Join us at the Quest for Excellence 2026! 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.

The Quest for Excellence Conference is the premier gathering for leaders committed to achieving world-class performance. Attendees gain direct insight from Baldrige Award recipients—the nation’s role models for organizational excellence—on how to elevate performance results, strengthen leadership effectiveness, and drive lasting cultural transformation. This conference is where organizations learn to build deep customer and workforce engagement, foster continuous innovation, enhance resilience and sustainability, and align strategy with measurable outcomes.

Whether you lead in business, health care, education, government, manufacturing, energy, or the nonprofit sector, the Quest for Excellence will equip you with the proven systems, strategies, and inspiration to achieve and sustain long-term success.

Award Ceremony | Sunday, March 29
Join us Sunday evening for the Baldrige Award Ceremony and Reception honoring the 2025 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.

We invite you to become a sponsor for the 37th Quest for Excellence Conference, which will be held March 29–April 1, 2026.

The Baldrige Foundation offers multiple sponsorship options that yield two important outcomes—raising awareness for your organization and providing tangible support for the Baldrige Program. All sponsorships are visible and appreciated. read more