ASQ Influential Voices

Meet the Influential Voices

Five ASQ Influential Voices bloggers speak about raising the global voice of quality through social media.

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ASQ's Influential Voices are quality professionals and online influencers who raise the voice of quality on their personal blogs. Based around the world, the Influential Voices are passionate about improvement and other key issues in the quality community. They represent countries such as India, Ecuador, China, Malaysia, Australia, and the United States, and comprise a wide range of industries.

The Influential Voices include ASQ CEO Paul Borawski, who generates discussion on quality topics and trends on his blog, A View from the Q. Paul looks to the global quality community to add to the conversation.

Paul Borawski

Paul Borawski, CEO of ASQ, writes the View From the Q blog.
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Don Brecken

Don Brecken, an ASQ Fellow, writes The Quality Advisor blog. Don is management faculty and Southwest Michigan business program advisor for Ferris State University. Don is also a practicing business improvement auditor and consultant; his background includes quality leadership, continuous improvement, operations learning and development, management consulting, quality auditing, quality system implementation, and business improvement auditing.
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Dr. Robert Burney

Anesthesiologist Dr. Robert Burney has worked in university anesthesia departments and in private sector surgery centers. He is now director of quality improvement for the U.S. State Department. He blogs at Healthcare Costs.
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Jimena Calfa

Argentina native Jimena Calfa is a systems engineer specializing in quality software. She also writes about using quality tools in everyday life at Let’s Talk About Quality.
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Sameer Chougle

Sameer Chougle works in quality assurance with a construction and contracting company in Kuwait. He blogs at Maverick SAM and specializes in chemical engineering.
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Kerrie Anne Christian

Based in Australia, Kerrie Anne Christian has a manufacturing background, with expertise in quality control and ISO 9001. She is a longtime participant in online communities, and blogs at Kerrie Anne’s Fridge Magnets.
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Daniel John Zrymiak

Daniel John Zrymiak is from Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. He has worked in quality for two decades, mostly recently at Accenture as a Mobilization Lead. Daniel is active in ASQ as a Quality Press author and reviewer, member leader, and Technical Committee chair (Finance and Governance – Quality Management Division). He blogs at AQualitEvolution.
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Mark Graban

Mark Graban is a consultant, author and speaker who covers lean healthcare. He blogs at Lean Blog.
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Cesar Diaz Guevara

Cesar Diaz Guevara is ASQ’s Country Councilor in Ecuador, where he lives and blogs. He has a background in project analysis, quality systems, and quality management. He writes in English and Spanish at Calidad y Actitud.
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John Hunter

John Hunter has a background in online quality information management. He has developed quality improvement methods and software at the quality management office of the Secretary of Defense and the White House Military Office. He blogs at Curious Cat Management Blog.
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Dr. Lotto Lai

Based in Hong Kong, China, Dr. Lotto Lai specializes in scientific research, quality assurance, and management. He is chairman and fellow in the Hong Kong Society for Quality. He blogs at Quality Alchemist.
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David Levy

David Levy is a quality assurance manager with a background in manufacturing. He is also an ASQ Fellow and member leader. He blogs at David on Quality.
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Suresh Lulla

Based in Mumbai, India, Suresh Lulla is founder and managing director of Qimpro, a quality consultancy. His background includes process improvement, business excellence, and benchmarking.
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Deborah Mackin

Mackin is author of The Team-Building Tool Kit series and founder of New Directions Consulting. She has a background in quality manufacturing and production, as well as organizational excellence. She writes at NDCBlogger.
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Tim McMahon

Tim McMahon is a quality manager and lean practitioner with expertise in lean manufacturing. He blogs at A Lean Journey.
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Robert Mitchell

Robert Mitchell has 30 years of quality experience in manufacturing, non-profit and civic organizations, and manages corporate quality and Lean Six Sigma operations at 3M. He is incoming chair of ASQ’s Minnesota section. He blogs at Quality Matters.
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Michael Noble

Dr. Michael Noble writes the Making Medical Lab Quality Relevant blog. He is a medical microbiologist within the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Noble is a self-declared "medical qualitologist" actively involved in national and international standards development, and is a provider of quality-oriented education and laboratory quality assessment.
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John Priebe

John Priebe is a quality director and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with experience in process improvement, innovation, and quality control. He blogs at JohnPriebe.com
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Nicole Radziwill

Nicole Radziwill is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrated Science and Technology at James Madison University. She writes about research in the quality field, quality consciousness, and innovation. Her blog is Quality and Innovation.
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Scott Rutherford

Scott Rutherford works in quality assurance at a nuclear shipyard, and specializes in performance improvement. He blogs at Square Peg Musings.
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Paulo Sampaio

Paulo Sampaio is an assistant professor at the University of Minho and at the Lusiada University in Portugal. He’s also a quality management consultant with research interests in quality management. He blogs at Grupo da Excelência e da Qualidade.
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Aimee Siegler

Aimee Siegler is the global compliance manager at Benchmark Electronics. Her interests include supply chain management and communication, hazardous substance and risk management, and sustainability. She blogs at Thoughts on Quality in a Chaotic World.
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Jennifer Stepniowski

Jennifer Stepniowski has a marketing & business background, and is special projects manager at
Pro QC International. She blogs at Thoughts on Quality and Other Stuff.
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Rajan Thiyagarajan

Based in Chennai, India, Rajan Thiyagarajan is delivery head at Tata Consultancy Services and a senior member of ASQ. He blogs at Quality Matters.
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Anshuman Tiwari

Anshuman Tiwari is a quality expert with experience as an industrial engineer, quality consultant, and program manager in industries ranging from textiles to financial services. Based in Bengaluru, India, he blogs at Quality—The Unfair Advantage.
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Manu Vora

ASQ Fellow Manu Vora is chairman and president of Business Excellence, Inc. He is an expert in organizational excellence and the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program. He blogs at Thoughts on Quality.
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Guy Wallace

Guy Wallace is known for his consulting work, writings and presentations on performance analysis and curriculum architecture in large organizations. He blogs about performance improvement, curriculum design, and development at Eppic Inc.
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Bruce Waltuck

Bruce Waltuck has a background in process improvement in government and the public sector. He is interested in applying concepts of complex adaptive systems to the work of leading change. He blogs at Complexified.
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