Welcome to the ASQ Ottawa Valley Community Website

The American Society for Quality (ASQ) is the largest international association for quality professionals. The ASQ Ottawa Valley Section is the local volunteer-run Chapter of ASQ representing Eastern Ontario, Canada.

ASQ Ottawa Valley hosts valuable online and in person events for members and nonmembers alike, providing networking and learning opportunities for its community of quality professionals.

This website has been created by friends of the ASQ Ottawa Valley Section in order to help facilitate communications with its local quality community.

Never miss another ASQ Ottawa Valley Event

Add your name and email address to our newsletter list to get notified of future online webinars and in person events hosted by ASQ Ottawa Valley Section. Everyone is welcome. Both ASQ members and non-members alike.

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We are now solicitating event proposals for 2026.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal for an ASQ Ottawa Valley Section event in 2026, please complete the proposal form and submit. Just remember that the ASQ Ottawa Valley Section is fully run by volunteers. This means that all presenters are much appreciated volunteers as well.

Selected Proposals – all proposals will be reviewed by the ASQ Ottawa Section Member Leader Committee. If your proposal is selected, you’ll be contacted to discuss arrangements.

ASQ Ottawa Valley puts on two types of events.

Webinars – The first event type is a 1-hour webinar that may be presented at 12:00noon or in the evening at 7:00pm. Both times are Eastern Time. Different presentation subjects may include showing how to use a certain quality tool, a new quality-related concept, a review of how your organization implemented a successful program, etc. Webinars allow for 45 minutes presentation time with Q&A.

In-Person – The second event type is an interactive 3-hour in-person workshop with dinner provided, that is usually held from 6:00pm – 9:00pm in the evening. Whereas the webinar may only be a presentation, the in-person events include experiential learning activities with knowledge that the participants can take away with them. There are usually two of these events per year (June and December). In-Person events allow for 135 minutes presentation and participant activity time with Q&A.

Be assured that when you complete the proposal form, your email is NOT added to a database where you have to unsubscribe. You can join the newsletter in a separate form on this page if you wish to be notified of events.

Complete the Proposal Form Below

Name
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Would this be a webinar or an in-person event? Look to the left of this form for explanations.


Suggested Event Title
Event Description
The Presenter’s Credentials
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The proposal form has been submitted successfully. Thank you for your proposal. An ASQ Ottawa Valley Member Team will get back to you by the end of January 2025.
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Register for Upcoming Events

As an ASQ Section, ASQ Ottawa Valley uses Member Planet for their event registration process. This allows the Section to create a seamless experience for the user. Just select an event below and click on the link to register for the event. You will receive an email confirmation from Member Planet that you have registered. A link to the actual event (if a webinar) will be sent closer to the event date.
Note – for ASQ Montreal events, Eventbrite is used for registration purposes.

Did you miss ASQ Ottawa’s 2025 in-person interactive summer event?

If so, ASQ Montreal has decided to replay it!🙏⭐🎉💃🏻🕺🏻
but this time Via a FREE Webinar!

Using Appreciative Inquiry to Skyrocket Improvements

Date: Jan 28, 2026
Time (Eastern Time): 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Location: Online

Type of Event
FREE Webinar. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Continuous Education Units for this event – 0.2 RU.

Event Description
Join this interactive webinar on Appreciative Inquiry: a strengths-based approach for creative, positive organizational change.

This interactive webinar workshop will explore the philosophy, principles and theory behind Appreciative Inquiry, a strengths-based Organizational Design (OD) change philosophy and approach, along with the specific techniques and operational steps that are used to bring about highly creative positive change in a system.

Learn how to use it to create focus and collective mindset with your improvement teams and how others have used it as a strength-based alternative to traditional problem-solving methodologies, including where the presenter had applied its philosophy and tools within a hospital environment and a government ministry-wide organizational change.

We’ll also have online activities representing the “Discovery” and “Dream” steps of Appreciative Inquiry that helps to build collective, positive mindset. You won’t want to miss these!

Finally, we’ll discuss the potential science backing Appreciative Inquiry and what might be happening behind the scenes besides just good old perseverance and optimism. You might even get a positive boost from the universe itself!

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Facilitator

Michael Kent Hart MBA, CQE, CQA, CQM/OE

With over 41 years as a quality practitioner, Michael has an MBA with a focus on total quality management (TQM), a background in university level mathematics and sciences, and has developed and taught college level courses in statistics and quality management practices. Besides being a recognized Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), he is also the Programs Chair for the Ottawa Valley Chapter and a member of the National Board of Directors for the Canadian Public Sector Excellence Network (CPSEN), an organization established to promote quality and excellence in the workplace at the federal, provincial/territorial and municipal levels. In addition, he is Founder and CEO of HUMAN, a training and consulting firm concentrating on the disciplines of quality management and organizational excellence.

Future Upcoming Events in 2026

See above for information about the next future event. As more future events are scheduled, we will list them below. You can click on the link for the speaker to access their LinkedIn profile. If there is a REGISTER NOW! link provided, you can click on it to register for the event.

Got an idea for a webinar or in-person event in 2026? Scroll up and fill out the event proposal form for 2026. We’d be happy to hear from you!

Access Past Event Presentations/Video

Missed an event? Click on the links below to get access to the presentation in pdf file format or view as a video of the event. Please note that not all event presentations are made available by the presenters.

Important Links

Below are several important links to online ASQ Ottawa Valley Section pages

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