Twin Ports Performance Excellence Network (TPPEN)
Purpose:
The purpose of the Twin Ports Performance Excellence is to improve individual, organization, and community performance by sharing knowledge and best practices and by using quality tools to address community issues. The Network is designed to promote performance excellence, to inspire peer accountability, and to address community challenges that transcend organizational boundaries.
Board of Advisors:
| Moe Benda |
University of Minnesota, Duluth (Virginia Campus) |
| Keith Dixon |
Duluth Public Schools |
| Joan Goossens |
UnitedHealth Group |
| Barbara Possin |
St. Mary's Duluth Clinic (SMDC) |
| Sue Ross |
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| Anne Schilling |
AMSOIL |
| Sue Stenerson |
Lake Superior College, retired |
| Stephanie Vine |
University of Minnesota, Duluth |
Future Presentations:
| Sept 21 |
Ensuring Excellence at Blue Water Capital & What Happened to BP in the Gulf? |
Kevin Wilson, founder, Blue Water Capital |
| Oct 19 |
Leveraging the U of M's Hidden Resources for Your Success |
Office of Business Relations, University of Minnesota |
| Nov 16 |
TBD |
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Archived Presentations:
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Next TPPEN Meeting Topic:
Ensuring Excellence at Blue Water Capital & What Happened to BP in the Gulf?
Speaker:
Kevin Wilson, founder, Blue Water Capital
Date:
Tuesday, September 21
Time:
7:00 Registration, networking, breakfast
7:30 Program
8:30 Networking (no tour)
9:00 Adjourn
Location:
Kitchi Gammi Club, Duluth
Cost:
$20 for non-members
$10 for members of partner organizations
FREE for Council members Click here to register.
Topic Overview:
Join us for the next Twin Ports Performance Excellence session September 21. The discussion will feature Kevin Wilson of Blue Water Capital, who will share how Blue Water is advancing performance excellence in its organization, and will also lead a discussion of what went wrong with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Kevin will talk about some of the ways they ensure excellence at Blue Water, including their research process and sources for managing money, how they monitor the decision making process, and how they manage their own processes and procedures. In addition, Kevin will dive into the BP/Deepwater issue, by discussing the risks of deep water drilling, outlining some of the specific problems faced in the Macondo Well, exploring the multiple engineering failures (all preventable), and discuss what should have happened and the lessons learned. Come participate in an energetic, valuable discussion…
The session is from 7:30-9:00 a.m. on September 21 (networking and continental breakfast begin at 7:00 a.m.). Admission to TPPEN is FREE for Council members and guests ($20 for non-members).
For more information, visit http://www.councilforquality.org/TPPEN.cfm. To register, email brian.lassiter@councilforquality.org.
Speaker Bio
I changed careers from the earth sciences to financial services as a result of a brain transplant I received in June of 1992. It is otherwise known as a pink slip. The oil business had been declining since 1985 because of a price collapse, and anyone caught without a chair in 1992 was instantly out of the game forever in that environment. Since my father had been in financial services for 30 years before he retired in 1984, I chose the same career because I had become familiar with it through him. In terms of my experience, I drilled well over 100 wells and found millions of barrels of oil as a geologist. I worked mainly in the Rockies, but also in the Williston Basin (North Dakota-Montana) and Mid-Continent (Oklahoma), and I worked on oil & gas research projects in the North Sea, Brazil, and Africa. I also lived through a blowout on one well in Colorado– quite a story in itself. I’ve been in the financial services industry for 18 years, and have acted as a trust officer and vice president for a big regional bank, as a financial advisor and sr. vice president for a community bank, and as a President of an advisory firm.
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