I’m a Lean Six Sigma Conference Speaker. Yes, my face is on the front cover of the brochure. But, little does the audience know that that picture (I’m the second, from the left, but better viewed in the PDF brochure) was taken while I was sitting on a fake sheep during a family trip to the animal farm at Thanksgiving Point in Utah. I cropped just my face for submission to the event organizers, but the “real” picture is of me, at the insistence of my kids, sitting on a fake sheep.
I’m speaking at an event, but I’m not boasting
In the grand scheme of things or in the local minutia of our lives, I’m pretty much nobody. Gratefully, though, I am somebody in the eyes of my children and my wife. That is what matters to me. And, when my head gets big, worldly and prideful, for some unfounded reason or other, I’m reminded by my 1-year old and 9-week old, as I change their dirty diapers, of what is really and truly important in life: it’s certainly not notoriety or money, but that I matter to my children and wife, that I’ve nurtured and build relationships with people, and that I am adding value to the world in my own little way.
If you are still reading this post, unannoyed and with dry eyes, let me make an announcement and an invitation:
You are cordially invited to a pretty cool Lean Six Sigma Summit to be held on April 28 – May 2, 2008. I’ll be speaking at the event, along with other, much-more distinguished folks, whose names are below:
Richard P. Miller
President and CEO
VIRTUA HEALTH
Lee Cockerell
Former Executive Vice
President of Operations
THE WALT DISNEY WORLD RESORT
Russell W. Ford
President and CEO
PRESTOLITE ELECTRIC INCORPORATED
Craig Long
Vice President, Quality and Six Sigma
MILLIKEN AND COMPANY
Roger Myers
Vice President Process Improvement (GIS)
COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION
Nancy Pratt
Senior Vice President, Clinical Effectiveness
SHARP HEALTHCARE
Michael G. Winston
Managing Director and Chief Leadership Officer
COUNTRYWIDE FINANCIAL
Ellen Domb
Founding Editor
THE TRIZ JOURNAL
Debra Levantrosser
Executive Director, Lean/Supply Chain
JOHNSON & JOHNSON
Pete Abilla
Head of Process Improvement for Customer Service, North America
EBAY
Betsi Harris Ehrlich
Director of Six Sigma and Master Black Belt
TYCO INTERNATIONAL
Adam Hjerpe
Senior Director of Quality, Programme Management
UNITED HEALTH GROUP
Gregory Robertson
Director of Six Sigma
BLACK & VEATCH CORPORATION
Martina Kuhlmeyer
Executive Vice President of Six Sigma
TEXTRON FINANCIAL
Jeff Johnson
Master Black Belt
TEXTRON FINANCIAL
Anthony Orzechowski
Director of R&D Quality Engineering
ABBOTT DIAGNOSTICS
Bruce Bryant
Senior Management Analyst and Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
DEFENCE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Brian Geschwindt
Managing Master Black Belt
QUEST DIAGNOSTICS
Nathan Guerdet
Operations Manager
WELLS FARGO FINANCIAL
Praveen Gupta
Six Sigma Author & President
ACCELPER CONSULTING
Alex Bellabarba
Head of Process Improvement for Customer Service, Europe
EBAY
James Warner, P.E
Director Industrial Division
MINNESOTA POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY
Tony Coomer
Vice President of Continuous Improvement
LEAR CORPORATION
Dr Stephen Hoover
Vice President Xerox Research Center
XEROX CORPORATION
Patricia Atkins
Lean Six Sigma Director
SHARP HEALTHCARE
Teresa Hay McMahon
Performance Results Director
STATE OF IOWA DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT
Paul Pfeiffenberger
Master Black Belt and Global Continuous
Improvement Manager
AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS
Steven Lesser
Vice President, Supply Chain North America
ORICA
Mike Shuck
Manufacturing Specialist
CHICAGO MANUFACTURING CENTER
Brent Tadsen
Master Black Belt – Lean
GE RAILCAR
Ronnie Pate
Director of Six Sigma Initiatives, Global Supply Chain
CINTAS CORPORATION
Jerry Bussell
Vice President of Global Operations
MEDTRONIC ENT/NT
Dr Michael O™Connor
Director of Global Lean Deployment and Master Black Belt
UNISYS
Richard Lam
Lean Six Sigma Corporate Deployment Leader
BMO FINANCIAL GROUP
James Wasiloff
Master Black Belt and Lead Deployment Advisor, TACOM Life
Cycle Management Command US ARMY
Srisu Subrahmanyam
Vice President, Continuous Improvement
UNITED AIRLINES
Prof. Deborah J. Nightingale
Director
LEAN ADVANCEMENT
INITIATIVE, LAI
Please come. It should be a fun event. There will also be a behind-the-scenes tour of United Airlines and a peek into their Lean Deployment. I’m really looking forward to that.
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