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35th Annual Delaware Quality Conference
Excellence in Governance
September 25, 2008, Dover Downs Hotel, Dover, DE
 

American Society for Quality
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR QUALITY, Delaware Section 506 and Region 5


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Professional and Continuing Studies

Featured Speaker: Curt Coffman
Co-author,
First, Break All the Rules

A New York Times best-selling author, independent researcher, and consultant, Curt Coffman spent 22 years at the Gallup Organization serving as its Global Practice Leader for employee and customer engagement consulting. He is the co-author of the best-sellers

Coffman is the Senior Scientist and Consultant with the MAJERS Consulting Group and an Executive Fellow at the Daniels School of Business at the University of Denver. Coffman has consulted with a number of Fortune 100 and 500 companies, and his work has spanned the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. His mission is to help organizations understand the key characteristics of a positive, productive, customer-oriented work environment. His research and consulting insights help organizations measure and manage workplace and customer conditions that show linkage to business results.

In the past ten years, Coffman has presented to thousands of groups on the topic of creating great places to work and their impact on individuals, families, organizational growth and creating engaged customers. His research and thoughts have been published in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Chief Executive magazine, CIO Magazine, The Economist, Fast Company, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Harvard Management Update, Inc. magazine, International Journal of Management Reviews, Microsoft Executive Circle, the New York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post. Coffman recently published an article titled "Manage Your HumanSigma" (a management approach that assesses, manages, and improves the quality of the employee-customer encounter) in the Harvard Business Review.

For more information, visit www.curtcoffman.com or www.majers.net.