Section 1515 Message from the Chair
By Bob Gilbert
Message from the Section 1515 Chair
By Bob Gilbert
As of July 1, 2010, I have had the honor of becoming the new Section Chair of ASQ Section 1515, Palm Beach County. Prior to this, I was Education Chair for our Section during the 2009-2010 program year.
I would like to begin my term as Chair of the Section 1515 Leadership team by thanking my predecessor for the amazing work he has done to build our Section to where it is today. If it were not for Jay’s tireless work in putting together such a magnificent Leadership Team, I could not imagine how our Section would have progressed as far as it has in such a short time. My sincere thanks to Jay, and all the members of the 2009-2010 Leadership Team for all the work they have completed.
I am truly blessed to be surrounded by my incredible Leadership Team for the 2010-2011 program year. Many are carryovers from Jay’s team; some are in new positions, while we were also able to attract some new blood into our team. The following is our Leadership Team for 2010-2011:
- Bob Gilbert – Section Chair
- Mikhail Bunich – Arrangements Chair
- Guillermo Rodriquez – Secretary and Membership Chair
- Jeremy Montanti – Treasurer
- Jay Stahan – Audit, Nominations and VoC Chair
- Charlotte Williamson – Audit Committee Member
- Judy Gottesman – Certification, Recertification Chair
- Enrique Bekerman – Program Chair
- Gil Lugo – Education Chair
- Mauricio Perry – Internet Chair
- Denise Sandberg – Publicity Chair
- Mindy Gross – Newsletter Editor
On Saturday, July 17th, our Leadership Team, along with the team from Section 1510, attended the biannual ASQ Leadership Training specifically geared to providing the necessary tools and information to run an ASQ section. Our presenter from ASQ National was Linda Milanowski who did a great job of answering all our questions.
On August 4th, our Leadership Team had its first planning meeting of the 2010-2011 year. We reviewed our Financial Audit Report for 2009-2010, previewed our budget for 2010-2011, discussed upcoming program activities, and began working on our business plan for the year. The 2009-2010 Financial Audit Report has been submitted and accepted by ASQ National. Great work team! We will be using our Voice of the Customer (VoC) survey results to focus our attention for the upcoming year. We are using the feedback to target our future events and to grow and retain membership. We are also looking for volunteers to join our Committee Chairs to grow the individual committees. We feel that this is important in meeting our Section’s objectives of growing our section and increasing member loyalty.
Please join us at our many planned events as well as remaining “in Touch” through our website (www.asqpalmbeach.org) and The Variant publication. Results of our VoC Survey are available on the website. Please check them out.