The Effect of Leadership

When:  Jul 13, 2022 from 10:00 PM to 11:30 PM (UTC)
Associated with  Toronto Section
Topic: The Effect of Leadership

Speaker: Mariana Filipic


Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Time: 6 pm to 7:30 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)

Registration Link:
https://asq.webex.com/asq/onstage/g.php?MTID=eb775503bb59c924508b7c44c998bd0c1

About the Event:

Who or what inspires you? What does it take to become a leader? The ASQ virtual meeting scheduled for July 13th will cover the topic of Leadership: Everything you wanted to know about leadership but were afraid to ask. Let’s talk about the impact of the mindset and attitude needed for your career development in the long run. We will talk about interesting leadership statistics and how to do difficult things in order to stay successful.

About the Speaker:

Mariana Filipic
is a senior executive and consultant who built her career with Schneider Electric over the course of 24 years. Her core expertise is in enhancing Quality Management Systems, improving customer experience, continuously transforming key business processes, and assessing the risks while delivering profitable growth. Mariana is passionate about coaching and mentoring, problem solving and innovation.


Successful projects of hers in Schneider Electric’s Field Services Canada resulted in doubling the customer NPS (Net Promoter Score) in less than three years. As a certified Master Black Belt, Mariana saved several million dollars executing various key business transformations and implemented international and nuclear standards from scratch resulting in zero non conformances.


Mariana was the recipient of the North American CEO Award as the top performing employee in Canada in 2018. In addition to establishing and implementing Schneider Electrics Wellbeing Initiative across Canada, she sponsored WiSE (Woman in Schneider Electric) as she is passionate about influencing. Mariana also established and supported the Canadian Newcomers Program to enhance career opportunities for over 70 volunteers.


As of 2020, Mariana became a published author of her memoir, The Lieutenant’s Wife.

Since early 2020 Mariana took the role of Executive Director of Global Quality at Mold Masters, (member of Global Executive Leadership team). Mold Masters is a global leader in plastic injection industry, (100 + countries) designing and manufacturing hot runners, temperature controllers and co-injection systems. Mold Masters supplies the world with systems and machinery that enables the production of molded parts in automotive, packaging, personal care, medical, electronics, consumer goods, health care and construction.


Mariana is a public speaker since 2017 with some of the most recent appearances at:
  • Top 100 Woman in Opex, Toronto 2019

  • CXO Virtual Exchange on Customer Management Practice, 2021

  • Frost and Sullivan, gathering insights on “Moving Quality Upstream”, virtual Think Tank discussion, November 2021



In 2021 Mariana joined GLG The World Insight’s Network as their member/consultant.