Past Events
LIST OF PAST CONFERENCES AND TOPICS
"Nothing Happens Until Something Moves - The Impact of Poor Execution on Improvement and Culture Change" - 21st ASQ Annual Quality Management Conference, Irvine, CA, March, 2009
"Are You Walking By The Most Important Things To Fix?" - Keynote - Aggregate Producers of Wisconsin Annual Conference, December, 2008
"Defining Process Potential, Valuing the Gap, and Linking the Result to the Management System - The Triple Crown of Sustainable Improvement" - Arizona Rock Products Annual Conference, Laguna Beach, CA, June, 2008
"Su Doku Your Way to Organizational Effectiveness - Helping Departments "Think As One Mind" To Maximize Performance & Sustain Change" -
Arizona Quality Alliance Annual Conference, April, 2008
"Identifying and Valuing Untapped Potential" - 4-Hour Technical Session, SME Annual Conference, Salt Lake City Convention Center, February, 2008
"In the Eye of the Beholder" - Case Studies on the Implementation and Sustainability of Best Practice Initiatives. Industry
Summit on Mining Performance: How to Improve it, How to Sustain it, How to Reduce Costs (BPI Conference, Penn State), Tucson, AZ May, 2007
Two Sessions:
Technical Program Keynote – “The Power of an Hour”, Drilling & Blasting Track – Opening Session – “Hidden Opportunities to Increase D&B Productivity” MineWest ’06 – November 8-9, 2006, Denver Convention Center (Mining Media)
"The Power of an Hour" - Haulage and Loading Conference, Phoenix, 2006 (Mining Media)
"Management’s Unintentional Sabotage of Continuous Improvement: Barriers That Hide Opportunity and Prevent Culture Change" - Industrial Minerals Association of North America Annual Meeting, Tucson, 2006
Two Workshops:
"The Power of Process Optimums, Connecting Dollars to Problems – Valuation of Improvement Opportunities" - Industrial Minerals Technology Workshop ’06, Industrial Minerals Association of North America, Pittsburgh, 2006
"The Role of Senior Management in Continuous Improvement" - Executive Forums, (CEO mentoring organization) Phoenix, 2005
Two Sessions:
"Building a Productivity Culture – Surface and Underground Operations" - MineWest’05 – Improving Productivity, Denver Convention Center, 2005 (Mining Media)
“Building on Bentonite”– Hidden Factors that Sabotage Process Improvement Success" -
Industry Summit on Mining Performance: How to Improve It, How to Sustain It, How to Reduce Costs.(BPI Conference, Penn State), Denver, 2005
"Tracking Hidden Downtime – Delays Within the Maintenance Process" - Mincom North American Conference, Denver, 2004
"Maximizing Drill Performance through Proactive Delay Management" -
MINExpo 2004 – Technical Session, Las Vegas Convention Center
"Connecting People to Performance and Profits – Measuring “What’s Not Working” to Sustain Improvement" - Industry Summit on Mining Performance: How to Improve It, How to Sustain It, How to Reduce Costs (BPI Conference, Penn State), Pittsburgh, 2004
"Mining Economics in Arizona, the U.S. and the World" - Minerals in Society (Annual State-Wide AZ Teacher Education Program - voted “
Best Speaker” for 5 Consecutive Years)
"Using Liaisons to Improve Communications and Effectiveness of Mining Associations" - National Mineral Education Conference, Scottsdale, AZ.
"Copper 101" - Tempo International Convention, Scottsdale, AZ.
"Improving Your Business…and Your Life" - Mesa Chamber of Commerce, Mesa, AZ.
"Copper Processes and Equipment" - Phoenix Rotary Club
"Measuring What you Want to Change" - Right Management Consultants, Phoenix Office
"Improving Your Business…and Your Life" - East Valley SCORE, Phoenix Metro Area
"Copper 101" - Arizona Prospectors Club
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