American Society of Quality Dinner Forum 

Speaker Topic: "FROM CHAOS TO SYNERGY VIA TOTAL QUALITY LEADERSHIP"

" Crises, emergencies, and disasters create the greatest possible stresses on organizations, processes, and personnel. The true level of quality programs' effectiveness (and, leadership quality) is often very evident when chaos rules the day.
Lives are lost and economies are shattered when poor quality drives operations during what the United Nations calls "HA/DR : Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster Relief".
Pat Lanthier will share his personal insights from decades of global HA/DR efforts and solicit your input and ideas, as we planto move from "Chaos to Synergy...with Quality Leadership". (note emphasis on LEADERSHIP, not management")

                 Mr. Patrick Lanthier ...............

Speakers Biography:

 Mr. Patrick Lanthier is a leading international HADR (Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief) advisor; focused on Leadership, Planning, and Strategy for the Re-imagined “Comms First” Resilience Model. He is the Lead Program Advisor (8yrs) to the US Pacific Command’s HADR MCIP (Multinational Communications Interoperability Program), with 24 countries, UN, NGO, Industry, and Academia.

He is Founder/Principal of RIVERA/LANTHIER and Associates, advisor to Carnegie Mellon University-Silicon Valley DMI , Co-founder/Chair of the International Emergency Communications & Disaster Management Workshop at the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) (8yrs), Member of The United Nations Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications (WGET), and Advisor to the U.S. Marine Corps Experimental Center. He has innovated with dozens of agencies and corporations: DHS, DOD, DOE, DOJ, DOT, State Dept., AT&T, Bell Labs, MITRE, SRI, SAIC, CISCO, etc. 

He was Co-Founder & President of Wireless Networks, Inc (WNI), a patented wireless mesh secure transaction network, served on national AT&T/Bell Labs & Pacific Bell/Telesis cellular leadership teams, and led UN & USAI development teams for Price Waterhouse in Africa. Pat has been in 70+ countries, advised the U.N., E.U., ITU, U.S. Congress, FCC, NTIA, Legislatures & Commissions, the National Governor’s Association, Economic Strategy Panels, Emerging Technology Funds, and corporations. He was on the U.S. National Security & Emergency Preparedness Team (NSEP), Chaired the California Network Reliability Team; was the 10-year Public Policy & Technology Director at Pacific Bell, elected 5 times as National Chairman of the U.S. Telephone Association’s Technology Group, and served on the U.S. National Academies Cyber Policy team (Rights & Responsibilities in Networked Communities). Pat also co-led the design of the Extensible Emergency Operations Center (E2OC) for the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security and the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.

Pat is a global university lecturer/author and founding member of IAS (Incident Aide System). He attended the Wharton School, Seton Hall, Golden Gate, San Francisco State, and Cal Polytechnic Universities. He is a sailor, competitive alpine ski racer.

 Pat’s mantra is: “Create Synergy; via Leadership, Innovation & Collaboration”.

• 5:00 - 5:30 - Check In & Registration
• 5:30 - 6:10 - Networking
• 6:15 - 6:55 - Dinner
• 6:55 - 7:10 - Section Business: John Latimer, Section Chair,
• 7:10 - 8:25 - Mr. Patrick lanthier: FROM CHAOS TO SYNERGY VIA TOTAL QUALITY LEADERSHIP. 
• 8:25 - 8:30 - Door Prize drawing

Registration- a three part process:1) having a meal? and 2) select meal if you are having one  3) pay for the meal via PayPal

• Advance $35
• Late/Walk-in $40
• Unemployed $20
• Presentation only and special guests $0

Note: Advance registration ends at midnight Monday, September 19th.

Cancellation Policy: no refunds will be available unless you notify us before Monday night at midnight.

The ASQ Silicon Valley Leadership Team hopes to see you all at our dinner meeting!