Baldrige Performance Excellence Champion Certification Program
Your Roadmap to Success
The Baldrige Foundation now offers a $150 enrollment credit for Baldrige Foundation members, colleagues, affiliates, or members of the military!
Lead your organization on a transformative journey of sustained organizational excellence with the Baldrige Performance Excellence Champion (BPEC) Certification Program.
In a fast paced and ever-changing world, an organization’s long-term success may lie in having a highly skilled and effective champion to lead a strategic approach to excellence. This program creates champions by providing the knowledge and tools necessary to design and execute a comprehensive custom plan for success.
BPEC Certification Program is available in both “open enrollment” and “company-specific” formats.
Upcoming Program
Online Live
June 12- August 14, 2025
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
$2,995.00
Sign up by May 11, 2025 for a 5% Early Bird discount
The Baldrige Foundation now offers a $150 enrollment credit for Baldrige Foundation members, colleagues, affiliates, or members of the military.
BPEC Overview
At the heart of every high-performing organization is the ability to align strategy with performance excellence—a challenge many leaders recognize but struggle to implement effectively. The Baldrige Performance Excellence Champion Certification Program empowers senior leaders, strategy professionals, and performance excellence champions to integrate strategic management systems with the Baldrige Excellence Framework1 —the gold standard for performance excellence. This integration ensures not just bold strategies, but also the operational rigor to drive measurable, sustainable success. The result? Organizations that are more resilient, efficient, and positioned for long-term impact.
Sponsored by the Baldrige Foundation’s Institute for Performance Excellence, the BPEC Program is a ten-week online program or a five-day in person bootcamp. It integrates strategic management best practices and templates with the Baldrige Performance Excellence Framework to maximize organizational resilience. This unique, integrated model provides participants with knowledge, skills, and tools to successfully champion an organization to integrate excellence for long term success.
Each BPEC session includes discussion, best practice sharing, templates, and coaching that culminates in a peer-vetted final presentation of a custom plan for excellence. This program is ideal for:
- Organizations, leaders, or individuals that need to ensure their strategy and excellence plans are aligned and integrated to promote achievement.
- Organizations that are advanced in their Baldrige journey and need to maintain their progress and build resilience.
- Organizations looking to capitalize on improvements and innovations without adding new projects and tasks.
- Leaders of an organization’s Baldrige journey.
- Consultants seeking Baldrige credentials.
- Graduates of the Mastering Strategy Certification Program.
1 From the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program. 2023. 2023‒2024 Baldrige Excellence Framework®: Proven Leadership and Management Practices for High Performance. Gaithersburg, MD: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology. https://www.nist.gov/baldrige.
Formats and Value Propositions
Open Enrollment for Individuals
Alignment for Impact – Strategy and execution must work together. This program bridges the gap by embedding Baldrige principles into strategic management for sustained success and resilience.
Beyond Theory – Proven Application – Baldrige is not a competing framework; it's a complementary force that enhances strategic clarity and operational effectiveness, ensuring real-world implementation.
Two Pages in the Same Book – Strategic Management and Performance Excellence may focus on different elements, but together they tell the complete story of organizational success. This program teaches you how to write that story with confidence.
In Company for Organizations
Enhance Your Baldrige Impact – Many organizations understand the power of Baldrige but struggle with execution. This program provides a clear roadmap to integrate strategy and performance excellence for measurable, long-term results.
A Proven System for Texas Organizations – The Baldrige framework has transformed organizations nationwide, including many within APE network. This certification equips leaders with proven tools to scale success and maximize their Baldrige journey.
Baldrige + Strategy = Sustainable Success – Think of Strategic Management and Baldrige as ‘Two Pages in the Same Book’—this program helps you turn those pages into a cohesive, results-driven playbook for organizational excellence.
Train-the-Trainer for Consultants & Member Organizations
Bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap for Your Clients – Many organizations struggle with integrating Baldrige into their strategic planning. This program enables you to coach them through this critical alignment, giving them a roadmap for sustainable performance excellence.
Position Yourself as a Premier Baldrige + Strategy Expert – By becoming a certified trainer, you not only enhance your credibility but also gain access to a network of forward-thinking strategy and performance professionals, keeping you ahead in the industry.
Expand Your Consulting Portfolio – This program provides ready-to-use training materials, frameworks, and certification tools so you can deliver the program as part of your consulting practice—adding new revenue streams and increasing client engagement.
Program Qualifications
Prospective Champions qualify for the Baldrige Performance Excellence Certification program by:
Submitting an Organizational Profile for an/their organization
Experience leading, or intending to lead, a Baldrige or Strategic Planning related effort
Experience working with teams to improve organizational performance
Participate in a “get acquainted” discussion with LBL Strategies prior to the program start date
The BPEC program utilizes a unique, integrated model that combines theoretical knowledge with practical application. This approach helps participants effectively champion excellence in their organizations by understanding both the principles and the implementation strategies of the Baldrige Excellence Framework.
Engaging with peers and leaders from various sectors during the program provided invaluable insights into best practices and innovative strategies. This networking aspect enriched the learning experience and fostered collaboration among participants.
Nick Hadjinicolaou, Senior Strategy Educator and Consultant,
Director iLearning Solutions
Instructional Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
1.
Integrate your Baldrige focus with your strategy management system to transform your organization.
2.
Build resilience into your plans, programs, and outcomes.
3.
Build facilitation competency leading to stakeholder engagement and support of your plan.
4.
Prepare for the challenges teams often experience in preparing to meet the Baldrige criterion.
5.
Articulate your organization’s story so people want to be part of the performance excellence journey.
6.
Think like a Champion.
Program Design
The Baldrige Performance Excellence Champion program modules are designed to include three components:
Knowledge Sharing
THROUGH
Presentations
Discussions
Best Practice Sharing
Skills Development
THROUGH
Hands On Practice
Templates
Tools
Coaching
Application & Custom Plan Design
THROUGH
Base Plan Template
Weekly Plan Builds
Peer Feedback on Plan
Coaching & Presentation of Plan
Program Outline
The course consists of 10 modules that capitalize on the knowledge and tools of strategy management to create a custom performance excellence plan:
The Baldrige Performance Excellence Library
Recent work and articles related to performance excellence.
Program Instructors
Tamera Fields Parsons
Randall Rollinson
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