As AME embraces its own continuous improvement journey in how it supports its members, in 2025/26 AME will be introducing AME Centers of Excellence focused on the rapidly expanding world of enterprise excellence. Initial Centers of Excellence will focus on the following areas:
- Emerging trends
- Technology
- Supply chain
- People-centric leadership
- Defense
- Healthcare
- Education/continuous learning
Reflecting AME's commitment to collaboration, the team will, for the first time in its 40-year history, be offering strategic partnerships with best-in-class providers to co-create their new Centers of Excellence.
These strategic partnerships will allow partners to help shape the content, curriculum and dedicated events in their area of expertise. Please join AME in this exciting session if you feel becoming a strategic partner is right for you and your organization.
Companies
Pando Grove Group helps private, nonprofit and public sector organizations shift from altruistic thinking to mutualistic thinking to reimagine their next generation purpose strategies. https://pandogrovegroup.com/
The Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) is the premier not-for-profit organization dedicated to the journey of continuous improvement and enterprise excellence. AME’s membership is composed of a trusted network of volunteers committed to leveraging the practitioner-to-practitioner and company-to-company shared learning experience. Through engaging workshops, plant tours, webinars, summits and industry-leading conferences, AME members are continually discovering and implementing new continuous improvement strategies and best practices. AME offers its members a multitude of valuable resources to help them stay abreast of current industry developments and improve the skills, competitiveness and overall success of their organizations. https://www.ame.org
Presenter
Howard Sherman is an executive leader motivated by building powerful, purpose-driven strategies and operational infrastructure for organizations to meaningfully address social and sustainability efforts that align with corporate goals based on the concept of mutualism. Having served as CEO for large global organizations in both the private and nonprofit sectors, Sherman brings unique strengths in driving organizational growth and transformation by bringing a business mindset to building purpose agendas. 
