Quality Impact

Standards quietly underpin modern life, yet most organisations still rely on PDFs and manual processes to put them into practice. In this episode, Simon Powell, Executive Director of the Digital Standards Alliance, explains how digital standards could help organisations transform quality, compliance, and innovation.

What happens when financial decisions are made without considering their impact on quality? In this episode, Carl Andrew, Chartered Management Consultant, Chartered Manager, and Founder of Westwood Management Consulting, explores how short-term thinking can erode culture, trust, and performance, and why it's important to quantify the cost of inaction and inactivity. Discover why quality leaders must speak the language of finance, build strategic partnerships, and position quality as a driver of long-term success.

What does it take to turn a reactive quality function into a trusted global team? Manuel Ancizu who is a Commercial Program Manager for Global Wind Energy Projects based in Spain shares how his team at Siemens Gamesa grew from three people to eleven by putting trust, empowerment, and proactive quality at the centre of every project. He discusses meeting customers before contracts begin, managing remote teams he has never met in person, and conducting drone inspections at sea. This is a sharp, real-world look at leading quality in one of the industry’s most complex environments while building trust across continents without ever meeting face to face.

What if the biggest driver of growth, innovation and market access is the one most organisations overlook? In this episode, Chantal Guay, CEO of the Standards Council of Canada, joins Rashad Issa to explore why standards are far more than certificates on the wall. From unlocking international trade to giving innovators a competitive edge, Chantal explains why boards must treat standardisation as strategy and why today’s systems must evolve faster to keep pace with technology, disruption and global change.

Helen Hardy, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport UK, shares her journey into leadership, overcoming imposter syndrome, and modernising professional bodies. She explores skills shortages, supply chain disruption, and why governance, standards, and quality management act as stabilisers, helping organisations build resilience, close capability gaps, and future-proof logistics and transport in a rapidly changing world.