Past Baldrige Conferences

2025

Rising to New Heights: Overcoming Challenges and Maximizing Impact

The 2025 Baldrige Fall Conference brought the performance excellence community to Denver for two days of learning, connection and practical application. Participants learned from role-model organizations from Colorado and across the nation, joined interactive workshops and explored performance excellence in practice.

Highlights

• Learning from national role-model organizations
• A full day of interactive workshops
• A special site visit to the City of Fort Collins
• Opportunities to connect with leaders, examiners and Baldrige practitioners

2024

2024 Baldrige Fall Conference

The 2024 conference brought the Baldrige community together in Coral Gables for an expanded program featuring conference events and a full day of pre-conference workshops.

Highlights

• Bite-Sized Baldrige sessions focused on practical best practices
• Hands-on "Toolbox Building" sessions on artificial intelligence, supply chain resilience and workforce issues
• A full day of pre-conference workshops

2023

Inspire! 2023 Baldrige Fall Conference

The 2023 conference focused on inspiring change and strengthening performance excellence across organizations and communities. Attendees gathered for keynote presentations, networking and practical sessions designed to help leaders translate performance excellence principles into action.

Highlights

• Building stronger excellence networks
• Making performance excellence part of organizational strategy
• Sharing proven practices across organizations and communities

Keynote speakers

2022

Lighting the Way to Excellence

The 2022 Baldrige Fall Conference returned to an in-person format in San Diego with interactive workshops, presentations from Baldrige Award recipients and discussion panels featuring senior industry leaders.

Highlights

• Return to an in-person format
• Interactive workshops
• Presentations from Baldrige Award recipients
• Panels featuring senior industry leaders

2021

Navigating Forward. Destination Excellence.

The 2021 Baldrige Fall Conference was an interactive live virtual event focused on helping organizations navigate forward. National and state Baldrige Award recipients, including 2020 national recipients, shared proven management practices and real-world lessons from their performance excellence journeys.

Highlights

• Interactive live virtual format
• Lessons from 2020 national Baldrige Award recipients
• Proven practices from state award recipients

2020

2020 Baldrige Fall Conference

The 2020 conference brought the Baldrige community together virtually during a period of extraordinary organizational change. Leaders from the six 2019 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient organizations shared performance management practices and lessons in resilience and agility. The program also included leaders from previous Baldrige recipients and other high-performing organizations.

Highlights

• Leaders from all six 2019 Baldrige Award recipients
• Lessons in resilience and agility
• Practices from previous recipients and high-performing organizations

2019

2019 Baldrige Fall Conference

More than 300 members of the performance excellence community gathered in Nashville for the 2019 conference, presented by the Alliance for Performance Excellence in partnership with the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.

Highlights

• Learning from role-model organizations
• Best practices aligned with the Baldrige Excellence Framework
• Three pre-conference workshops: operational excellence, Baldrige fundamentals and cybersecurity resilience
• Networking with 300+ attendees

2018

2018 Baldrige Fall Conference

More than 300 Baldrige leaders attended the 2018 conference in Denver. The event was presented by the Alliance in partnership with the Baldrige Program and Baldrige Foundation and co-hosted by Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence and the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence.

Highlights

• National and state Baldrige Award recipients
• Keynotes, panels and breakout sessions
• Intensive learning sessions
• A strong emphasis on learning, sharing and networking