Jean Jeffords's Contact Details

Jean Jeffords's Company Details

Center for Quality People and Organizations, Inc.

Georgetown, KY, US • 5 - 9 Employees
Professional Services software

The Center for Quality People and Organizations is a non-profit organization originally founded through a seed grant from Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK) in partnership with the Scott County School District in Georgetown, KY.​Since 2002, CQPO has developed and offered programs and customized training in lean management human systems, a variety of lean processes, and recruitment and selection systems.Further, in 2008, CQPO Executive Director Michael Hoseus collaborated with University of Michigan Professor and Toyota scholar, Jeffrey Liker, to write, Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way. This book describes the detail of Toyota's human system culture, and its role as a critical ingredient in the company's success as a global leader sustaining operational excellence, growth, innovation, and profitability. This book also received the prestigious Shingo Award. Currently, in keeping with the Toyota Culture volume, CQPO consultants continue to assist educational, business and community organizations in their efforts to achieve their goals by instituting continuous improvement processes.The Center's mission focuses on assisting business, education and community organizations in understanding and implementing a continuous improvement culture through a problem solving process that is inclusive of its members.The Center offers intensive presentations, training programs, planning and design activities, and consultation services that are fully commensurate with the lean systems and process in use throughout the Toyota Company internationally.