Topic(s)
- People-centric leadership
Discover the importance of equipping your employees with the tools of continuous improvement (CI), empowering them with the opportunity to improve and engaging them with the desire to make a difference.
George Saiz, president and CEO of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence and a long time practitioner of enterprise excellence, will share, through his years of experience as a senior executive from the medical device industry and now with AME, the importance of equipping your employees with the tools of CI, empowering them with the opportunity to improve and engaging them with the desire to make a difference. Learn how these three principles work together to produce results well beyond what the tools of CI can achieve independently and how they can impact your employees' lives forever. Key learning objectives will include:
- The role the tools of CI play and how to equip your employees to be competent and confident with these tools.
- The importance of developing an environment conducive to empowering employees to improve.
- The engagement crisis facing U.S. workers based on Gallup survey data and how leaders can respond.
- The principles of people-centric leadership and the power of engaged and fulfilled employees.
The Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) is the premier organization for the exchange of knowledge in enterprise excellence. Members come together to explore lean thinking and other enterprise improvement methods, exchange best practices and network in order to advance their careers and improve the competitiveness and overall value of their organizations. www.ame.org
George Saiz is president and CEO of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence. A practitioner and strong proponent of lean and continuous improvement since 1992, he is excited to help AME grow its footprint, and to promote enterprise excellence and people-centric leadership among the next generation of manufacturing leaders. Saiz previously served as president of MicroAire Surgical Instruments, LLC. During a career spanning more than four decades, he worked for a number of medical device manufacturing companies in increasing roles of responsibility from manager, director, general manager, vice president, owner and president. He has significant experience in leading complex organizations and generating growth in sales and earnings. Saiz earned his master’s degree in business administration at the University of La Verne in La Verne, Calif., and his bachelor’s degree in business administration from West Coast University in Los Angeles, Calif. 
