​Meet Duke Okes
Duke is a knowledge architect specializing in quality management. He has been in private practice since 1985 working with organizations in the U.S., Aruba, Bermuda, Canada, England, India, Mexico, Netherlands, South Korea and Wales. He was formerly a quality professional in TRW's automotive sector.
He has been elected Fellow of the American Society for Quality and is certified by ASQ as a manager of quality/organizational excellence, quality engineer and quality auditor. He has served as vice chair of technology for ASQ's Quality Management Division and chair of the Northeast Tennessee section of ASQ, who recognized him with their quality leadership award. He has taught review courses for ASQ's CMQ/OE, CQA, CQT and CQIA certifications, and served as a subject matter expert for ASQ's Certified Quality Manager refresher course materials and self-directed learning materials. He is the developer and primary instructor for the Root Cause Analysis and Measuring Organizational/Process Performance courses offered by ASQ's Learning Institute.
Duke holds undergraduate degrees in technology and business, a masters degree in adult education, and has completed doctoral coursework in applied management and decision sciences. He has served as an adjunct university faculty member teaching statistics and management research. He is also a graduate of the international program in the Gestalt approach to organization and system development.
He is the author of two books, Root Cause Analysis: The Core of Problem Solving and Corrective Actionand Performance Metrics: The Levers for Process Management, co-editor of The Certified Quality Manager Handbook (2nd ed.), and has written numerous articles for publications such as Quality Progress, Quality World, Business Improvement Journal, APICS-The Performance Advantage, Manufacturing Engineering, The Auditor, and Quality Management Forum.
He is a frequent speaker for professional and trade audiences at the local, regional, national and international levels, including AEM, AISC, APICS, ASQ, ASTD, AITP, AOQ, IIA, IIE, IMA, ISM, NCAHQ, NAPM, NCSLI, PMI, SHRM and SME. He conducts public seminars for a variety of professional societies, training organizations and universities, and has served as a examiner for the Tennessee Performance Excellence award. He has also worked as a volunteer SCORE counselor to small business.