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  • State of Readiness; Jason Prochilo, Edel Golf LLC
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    State of Readiness; Jason Prochilo, Edel Golf LLC

    ByXONITEK July 12, 2020September 29, 2025

    Joseph Paris invites Jason Prochilo, Vice President of Operations at Edel Golf, LLC to join him in a conversation.  Edel Golf is a manufacturer of custom golf equipment specializing in personally-fit putters, wedges, and irons.   Jason primary responsibility is as leader of the putter department and the manufacturing efforts in the company.  Edel manufactures all of their…

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  • State of Readiness; Philip Holt, GKN Aerospace
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    State of Readiness; Philip Holt, GKN Aerospace

    ByXONITEK May 29, 2020December 30, 2020

    We welcome Philip Holt, Vice President of Operational Excellence at GKN Aerospace, for a conversation on State of Readiness.  We start off the program discussing Philip’s two books, “Leading with Lean” and “The Simplicity of Lean”; the latter having won the Bronze Medal in the Axiom Book Awards.  We take a walk in Philip’s shoes…

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  • State of Readiness; Joe Vacca, Cigna
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    State of Readiness; Joe Vacca, Cigna

    ByXONITEK March 31, 2020December 30, 2020

    For 20+ years Joe has been empowering organizations, teams, and individuals to continuously improve processes and outcomes toward their goals and ultimately achieve Excellence in their chosen business, function, or discipline.  What makes Joe unique is that he has led successful transformation programs across several Fortune 100 companies – and he has experienced the deployment…

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  • Never let a serious crisis go to waste
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    Never let a serious crisis go to waste

    ByJoseph Paris March 30, 2020February 18, 2026

    In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on November 19,2008, Rahm Emanuel was quoted as saying; “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.  And what I mean by that [is] it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not before.” He was referring to the crisis that was…

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  • State of Readiness; Dr. Cynthia J. Young: Leidos
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    State of Readiness; Dr. Cynthia J. Young: Leidos

    ByXONITEK March 3, 2020December 30, 2020

    Cindy is as self-made a person as anyone I have ever met.  After graduating high school and not having any particular skills that were as yet discovered nor the grades or money to get into University, she joined the United States Navy as an enlisted person.  Perhaps she knew, and it’s just as likely she…

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  • Scaling and Sustaining Your Education and Training Program
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    Scaling and Sustaining Your Education and Training Program

    ByJoseph Paris March 2, 2020February 18, 2026

    I have been helping companies design and deploy their Operational Excellence (“OpEx”) and Continuous Improvement (“CI”) programs for a very long time.  Mind you, I was not born with this knowledge.  Rather I gained this knowledge by working with companies and observing the challenges they faced and helping them to overcome those challenges – and…

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