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Governor's Award Recipient

Mr. Alan Sattler, former President, ProMedica Flower Hospital, describes his organization's TPE journey and subsequent success. ProMedica Flower Hospital earned Ohio’s Governor's Award for exceeding standards established by the internationally-recognized Malcolm Baldrige Criteria. The award is based on performance excellence, innovation and visionary leadership in health care. ProMedica is a locally owned, nonprofit healthcare organization serving Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan.

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2023 Baldrige National Conference

2023 Baldrige Quest for Exellence Conference

Learn how your organization can achieve outstanding performance. The conference will feature some new and exciting opportunities to learn role model best practices from nationally recognized thought leaders, former Award recipients, and representatives from other high-performing organizations. Official Conference of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, brought to you by the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program at NIST.

Review the event website for more details.

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Margot Hoffman, President TPE

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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IMEC Joins TPE

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.

2023 Baldridge National Conference Quest for Excellence held in Gaylord Harbor, MD

2023 National QFE

The 2023 conference will share how your organization can achieve outstanding performance.
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  • 16 Mar

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    • Time: 11:00 AM

    • Topic: Stephanie Norling, Executive Director of Communities of Excellence 2026, will present "Delivering on our Commitment to Community Performance Excellence."

    • Brief: Leaders across the country have joined the Communities of Excellence (COE) National Learning Collaborative with the goal of using the Baldrige-based COE Framework to support their communities in identifying and measuring key initiatives to address community health and wellbeing.

      Stephanie will describe how these experiences have led to an ambitious new strategy

    • Presenter: Stephanie Norling has been Executive Director of Communities of Excellence 2026 since 2014. She is a National Baldrige Examiner and serves on the Alliance for Performance Excellence board.

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