Yves Van Nuland
Comatech Services is a training and consultancy company, founded by Yves Van Nuland.
Consultancy and Training Services
BEST-method : develop and assess a Best Practice
Results Based Management (how to develop and to work with KPI’s)
EFQM
Education
Academic degree
Ph.D. Chemistry from the University of Louvain (Belgium) 1977. Promotor Prof. L. De Maeyer.
Professional background
40 years experience in training on different subjects in TQM in organizations, in profit and in non-profit organizations.
Quality organizations
Co-founder of multiple quality organizations in Belgium
Continual education and training
EFQM Assessor (assessor for the European Quality Award 1994 and European Excellence Award 2011).
Kaizen, Kaizen Institute Japan (by Masaaki Imai, author of the bestseller Kaizen) (Japan, 1993)
License Human Synergistics (1994 – ) (company culture, values, customer service, leadership, customer complaint, change management, team building, …).
EFQM license, EFQM Assessor for Belgium (1996 – 2010).
Master Practitioner NLP, New York Training Institute for NeuroLingusitic Programming (2002-2004).
EFQM Trainer Accreditation Workshop. Eligible to deliver the Basic EFQM Assessor Training, the Journey to Excellence, Leaders for Excellence & Internal Assessor EFQM (2016).
Publications
Grace L. Duffy
President, Management and Performance Systems.
Brookfield, CT, Charleston, SC, Eustis, FL
45 years experience as a service provider in organizational performance, process improvement, leadership, and customer service.
Author or co-author of:
- The Quality Improvement Handbook,
- The Executive Guide to Improvement and Change,
- Executive Focus; Your Life and Career,
- The Public Health Quality Improvement Handbook,
- QFD and Lean Six Sigma for Public Health,
- Tools and Applications for Healthy Teams,
- Modular kaizen; Dealing with Disruption,
- The Encyclopedia of Quality Tools,
- The Quality Improvement Pocket Guide,
- Modular Kaizen: Continuous and Breakthrough Improvement,
- The Certified Quality Improvement Associate Handbook and
- The Six Sigma Yellow Belt Study Guide.
- Validating a Best Practice: A Tool for Improvement and Benchmarking, BEST-method
- Published and delivered over 250 papers on quality, leadership, planning, and organizational design
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt for business, not-for-profit, healthcare, electric utilities, and federal/state government agencies. 2014 Quality Magazine Person of the Year. 2016 Asia Pacific Quality Organization Mifl
EDUCATION
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
MBA, General Management and I/S, Magna Cum Laude, Beta Gamma Sigma Honors Society
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
BA/BS, Anthropology and Archaeology, Honors, University Scholar
Corporate Sponsored Training
IBM Manager’s School Series; Market Driven Quality Executive Program
Front Line Leadership Program; “Speakeasy” Executive Presentation Skills
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, The Harrington Group
CERTIFICATIONS
Total Quality Transformation Trainer, 1994
ASQ Certified Quality Manager, 1995
ASQ Certified Quality Auditor, 1998
AchieveGlobal (Zenger Miller) Certified Trainer, 2000
ASQ Certified Quality Improvement Assoc, 2001
Six Sigma Master Black Belt, 2003
Certified Manager in Process Improvement Excellence & Innovation, 2003
ASQ Certified Six Sigma Green Belt, 2009
ASSOCIATIONS
American Society for Quality (ASQ)
ASQ Fellow, ASQ Distinguished Service Medalist, Past-Chair, E.L. Grant Medal, Quality Management Division (QMD) Vice Chair – Ops 2009 – 10, ASQ Vice-President 2005 – 2007; Past-Chair, Quality Management Division; Past-Chair, Community Good Works Program, Economic Case for Quality, ASQ Bylaws, Quality Manager Certification Chair; Deputy Regional Director, Region 11 (Southeast) 1998 – 2001; Local Section Chair
Association for Talent Development (ATD), Mensa, International Life Member
South Carolina Governor’s Quality Award judge and executive committee member (1999 – 2002)
International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), Life Member, Past President, Cobb County, GA, League of Women Voters
Christian Forstner
Dr. Sc. Nat., Dipl. Phys.
Management Consultant,
Change Manager, Trainer & Coach.
WHAT : I coach and support organizations to increase their competitive advantage
HOW : by always maintaining the focus on “your advantage”
WHY : to deliver improved performance and ensure long-term sustained success.
Experiences
- Self-employed consultant in the area of organizational development
- 25 years experience at Siemens AG
- 25 years EFQM Excellence expert
- Strategy, Risk and Process Management Expert
- Sustainability Assessment Proficiency, based on the UN Global Compact
- Key Note Speaker and Conference Chair
- Associate Professor at German University (OTH Technical University of Applied Sciences)
- Founding Member and Board Member of African Excellence Forum, South Africa
Academic Education
- Diploma at FAU University in Erlangen, Germany: Nuclear Physicist
- PhD at ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland: Dr.sc.nat. (Doctor of Natural Sciences)
Languages
- German
- English
- Janpanese