Therese Costich, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Salient Management Company, has spent more than 25 years in the Lean Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement world, working with companies including General Electric, The Six Sigma Academy, Ford Motor, DuPont, Dominion Energies, Harris Corporation, Lenovo, The TCM Group, and Bausch & Lomb.  With the focus of the global world becoming smaller and data becoming bigger in every industry, Therese’s work with Salient helps hone their approach to continuous improvement by bringing diverse data from multiple sources together at the speed of thought.  Salient’s model, coupled with Operation Excellence framework, measures how business activity creates value, quality, financial efficiency, and productivity; empowering employees at all levels with granular visibility and control of their resources, thereby reducing cost, increasing margin and profit, and improving customer satisfaction; all while supporting ongoing strategic and tactical process improvements to achieve corporate strategic objectives.