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Respected academic, experienced consultant and trainer, and internationally recognized expert on innovation, Business Management, Change Management, Anti-Fragility, Six Sigma, Governance & Enterprise Risk Management, Organizational Excellence, Strategy, Leadership, Quality Assurance, Quality Management and Lean Operations, Tony also has an interest in public sector innovation, development and reform. Tony is a well-known invited keynote speaker at Conferences and Events worldwide and was formerly the Rolls-Royce funded Professor of Quality & Reliability Management, at the University of Leicester UK. Previously he also held the post of East Midlands Electricity Professor of Quality. Tony has had both an outstanding academic career and an extensive professional consultancy and training role at the highest level within both private sector organizations and the public sector. He has published extensively and is principle author of the best selling Financial Times book on Benchmarking for Competitive Advantage, which is available in 6 languages, as well as the FT book on Implementing Quality in the Public Sector. His new book on `Developing Anti-Fragile Organizations; Governance, Opportunity and Risk in Turbulent Times’ was published by Gower in July 2014. This examines the shortcomings of conventional risk analysis, the impact of `black swans`, and the strategic, cultural, process and people requirements for the development of operations, systems and both public & private sector organisations that get stronger from being stressed. He chairs the MS6 Technical Committee of BSI, which has responsibility for process efficiency, effectiveness and improvement. This did most of the development work on the creation of the ISO13053 international Six Sigma standard and the new auditable ISO Lean Management and Six Sigma standard ISO18404, published December2015. He also until recently chaired the Royal Statistical Society Quality Improvement Section, now acting as Vice chair.

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