Marilyn Monda, Executive Consultant
Marilyn Monda is an Executive Consultant with GoLeanSixSigma.com. A Quality professional for over 35 years and a statistician/psychologist/computer scientist by training, Marilyn has spent her career fostering quality improvements in both the private and public sectors and in a variety of industries. Facilitating innovative solutions to thorny problems has resulted in millions in savings and increased productivity for her clients.
Marilyn provides strategic quality solutions to clients in Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Service, Financial, Healthcare and Public Sectors.
Highlighted Accomplishments & Capabilities
Capabilities:
- Strategy development workshops and strategy execution
- Designing and deploying lean and defect prevention systems
- Statistical analysis, designed experiments, non-parametric and graphic analysis
- Kaizen (transactional and manufacturing) and Workout facilitation
Accomplishments:
- Coach/Mentor for hundreds of Green Belt (GB), Black Belt (BB), and Master Black Belt (MBB) Projects.
- Project manager for a wide variety of successful critical cross-departmental projects such as Pharmaceutical aseptic cleaning processes, Global SAP Implementation, Retail store construction, Commercial real estate purchase and sale, Lifecycle planning and execution, Remittance process definition and many others.
- Developed and managed Merck Green Belt, Black Belt, and Master Black Belt certification programs.
Highlighted Publications
Books & Articles:
- The Road to Improvement. 2021.
- Top Tips for Facilitators. Workshop. ASQ1 WCQI2, 2020.
- Leading Teams: Conflict for Innovation and Change”. Workshop. 2019
- Sustaining Change: Busting Change Management Myths. Workshop. 2018.
- Leading through Conflict: Connecting, Collaborating and Innovating. 2017.
- 10 Critical Xs for a Successful Transactional Kaizen. Presentation. Lean Six Sigma World Conference, 2017.
- What you CAN’T do with a T-Test. Presentation. Lean Six Sigma World Conference, 2016.
- Lose the Carrot and the Stick: Substitute Motivation. Workshop.
- Quality Cruise for Professional Development. Conference Director and Presenter. 2014.
- Leadership and Profound Knowledge: We Still are not Out of the Crisis. 2013.
- Defect Prevention Systems. Quality Magazine, 1994.
- A Primer for Enumerative vs Analytic Studies. Vol. 16, No. 3, 1991.
Education
Degrees and Certifications:
- Certified Master Black Belt (GE)
- M.A. Behavioral Statistics, Baylor University
- Triple Major in Psychology, Statistics and Computer Science
- B.A. Psychology, San Diego State University
- Change Agent Level 2 (Conner Partners)