Stephen Powell is the president and chief operating officer at Healthcare Team Training (HTT) in Fayetteville, Georgia. He has trained and coached more than 4,500 healthcare professionals in 12 countries related to patient safety, quality improvement, and team training. Powell has served as a member of the Technical Expert Panel for TeamSTEPPS® – Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety curricula for the Department of Defense Patient Safety Program since 2006. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare. Powell may be contacted atspowell@healthcareteamtraining.com.

Daniel Baily is a senior management analyst with Healthcare Team Training (HTT). Daniel is a Kirkpatrick-certified learning evaluation specialist. His specialty lies in measurement and evaluation of patient safety culture, team training, change management, coaching, clinical outcomes, and process improvement. Daniel holds an MS in health systems from Georgia Tech as well as a BS from Georgia Tech in industrial and systems engineering. 

Njide Ndili is the secretary for the Society for Quality in Healthcare in Nigeria and a member of the Society’s Programs Committee responsible for organizing conferences, workshops, and seminars. The activities of the Society are aimed at building capacity in the healthcare industry in Nigeria, including members and non-members of the Society and facilitating alliances with healthcare quality organizations towards improved healthcare quality. Ndili is a graduate of the INSEAD Advanced Management Program and an MBA from the University of Houston, with a concentration in management information systems (MIS) and finance. She also has a post-graduate diploma in finance and a BS in computer science from the University of Nigeria.

Christopher Ente is a consultant in patient safety and the science of healthcare improvement. He works at Academic Health Science Centre, Joint Research Office, Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He joined the discipline of healthcare quality and safety improvement in 2002 from a background of information and communication technology. His areas of expertise include regulatory compliance, pharmacovigilance, site development, operations support, oversight management, healthcare risk management, clinical governance, clinical audit, and clinical incident information management. He earned a master’s degree in quality and safety in healthcare from the Imperial College London, a master’s in computer network and communication from Westminster University, London, and bachelor’s degree in computer science and statistics from the University of Uyo.