Speakers

Robin Lawton
President
International Management Technologies, Inc.

Robin Lawton, president of International Management Technologies Inc., is an author, speaker, and internationally recognized expert in creating rapid strategic alignment between enterprise objectives and customer priorities. He has more than 30 years experience directing both strategic and operational improvement initiatives. Thousands of change leaders have been trained in his powerful, easy-to-understand principles and tools outlined in Creating a Customer-Centered Culture: Leadership in Quality, Innovation and Speed (five-star rated at Amazon) and numerous articles. Organizations have won top state-level Baldrige Awards in Missouri, California, and Maryland as a direct result of applying Lawton’s methods.  Ranked No. 1 of 88 international speakers, Rob delivers thought-leading, engaging and humorous presentations.
 

Lynne B. Hare
Consulting statistician
Statistical Strategies LLC

Lynne B. Hare is a consulting statistician.  With more than 40 years industrial experience, his former positions include the director of Applied Statistics at Kraft Foods, chief of statistical engineering at NIST, director of Technical Services at T.J. Lipton (a Unilever company), manager of Statistical Applications there as well, and a visiting professor at Rutgers University.  Lynne’s technical expertise and areas of activity include design of experiments and quality and productivity improvement applications of statistics. 

He holds an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, and an A.B. in mathematics from The Colorado College.  Lynne is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and former chairman of its section on Quality and Productivity.  He is also a fellow of the American Society for Quality and former chairman of its Statistics Division.  The ASQ has awarded him the William G. Hunter and Ellis R. Ott Awards for excellence in quality management.  He writes a column for Quality Progress Magazine.