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Conference: PENWorks 2016: Advancing Organizational Excellence
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Date: 
April 18, 2016 - 12:00am to April 19, 2016 - 12:00am
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Program Description: 

Do you work on organizational change or continuous improvement projects?  If so, consider attending PENworks on April 18 and 19 at the Earle Brown Heritage Center.

PENworks is put on by the Performance Excellence Network and PMI-MN is proud to be a supporter and exhibitor at the conference.

At the conference you will learn best practices in achieving – and sustaining – organizational excellence!!

  • Learn ways to improve your leadership effectiveness, strategic planning processes, customer focus, use of measures/data, workforce engagement, and operational performance.
  • Hear how three organizations — all recipients of the 2015 Baldrige National Quality Award — achieved and sustain world class performance: Charleston Area Medical Center (WV), Charter School of San Diego (CA), and MidAmerica Transplant Services (MO).
  • Hear insights from several keynotes, including:
    • Dr. Amit Sood of Mayo Clinic on the Science of Happiness
    • John Sweeney, CEO of Brave New Workshop, on The Innovative Mindset: 5 Behaviors for Accelerating Breakthroughs
    • Paul Hillen, Chief Marketing Officer at Cargill, on The Power of Networks, Trust, Persuasion, and Influence
    • Dan Mallin of Equals 3 LLC, on The Art of Possible: How Data Will Change the Way We Do Business
  • Network with hundreds of leaders and professionals, all interested in continuous improvement and organizational excellence.
Speaker(s) Bios: 

Dr. Amit Sood is a Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, and serves as Chair of Mayo Mind Body Initiative. He holds degrees in medicine from Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.

John Sweeney, CEO of Brave New Workshop
Owner of the Brave New Workshop Comedy Theatre in Minneapolis, America’s oldest comedy theater, John Sweeney is an innovation behaviorist, speaker and author.

Paul Hillen, Chief Marketing Officer at Cargill
Hillen is responsible for the global growth portfolio, innovation system deployment and execution, and marketing capability for Cargill’s $35 billion food ingredient and systems team. 

Dan Mallin of Equals 3 LLC
As a Board Member, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Magnet 360, Dan helps companies leverage marketing and technology to provide competitive differentiation and engagement for outcomes. Decades of experience amplify Dan’s character as a results-focused business leader--where outcomes matter more than the process or tool set. “Our clients expect results, we deliver.”

Presentations by:

AMSOIL, Superior, WI; Augustana University, Sioux Falls; Austin Public Schools, Austin; Brave New Workshop, Minneapolis (keynote); Brookings School District, Brookings SD; Cardinal of Minnesota, Rochester; Cargill, Wayzata (keynote); Charleston Area Medical Center Health System (Charleston, WV; Baldrige winner, keynote); Charter School of San Diego (Baldrige winner, keynote); Children's Hospitals & Clinics, Minneapolis; C.H. Robinson, Eden Prairie; Core Values Partners, Woodbury; Fairview Physicians Associates, Minneapolis; HealthPartners, Bloomington; Crow Wing County, Brainerd; Essentia Health, Duluth; Johnson Memorial Health Services, Dawson; LifeSource, Minneapolis; Mayo Clinic, Rochester; Mid-America Transplant Services, St. Louis (Baldrige winner, keynote); Momentum Consulting, Rochester; Pillbury United Communities, Minneapolis; Punch Neopolitan Pizza, St. Paul; Southeast Service Cooperative, Rochester; Twin Cities in Motion (Twin Cities Marathon), Minneapolis; VOA of Minnesota, Edina.

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