Biography

George Saiz enjoys sharing leadership strategies from his experience as a medical device executive with Johnson & Johnson, Zimmer-Biomet, DJO Global and MicroAire. Combined with the best practices he observed as President & CEO of The Association for Manufacturing Excellence, he’s convinced of the importance of including people in all business equations.

Now, as a writer, keynote speaker, and coach, he promotes enterprise excellence through a people-centric culture to the next generation of business leaders. 

He resides in Carlsbad, CA with his wife and their latest addition, a goldendoodle puppy, where he enjoys golfing and walks on the beach.

Articles by George Saiz

Engaged and Fulfilled

Engaged and Fulfilled

Mar 7, 2017

What does fulfillment look like in the workplace? It looks like engagement, but from the employee perspective. As we focus on respect for people within enterprise excellence, a topic that continues to come up is employee engagement. At our annual conference in Dallas...

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We Started with Respect

A blueprint for cultural transformation

We Started with Respect is a blueprint for cultural transformation in a novel format.

It delivers a front row seat view of the journey a new leader and his team take as their disconnected company goes from surviving to thriving. 

Leaders at all levels will learn how blending business and people-centric principles can produce outstanding results by:

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Tearing down the walls

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Connecting the dots

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Creating an extraordinary culture

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Reviews

Bob Chapman

“You’ll be drawn in by the compelling story that unfolds and energized by the lessons it reveals. If you’re serious about transforming your team, your department, your organization, let We Started with Respect be your guidebook to improving your leadership and the precious lives in your span of care!"

Bob Chapman
CEO of Barry-Wehmiller, author of Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family, named no. 3 CEO in Inc. magazine

Paul Eidenschink

“Timing is everything! We Started with Respect delivers a front-row seat journey to the best thinking on culture and leadership both team members and firms are starving for. The world has changed. Fulfillment, engagement, and creating value have become essentials for success. This book is a must read to unlock the potential in any organization.”

Paul Eidenschink
Co-President & COO, Steffes LLC

Diane Michelucci, MBA – short

“This is ‘transformational leadership’ at its finest and a must read from both an educational and practical application perspective. The future of successful leadership is dependent on specific critical elements—as you will learn from author George Saiz’s real life experience—in this descriptive and well written book."

Diane Michelucci, MBA
Executive, General Electric Company

Brian Wellinghoff

“In We Started with Respect, George Saiz provides the answer to the most vexing business challenge of our times—how to lead organizations to success through uncertainty. Through the narrative of the book, the required leadership disciplines unfold such that veteran and aspiring leaders alike can unlock the value in their own leadership approach. I will be using George’s work with my team, and I encourage others to do the same.”

Brian Wellinghoff
Director Strategy Improvement Culture, Barry-Wehmiller

Tom Weisel

“After working with George through three company transformations, he has shown that his clear observations and implemented changes make a difference. He not only attacks the operational weaknesses, but like the company in We Started with Respect, he deals with the people issues that make up the basis for those difficult changes.”

Tom Weisel
President, Arch Day Design

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