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PepsiCo’s Approach to a Thriving Workplace
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PepsiCo’s Approach to a Thriving Workplace

April 9, 2025

Michael Tuller is currently the SVP, Global Talent for PepsiCo. In this role he is part of PepsiCo’s global HR Leadership team and responsible for setting the strategic agenda across all Talent Management practices including assessment, employee engagement, succession, people analytics and learning & development.

Most recently, Michael spent 9 years in PepsiCo in as an HRBP across four different roles. He most recently served as the VP HR, United Kingdom and Ireland where he was responsible to lead the HR agenda for the total business. He previously served in various HR Leadership roles in the PepsiCo Beverages North America. Before joining the Beverage organization, Michael was the Senior HR Director for several Global Functions leading HR efforts across several critical global transformations and helped build PepsiCo’s eCommerce business.

Michael began his PepsiCo career as part of the Enterprise Organizational Development group where he was responsible for leading several global leadership development and assessment programs.

Michael holds a B.A. in Psychology from Lafayette College as well as a Masters Degree and PhD in I/O Psychology from UConn.

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Building a Quality Culture and Continuous Improvement
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Building a Quality Culture and Continuous Improvement

March 3, 2025

Ensuring safety, compliance and innovation – How to build a strong quality culture and implementing continuous improvement practices

Successful implementation of quality culture & continuous improvement

Overcoming challenges in building a quality culture

Embrace quality at every level of the organization and adopt continuous improvement as a core value to stay competitive, compliant, and trusted in the marketplace

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Sanofi Manufacturing Modernization – The Best in Class Ambition
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Sanofi Manufacturing Modernization – The Best in Class Ambition

December 2, 2024

Koustuv Chatterjee is the Senior Vice President of External Manufacturing & Supply, in the Manufacturing & Supply division of Sanofi. Prior to joining Sanofi in 2023, Koustuv has held several leadership positions in Merck & Co, Teva Biopharmaceuticals USA, and Amgen Inc. Koustuv’s career started in process development and has spanned across manufacturing operations, network strategy, product and device development, Manufacturing Science & Technology, internal and external manufacturing operations. Koustuv obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Technology from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, Masters. in Industrial Pharmacy from University of Toledo Ohio, and Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from University of Minnesota.

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Quality is Not Just a Cost Center: Proving the Value of Quality and Safety Initiatives with Data
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Quality is Not Just a Cost Center: Proving the Value of Quality and Safety Initiatives with Data

October 4, 2024

Quality and Safety teams often struggle to secure budget priority despite their essential roles. Learn how to shift that narrative with actionable strategies and data-driven insights
This session will explore how building a strong, data-driven continuous improvement program can not only reduce risk and improve safety but can also help teams paint a clearer picture of the value they create for their brand
Gain insights on how to put continuous improvement data to work for your organization

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The Strategy to Deliver a Supply Chain’s Long-Term Vision — A Conversation with John Mau of Ocean Spray Cranberries
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The Strategy to Deliver a Supply Chain’s Long-Term Vision — A Conversation with John Mau of Ocean Spray Cranberries

August 8, 2024

In the run-up to the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit we spoke with John Mau, the Director of Operations & Supply Chain Strategy, about the power and importance of long-term visions for supply chains, and the strategies involved in delivering on those far-reaching objectives. John will be hosting a focus group on this topic as NASCES24. What are some of the ideas he wants to share? What does he hope other people will contribute to the discussion? How should supply chain executives be thinking proactively in an Age of Disruption, and how can some of the principles of Lean thinking and a Culture of Continuous Improvement contribute to a supply chain organization that is getting incrementally better all the time, building towards truly impressive achievements one step at a time? For all this and more, give this episode a listen!

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Fireside Chat: Rising to the Challenge of New Supply Chain Business Realities
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Fireside Chat: Rising to the Challenge of New Supply Chain Business Realities

September 21, 2023

Mario Rivera is CVS Health’s SVP and Chief Supply Chain & Logistics Officer. He is responsible for developing and executing the company’s strategy to transform their supply chain network to become America’s premier health and wellness destination. He leads teams in transportation & logistics, distribution center operations, inventory management, omnichannel fulfillment, and network strategy & engineering.

Mario has more than two decades of experience in roles of increasing responsibility, primarily within the Healthcare industry – from MedTech to Life Sciences to Retail/Pharmacy. He has extensive leadership expertise driving business transformation globally including in the U.S., Latin America, Asia and Europe.

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Next Level Continuous Improvement with a New Approach to Industrial Machine Learning
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Next Level Continuous Improvement with a New Approach to Industrial Machine Learning

May 6, 2022

Learn how industrial companies are avoiding the roadblocks to quickly deploying successful AI/machine learning and finding valuable new insights from their existing systems and data, as-is, with no prep required Hear how continuous improvement is supercharged with the power of machine learning to constantly monitor for new opportunities and ensure sustainable benefits Find out about a low touch, low risk way to quickly discover the available business value from industrial machine learning for your operations — Paul Boris President and COO Praemo Starting his career in operations and engineering at companies including GM, Paul recognized the opportunities to drive performance…

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Panel: The Supply Chain of the Future and Behaviors that Drives Excellence
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Panel: The Supply Chain of the Future and Behaviors that Drives Excellence

October 29, 2020

Compensation plans that foster innovation and continuous process improvement Performance metrics that incentivize collaboration and build a culture of systemic thinking Operating Efficiency: Designing shared priorities and objectives into cross-functional decision-making — Moderator： Shay Scott Executive Director, Global Supply Chain Institute University of Tennessee Shay Scott, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Global Supply Chain Institute (GSCI) at The University of Tennessee (UT). Ranked as a top program globally, UT’s GSCI exists to shape and influence the practice of SCM by serving as a global hub for leading companies, researchers, practitioners and students. He also serves as Professor of Practice…

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Panel: Cost Reduction Through Margin Improvement and Waste Elimination

October 11, 2019

Why do so many OpEx initiatives fail to achieve their goals or lose all momentum soon after hitting their targets? How do you make margin improvement and waste elimination everyone’s job throughout an organization? Offering tactics and strategies to re-engage a workforce that has grown complacent and lost its culture of Continuous Improvement Discussing how new technologies fit into the larger conversation about how Lean Thinking is evolving Where do we want to be a decade from now, and what are we doing right now to get there? — Walter Charles Chief Procurement Officer Allergan Walter Charles is the SVP…

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Building a CI Culture in LEGO
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Building a CI Culture in LEGO

June 20, 2018

Business Services Organization – A new adventure Joining the LEGO Family – onboarding and developing Building our BSO Management System – Cascaded Strategy & Accountability Continuously Improving – The LEGO way… — Peter Evans LCI Director LEGO Peter Evans was born in 1955. He joined the LEGO in February 2016 The early part of his career was in Finance in various industries, including Defence, Financial Services and Telecommunications. Peter worked for GE Capital throughout the 90’s including spells in Manchester, Brussels, Shannon (Eire) and Connecticut in various Quality Leadership roles From 2000 to 2013 he worked in Telecoms in the…

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Effective Change Management Demands Evolution, Not Revolution
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Effective Change Management Demands Evolution, Not Revolution

July 26, 2016

Keith Price has over 40 years of experience in industry with more than two decades of that in senior leadership positions in large international companies. He is an expert on building and implementing lean and quality management programs that work over the long term. His key insight? Change management is about evolution, not revolution. He now works with small and mid-sized companies to equip them with the tools and techniques to turn their strategies into implemented operational plans that yield business results. Download PDF. In your experience working with a lot of different companies, it seems so many programs and…

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