APRIL 2017
JANUARY 2017
Philippine's PREMIER Healthcare Provider, St. Luke's Medical Center partners with the Country's LEADING Lean Six Sigma Trainer & Consultant for the Service Industry "The Six Sigma Guy," to facilitate the Six Sigma Circuit™ to speed up the completion of process improvement projects to improve patient safety & experience, & reduce the cost of poor quality of the hospital.
"The Six Sigma Guy" says: when the restaurant industry is full of mediocrity, great food + excellent service = is always a winner. Eating lunch at One of Six Sigma PH's favorite clients, Max's Group of Companies.
JULY 2016
Six Sigma PH Completes Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Program (Wave 17)
MAKATI CITY, Philippines - Fifteen professionals mostly from the service industry completed Six Sigma PH's Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Program (Wave 17) last July 22, 2016, at De La Salle University RCBC Plaza Campus, Makati City.
Green Belt participant Bubbles Julian, Client Success Manager of Concur Philippines, was quoted saying "(There's) No better way to learn Lean Six Sigma than to immerse yourself in a room full of eager participants with the same tenacity and energy you bring to the table, deftly facilitated by the Six Sigma Guy!", " Highly engaging and a very relatable workshop," Julian said.
Another participant, Marceline Caraig, the Continuous Improvement SME of Sunpower said, "Rex made this certification program not only very educational but also fun and simple The best thing I liked about their program is their 6 Sigma Circuit. They don't focus on the number of tools to teach but on the quality of learning that students get. In the Service Industry, not all tools are applicable, and for those that are, what matters is you know how to use them properly.", "That's what Six Sigma PH does," Craig added.
JUNE 2016
BRADFORD CITY, England UK - Rex "The Six Sigma Guy" Tuozo, Lean Six Sigma PH's Six Sigma Master Black Belt represented the Philippines in participating in the Management of Change program of Bradford University in the UK. More than 20 participants worldwide attended the event.
University of Bradford School of Management is an international leader in business education, research, and knowledge transfer.
For more than 50 years, we have been providing engaging and innovative teaching and learning, and research that makes a difference to the world.
With the coveted Triple Crown of accreditations (AACSB, Equis, AMBA) and an international staff and student body, we have created an environment of world-leading management education and research where everyone can flourish.
MAY 2016
MAKATI CITY, Philippines - Six Sigma PH has completed its 4th Wave of the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification Program. The program was capped off with presentations of participants' actual Lean Six Sigma projects to a panel of 3 Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belts: Mr. Gervy Biagtan, Process Improvement Director Quality and Lean Six Sigma of Teleperformance; Hanz Cubillan, Head of Systems and Methods of Sky Cable; and Ronilo Quiapo, Lean Six Sigma Manager of CBRE.
Black Belt participant Eric Briones, Director for Business Development of Ground Air Freight Forwarding Corp., said "It was certainly fun-filled days as the participants went through Rex's experiential method of teaching. I really like the way Rex simplifies Lean Six Sigma's concepts and how he lets us learn how to use the different tools through an application in a real-world scenario". Another participant, Elena Coronado, a BPO executive, gave a testimonial: "I had a great experience in this Lean Six Sigma workshop, the way of the workshop is dynamic and experimental which is easy to understand. I learned a lot and I recommend the Lean Six Sigma workshop of Rex, our Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt".
FEBRUARY 2016
MAKATI CITY, Philippines - Rex "The Six Sigma Guy" Tuozo awarded Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certifications to a telecommunications executive and a BPO executive.
Aldrin Tandang, Sky Cable Corporation Systems, and Methods Improvement Manager attended Lean Six Sigma PH's training program in 1st quarter of 2015 and completed his "Reduction of Non-Moving Inventory" process improvement project in November of the same year. The project resulted in ₱8.38 million in annualized cost savings. "I have utilized Rex's Lean Six Sigma simplified set of tools, the mindset that Lean Six Sigma is about being an ambassador of change, an expert facilitator, and not an expert in statistics. The support that Six Sigma PH offers - both project coaching and mentoring even after the program, helped me a lot."
Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Arthur Flores Jr., an Operations Team Manager of a BPO company in Makati completed his process improvement project about "Reduction of Failed QA%" which resulted in an annualized cost savings of 253,440 GBP or equivalent to ₱17.16 MM. "What Rex and Six Sigma PH are saying about the Lean Six Sigma program is true: the program will accelerate your career, and you'll be respected and recognized by your boss and peers. Rex is very approachable and his simplified and practical approach to Lean Six Sigma made it effective. The way Rex taught me, helped me a lot."
JANUARY 2016
Southville signs MOA with Six Sigma PH to advance Professional Continuing Education in the South of Metro Manila
One of the best international schools in the Philippines meets the number one Lean Six Sigma Training Program provider in the Philippines.
LAS PINAS CITY, Philippines - Southville International School and Colleges formalized a partnership with Six Sigma PH to establish the Taylor Center for Professional Development, which aims to support and strengthen the advancement of Filipino professionals by offering executive and professional continuing education that are relevant practical, and effective.
Some programs that shall be offered are Lean Six Sigma Certification Programs for Service Industry, Accelerated Leadership Development Programs, Project Management for Non-PMs, PMP Certification Review, How to Talk Like Ted Speakers, Creativity and Innovation Toolbox, Secrets of Influencers - the power to change yourself, your colleagues, and your workplace, etc.
NOVEMBER 2015
MAKATI CITY, Philippines - Six Sigma PH completed its 3rd wave of the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification Program. Six Sigma PH ensures that at the end of the course, participants have a ready-for-kick project, or already a running project. Six Sigma PH’s Lean Six Sigma curriculums have been updated to fit a more demanding service industry based on a decade's worth of experience by its Lean Six Sigma Program Director, Rex Tuozo. "All Lean Six Sigma training providers in the market are still using the outdated Lean Six Sigma curriculum designed by G.E. and Motorolla in the 1980s for the manufacturing industry. I have updated the Lean Six Sigma curriculums to fit the needs of the Service Industry which leans more into the people-side-of-change," Tuozo answered when asked why the curriculums were updated. "Our programs are more practical and experiential to make them effective for non-technical, non-math majors. I also make sure that at the end of all of our Green and Black Belt Lean Six Sigma programs, graduates already have either ready-for-kick-off projects or projects already running," Tuozo added.
AUGUST 2015
TAGUIG CITY, Philippines - Six Sigma PH Alumni Rey Fremista wins the 2015 Quality Manager of the Year award, by the Philippine Society for Quality. Rey is Six Sigma PH Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (March 2014).
OCTOBER 2015
MAKATI CITY, Philippines - Six Sigma PH completed its Wave 12 of the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Program. Twenty (20) participants are newly trained Lean Six Sigma Green Belts and shall be certified upon completion of their process improvement projects with their respective companies, organizations, and businesses. The majority of participants, representing 85% of the class, have invested their own money to enroll in Six Sigma PH's Lean Six Sigma Program.
JUNE 2015
LAS PINAS CITY, Philippines - Six Sigma PH's Rex Jayson Tuozo (Lean Six Sigma Program Director) was a guest speaker at Southville International Schools' 25th Founding Anniversary Learning Event. More than 400 faculty and support staff of Southville's 7 member schools attended the event
APRIL 2015
MAKATI CITY, Philippines - Rex Jayson Tuozo, the Lean Six Sigma Program Director of Six Sigma PH talks about the trends and future applications of Lean Six Sigma in the Philippines. Tuozo also reports the summary of Six Sigma PH’s 2015 Philippine Lean Six Sigma Salary Survey. For the last and final speaker of the conference, Six Sigma PH’s Leadership and Strategies Program Director talks about key ingredients for a successful process improvement program. With over 100 attendees this year, the yearly Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement Conference have been instrumental in pushing for the use of Lean Six Sigma not just for multinational companies here in the Philippines but also for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Government, Healthcare, and even to Nonprofit organizations.
FEBRUARY 2015
MANILA, Philippines - Over 750 Industrial Engineering students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) attended its 2015 IE convention entitled IEXPLORE: Trendsetting. Transforming. Trailblazing last February 6, 2015, at Bulwagang Balagtas, PUP, Sta. Mesa Manila. Mr. Rex Tuozo, the Lean Six Sigma Program Director of Six Sigma PH delivered a talk about Lean Six Sigma overview and Lean Six Sigma career for Industrial Engineers in the Philippines as part of its thrust to educate future Filipino professionals.
DECEMBER 2014
NEW YORK CITY, USA - Six Sigma PH Managing Consultant, Rex Jayson Tuozo, represented the Philippines in ATD's (formerly ASTD - American Society for Training and Development) Change Management Summit held in New York City last December 4 & 5, 2014. Change Management and training professionals from the USA, Canada, and EU attended the event.
The Association for Talent Development (ATD), is the world’s largest association dedicated to those who develop talent in organizations. These professionals help others achieve their full potential by improving their knowledge, skills, and abilities.
ATD’s members come from more than 120 countries and work in public and private organizations in every industry sector. ATD supports the work of professionals locally in more than 125 chapters, international strategic partners, and global member networks.
Started in 1943 as the American Society of Training Directors, this organization evolved to become the American Society for Training & Development. As the scope and the impact of the training and development field have grown, the profession’s focus has broadened to link the development of people, learning, and performance to individual and organizational results.
OCTOBER 2014
LONDON, U.K. - Six Sigma PH's Managing Consultant, Rex Jayson Tuozo, earned his PROSCI Change Management Certification after completing its rigorous training and certification. In the Philippines, as of December 2014, not more than 10 Filipinos have been certified as Change Management Professionals by PROSCI.
Founded in 1994, Prosci is the world leader in benchmarking research and change management products. Prosci’s tools and methodology—based on best practices research with over 3400 international organizations—are used by more than three-quarters of Fortune 100 companies. The Prosci methodology has become one of the most widely used approaches to managing the people side of change in business and government.
NOVEMBER 2014
Six Sigma PH at SYKES FOCUS Conference 2014 - for Quality and Learning & Development Professionals.
PASIG CITY, Philippines - Rex Tuozo of Six Sigma PH and Board of Trustee of the Philippine Society for Training and Development (PSTD), talked about how having a Lean Six Sigma mindset can mitigate the threats of the upcoming ASEAN integration at the SYKES FOCUS Conference 2014, held at Marco Polo Hotel Ortigas.
Mr. Tuozo also gave an overview of the Workplace Learning and Performance (WLP) certification program of PSTD which aims to upgrade, professionalize, and regulate the practice of WLP in the Philippines by assessing and classifying WLP practitioners according to proficiency levels using the twelve WLP competencies as standard. (For more information about PSTD's WLP Certification, e-mail us at ask@6sigmaph.com).
Other keynote speakers were Mr. Alfredo "Butch" Hernandez Jr., the Education Lead for Talent Development of the IT Business Process and Outsourcing Association Philippines (iBPAP), and Dr. John Kruper, the Chief Learning Officer.
JULY 2014
Six Sigma PH is now a member of the Social Psychology Network
Social Psychology Network (SPN) is an educational organization with over 11,000 members worldwide. Founded by Scott Plous in 1996, the Network grew in its first three years to include more than 3,500 searchable links and three affiliated partner sites: the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP.org); the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP.org); and Research Randomizer (Randomizer.org)
JUNE 2014
TAGAYTAY CITY, Philippines - Rex Jayson Tuozo, the Managing Consultant of Six Sigma PH, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Philippine Society for Training and Development (PSTD).
The Philippine Society for Training and Development (PSTD) is the premier professional organization dedicated to providing development and learning opportunities, global standards, and ethical guidelines to its members in the practice of Workplace Learning and performance.
PSTD members adhere to a robust WLP certification system that enables them to be credible in the delivery of services, organizational results, and sustainable growth.
FEBRUARY 2014
Six Sigma PH is now a partner and distributor of Minitab software here in the Philippines.
NOVEMBER 2013
Six Sigma PH is now a member of the American Society for Training and Development.