Inga Hipsz

Inga Hipsz was appointed Vice President, Global Programs at CSA Group on January 19th, 2017. In this role, she will be responsible for implementing and managing global, cross-functional programs designed to drive the strategic plan and grow the company. Her leadership will apply to testing, inspection, certification and standards, as well as other key corporate areas.

Ms. Hipsz is a recognized Change Agent with in-depth experience in strategic program development and implementation, building highly effective teams, standards development, Lean Thinking, and world-class manufacturing environments with high standards of customer satisfaction, quality control, and reliability. She has held a number of senior positions at CSA Group. Since 2011, Ms. Hipsz held the role of Director, Sustainability at CSA Group where she was responsible for standards development in the environmental, business management, natural resources, as well as construction and civil infrastructure. During that time, she also instituted the Lean program within the Standards division. Prior to this role, she was the Program Manager for Environment & Climate Change. She also held the position of the Innovation Champion with CSA Standards working in the CSA President’s Innovation Centre where she helped lead the organization in continuous process improvement and culture change through the application of Lean Thinking and Six Sigma tools. During her initial role as a Project Manager in the nuclear standards development program she first introduced the concepts of Lean Thinking and helped conduct the first Kaizen to reduce and improve the standards development process. For her efforts she received the first President’s Innovation Award in April 2009.

Ms. Hipsz worked in various project management, process engineering, process improvement, and quality control roles with Kodak Canada Inc. for almost a decade prior to joining CSA Group in 2005, where she received the Eastman Kodak Six Sigma Black Belt Practitioner Certification. During this time, she was selected to develop a cross-functional communications team to shape a Lean Manufacturing culture, which was recognized by the Shingu Jitsu sensei as World-Class. She was also presented with the KOS (Lean Manufacturing) Leadership Award by the Eastman Kodak Co.

Inga Hipsz holds both a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto. She is a member of Professional Engineers Ontario.