The Show Me Excellence Summit is the premier event for those within and interested in the Show Me Excellence Community. This annual event platforms experts from around the world to share, learn and engage with new perspectives on process improvement. Serving as a showcase for everything OpEx across the state of Missouri, the Summit is a great way to get involved with OpEx or improve the skills you already have.
2024 Summit recorded content will be posted to MOVERS Learn.
Featured Presenters
Patrick Adams
Patrick is an internationally recognized leadership coach, consultant, and professional speaker, best known for his unique human approach to sound team-building practices; creating consensus and enabling empowerment. He founded his consulting practice in 2018 to work with leaders at all levels and organizations of all sizes to achieve higher levels of performance. He motivates, inspires, and drives the right results at all points in the business processes.
Patrick has been delivering bottom-line results through specialized process improvement solutions for over 20 years. He’s worked with all types of businesses from private, non-profit, government, and manufacturing ranging from small business to billion-dollar corporations. Patrick is an Author of the best selling book, Avoiding the Continuous Appearance Trap.
Agenda
9:00-9:45
Opening Ceremony
9:45-10:45
Keep it simple. Keep it visual. and continue to improve
Most of us have heard about and applied lean six sigma methodologies. They have certainly proven to show significant improvement to organizations within many different industries, but why have we allowed ourselves to create such complexity around these strategies? Patrick will discuss, with many examples, where lean implementation has not been fully adopted due to a complex delivery of the concepts. As a simple man himself, Patrick wants to bring lean back to the basics. He believes these three words should describe every organizations lean journey: Simple. Visual. Continuous. By breaking down these three elements and applying them to your organization, Patrick believes you can have sustained success in your lean journey. With many examples of successful and sustained implementation, Patrick will deliver the key to sustainable change in every organization.
Please note below are for in-person attendees only
11:00-12:00
Making Waves: Navigating Teamwork Through the Current of Collaboration
by Ashley Grupe
Teamwork is essential in a dynamic workforce. This discussion will focus on recognizing and leveraging team member’s strengths to facilitate success through collaboration.
Resilient Leadership
by Brenda Descamps
Overcome obstacles, bounce back from adversity, and grow from challenging situations by practicing six resilient leadership skills.
Facilitation Exploration
by Ashley Golden
Learn how to conquer the facilitation mountain with techniques to help you achieve the climb from start to finish: how to prep and start, how to keep energy and endurance, how to avoid facilitation pitfalls, and how to end strong.
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:00
Introducing New Ideas and Starting New Things
by Alec Schlotzhauer
Safety and Emergency Management created the MoDOT UAV program to enhance emergency response capabilities and provide real-time aerial and structure data collection; and Desley and Alec restructured the annual MoDOT Intern Conference by introducing a hands-on, project-based learning experience to demonstrate how project delivery works at MoDOT
Avoiding the Continuous Appearance Trap
by Patrick Adams
This session will uncover the truth about your culture and how 12 simple questions can sustain the transformation of your organization by developing a culture of continuous improvement.
Smarty Brevity
by Jacob Brooke
Let’s be honest, people aren’t really reading what you write, they may skim or “glance it over” but still miss a lot of what you have to say; there’s a better way to communicate with our smart yet busy coworkers.
2:15-3:15
Improve your life at work AND at home with practical tools
by Travis Rehagen
These tools will help you save time and money you didn’t even know you were wasting!
Avoiding the Continuous Appearance Trap
by Patrick Adams
This session will uncover the truth about your culture and how 12 simple questions can sustain the transformation of your organization by developing a culture of continuous improvement.
Root Cause Analysis
by Tara Yates
The root cause analysis session will help you map out your process, determine the root causes of failures, and develop action plans to correct those root causes.
3:30-4:15
Leading through Change and transformation
State of Missouri leaders share insights on how they’re driving change and transformation within their teams.
- Facilitated by Anna Hui – Director of Department of Labor & Industrial Relations
- Paula Nickelson – Director of Department of Health and Senior Services
- Hannah Humphrey – Deputy Director of Department of Natural Resources
- Chaz Jesiolowski – Operational Excellence Leader Missouri Department of Conservation
4:15-4:30
Closing Ceremony
