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The ISO 9001 Group delivers engaging and informative keynote speaking for your event or conference. We have experience speaking to small and large groups of professional adults in an engaging and fun manner that allows them to interact with the speaker and increases information retention. We can deliver in-person or virtual presentations regarding the latest principles, strategies and topics to your audience. Our speaking engagements are typically paid engagements, but we do consider non-paid  engagements with paid travel expenses and promotional opportunities.

We can prepare customized topics based upon your organization’s objectives for the event.  Your attendees will be sure to leave informed, engaged and inspired to apply what they have seen and heard. Request us to speak today by completing the form.

Some of our past speaking engagements include:

Offshore Well Control Conference (OWC)

Topic: Big Quality Equals Better Business

Oscar Combs, Senior Consultant of The ISO 9001 Group, presented the changes that have taken place for requirements following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill through the revision of API Spec Q1 and introduction of API Spec Q2. Attendees were presented an overview of quality standards that at times were optional in the oil and gas industry and are now becoming mandatory in this post-Deep Horizon risk-focused environment.  The implications for leadership, risk management, oversight, management of change and business processes beyond control and manufacturing were analyzed.

Project-Management-Institute-Houston

Project Management Institute Houston Chapter (PMI)

Topic: Formulating & Implementing Corrective & Preventive Actions

Oscar Combs, Senior Consultant of The ISO 9001 Group, presented how formulating corrective and preventive actions are at the core of an organization’s continual improvement efforts.  Attendees learned how preventive and corrective actions are critical in allowing a company to manage its risk and reduce cost associated with nonconformities and operational challenges. Organizations that continue to repeat the same nonconformities and mistakes, can expect the same results.  To drive real sustainable change and improvement, the speaker explained how organizations must drill down to the root cause(s) or potential root cause(s) of nonconformities to prevent them from occurring or recurring.

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Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S)

Event Sponsor: BSI Group

Topic: Using ISO 9001 to Reduce Risk and Expense

Oscar Combs, Senior Consultant of The ISO 9001 Group, provided webinar attendees with valuable information on how their organizations can increase revenue and reduce risks and associated expenses by implementing ISO 9001. ISO 9001:2008 sets out the criteria for a quality management system. More than 1 million organizations worldwide have implemented it. Companies that choose to be certified to it do so to ensure that their customers get consistent, high-quality products and services. The standard is based on a number of quality management principles including a strong customer focus, participation of top management, and continual improvement.

Hewlett-Packard

Topic: Moving Beyond Commitment to Leadership

ISO 9001:2015 adds leadership of the quality management system as a responsibility of management. Leading requires management not to only provide resources, but to lead by example. Oscar Combs, Sr. Consultant of The ISO 9001 Group, had often seen committed management that lacked leadership of their quality management system. The lack of leadership by management sends the wrong message to employees and the organization never reaches its full potential. Oscar Combs walked through the ISO 9001:2015 requirements of leadership and providing practical insight on moving beyond commitment to leadership!

ASQ

ASQ Greater Houston Section 1405

Topic: ISO 9001:2015; The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

In this presentation, Oscar Combs, Sr. Consultant of The ISO 9001 Group, discussed The Good, Bad and The Ugly of the ISO 9001:2015 revision and how the revision has both introduced value and challenges for companies. The ISO 9001 Group has already achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification for various clients, with zero findings from various ANAB Accredited Certification Bodies. Attendees came prepared to discuss their specific challenges they are facing with the ISO 9001:2015 transition, and were provided with on the spot practical solutions to overcome them.

ASQ

ASQ Greater Houston Section 1405

Topic: Moving Beyond Commitment to Leadership

ISO 9001:2015 adds leadership of the quality management system as a responsibility of management. Leading requires management not to only provide resources, but to lead by example. Oscar Combs, Sr. Consultant of The ISO 9001 Group, had often seen committed management that lacked leadership of their quality management system. The lack of leadership by management sends the wrong message to employees and the organization never reaches its full potential. Oscar Combs walked through the ISO 9001:2015 requirements of leadership and providing practical insight on moving beyond commitment to leadership!

ASQ

ASQ Greater Houston Section 1405

Topic: Big Quality Equals Better Business

Oscar Combs, Sr. Consultant of The ISO 9001 Group, provided an overview of current and emerging trends that quality professionals should be aware of and implement over the next 6 – 12 months. Since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on April 20, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, where 4.9 million barrels of oil was spilled, 11 lives lost and cost exceeded $42.2 billion, organizations such as the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have unleashed more stringent requirements than ever before. The major revisions to API Spec Q1 and ISO 9001 were presented, and an introduction to API Spec Q2 was provided.

ASQ

ASQ Greater Houston Section 1405

Topic: Risk Mitigation Through Continuous Improvement

In this speaking engagement, Oscar Combs, Sr. Consultant of The ISO 9001 Group, presented how quality professionals can add value to their organizations’ risk mitigation and continuous improvement efforts through the use of the Risk Management Cycle. The speaker explained to attendees how the Risk Management and Plan-Do-Check-Act cycles can be used in tandem to add sustained risk management and continual improvement for their organizations.

ASQ

ASQ Greater Bay Area Texas Section 1422

Topic: Big Quality Equals Better Business

Oscar Combs, Sr. Consultant of The ISO 9001 Group, provided an overview of current and emerging trends that quality professionals should be aware of and implement over the next 6 – 12 months. Since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on April 20, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, where 4.9 million barrels of oil was spilled, 11 lives lost and cost exceeded $42.2 billion, organizations such as the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have unleashed more stringent requirements than ever before. The major revisions to API Spec Q1 and ISO 9001 were presented, and an introduction to API Spec Q2 was provided.

APICS

Association for Operations Management (APICS)

Topic: Engaging for Upward Mobility

In this presentation, Oscar Combs, Senior Consultant of The ISO 9001 Group, shared his strategies on how he actively engaged decision makers throughout his career to achieve upward mobility. Oscar Combs started working at Nabors as a QHSE Coordinator in 1995. He worked his way up to Quality Supervisor by 2000 and Quality Manager by 2005. Mr.Combs was recruited by Fugro Consultants in 2009 to achieve ISO 9001 Certification for their 16 offices, which he accomplished in 12 months. He started his own consulting firm in 2010. Within 15 years, Oscar Combs went from Coordinator to Business Owner.

PECB

Topic: How Organizations Manage Change with ISO 9001:2015

ISO 9001:2015 requires organizations to plan and manage changes. Changes in organizations happen almost every day and it may be difficult to plan or manage change, when at times it happens so quickly. Changes that are not planned or managed well could result in costly risk merging. Oscar Combs, Senior Consultant of The ISO 9001 Group, presented a systematic method for organizations to plan and manage change, so that the changes are introduced properly.

Houston Minority Supplier Development Council (HMSDC)

Topic: Compliance Documents

In this presentation, Oscar Combs, Senior Consultant of The ISO 9001 Group, presented how organizations can manage their business risks through designing, writing and implementing compliance documents. Attendees were provided with detailed information on what classifies as a compliance documents, and the fundamentals of document life cycles. Mr.Combs also presented how to control compliance documents once they are developed.

Transformer-Association

The Transformer Association

Topic: ISO 9001:2015 Revision

The ISO 9001 Group’s Sr. Consultant, Oscar Combs, was invited to be a keynote speaker at The Transformer Association 2018 Spring Meeting. As the keynote speaker, he provided an overview of the ISO 9001:2015 Revision. After walking through the key aspects of the ISO 9001:2015 revision, interpretations and examples, Mr. Combs lead a Q&A session to answer questions attendees had.

Corporate-Memory-Solutions

Corporate Memory Solutions

Topic: Organizational Knowledge

Oscar Combs, Senior Consultant of The ISO 9001 Group, discussed clause 7.1.6 Organizational knowledge of the ISO 9001:2015 standard. Attendees were educated on the importance of capturing and maintaining organizational knowledge, and how it can allow their organizations to remain nimble and react and withstand market changes.

Serimax

Topic: Applying Risk-Based Thinking to Quality

To recognize Safety & Quality Day, Oscar Combs, Senior Consultant of The ISO 9001 Group, was invited to present the importance of applying risk-based thinking to quality to Serimax employees. The speaker presented the focus of traditional risk management, and how to apply risk-based thinking to quality. After guiding employees through the risk-based thinking module in practice,  the speaker explained 8 steps to assess process risks.

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