Kelly Allan is the senior associate of Kelly Allan Associates, Ltd. In 1999, when Peter R. Scholtes (The Team Handbook and The Leader’s Handbook) retired, he recruited Kelly to continue his seminars and consulting practice. More recently, Kelly wrote a new chapter for the 3rd Edition of Dr. Deming’s seminal book, The New Economics. The chapter explains the relevance of Deming’s leadership…

Ms. Deming Cahill is a former classroom teacher in the elementary and primary grades. From 1979 to 1993, she accompanied her father at numerous public and private seminars and consulting sessions, classes and meetings at New York University and at companies in the United States, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. She attended Randolph-Macon…

Vincent Cahill is responsible for setting direction, policy and procedures for the HR Shared Services organization. He oversees the baseline processes that maintain the PeopleSoft HRMS database, which includes accurate processing, maintenance and security for corporate information. He provided project oversight to upgrade existing technologies and implementation of integrated technologies to leverage the deployment of…

Kevin Edwards Cahill is Dr. Deming’s grandson and Executive Director of The W. Edwards Deming Institute®. He also serves on the Board of Trustees, where he is president and a successor founding trustee. Kevin is responsible for guiding the global efforts to achieve the aim of The Deming Institute and leads their strategic planning, management,…

Steven Haedrich is the owner of New York Label & Box Works (NYLB), a packaging printer that has been in continuous operation since 1878. Steven is the third generation of his family to run the company that was purchased by his grandfather in the Great Depression of 1930. NYLB specializes in innovative packaging such as…

Doug is an inventor, researcher, and author who has been named one of America’s top innovation experts by A&E Top 10, Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, DATELINE NBC, CNBC, CIO and the CBC. He is a chemical engineer by education who rose to the rank of Master Marketing Inventor at Procter & Gamble. At…

Paula Marshall was named the CEO of her family’s business, The Bama Companies, in 1985. Bama provides frozen baked goods to large-scale restaurant chains including the nation’s largest hamburger chain, the nation’s largest pizza chain and the nation’s largest retailer. Marshall received her Bachelor of Science in Business and her Doctorate of Commercial Science from…

Beth Savage is the former owner and CEO of PQ Systems, an international provider of software and services to help organizations optimize quality. PQ Systems’ flagship software, SQCpack, is a leading solution to help manufacturers understand, monitor, and reduce variation with the use of control charts and other statistical process control techniques. While at the…

Keith Sparkjoy is Vice President of The Sparkjoy Foundation. A lifelong learner, Keith holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of California, Irvine, which he never actually used: he discovered a love of computer programming in his first job. He eventually moved into a life of research and teaching, where his focus was on security in distributed…