Kelly Tomblin for National Quality Awards
KELLY TOMBLIN, former president & chief executive officer of Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), where she helped align employees around the company’s vision of leading an energy revolution for the growth and prosperity of Jamaica will give the keynote address at this year’s staging of the National Quality Awards being held tonight at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel. That focus helped to improve the company’s public image and rebuild the company’s operations.
Tomblin, author of 100 Days of Doing Power Differently, has worked more than 25 years in the energy industry, in both competitive and vertically integrated markets throughout the United States, Caribbean, UK and Latin America.
The National Quality Awards (NQA) Programme is Jamaica’s first quality systems-based awards programme which recognises local companies that demonstrate the application of standards and quality systems in both the production of goods and delivery of service.
The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), through the then Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, launched the NQA Programme in July 2004. It was envisioned as a national medium for business excellence, to highlight and promote the competitiveness of Jamaican products and services. Awards are given for manufacturing, service, agriculture and the small business sector.
The National Quality Awards are presented to successful companies at a ceremony held biennially in October, during the week of World Standards Day. World Standards Day is October 14, each year.
World Standards Day is celebrated to pay tribute to the efforts of thousands of experts worldwide who collaborate within international standards bodies to develop voluntary International Standards that facilitate trade, spread knowledge and disseminate technological advances.