Join DuPont Master Black Belt, Stephan Schwarz, as he reviews best practices and lessons learned from one of the most iconic and successful operational excellence deployments in the world. The majority of the session is dedicated to an interactive Q&A in which Stephan will draw from the unique perspective of DuPont’s massive global deployment across all five of the company’s major business platforms involving over 23,000 Black/Green Belts, over 300 MBBs and 140 Champions. Listen in on a lively Q&A as Stephan goes under the hot seat to answer your burning questions in topic areas such as:

Executive Leadership: Don Linsenmann’s 5 Critical X’s

• Leadership and resource commitment
• Driving and sustaining employee adoption of company processes and systems
• The role of data and technical rigor
• Tracking the results to the bottom line
• Financial validation rigor & reporting

Strategic Focus & Change Management During Transitions

• How Six Sigma becomes the way you work?
• Evolving from improvement to design for growth
• Driving Six Sigma towards the customer win-win situation
• Integrating Lean & Six Sigma
• Training
• Software evolution