Ten years ago, based on an idea on how to better engage U.S. executives, a program was created to inspire senior leaders to embrace a systems perspective in pursuit of continuous improvement and innovation for their organizations’ long-term success. Participants would learn through Baldrige Award-winning organizations’ sharing of best practices and innovative strategies, seeing performance excellence in action, and building a peer network of other executives—while using the Baldrige Excellence Framework as a common language and guiding document.
Since its inception in 2010, the Baldrige Executive Fellows Program has graduated 112 executives, whose capstone projects have ranged from overhauling strategic planning processes, creating high-reliability health care organizations, lessening patients’ reliance on opioids after surgery, improving employee engagement, engaging physicians, overhauling communication processes for diverse workforces, better preparing students for professional careers, reimagining population health and community outcomes, and innovating supplier networks. Fellows have come from all sectors of the U.S. economy and have visited and personally met with hundreds of Baldrige Award recipient senior leaders, visiting facilities, factories, hospital floors, hotels, restaurants, and airports, among other locations, to build understanding of role-model strategies to lead a high-performing organization.
In 2020, 16 new executives will become the decennial cohort to embark on a year-long journey of learning in the prestigious Baldrige Executive Fellows Program, the only executive leadership fellowship that provides one-on-one access to leaders of Baldrige Award recipient organizations. They will study how world-class U.S. organizations and their senior leaders achieve strategic and operational excellence and stimulate innovation. Within a collegial environment, the Baldrige Fellows will have a unique opportunity to compare the perspectives of executives across sectors, share candid advice on leader ..
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