Topic(s)
- People-centric leadership
Everyone wants to work for a winning organization; and they want to know that they contributed to the success. Join us to learn how to be a winning organization through people-centric leadership skills. These skills enable leaders to create the behaviors and culture where people take ownership of improvement and feel connected to outcomes.
Socratic questioning, exercises and group discussions will allow participants to share best practices and learn from "the experts."
Companies
EngageExcellence, LLC was founded in July of 2024 to help organizations achieve success through a combination of respect for people and continuous improvement.
Lean 3P Associates was founded in 2023 with a goal of helping companies create cultures with highly engaged associates, skilled with world-class methods for achieving exceptional business results and breakthrough new product, process, and layout designs.
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/
Presenters
Allan Coletta is principal of Lean 3P Associates, where he helps organizations achieve operational excellence through team engagement, transformative product designs and efficient operations. A seasoned lean practitioner, Coletta has led rapid turnarounds of distressed plants and serves as an executive coach with Encouraging Leaders LLC, using Stakeholder Centered Coaching. He also assesses applicants for the AME Excellence Award.
Previously, Coletta was senior director of engineering and facilities at Siemens Healthineers, where he built high-performance teams and led lean-driven operational excellence and 3P-based operations and facility design. Earlier, he held leadership roles in the chemical process industry, including site leader for ICI’s largest specialty chemicals plant in North America.
Coletta authored "The Lean 3P Advantage," a 2013 Shingo Prize winner, and has served on the Fiduciary Board of the Delaware MEP. He is an AME Champions member and part of the AME PCL KRA team. A trained chemical engineer, Coletta brings people-centric leadership to manufacturing, driving sustainable improvement and business success. 
Lisa Weis is a people centric, lean/continuous improvement expert with over 28 years of demonstrated success in helping hundreds of public and private organizations achieve their vision and meet their strategic goals by engaging people, implementing enterprise excellence and inspiring innovation. Weis is currently the founder and president of EngageExcellence, LLC, providing consulting, coaching and educational services to support organizations in achieving sustained success through the integration of continuous improvement and respect for people. Prior to establishing EngageExcellence, LLC, Weis was the director of the Enterprise Excellence Program for the Delaware Manufacturing Extension Partnership, DEMEP. She was part of the core team that developed the U.S. national lean initiative to help small to medium-sized manufacturers become more globally competitive as part of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, (NIST), Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program. She has a bachelor of science degree, Cum Laude, in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware. She is the director of people-centric leadership for the Association of Manufacturing Excellence (AME) management team, a member of the AME Mid-Atlantic Regional Board and an AME Excellence Award assessor. 
