ASQ Ann Arbor NOVEMBER 2025 Meeting; Kris Liebau, Curiosity and Connection: Your Personal Advantage

PLEASE NOTE: Change from April 7, Live meeting info to follow!
5:30 PM- 6PM Networking
6:00 PM - 7PM Program
7:00 PM - 8 PM ASQ Leadership Committee Meeting (Optional)
Topic: Leadership for the Quality Professional and how to speak to management
Abstract: Quality as a profession is currently undergoing one of the most important
transitions in the last 40 years. Similar to how thought shifted to elemental based thinking in the 1980’s and moved toward process approach in the 2000’s, the evolving role of quality in Business is moving faster and faster, and quite frankly we are not prepared for it one bit.
As current quality professionals move towards retirement and younger candidates begin to fill these roles, there is a substantial mismatch in the skills quality professionals hold, and the needs of organizations and leaders in the companies that employ them. In short, we are not teaching these candidates how to communicate and be a vital part of leading their organizations as their careers move forward.
This lecture will be an education for up-and-coming professionals in both the quality and engineering space that are beginning to fit into larger roles where the line between black and white becomes more and more grey.
The various areas of the lecture will include:
 The concept of interested parties and how their perceptions are created
 An in-depth analysis of this creature we call management, and how they operate
 A brief history lesson the great fracture in systems and the current push toward
unification of the warring factions
 How to generate a common language with the flighty and dangerous create that is
management
At the end of this lecture, you will understand:
 what is driving decisions by leadership,
 how you can communicate with them,
 how we can leverage the tools we have to aid in the organizations path to do the
most good for the most people