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 Baldrige Performance Excellence Program
      Quest for Excellence Conference
                      Learn how your organization can achieve outstanding performance. Join us at the premier showcase of Baldrige Award recipients April 7–10, 2024 (Sunday–Wednesday), Gaylord National Harbor Resort and Convention Center, National Harbor, MD (just outside of Washington, D.C.). Official Conference of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, brought to you by the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program at NIST.

      
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  **#BaldrigeQuest**Register for Quest and Book Your Hotel Room Now**COME. LEARN. NETWORK. ENGAGE**Join us at the Quest for Excellence 2024! The conference will feature some new and exciting opportunities to learn role model best practices from nationally recognized thought leaders, Baldrige Award recipients, and representatives from other high-performing organizations.Enjoy sessions focusing on organizational resilience and future emerging challenges and take home solutions to help your organization achieve breakthrough performance and results in all sectors in areas such as leadership; strategy; customers; measurement, analysis, and knowledge management; workforce; and operations.**REGISTRATION AND HOTEL RESERVATIONS**Both conference registration and hotel reservations will be made throughShowcare. All hotel rooms must be reserved through Showcare.**Hotel Room Block Cut-Off:**March 11, 2024**Advance Conference Registration Fee Deadline:**March 11, 2024KEYNOTE SPEAKERsMonday Opening KeynotePhoto of Shola Richards 35th Quest Opening KeynoteCredit:
          
  Shola RichardsShola Richards**Founder & CEO, Go Together Global & Best-Selling Author**Monday, April 8  |  8:30 am  |  #BaldrigeQuestShola Richards is a dynamic keynote speaker, the best-selling author of "Making Work Work", and "Go Together", an in-demand workplace civility expert, and a prolific writer with a passionate worldwide following. His articles and wildly-popular Monday morning "Go Together Movement" email series have impacted people in over 160 countries, and his work has been featured on the Today Show, CBS This Morning, Forbes, Black Enterprise, Complete Wellbeing India, and Business Insider Australia. Read MoreWednesday Closing KeynotePhoto of Robert Martichenko 35th Quest Closing KeynoteCredit:
          
  Robert Martichenko**Robert O. Martichenko****Business Leader, Author, Speaker, Educator, Strategic Advisor, and Chair of*****TrailPaths Incorporated***Wednesday, April 10  |  8:30 am  |  #BaldrigeQuest*TrailPaths*is a*People Development and Technology Company*whose purpose is to create*Meaningful Employment EnvironmentsTM.*To achieve this goal, TrailPaths has developed organizational assessments, interactive learning modules and digital platforms to humanize organizational decision making, modernize leadership behaviors and advance team member participation in the workplace.Read MoreCONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS**Opening Reception | Sunday, April 7**Join us on Sunday evening April 7 for the Opening Reception. Attendees have the opportunity to network with members of the Baldrige community such as Award recipients, Examiners, Judges, Overseers, Fellows, Foundation members, and Alliance program representatives!**Organizational Resilience and Long-Term Success Opening Session**Following the opening keynote, industry leaders will speak on the topic of organizational resilience and long-term success.**40 Concurrent Sessions**Monday and Tuesday will featureBaldrige Award recipientsand other high-performing organizations speaking on relevant topics of interest, such as leadership and social responsibility, workforce issues, and customers and strategy.**Emerging Challenges Closing Session**Wednesday morning will feature a plenary session where speakers address future emerging challenges.Advanced Registration Fee Discount Ends March 11, 2024, 5:00 p.m. (EST).CONNECT WITH USTo join our online community and receive email announcements on our events, look for the “Connect with Us” banner on the Baldrige website.**Become a Baldrige Sponsor Today!**The Baldrige Program extends a sincere thank you to Baldrige Foundation donors and the 34th Quest for Excellence® Conference sponsors (listed below). Sponsor support helps to defray conference costs and make Quest a better conference experience for all attendees.

        
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  Gold SponsorsBaldrige Foundation Institute for Performance ExcellenceTATA ChemicalsSilver SponsorsDallas CollegeElevations Credit UnionMid-America TransplantEvent SponsorsAdventist Health- Health Care Co-SponsorAlamo Colleges District - Education Co-SponsorCharleston Area Medical Center- Health Care Co-SponsorItem SponsorsStratex Solutions - LanyardsSouthCentral Foundation - Coffee BreakBecome a Baldrige Sponsor Today!
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  The Baldrige Foundation thanks the following Members of the Mac Baldrige Society for their generous contributions as Trustees of the Institute for Performance Excellence.The Baldrige FamilyAdaniAdventist HealthStellar SolutionsMidwayUSAABOUT HealthcareFreese and Nichols Inc.TataMid-American TransplantCORESANPECSouthcentral Foundation
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