Baldrige Performance Excellence Program

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is the nation's definitive benchmark for organizational excellence. This award-winning program offers the Baldrige Excellence Framework, a comprehensive tool to aid organizations across varied sectors in their quest for performance enhancement. The program empowers entities to track their progress, encouraging them to evolve into the role of industry leadership. Apart from the prestigious Baldrige Award, the program also oversees an array of products and services like the Job Quality Toolkit and Foundations for a Successful Business. The Baldrige Program shapes a more resilient, efficient, and successful business landscape, boosting national competitiveness and economic sustainability.
The Baldrige Foundation's Institute for Performance Excellence is a thought leader on performance excellence, leadership, and management. Our team carries out its mission in a number of ways: undertaking research projects, hosting conferences and activities, conducting executive-level and online professional development and skills training, making resources available to enhance organizational performance, and publishing and distributing a wide variety of educational materials to share best practices.