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Leadership for Continuous Improvement:

The inventory of attributes for effectively leading continuous improvement contains many dimensions and covers a wide array of actions, behaviors and functions for change. Leaders who excel in these areas demonstrate a proficiency for moving organizations forward and improving their people, processes, performance and profitability.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Paul W. Odomirok, for the past 30 years, has been involved in several careers form academia to corporate leadership to consulting to entrepreneur. In his "first career", he taught Mathematics and Computer Science at all levels of learning, from pre-school to post-PhD. He was even involved in designing graduate level curriculums at the University of South Carolina as an Adjunct Professor.

 His second career began in 1985 with NCR. Beginning as a Senior Programmer Analyst, he was promoted to Manager-Software Development, Product Manager, Manager-Product Management, Corporate Strategic Planner for Banking, Director-Retail Systems Product Integration, Director of Quality and Corporate Coach. During his stint in corporate America, he experienced the NCR/AT&T merger, and was responsible, as a Director of Quality, for the cultural transformation and change leadership for the Retail Systems Division organization in Duluth, Georgia.

He left NCR/AT&T in 1995 to pursue a consulting career, in the areas of Leadership, Team Development, Strategy, Structure, Systems and Organization Performance. Over the past 10 years, he has worked with more than 30 companies on over 50 different performance improvement projects and programs. In this time, he has created, owned and operated several businesses.

Both his B.S. and his graduate degrees are concentrated in Mathematics, which he utilizes today to teach Six Sigma Black Belt Training, Lean Manufacturing Principles using statistics, and other data analysis methods and approaches. He has been involved in research with Bell Labs for Technical Team Design and served on a Harvard research team on the "Events and Motivation" Study. With his combined experience, expertise and knowledge, he is able to assist and lead organizations through change and improvemen

He and his wife Edie have been married for 31 years, with four children, ages 30-20. He resides in Lawrenceville, Georgia and enjoys most outdoor activities.

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