AQN Annual October Breakfast Seminar: The Importance of Getting It Wrong

Presented by Meghan Pickard

Let’s have an honest conversation about failure. We all get it wrong at some point. So why is it so uncomfortable? What do we do when we fail? And why is it critical to lean into getting it wrong? To impact the trajectory of your team toward excellence in pursuit of quality, it takes failing forward. This talk weaves the basic steps of embracing failure to learn and improve with personal stories of failure.

Meghan is the Senior Manager of Operation Systems Excellence at Sandia National Laboratories. She has a combined 15 years of experience in Aerospace and National Security, industries that rely on high rigor quality programs. She has a bachelor’s in chemical engineering and a master’s in business. She is a lean practitioner, an agilest, and a believer in the power of the strategic use of a post-it note.