2025 Leader Roundtables

The Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence and the Performance Excellence Network are pleased share two leader roundtables beginning March 2025! The Performance Excellence Executive Roundtable Program provides a confidential, facilitated […]
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Increase Sustainability through Performance Excellence

At the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence, we believe performance excellence is integral to organizational sustainability. With the economy tightening, a shortage of competent workers, and competition increasing in many […]
StraightForward Podcast Episode 3 | Voices of Examiners

Just as we start summer cycle Examiner recruitment, Tim Hallock talks with Wisconsin Forward Examiners about why they engage with the Baldrige Framework and the WFA program in our third […]
StraightForward Podcast Episode 2: Key Leadership

In this episode of our StraightForward podcast, two of our favorite quality people talk about leadership, doing what they love, and the power of the Baldrige Framework. Grateful for the wisdom […]
WCPE Launches StraightForward Podcast

Got your ears on? WCPE is thrilled to launch StraightForward, an occasional podcast hosted by Quality Guy Tim Hallock. In this episode, Tim explains the “why” behind the podcast, and […]
Black River Memorial Hospital awarded the Wisconsin Forward Award of Excellence

MADISON – Wisconsin Forward Award, the state’s premier organization for assessing and recognizing high-performance leadership and management principles, has announced that Black River Memorial Hospital has been awarded the Wisconsin […]
Lean IT Certification Course

Our colleagues at MiPro are presenting a 3-Day Lean IT Certification workshop at Rasmussen College in Bloomington, MN December 11-13, 2018. Participants learn Lean IT Concepts and leave with their Lean IT […]
Baldrige Award-Winning University Breaks Ground (Again) with Benchmarking Project

An assistant chancellor at the —helped develop a national benchmarking project that will soon provide comparative data for the nation’s universities to better measure their performance. The project will involve […]
Lean Continuous Improvement Summit | What a day!

Presentations from the 8th annual Lean Continuous Improvement Summit are being posted here as we receive them from presenters. Many thanks to American Family Insurance, especially Matt Cornwell, Nicole Caya, […]