A knowledge exchange among senior executives and organization leaders in Operations, Sales, Human Resources, and Learning & Development across varying industries looking to seed and foster best-practices in their own roles and environments.
Curriculum and Development Experience
- Our Learning Experiences are unique and interactive events offered through a combination of virtual and live formats. We partner with professional production teams to ensure event quality.
- Our goal is to curate the best possible balance of theory, practice, and hands-on exercises.
- We customize our content, case studies, and interactive exercises around the attendees in the room to be thought-provoking and help build tools to sustain a high-performance culture.
- FocusIn is recognized by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.
Practical Implementation
- FocusIn: Operational Excellence & Lean Leadership is hosted by experts with tangible successful experiences of managing people and processes.
- The content is designed to enable the achievement of results when applied to your own unique challenges.
- Inclusion in the participant group provides the opportunity to collaborate and build the relationships necessary to take your improvement effort forward.
Key Participant Outcomes
- A unique opportunity to network, benchmark, and learn best-practice with participants from a variety of sectors and organizations.
- An outline of how to complete Organizational and Personal Action Plans to identify gaps, prioritize improvement, and to implement and sustain a high-performance culture of continuous people development.
- Your personally curated learning materials and platform to support the ongoing evolution towards an improvement culture in your organization.
Exclusivity and Relevance
- We strive to maintain a learning environment with like-minded participants. To ensure relevance and relatability, we do our best to match participants to the relevant program offering and course content.
Through leadership development, we are focused on building capability and creating high-performance cultures through people development.
What is the purpose?
FocusIn events are designed to provide perspective and practical expertise in executive leadership and people development alongside other like-minded professionals. The events are hosted by industry leaders, including Mike Hoseus, a former Toyota executive and co-author of Toyota Culture.
Through a blend of workshop sessions and site visits, we’ll observe the principles of a high-performance culture. We'll reference several models of organizational development including the 4P model, with a special focus on People, Process, Purpose and Problem Solving. A main takeaway will be your tailored individual and organizational action plan on how to take your Learning & Development journey to the next level of performance.
Previous participants have held the following roles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Operating Officer
- Executive Director
- Executive Vice President
- Founder & Director
- General Manager
- Managing Director
- President and CEO
- Senior VP - Supply Chain
- VP - Continuous Improvement
- VP - Global Project Mgmt.
- VP - Operations
- Vice President & GM
- Director of Finance
- Director of Human Resources
- Director of Supply Chain
- Director of Operational Excellence & Cont. Improvement
- Director of Operations
- Director of Procurement
- Director of Quality
- Division Head
- Plant Controller
- Plant Manager
- Senior Director - Data Sciences
- Senior Director - Operations
- Senior Project Manager
- Cont. Improvement Specialist
- Engineering Manager
- Industrial Engineer
- Lead Engineer
- Maintenance Manager
- Operations Manager
- Operational Excellence Manager
- Procurement Manager
- Production Manager
- Program Manager
- Quality Assurance Manager
- Shift Team Leader
- Supply Chain Manager
- Total Quality Management Lead
Previous Participant Companies
- Ameriqual Group
- Ball Metalpack
- Bosch
- CH Guenther & Son
- CID Resources
- Clariant
- Custom Foods
- Finlays
- Hitachi
- Humble House Foods
- Hyster-Yale
- Lejeune Steel Company
- O.C. Tanner
- Premier Research Labs
- Prevost
- Southwest Research Institute