Keynote Speakers
Lou Holtz, Legendary Football Coach & ESPN Analyst
Game Plan for Success
Lou Holtz's message transcends athletics. It resonates - even to those who aren't sports-minded. The focus is on people and the values that make relationships and organizations excel. Once heard, you will have no doubt why Lou Holtz is considered a legendary team leader and speaker on achievement.
He is called "the greatest motivator of our time," "the best sports speaker ever," "the best football coach in 50 years" and "a modern-day Will Rogers." Lou Holtz is all of these things.
One of the most celebrated and accomplished coaches in sports history, Lou Holtz has made a career of inspiring others and motivating them to be winners. Most notable for taking the struggling Notre Dame football program and building it into being a national powerhouse, Holtz is the only coach in NCAA history to lead six different programs to bowl games and the only coach to guide four different programs to the final top 20 rankings. Holtz's humor and humility endear him to his listeners as he helps them learn to assess their strengths, work as a team and embrace the values that can help improve organizations. Whether it's helping people understand what's important, encouraging people to hold themselves accountable or making leaders of followers, Holtz's advice puts audiences on the road to achievement. Holtz currently brings his experience and charisma to ESPN as an analyst for the network's college football coverage. He is also the author of the best-selling Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success, The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame and Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography. Click here to read full bio.
James Tetreault, Vice President, North American Manufacturing, Ford Motor Company
The Transformation of Automotive Manufacturing
This keynote represents an extraordinary opportunity for you to gain an insider's view of how the One Ford turnaround plan is being implemented throughout the company globally, and importantly, within Ford's manufacturing operations.
Ford Motor Company, in implementing its One Ford turnaround plan, has been undergoing a significant transformation in every part of its business. The plan is taking hold and the company is making tremendous progress. As a key element of the plan, Ford is placing high priority on its ability to better match production capacity with market demand and to provide customers with high-quality products that they want and value. Both of these commitments have a direct impact on Ford's manufacturing operations. Jim Tetreault, Ford's vice president of North America Manufacturing, will talk about how the company is responding. He will provide his insights about the manufacturing transformation that is taking place within North America and around the world, as well as, Ford's plans for future products and innovations that are intended to strengthen the company's position in the competitive global marketplace.
James Tetreault is Ford's vice president, North America Manufacturing. In this role, Tetreault leads Ford's North America Manufacturing operations and drives the company's continued efforts to improve manufacturing flexibility and efficiency in North America as it retools several truck factories to launch a host of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles. His appointment to this position was effective Dec. 1, 2008.
Just prior to this position, Tetreault served as vice president, Manufacturing, Ford of Europe, a position he held since 2005. In Europe, he was responsible for all European vehicle and powertrain manufacturing operations including Manufacturing Planning and Logistics and the European Ford Land facility management for Ford plants in Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Romania, Russia, Turkey and the UK.
Tetreault has held several management positions in Ford North American manufacturing facilities, including plant manager in three assembly plants and one stamping plant. From 2000 until 2002, he was Vehicle Operations Director of Quality, and from 2002 until 2005 he was Director of Manufacturing, Vehicle Operations.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1955, Tetreault joined Ford Motor Company in 1988 after spending the early part of his career at Chrysler Corporation, where he worked in management positions in production and engineering. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Michigan in 1978.
