COMMUNITY


Dr. Manu Vora gets Asian American Community Leadership Award

Chicago: Dorothy Brown, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, presented the second Asian American Community Leadership Award to Dr. Manu K. Vora at the eighth Annual Asian American Heritage Month Program here recently. The award was presented to him “in recognition of his outstanding leadership and contributions to community-based organizations and citizens of Cook County and beyond.”
Ashok Kumar Attri, counsel general of India in Chicago, highlighted Dr. Vora’s contributions over a long period in the Chicagoland area. Attri specifically acknowledged excellent work done by the Blind Foundation for India (BFI). Dr. Vora is the founding director and president of BFI, which has raised over $3.5 million for visually impaired people in India.
Dr. Vora is chairman and president of Business Excellence, Inc., a global quality management consulting firm. He has over 30 years of leadership experience guiding Fortune 500 companies with Mal-colm Baldrige assessment in the areas of leadership development, customer satisfaction, employee en-gagement, and continuous process improvement. As an adjunct professor, he teaches “Quality Management” and “Supply Chain Management” at Stuart School of Business at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. He teaches “Quality Assurance Project Manage-ment” at School of Continuing Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Dr. Vora is a past vice president of American Society for Quality (ASQ), ASQ Fellow, and certified quality engineer. He served on Affirmative Action Advisory Committee of Switching Systems Business Unit at AT&T Bell Laboratories for a number of years in Naperville.
Dr. Vora has B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering and an MBA with marketing management. He served as a chief judge at Illinois Team Excellence Award Program from 1993-1999 and has been serving as a judge on the Board of Examiners of the Asia Pacific Quality Award since 2004.