Dear AIM Utah Members:
Our next AIM General Membership Luncheon will be Thursday, May 13th, and you are invited to participate!
This will be a Virtual Lunch Meeting and AIM will provide lunch via a $25 DoorDash gift card to the first 100 registrants!
The Virtual AIM Lunch will start at 11:45 am and we hope you can participate! We expect the meeting to last 60-90 minutes and many of your peers will be participating!
Registered participants will receive a separate email with the Zoom Meeting ID and password on the day before the event.
AIM will send a $25 DoorDash Gift Card to the first 100 participants who register before end of day Monday, May 10th.
This month's featured speaker is:
Kristen Cox
Executive Director of the New Initiative on Government Improvement, and Instructor at the University of Utah Eccles School of Business
Kristen will talk about the Theory of Constraints and how it applies to a range of work processes. (As an aside, I have found the Theory of Constraints to be invaluable in both problem solving and continuous improvement.) Kristen is the world’s leading authority on using the Theory of Constraints in government and non-profit settings. While she was the Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget for the State of Utah, she led a 35% improvement across Utah’s $20B executive branch. Prior to that role she led Utah’s Department of Workforce Services through the 2008 / 2009 “great recession” and was able to absorb a 60% increase in case load with her existing staff. In parallel, the department was able to generate $30M in savings for the State of Utah while, at the same time, being in the Top Ten for quality in the United States.
This will be an interesting and compelling presentation. And, to make it even better, the first 85 people who register (and attend) the session will receive a free copy of Kristen’s book. Please block out your calendar and attend this one – the Theory of Constraints just might change your life.
About Kristen Cox
Kristen Cox is the world's leading authority on how to apply the Theory of Constraints to governments and non profits. Kris is currently the Executive Director of the new Initiative on Government Improvement and an instructor at The University of Utah's Eccles School of Business.
She is the co-author of two books, Stop Decorating the Fish and The World of Decorating the Fish along with Dr. Yishai Ashlag.
In addition, Kristen sits on advisory boards, is a keynote speaker, consultant, trainer, and co-founder of The Fulcrum--her private, online, TOC training community.
She has worked for three governors, was a special appointee with the Department of Education in the Bush administration, ran for Lt. Governor for the State of Maryland with then Governor Ehrlich, and has run a non-profit.
In November 2018, Kris was selected as a Salt Lake Chamber Pathfinder Award recipient and was also honored as the Lifetime Achievement Gold Stevie Award winner for government and non-profit organizations. In 2016 Kris was selected as one of Governing Magazine’s public officials of the year. She has also been honored by the Utah Community Foundation as an Enlightened 50 (2016), Utah Business Magazine as one of the 30 Women to Watch (2012) and the Days of 47 with the Pioneers of Progress Award for Business and Enterprise (2012).
Kris received her Bachelor of Science in Educational Psychology from Brigham Young University. She served an LDS mission in Brazil and treasures any opportunity to speak Portuguese. Kris is an avid reader and loves being active. Kris and her family love the outdoors, especially hiking Utah’s mountains and trails. Her greatest outdoor adventures have been skydiving, paragliding, snow and water skiing, and hiking the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim.
Kris is married with two sons (one married, one in high school), and lives in the Salt Lake City area.
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We hope you can make it to this event!
Cheers,
The AIM Board
