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#BaldrigeQuest
The 36th Quest for Excellence® Conference
March 30-April 2, 2025 | Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore MD
COME. LEARN. NETWORK. ENGAGE
Join us at the Quest for Excellence 2025! We are excited to bring the Baldrige community together to celebrate and learn from the 2024 Baldrige Award recipients.
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.
Registration and Hotel Reservations
Both conference registration and hotel reservations will be made through Showcare. Block rooms will not be available directly from the Marriott.
Hotel Room Block Cut-Off: March 3, 2025
Advance Conference Registration Fee Deadline: March 3, 2025, 5:00 p.m. (EST)
Award Ceremony | Sunday, March 30
Join us Sunday evening for the Baldrige Award Ceremony and Reception honoring the 2024 recipients. 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
Meet the KEYNOTE SPEAKERs
Tucker Bryant
Poet and Innovation
Keynote Speaker
José Pires
Founder & CEO
Global Excellence & Innovation
Ron Norris
Director of Innovation
Georgia-Pacific, LLC.
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Keynote Presentations
This year’s Quest conference will feature keynote presentations by nationally recognized thought leaders, authors, and leading industry executives.
Opening Plenary Session
Following the Monday keynote, an opening plenary session featuring the leaders of the 2024 Baldrige Award Recipients.
Concurrent sessions
Monday and Tuesday will feature Baldrige Award recipients and other high-performing organizations speaking on relevant topics of interest, such as leadership and social responsibility, operational continuity and resilience, workforce issues, and customers and strategy.
Closing Plenary Session
The Wednesday morning plenary session will feature the 2024 Baldrige Award Recipients.
Advanced Registration Fee Discount Ends March 3, 2025, 5:00 p.m. (EST).
CONNECT WITH US
Look for the “Connect with Us” banner on the Baldrige website to join our online community and receive email announcements about our events.
What Quest Attendees Are Saying
learned more in three days at Quest...than ten years in leadership
2024 Quest for Excellence Conference Attendee
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I learned more in three days at the Quest conference than I have in ten years in a leadership capacity.
Become a Baldrige Sponsor Today!
The Baldrige Program extends a sincere thank you to Baldrige Foundation donors and the 35th Quest for Excellence® Conference sponsors (listed below). Sponsor support helps to defray conference costs and make Quest a better conference experience for all attendees.
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Event Sponsors
- Adventist Health- Health Care Co-Sponsor
- Alamo Colleges District - Education Co-Sponsor
- Vandalia Health - Health Care Co-Sponsor
Item Sponsors
- CORE - Conference Bags
- Stratex Solutions - Lanyards
- Southcentral Foundation - Coffee Break
Become a Baldrige Sponsor Today!
The Baldrige Foundation thanks the following Members of the Mac Baldrige Society for their generous contributions as Trustees of the Institute for Performance Excellence.