2025 Baldrige National Quest for Excellence Conference

Learn how your organization can achieve outstanding performance. Join us at the premier showcase former Baldrige Award recipients March 30-April 2, 2025, at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. We are excited to bring the Baldrige community together to celebrate and learn from the 2024 Baldrige Award recipients, who will be announced this Fall!

Enjoy sessions featuring leaders of Baldrige Award recipients and other high-performing organizations and take home solutions to help your organization achieve breakthrough performance and results in areas such as leadership; strategy; customers; workforce; and operations. If you have a passion for driving organizational improvement and effectiveness, you would benefit from this conference.

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2025 Baldrige Champion Collaboration

Join us for TPE's 2025 Baldrige Champion Collaboration starting this January. It's the perfect opportunity to network, learn, and share with fellow changemakers in the TPE community.

Join this year-long cohort to network with peers who are leading a Baldrige initative within their organization. Learn through facilitated monthly sessions and assignments.

• Learn & Apply Best Practices
• Share Ideas & Collaborate
• Network & Make Connections

TPE President

TPE President Margot Hoffman, with her past experience as President of Quest4Leadership, brings a strong knowledge of strategy development and leading change. TPE is fortunate to have Ms. Hoffman lead our program in a position - that has been so well served by our past presidents.

For more information about Margot, read her bio, or review her profile on the staff page.
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We Welcome Illinois to the TPE Communities.

We are pleased to share that The Partnership for Excellence (TPE) and the Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC) have reached an agreement for the Illinois Excellence Recognition Program to transfer from IMEC to TPE. The goal of the agreement is to provide the state’s Baldrige-based award recognition program the best opportunity for multi-sector success.

IMEC and TPE are working together to fully transition the Illinois Excellence Recognition Program to TPE by January 1, 2023. We are excited to have Illinois join The Partnership for Excellence and look forward to their engagement in the TPE community.