Quest for Excellence Conference
#BaldrigeQuest
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COME. LEARN. NETWORK. ENGAGE.
Attend and engage with current and former Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipients and take home solutions to help your organization achieve breakthrough performance and results.
Showcasing the best practices of the 2019 Baldrige Award recipients. Also, featuring former Baldrige Award recipients from all sectors! Learn role model best practices in leadership; strategy; customers; measurement, analysis, and knowledge management; workforce; and operations and learn how to achieve outstanding results for your organization!
NEW THIS YEAR
DATE CHANGE
Quest is earlier this year so register and book your hotel rooms early! Also note that the conference will be held Tuesday-Friday in 2020.
HOTEL RESERVATION CHANGE
In addition to conference registrations, this year all hotel room reservations will be made through Showcare. Online hotel reservations opening mid-October, 2019. All hotel rooms must be reserved through Showcare.
Hotel Room Block Cut-Off: February 21, 2020
Advance Conference Registration Fee Deadline: February 21, 2020
AWARD CEREMONY
Tuesday, March 24
Join us Tuesday evening for the Award Ceremony and Reception honoring the 2019 recipients.
Friday Keynote Speaker
Recognized as the #1 Future of Work influencer by Onalytica, and author of 7 books including “NextMapping™ – Anticipate, Navigate and Create the Future of Work”.
Cheryl Cran
Founder, NextMapping™/NextMapping.com
CEO of parent company Synthesis at Work Inc
Friday, March 27 | 8:30 am | #BaldrigeQuest
Cheryl’s future of work thought leadership has been featured in publications such as Huff Post, Forbes, IABC Magazine, Law Magazine, Metro New York, Entrepreneur Magazine, Readers Digest, CBS Online, NBC Online, Fox Online and more. For over two decades Cheryl has built a reputation for delivering extraordinary value to clients in industries that include technology, health, agriculture, finance, insurance and more.
NextMapping™ was developed as a proprietary business solution brand that encompasses all of Cheryl’s work and research on the future of work and the leadership needed to navigate change in the workplace. The common theme of all of Cheryl’s life’s work is a ‘people first’ and digital second approach to create a more human future, helping companies to build the leadership capacity needed to ‘change the world through business.’
Advanced Registration Fee Discount Ends February 21, 2020
Become a Baldrige Sponsor Today!
The Baldrige Program extends a sincere thank you to the 31st Quest for Excellence Conference sponsors (listed below). Their support helps to defray conference costs and make Quest a better conference experience for all attendees.
31st Quest Conference Sponsors
Platinum Sponsor
- Baldrige Family
Gold Sponsor
Silver Sponsor
Event Sponsor
- AARP - Examiner Recognition Ceremony Reception
- Richland College - Keynote Sponsor
Item Sponsors
- ASQ - Notebook Pads & Pens
- Baldrige Foundation - Floral Arrangements
- CAMC Health System - Conference Wi-Fi
- Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE) - Conference Bags
- Donor Alliance - Water Bottles
- Elevations Credit Union - Mobile App
- NextEra Energy - Coffee Break
- STRATEX Solutions - Lanyards
Additional Sponsors
- Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital
- Lilly USA, LLC
- Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital
- Walden University