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 3^rd Edition of Dr. Deming’s seminal book, The New Economics. The chapter explains the relevance of Deming’s leadership method, includes case studies, and offers guidance on how to “do Deming.”

In 2004, Kelly was one of 12 people selected by The Deming Institute to design and deliver a 2.5-day seminar to capture the essence of Dr. Deming’s famous Four-Day Seminars. Kelly’s published work has appeared in a variety of journals, including Business First, Fast Company, Personnel Journal, Marketing News, Inc. Magazine, Business Marketing Association News, Harvard Business Review, and The Wall Street Journal. He has been featured in Fast Company, Quality Progress, The Masterful Coaching Field Book, The Knowing-Doing Gap, and Abolishing Performance Appraisals.

Gina began with the Deming Institute by teaching the 2.5-day seminar in 2016, and continues to bring her engaging style to our seminars. Gina is the leader of the Human Resources function for Anchor QEA, an environmental consulting firm. She has been a HR practitioner for over 20 years and continues to speak at universities and industry conferences on the Deming philosophy and the role of HR.

Gina has worked for Fortune 50 companies and with small-to-medium size companies globally for 25 years. Her career has included firms involving consumer products; environmental consulting, engineering, and compliance; insurance, capital equipment manufacturing and sales; and advertising. She has also worked with start-ups, on product launches, and in the non-profit arena, including government. Gina works with executive teams in the areas of organizational structure, communication, leadership, succession, and talent development. She is certified to teach under the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) organization. 

Bill is the principal of Corporate Advantage Network, LLC.  He utilizes Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge along with the technical quality tools to assist organizations in their journey of continual improvement. He has coached and improved many types and sizes of organizations over several decades.

Bill has been a principal process engineer for weather satellites (ITT Aerospace with NASA), missile guidance systems (Hughes Aircraft for the Army), high-end computer servers design and manufacturing (Tech Data), food manufacturing (Kroger), heavy truck manufacturing (Core Molding) and for a variety of other industries and for companies – including Small to Medium Enterprises.

He has extensive Lean Six Sigma, Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001, IATF 16949, ISO 14001, ISO 13485, AS9100), Process Engineering, and Supply Chain Management experience.  He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Engineering from the DeVry Institute of Technology in Columbus, Ohio. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and a Senior Member/Chair for the Columbus, Ohio Section of the American Society for Quality (ASQ).  Bill also holds certifications from ASQ as a Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Quality Auditor, and Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence.

Over the years, Bill has been involved in his children’s sports as a coach or club president and enjoys volunteering at local charities. His passion is mentoring and coaching the employees of organizations and helping them improve their professional development.

Kat comes to The Deming Institute with 20 years of experience in the non-profit sector. Her love for program development, staff engagement, organizational change and designing effective infrastructures for organizations naturally led her to engage with The Institute.  Kat attended a number of Deming Institute seminars and was instrumental in bringing Deming learning opportunities to her local community.

In 2018, Kat opened KVH Strategies, a facilitation company that helps groups think better together. Prior to starting her own business, she was Executive Director of the Sawtooth Botanical Garden in Sun Valley, Idaho. She has also worked with other non-profits around the country such as YMCA of the Rockies, YMCA of Greater Charlotte, The Hunger Coalition, and Wild Gift.  Kat’s natural love for working with people and helping create positive change is evident in her energetic approach to everything she does, wherever she goes.

While originally from Wisconsin (oh-yah, a Packer fan), she now lives in Idaho with her husband, Dan, and children, Tripp and Seneca. Kat takes full advantage of the beautiful outdoor surroundings while hiking, whitewater rafting, camping, and skiing.

John A. Dues serves as the Chief Learning Officer and Interim Chief Operating Officer at United Schools Network. He is an accomplished systems leader and improvement science scholar-practitioner. He recently published his first book entitled Win-Win: W. Edwards Deming, the System of Profound Knowledge, and the Science of Improving Schools. Throughout his career, he has served on the founding teams of seven school and nonprofit organizations. John has a BA from Miami University, an M.Ed. from the University of Cincinnati, and recently completed the Improvement Advisor program through the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Dr. Ravi K. Roy is Director of the W. Edwards Deming Quality, Innovation & Leadership Incubator (QUIL), and Senior Consultant of Quality of Management in the Department of Aviation at Southern Utah University. He is also the inaugural W. Edwards Deming Fellow with the Institute, a position he assumed in January 2016, with promotion to Senior Research Fellow in January 2018.  Prior to this, he served as both the Director of the Post-Graduate Program in International Development at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia (2009-2011) as well as the Director of MPA program at California State University, Northridge in California (2011-2013). Ravi earned his Bachelors degree in Political Science at UCLA before going to earn his Masters and a PhD in Public Policy/Political Science at Claremont Graduate University, one of only a handful of private comprehensive doctoral institutions in California. He has held Research Scholar positions at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2011-2015) and the Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies (2002-2004). He also was the Stanton Avery Professor at Pitzer College (Spring 2002).

At The W. Edwards Deming Institute’s® 2015 Annual Conference, Ravi presented a paper that applies Deming’s New Economics and Arthur Denzau and Douglass North’s New Institutional Economics to improve inter-organizational systems thinking.

Roy’s expertise is in the area of Shared Mental Models. He has published several books and articles with Routledge Press, Sage Press, and Oxford University Press. In 2013, he delivered a session entitled “Cultivating Shared Mental Models and Social Capital” at the In2:InThinking Network Forum. In 2014, he gave a presentation entitled “Inquiring Beautiful Minds” at the annual In2:InThinking Network Forum. That same year, Roy served as a Thought Leader on the topic of “Shared Mental Models” for Aerojet Rocketdyne’s monthly seminar series. He and former Deming Institute board member, and now Deputy Director, Bill Bellows, piloted “The Dialogic Sessions,” devoted to the topic of “Shared Mental Models,” at the In2:InThinking Network’s 2016 Forum.

Ravi Roy’s presentation at the Deming Management in Public Administration Conference in 2017 on Public Administration: Past, Present, and Future.