Emerging Quality Leaders
Emerging Quality Leaders Program
Today’s top quality professionals are tomorrow’s quality leaders.
ASQ’s Emerging Quality Leaders Program is the only one of its kind specifically designed to develop the leadership skills of quality professionals. This unique 12-month program brings together individuals identified by their performance and passion for continuous improvement, development, and change for a practical learning experience like no other.
The program features monthly engagement structured around strategic leadership topics led by thought leaders in an interactive workshop style; in-person visits for hands-on learning and examples of proven quality practices and application; and opportunities to connect with a highly talented cohort of midlevel professionals selected from leading worldwide companies. Learn more on how the Emerging Quality Leaders Program benefits individuals and organizations.
Who Are Emerging Quality Leaders?
Future leaders are aspiring high-potential professionals identified by management as having the ability to advance in their position and the organization.
These individuals have:- Demonstrated exemplary performance, values, and results in their current roles
- Been identified as a potential successor for a senior-level management role
- A passion for leadership, development, change, and continuous improvement
- The ability to embrace engaging and thought-provoking challenges
- Manager or director experience
Program Information
The 2017-18 session marks the fourth year of the Emerging Quality Leaders Program. The 12-month session will launch July 2017, at the ASQ World Headquarters in Milwaukee, WI, and concludes April 30-May 2, 2018, at the ASQ World Conference on Quality Improvement in Seattle, WA.The program includes four main components: virtual sessions (seven), on-site visits with face-to-face programming (five), executive mentoring, and team projects.
Through case studies, roundtable conversations, executive presentations, and Fortune 500 benchmarking visits, topics such as performance excellence, creativity, risk taking, innovation, culture transformation, customer experience, and many others are discussed. Communications and networking elements also support the program.
While many organizations have leadership development programs, very few if any, can match ASQ in providing such highly talented diverse cohorts with the breadth and depth of executive access and insights on relevant strategic thought provoking topics related to quality and improvement.
Executive Mentoring
The mentoring program is key to the experience, and the roles and responsibilities of mentors—and their protégés in the cohort—are significant to the overall success of the program. Mentoring is a professional relationship between a more experienced person (mentor) and a less experienced person (protégé) designed to transfer business and/or professional knowledge, skills, behaviors, and values. A mentor takes an active role in the protégé’s development by offering guidance, support, and advice.
Team Projects
The team-based, problem-solving exercise—"the project"—provides the opportunity for team interaction, research, analysis, critical thinking, collaboration, and leadership to formulate and propose one or several resolutions to a problem/topical issue. Project work is meant to benefit individuals outside of the work setting, and participants are meant to use quality tools and techniques, leverage experience and expertise, and achieve real-world impact and results. Topics are self-selected.
Current Participants
Participants have access to on online community that serves as a supplemental platform to assist in the transfer of executive knowledge and leadership experiences related to quality and improvement. Items included:- Find onsite agendas and presentations
- Find virtual session recordings
- Select your mentor
- Discussion boards: Get in on the conversation and find experts and rich discussion
- Establish a bond of common experience and challenges around a specific area
- Platform to work on projects
- Stay connected as an alumnus
- Build your relationship with ASQ
Thank you to our participating companies and sponsors.
