WM ManufacturingNEXT Event-Virtual

Learn how to inspire the hearts, minds, and hands of your team members!

Join us on May 17 to learn more about what it takes to understand and leverage the unique skill sets and capabilities of your team members to make the greatest impact on your organization.

It’s been said, the only constant is change. The dynamics of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) are causing organizations to rethink the status quo and embark on the lean/agile journey.  As organizations evolve, the focus on the people is equally, if not more important than the framework and processes implemented. This session will focus on understanding your own ‘shape’ or employee type as well as your team members types to leverage existing skills and develop future focused skills.

Matrina Poston (CWP, CPEC, SPC, MSA, PMP), Professional Facilitator, Davenport University IPEx, will walk participants through understanding and leveraging member skill “shapes”, developing “E shaped” team members to drive organizational change, continuous improvement and innovation.

Following the presentation, Trina will be joined by a panel of experts as they share real life experiences supporting effective problem-solving teams.

Trina Poston

Trina is a catalyst for positive change with a track record of engaging executives and staff members to generate new ideas and increase overall performance. She is skilled at creating strategic alignment of people, purpose, and procedure to create exceptional customer experiences and drive business results. Trina enjoys leading cross functional teams to develop integrated, lean processes. Her passion is leveraging existing human capital to create and implement customer focused solutions and teaching others to use their skills and potential.

Panel

Shelby Bytwerk

Shelby has been the director of production operations at MillerKnoll since March 2022. Previously, Shelby was senior operations manager for a few years at MillerKnoll (formerly known as Herman Miller). Before she joined MillerKnoll she spent her career in a variety of companies focusing on operations and production teams. Shelby is an Inforum steering committee member of ManufacturingNEXT industry group where she participates as a mentor, which focuses on advancing the careers of female managers. Overall the group has mentored over 60 women employed in over 20 manufacturing companies in West Michigan. 

Rima Jasser

Rima is the Global Director for Lean and Six Sigma.  She assumed this role in June of 2022.  In this role, Rima is responsible for Global Lean and Six Sigma Implementation with key focus on standardization, waste elimination and culture change.  She is currently the Women Of Ford Manufacturing Co-Lead and serves on the Board of Directors for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. Previously, Rima was the Final and Paint Area Manager at Michigan Assembly Plant and Final Area Manager at Chicago Assembly Plant.  She served in those capacities from August of 2019 – May of 2022. From 2015-1019, Rima was the Global Industrial Engineering Manager for powertrain. In this role, Rima was responsible for globally developing new program capacity strategy including operating patterns, determining launch curves and build ahead plans, leading direct, indirect and salaried labor staffing for new programs, supporting the machine acceptance process, delivering design for ergonomics, assessing overall productivity constraint analysis on new programs, administering the engineered JPH database, validation of production systems for FIS, and developing IE standards.

Chad Lundquist

Chad is the Continuous improvement manager at Flexfab LLC in Hastings Mi.   He graduated with a bachelors in Human Resource Management from Western Michigan University in 2004.  He has worked in manufacturing for 28 years as a production supervisor and manager.  He received his lean manufacturing and office certificates in 2019 from the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center when he took his role in Continuous improvement.   Focused on the Toyota Kata methodology to drive CI, Chad has been a speaker at the Kata Practitioner Day and the Barry County Economic Summit. He is a core member and developer of the Flexfab Foundations training curriculum classes where he teaches the leadership module.   Chad is a certified administrator for the DiSC behavioral assessment with over 250 assessments completed.

Tickets:

Inforum Members- $25

Nonmembers/Guests- $35

Table sponsorhsip- $400 (8 tickets)

CI Gratis tickets may be used for this event

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