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August Community Meeting

Creating Community to Lead Excellence at Volvo.

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Hi All 

This month we are have a great guest Mr Brett Aislabie – Director Operational Development Volvo Group Australia coming on the community to discuss the important topic of creating community when leading an excellence journey within an organisation. 

Brett has years of experience in leading people and systems development at Volvo, previously leading Competence Development and Lean. 

Please think of questions you have regarding engaging people in a CI/Excellence Journey. Creating ongoing community to support people engaging with the journey and also leading an internally owned excellence journey based on the Volvo Production System. 

As normal we will cover some key topics with Brett and then open up for questions. Please feel free to forward this event to anyone in your organisations that you feel will gain value. 

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