Dominique Sauvage, ACE, PCQI, pest control and food safety speaker

Speaking

Dominique Sauvage, ACE, PCQI

Founder and President, Sequoia Quality Solutions

Dominique speaks on the problems operators actually have: finding people, training them, keeping them, and proving the quality of their work. The signature result behind the talks is client retention rising from 65 percent to 94 percent at a billion dollar operation, achieved by fixing service quality and training at the root. Behind that result are the teams he built: technicians developed into supervisors, leaders and quality professionals who made those companies successful.

Invited back to Purdue five times, and to Pest Invasion three

Sessions are practical and built for the room. Keynotes, workshops, half day and full day training, and virtual sessions. Conferences in seven countries across a forty four year career. The full background is on the About page.

Topics


Beyond the Trend Report: Scientific Monitoring That Wins and Keeps Accounts

Most facilities do nothing with their pest data beyond filing the quarterly trend report. This session shows what modern monitoring tools actually capture, why it matters, and how to turn routine service into risk based, data driven pest control that proves value at audit time.

Building Technicians Who Stay

The technician is the most important, most expensive, most client facing asset a pest control business has. This session covers training that holds, competency you can verify in the field, and career paths that turn a job into a reason to stay.

Hire for Fit, Not Knowledge

What four decades of hiring technical people teaches about the interview that matters: the one that finds out who adapts, who learns, and who will still be there in three years. Knowledge can be taught. Fit cannot.

Pest Management in Food Facilities: Audit Ready Every Day

Documentation that survives the auditor, equipment placement, and the audited account, from someone who has sat on every side of the table: technician, quality director, and the consultant the auditor meets. Includes the international view from seventeen countries.

Food Safety That Holds Up: FSMA, HACCP, cGMP and Prerequisite Programs

Practical food safety training for pest control and food plant teams. FSMA and HACCP requirements, cGMP sessions, prerequisite programs, and preparing people for PCQI. Delivered by a PCQI and Lead HACCP Auditor who has implemented these programs across seventeen countries, including the first first-time AIB pass in the world for Danone Retailer Brands.

How Rodents Impact Your Customer: Commercial Rodent Management That Holds

Biology, behavior, exclusion and monitoring, and the program design that keeps rodents out of audited accounts. Built from years of rodent seminars, regional training curricula and battle plans that survived contact with real infestations.

Breaking Into Food Plants

What it takes for a pest control company to win, serve and keep food manufacturing accounts. The audit landscape, the documentation, the service standard, and the mistakes that lose the account in the first year. For operators who want commercial growth without learning it the expensive way.

Upcoming


Cornell Food Processing and Pest Management Workshop
Ithaca NY · February 2027  |  Beyond the Trend Report: Scientific Monitoring That Wins and Keeps Accounts. Speaker and exhibitor.
New York Pest Management Association
Downstate event · September 2026  |  Topic to be announced.

Speaking Engagements


QA Magazine Virtual Conference
July 2026  |  Beyond the Trap Line
Pest Invasion
Chicago IL · 2022
Pest Invasion
Hershey PA · 2022
Purdue Pest Management Conference, 84th
West Lafayette IN · January 2020  |  Pest control, food safety, market expansion and service quality
Assured Environments
New York · 2020  |  The Food Safety Role for Pest Control
Pest World East
Abu Dhabi, UAE · 2019  |  Building construction and pest management programs for third-party audits
Purdue Pest Management Conference, 83rd
West Lafayette IN · January 2019  |  The Food Safety Modernization Act
3rd Global Summit of Pest Management Services for Public Health and Food Safety
Lisbon, Portugal · 2018
McCloud Annual Pest Invasion
Chicago IL · 2017
DOW ActivSense panel
New York · 2017
1st Global Summit of Pest Management Services for Public Health and Food Safety
New York · 2016
Pack Expo
Chicago IL · 2016
Purdue Pest Management Conference, 79th
West Lafayette IN · 2015  |  Food safety and auditing
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo CA · 2015  |  Food Defense Programs
Purdue Pest Management Conference, 78th
West Lafayette IN · 2014  |  Misconceptions About Pest Control and HACCP
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo CA · 2014  |  Food Defense Programs
Purdue Pest Management Conference, 77th
West Lafayette IN · 2013  |  Food safety and auditing
RKE Conference
October 2013  |  What to Expect from Your IPM Service Provider
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo CA · 2013  |  Food Defense Programs
FPA
November 2012  |  Audit findings
AIB Webinar
February 2012  |  Insect light traps
FPA
November 2011

Booking

Email sequoiaqualitysolutions@gmail.com or call 262 902 6855. Include the event, the date, and the audience, and you will have an answer within two business days.