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OUR NEXT EVENT
Bridging the Gaps: Aligning People, Processes, and Purpose
Alignment. Clarity. Collaboration.
English Online event
2025.04.23 | 18:30 – 21:00
Online event
free
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Your participation is worth | Votre participation vaut 0.2 ASQ RU (2 h)
Welcome to our event “Bridging the Gaps: Aligning People, Processes, and Purpose” where we will explore the importance of alignment in building high-performance teams.
Online event: register to participate online
Join us on April 23, 2025 for an evening filled with insightful discussions and networking opportunities. Learn from industry expert Nilufer Erdebil, as she shares her knowledge on the following topics:
Understanding the DROP framework—Develop alignment, Relationship building, Open to reframing problems, and Prototyping & testing—and its application in team performance.
Building trust and collaboration in diverse backgrounds.
Mindset shift in high performing teams.
Practical steps to develop and nurture team cohesion.
Interactive exercise to highlight the importance of clear alignment.
Nilufer Erdebil is a renowned design thinking expert, TEDx and TEC/Vistage speaker, and the author of Future Proofing by Design: Creating Better Services and Teams in the Public Sector. With over 25 years of experience, she has been a catalyst for change across both public and private sectors. As CEO of Spring2 Innovation, Nilufer has led transformative initiatives, helping teams navigate complex challenges and drive strategic growth. Her deep expertise spans telecommunications, application development, program management, and IT, providing her unique insights into complex business challenges.
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- 18:30 – 19:00 — Networking
- 19:00 – 20:30 — Conference (in English): Bridging the Gaps: Aligning People, Processes, and Purpose with Nilufer Erdebil
- 20:30 – 21:00 — Questions and closing of the event
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ASQ Canada And Greenland Region — Deputy regional directors
At her last regional meeting on May 23rd, Natella Isazada announced a shuffling of Deputy Regional Directors (DRD) :
ASQ Canada And Greenland Region — Volunteer Recognition
💥 Nous vous invitons à visiter et suivre la NOUVELLE page LinkedIn de l’ASQ Canada et Groenland.
Natella Isazada, Regional Director of ASQ Canada and Greenland Region initiated the page and started a series of portraits of the various Member Leader volunteers. The objective is to introduce and show an appreciation for the efforts that they make on a regular basis.
ASQ-HQ: 2024-05-10 — On behalf of the Performance Excellence Program (PEP) Committee, Katie Chitwood, Segment Manager, thanked the ASQ Montreal Section Leadership Team for all the hard work over the past year to support its members and ASQ overall. She was pleased to announce that the Montreal Section has received the Gold award recognition for 2023.
It was a total of 16 Technical Communities (Divisions) and 34 Geographic Communities (Sections) which were recognized for their commitments and excellence. For 2023, four out of the 13 Canadian Sections won recognition. We are especially proud to report that amongst the five GOLD winners, both the Montreal and Ottawa Valley Sections were recognized. Of the 16 Sections in the SILVER recognition, both London and Vancouver won. The Toronto Section won the 2023 Best Practices Awards.
The ASQ Performance Excellence Program was created by Milwaukee-based ASQ to recognize Member Units for excellent performance that reinforces ASQ’s position as the thought leader and expands ASQ offerings to members and customers:
• Contributions to ASQ thought leadership, as measured by myASQ content postings;
• Member Engagement and Experience, as measured by myASQ activity;
• Fiduciary responsibility, as measured by adherence to budget;
• Achievement of business plan objectives, as measured by self-reported progress on business goals and targets.
These measures were evaluated based on the Member Unit’s own baseline data and self-reported business plan progress. Award levels were conferred using a common point system.
Congratulations!
Quality Progress January 2024
That’s All Folks!
ASQ – QP comic strip mainstay Mr. Pareto Head hangs up his hat
In ASQ’s January issue of Quality Progress (QP), Mike Crossen, the comic’s creator, announced the final Mr. Pareto Head comic to appear in QP along with his cast of co-workers: Sigma Freud, Randy M. Sample, Norma Distribution, Charlie Chance and Mr. Bottomline. Crossen, said he knew that eventually the strip would come to an end and found himself thinking about the strip more recently. After nearly 24 years, “it just seemed that heading into this new year was a good time to let it go and focus on my other interests.”
Mr. Pareto Head debuted in March 2000 and in introducing the cartoon, Miles Maguire, then editor of QP, explained that the strip was “in response to a letter to the editor decrying the lack of humour in our pages.”
Mike Crossen is lean enterprise manager at Rockwell Automation in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics technology from Cleveland State University and is a senior member of ASQ and an ASQ-certified manager of quality-organizational excellence, quality auditor and quality engineer.
ASQ members and QP readers will still be able to access an archive of Mr. Pareto Head comic strips dating back to 2000 and QP will also be running Mr. Pareto Head classics in the coming months. You can read more about the evolution of Mr. Pareto Head in Mike Crossen’s My Quality Story column Sketchy Situation of March 2021 (member access required).
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Why is it important for YOU to become and continue as an ASQ member?
ASQ Open Access
Meet Govind Ramu, P. Eng. and ASQ member of 25 years.
He is a Quality Management Professional, ASQ Fellow, Stanford LEAD Distinguished Scholar, Professional Engineer (Ontario) and ASQ Crosby Medal Recipient.
He shares his two minutes sales pitch on LinkedIn HERE.
Quality Resources is your one-stop online library of information related to quality. Access more than 75 years’ worth of practical and research-based content, tools, and data about defining, achieving, measuring, controlling, and improving quality, created for all experience levels.
Gathered from around the globe, ASQ content is peer-reviewed by subject matter experts and published in a variety of formats, all accessible on ASQ’s website.
Ways to find content
- Search Quality Content — Search more than 30,000 journal articles, case studies, books, standards, courses, webcasts, and presentations. The collection is indexed to be searchable by topic, keyword, industry, date, and more.
- Browse/Learn About Quality topics — Explore A to Z concepts, tools, applications, and technical terms that make up the world of quality.
Who has access to content on ASQ.org?
ASQ members have the most access to online full-text content, but all visitors will always find sample content available.
All visitors can…
- Read Learn About Quality topic overviews
- Download open-access case studies and articles
- View open-access webcasts
- View open-access ASQ TV episodes
- Search for content by keyword, date, and more
Additional open-access and member-benefit publications are also available from topic- and industry-focused forums and divisions.
Calling All NextGens!
Join the myASQ NextGen online community!
Are you a young professional in the quality field? Are you new to the world of quality or in a new job/role? Join the myASQ NextGen online community to share resources, ask questions, and make connections that will help you navigate the early years in your quality career. Click here to join and begin experiencing this exciting new community.
For more information on this ASQ program, visit ASQ NextGen.
ASQ Certifications Earn International ISO/IEC 17024 Accreditation!
CQA, CQE, CSSBB, CMQ/OE and CRE
April 14, 2022: ASQ announced that five of ASQ’s certification programs achieved ISO 17024 Personnel Certification Documentation Consultancy accreditation through the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB). ANAB is the largest multi-disciplinary accreditation body in the western hemisphere, with more than 2,500 organizations accredited in approximately 80 countries. Federal, state, and local authorities rely on ANAB accreditation to demonstrate value and assure competency for important public priorities.
By earning ISO 17024 accreditation for Personnel Certification, ASQ demonstrates to the Quality profession it represents and the general public it serves, that its credentialing programs have been reviewed by a panel of impartial experts who have determined that our CQA, CQE, CSSBB, CMQ/OE and CRE programs have met the stringent standards set by the credentialing community.
ASQ Fellow
ASQ Fellow Membership
It is an honour bestowed by other ASQ members. A Fellow represents the upper echelon of the quality profession and serves as the backbone of the Society. It is an advanced, individual member grade obtained through peer endorsement and Society recognition.
Some of the benefits to becoming a Fellow include peer recognition of individual accomplishments in the quality field, networking opportunities, new levels of ASQ involvement and additional member benefits.
All ASQ Fellows, worldwide, are members of the ASQ Fellows Focus Group, a global geographic community affiliated with ASQ’s Geographic Communities Council (GCC). Also, a choice of one of the extra benefit options is included with membership dues of $169 US per year: one journal of your choice or one additional section of your choice.
For more information, visit myASQ Montreal or ASQ.org. 
Visit the ASQ sites to find out if these events are webinars or on-site.
⋄ World Conference on Quality & Improvement
(Conférence mondiale sur la qualité et l’amélioration)
May 12-15, 2024, San Diego, CA – In Person
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⋄ Quality Innovations Summit
(Sommet sur les innovations en qualité)
October 8-10, 2024, Milwaukee, WI – In Person
⋄ Women in Quality Symposium
(Symposium sur les femmes en qualité)
December 5, 2024, Virtual
⋄ 2025 Lean and Six Sigma Conference
(2025 Conférence Lean et Six Sigma
February 23 – 25, 2025, Phoenix, AZ – In Person
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