3rd Annual Leadership Conference

Networking & Six Sigma Showcase

Opening Remarks - Mastering Excellence

Dick Smith, Partner, Strategic Change Practice and Partner-in-Charge of the Center of Excellence for Six Sigma Process Improvement Washington Consulting Practice, PwC Consulting

Raytheon Six Sigma

Dan Burnham, CEO, Raytheon

Operational Excellence within GlaxoSmithKline's Manufacturing & Supply Organization

Tim Tyson, President, Global Manufacturing & Supply, GlaxoSmithKline

Networking & Six Sigma Showcase

Steering the Enterprise Business Performance Approach

Bob Blyskal, Executive VP, Operations & Technology, Merck-Medco

Deployment Approach - From Initialization to Self Sufficiency

Don Redinius, Managing Partner, Six Sigma Qualtec

Leading Change: Constancy of Purpose and Continuing Acceleration

Tom Gurd, VP Quality & Business Excellence, Dow Chemical

Alignment of Corporate Strategies with Six Sigma

Grady Means, Managing Partner, Washington Consulting Practice, PwC Consulting

The Synergy of Six Sigma and Lean: The Power to Drive Sustain Value Creation

Michael George, CEO, George Group

Six Sigma in the Public Sector

Mike Mears, Director, CIA Leadership Academy

Six Sigma in Government

Graham Richard, Mayor Ft. Wayne, Indiana

Six Sigma: Improvement Methodology or Cultural Change?

John Desmarais, CEO, Commonwealth Health Corporation

Networking & Six Sigma Showcase

Passion - To Get Performance: What REAL Leaders Do

Robert Blaha, President, Human Capital Associates and Roxanne O'Brasky, President, ISSSP

Six Sigma with Jack Welch

A 45-minute moderated session plus a 45-minute panel and audience participation Q & A with our Honored Guest. Leadership Award presented to Jack Welch by ISSSP President, Roxanne O'Brasky

Book Signing with Jack Welch

Receive a personalized, autographed copy of Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch.

Mingle with Jack Welch

Networking Reception with Jack Welch. Hosted by BMG

Networking & Six Sigma Showcase

Update on 6 Sigma Supplier Deployment at Caterpillar

Daniel Murphy, VP, Global Purchasing, Caterpillar Inc.

Project Identification and Definition Workshop

David Silverstein, CEO, Breakthrough Management Group Inc.

The Road Less Traveled - Six Sigma in Healthcare

Joe Calvaruso, CEO, Mount Carmel Health System

Networking & Six Sigma Showcase

Roundtable Discussions

Six Sigma Success in Financial Services Linking Six Sigma and Baldridge Excellence Factors Overcoming the Obstacles to "True" Success Understanding Process Management's Relationship to Six Sigma: BACK TO THE FUTURE!! HR and Six Sigma: Rewards, Recognition, Motivation and Compensation Six Sigma and Strategic Alliances: Managing Value Streams and Relationships for Optimal Performance Value on Investment (VOI) - Business Process Management: Why is BPM the Catalyst for Achieving Six Sigma? Accelerating Business Results with Six Sigma Building a Resource Network for the Six Sigma Community

Roundtable Discussions

Six Sigma - Your Role in Keeping it from Becoming Just Another Fad Business Results - The Financial Impacts of Six Sigma Project Selection: Finding Bad Projects Before They Find You Maintaining Momentum of your Six Sigma Effort, Year 2 and Beyond Six Sigma 2010 - How Can We Shape the Evolution? The Integrated Approach to Problem Solving Using Key Performance Indicators and Ensure the Sustainability of Major Change Programs Certification: Are Your "Belts" Fit? Using WorkOut™ Tools to Shape a Vision for Certification

Using Six Sigma to Improve Engineering Capabilities

Linda Mills, VP Six Sigma, TRW

Deploying Six Sigma in a Mortgage Bank

Randy Canfield, VP Six Sigma, IndyMac Bank and Larry Ciolek, MBB Consultant, Six Sigma Academy

Successes & Pitfalls: Lessons Learned in Implementing Six Sigma

Daniel Varnum, VP — Performance Excellence, Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Ellen Gaucher, Group VP Operations Quality & Customer Satisfaction, Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Networking & Six Sigma Showcase

Digital Tools to Sustain Your Six Sigma Deployment

Terry Buske, Six Sigma Academy

BizFlow: REAL Business Process Management for DMAIC

Linus Chow & John Salimbene, Handysoft

Worldwide Implementation Approaches to Six Sigma: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Thomas Bertels, Rath & Strong

Innovative Design for Six Sigma (I-DFSS)

Richard Chua, Executive VP & Managing Director, Juran Institute

Six Sigma eLearning and Six Sigma ProjX

David Silverstein, CEO, Breakthrough Management Group Inc.

Transactional Black Belts are Different: Six Sigma in Service and Transaction Environments

Bill Moore, Six Sigma Qualtec

Application of DFSS to E-Business: DFSS @ e-Speed

Supriya Desai, PwC Consulting

Organizational Challenges in Six Sigma Deployment Workshop

Warner Burke, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology & Education, Department of Organization & Leadership, Columbia University and Dick Smith, Partner Strategic Chance Practice and Partner-in-Charge, Six Sigma Center of Excellence and Jerry Blakeslee, Partner, Six Sigma Center of Excellence

Beyond Six Sigma: A Holistic Approach to Improving Business Results

Pete Robustelli, Executive VP, Six Sigma Qualtec

Six Sigma Deployment in Healthcare: The Role of Leadership

Alan Cooper, VP Center for Learning & Innovation, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System

Deconditioning Six Sigma Beliefs

David Silverstein, CEO, Breakthrough Management Group Inc.

Six Sigma Facilitates Cultural Transformation at a Brazilian Insurance Co.

Antonio Cassio dos Santos, President and CEO, Veracruz

Leading Strategic Breakthrough Improvement with Six Sigma

Alex Eksir, Director, Strategic Project Management, General Dynamics Advanced Info. Systems

Expanding Service Quality for the New Millennium

Bill Rohan, VP, Property & Casualty Process Redesign, CNA Financial Corp.

Leadership in Driving Strategic Process Improvement

Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the House and Strategic Advisor to PwC Consulting

Closing Remarks

Roxanne O'Brasky, President, ISSSP