Denis Leonard

Denis Leonard PhD is President of Business Excellence Consulting LLC. Denis has a degree in construction engineering a M.B.A. and Ph.D. in quality management.

He is a Fellow of the UK Chartered Quality Institute, Chartered Quality Professional and a Fellow of the American Society for Quality with whom he is a Certified Quality Manager, Auditor and Six Sigma Black Belt.

Denis has received the ASQ Feigenbaum Medal and Roger Berger Award, he has also won several international awards for research publications as well as Big Builder Magazines APEX Award for Quality Leadership in the US homebuilding industry. He has been an Assessor on the Northern Ireland Quality Award (EFQM based) Judge and Examiner for the Wisconsin Forward Award, Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Examiners and a Lead Judge on the National Housing Quality Award (Baldrige based) and the International Team Excellence Competition.

He is a member of several boards including the National Housing Quality Executive Council, U.S. (ANSI) Standards Group for Quality Management, ASQ's Quality Management Forum and Quality Press Review Boards. He has presented at national and international conferences and published widely in such journals as; The International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, The Quality Management Journal, Management Decision, International Journal of Operations and Production Management and The Journal of European Industrial Training.

A former Professor of Quality at the University of Wisconsin, he has experience in management, engineering, training, auditing and consulting with expertise in strategic and operational quality improvement initiatives.

He has won national awards in quality, safety and environmental management for his clients.

He is co-author of the ASQ Best Seller, 'The Executive Guide to Understanding and Implementing The Baldrige Criteria', which has been translated for the Chinese market.

He can be contacted at DenisLeonard@BusinessExcellenceConsulting.net

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