FIT and ASQ Government Division Performance Excellence & Improvement Summit

Join us for a high-impact virtual summit hosted by FIT and the ASQ Government Division, where leaders across government, industry, nonprofit, and academia will unite to explore actionable strategies for advancing excellence in public service.

This year's 2025 Quality, Innovation, and Performance Summit brings together top thought leaders, change agents, and operational experts to explore:

• Real-world case studies driving transformation

• Performance improvement tools and frameworks

• Innovation and quality systems in action

• Cross-sector collaboration strategies

• The future of operational excellence in government

👥 Featured Speakers Include:

• Grace Duffy – President, Management and Performance Systems
• Brad Hollingsworth – Master Black Belt, Hollingsworth Consulting
  
• Melissa Sherman – Michigan Lean Consortium, Board of Directors
  
• Fredie More Franco Pablo – Operational Excellence, Jaybro Group
  
• Zubair Anwar – Principal Consultant, BIETS Centre of Excellence
• Rob De La Espriella – Chief Innovator, BlueDragon
  
• Rebecca Mott – Founder, ReThought
• Paula Schindele – Lean & Six Sigma, Sandia National Laboratories
  
• Anthony J. DeMarinis – Owner/Senior Consultant, AJD Quality Solutions
  
• Richard Mallory – Principal Consultant, Mallory Management
  
• Stephanie Brandford – Validation Consultant, Brayearst Validation Consulting
• Kimberly Scott – Project Manager, ORAU

✨ If you’re passionate about shaping the future of government through quality, performance, and innovation, this summit is for you.

🔗 Register Today

Flyer: here

For More Information:

Visit our official websites and social media channels to learn more about the summit and how you can get involved:

• ASQ Government Division: A vibrant community of quality and performance improvement professionals from across Federal, State, Local, and International Governments. Our members include leaders, consultants, analysts, practitioners, university professors, and students, all united by a shared commitment to advancing public service through quality management and innovation. We are dedicated to finding, developing, and supporting champions of quality within government, with the ultimate vision of creating a world where fact-based, efficient, and effective government services are admired globally. Through our initiatives like our support of the FDA study on quality management skills and our Centers we strive to promote the highest standards of governance and public service excellence. Find us on myASQ.

• Center for Electoral Quality and Integrity (CEQI)
• Center for Quality Standards in Government (CQSG)
• Government Performance Excellence Forum (GPEF)

• FIT:  An independent network and community of practice for federal employees focused on Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) across the U.S. Federal Government.  Our vision is to help the federal government learn how to work smarter.

FIT offers monthly Lunch and Learn engagements with speakers who provide a variety of learning opportunities ranging from sharing organization process improvement structure, status, and experiences to traditional topic and tool lessons.  Our community offers peer-to-peer engagement for information sharing.  We also have opportunities for volunteers within our working committees:  Learning and Development, Partnership, and Communications.  All of this supports the FIT's mission of instilling confidence in the practice of continuous process improvement by delivering high quality resources and facilitating collaborative opportunities that improve efficiency and effectiveness of federal government operations.

• • Find FIT on Connect.Gov: Federal Improvement Team (FIT) - Cross-Agency Collaborations-External - Community (connect.gov)
    • Website only accessible to those with valid CAC cards

We encourage you to register early and mark your calendars for this exciting event!