchbaugh is a graduate fellow of the highly regarded Leaders for Manufacturing Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his research thesis was on implementing lean manufacturing through factory design. He also holds a bachelor's in engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Penn. and a master's in engineering from the University of Michigan. In 2006, he was named to Crain Detroit's 40 Under 40 list for his accomplishments. Thursday, April 3 Create a Training Program that Pays a Measurable Return 8:45 a.m. -- 9:45 a.m. Best plants begin with a commitment to maintaining the best workforce. Jack Schron, president of Tooling U, presents an overview of the latest education and training methods that help enable successful manufacturers meet the growing skills gap in labor. Learn how to achieve corporate goals by increasing productivity, efficiency and innovation through effective training methods. Gus Bliese, Global Sourcing Educational Training Consultant for GE Healthcare Clinical Systems, presents a current case study of his global training initiative that continues to produce measurable results for his workforce. Speakers  Jack Schron, President and
Co-founder of Tooling U
Jack Schron is president and co-founder of Tooling U and President of Jergens Inc. With Jergens Inc. since 1978, he held various manufacturing positions until being named president in 1987. Schron also serves on many boards of directors such as the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Industrial Supply & Manufacturers Association and the National Institute for Metalworking Skills. He holds a bachelor's degree from Florida Southern College and a juris doctor from Ohio Northern University.  Gus
Bliese, Global Sourcing Educational Training Consultant, GE Healthcare Clinical
Systems
Gus Bliese recently returned to GE Healthcare after retiring in 2006 with 31 years of employment. He currently serves as their Global Sourcing Educational Training Consultant . His 31 years at GE included a variety of managerial positions in the areas of shop operations, inventory control, production planning & control, warehousing & logistics, master scheduling and manufacturing engineering. His academic credentials include an associate's in machine design from Waukesha Technical College, a bachelor's in industrial technology from the University of Wisconsin Stout and a master's in business administration from the University of Wisconsin Whitewater. Sustaining Your Continuous Improvement Initiatives 10:00 a.m. -- 11:00 a.m. It's one thing to start on the road to manufacturing excellence. There's the newness of the endeavor, the quick wins as picking off "low-hanging fruit" leads to immediate performance improvements. Much harder is maintaining the drive to excel once it becomes clear that continuous improvement has no finish line, but instead is ongoing. Attend this session to discover best practices to sustain a continuous-improvement culture. Speaker  Iain Clarke, Director: Global
Manufacturing Excellence, Molson Coors Brewing Company
Iain Clarke was born and raised in Zimbabwe and educated at the Universities of Natal in South Africa, and Warwick in the United Kingdom, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Engineering and an MBA. During his study years Clarke worked for the Anglo American Corporation in various nickel, coal and gold mines around South Africa and Zimbabwe, and upon graduation, joined AECI, a petrochemical company. He spent nine years working in various project, maintenance and engineering roles, and during this time was awarded a three year Overseas Industrial Bursary working for ICI in the United Kingdom. At the beginning of 1989 Clarke moved into the brewing industry, and spent the next 12 years working for SABMiller, initially in maintenance, engineering management and operations roles, but transitioning to world class manufacturing or operations excellence leadership for the latter part of this period. SABMiller are an industry leader in manufacturing performance, and have used this competence as a competitive advantage in their globalization efforts -- they are now the second largest brewing organization in the world. In 2001 Clarke was lured by the promise of a new and exciting opportunity with Coors Brewing Company in the United States, and initially joined as director of corporate engineering. Based on his experience with world class manufacturing he was however quickly moved into roles responsible for manufacturing and supply chain strategy. Following the acquisition of much of Bass Breweries in the United Kingdom, and the merger with Molson Canada, Iain is now in the role of director of global manufacturing excellence for Molson Coors Brewing Company. Clarke is a Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council in the UK, a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and has presented numerous papers on manufacturing improvement in a number of different countries. He has had the enviable opportunity to work on four different continents, and has participated in the planning and execution of the Supply Chain World Conference from 2005 through 2008. Managing in a Union Environment 11:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m. A panel of operational and union leaders will discuss how they resolved the challenges of implementing continuous improvement in their plants. Moderated by Jill Jusko, IndustryWeek Senior Editor and Best Plants Coordinator. Panelists  Dale Ulbrich, HR Manager,
Batesville Casket Co.
Dale Ulbrich has thirty five years experience in Human Resources and Labor Relations. He has been the manager of human resources at Batesville Casket Company since July 2005 when he joined the Vicksburg Operations of Batesville. Previous employers include Gould Inc, and The Babcock & Wilcox Company. Ulbrich has also taught personnel management at Texas Christian University and served as an Executive in Residence at Mississippi State University, teaching Labor Relations and Management Policies in their MBA program. Ulbrich earned his bachelor's from Valparaiso University and his master's in business administration from the University of Alabama. Eric Tharp, Production Resource Leader, International Truck and Engine Corporation Conference speakers, topics, and sessions are liable to change at any time. Last Updated February 22, 2008. |
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