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Improve Business Performance

QPA is dedicated to helping you improve your business performance with the right amount of support, expertise and excellence. Our strength is our commitment to collaboration and a strong foundation of knowledge and  experience. Expertise includes;

  • lean systems methodologies,
  • QMS systems development,
  • QMS audits,
  • process design and improvement,
  • process facilitation,
  • implementing teams, and
  • problem solving through consulting and training.

QPA offers consulting, training and development services to help your organization implement and sustain the methods needed to improve business performance. We do that with an efficient and expert, yet down to earth style.

And, always, our approach is to transfer our competence and confidence to you so that you can and will carry on without us. Your self-sufficiency is one of our benchmarks of success; if we've done our job well, we've only stayed as long as you need us.


 

Kristine King, President
Kristine has over a decade of extraordinary development of quality management systems by successfully melding production, management, service, quality and engineering. She has provided leadership to get her client’s ISO and TS/QS systems certified on the first attempt every time.  Her work as a Lean facilitator and developer brings the same style of efficiency, expertise and excellence. In every area her focus is on transferring confidence and competence so that you can carry on without us. 

Her work has covered a wide range of companies, public, private and not-for- profit.  She demonstrates a  “know how” in building systems that will be invaluable over the years. Flexibility and improvement are trademarks of her thorough yet rapid approach. She brings a first-hand, practical, up-to-date knowledge to each development project.

She has served as Chairman of the Board for a large not-for-profit organization and is just as at home in the boardroom as on the factory floor. She brings her business sense to provide sensible, effective solutions to your systems.

In addition, she has over 20 years of facilitation, training, and process & systems development and comes to you with experience, insights, innovation, humor, and excellent skills to get your people up to speed on Lean and/or QMS systems faster than anyone in the industry.

Kristine is also an exceptional RAB certified Lead Auditor with numerous audits performed in may different organizations.

Jim Hemphill, Vice President
Jim is the glue that holds QPA together.  He is the friendly, well informed voice you will hear when you call us.  Jim has years of experience diagnosing initial needs with all kinds of firms.

Jim’s down-to-earth style and insights will help you discover the unique and comprehensive ways QPA can help you to improve your business performance.  He has the information that can help you get started today.

 

 

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