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Baldrige Performance Excellence Program

Become a Baldrige Examiner

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Enrich Your Career and Improve Organizational Performance

If you are looking for a one-of-a-kind professional development and networking opportunity, and the chance to make a meaningful contribution to organizational improvement and U.S. competitiveness, apply to serve as a volunteer on the Baldrige Board of Examiners.

Each year, leading experts from U.S. business, health care, education, and nonprofit organizations are chosen from industry groups, professional and trade organizations, government agencies, and other nonprofit groups. They become Baldrige Examiners, an elite group of leaders who help drive organizational performance excellence across the country.

Baldrige Examiners participate in Award-winning training and learn about the Baldrige Excellence Framework and Criteria. Using the Baldrige Criteria, examiners evaluate and provide feedback to organizations across the United States. The feedback report is a key reason why organizations apply for the Baldrige Award.

Who Should Apply

U.S. Citizen or permanent resident of the United States
Leadership, Strategy, Customers, Measurement, Analysis & Knowledge Management, Workforce, and Operations Category Experts
Manufacturing, Service, Health Care, Education, and Nonprofit (including Government) Industry Experts
Quality and Performance Excellence Experts

EXAMINER BENEFITS

Strengthens your ability to use the Baldrige Excellence Framework within your organization
Network with peers and enhance personal growth
Gain experience in organizational assessment by reviewing applications from organizations across the United States, and participating (if assigned) in Site Visit Review
Be recognized for service by the Secretary of Commerce and the NIST Director
Attend ceremony for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Recipients
Receive Award-winning Examiner Preparation Course training
Gain experience in understanding the Baldrige Excellence Framework and Criteria
Develop analytical and consensus-building skills and a systems perspective that can be applied within your organization

Members of the Board of Examiners are not compensated for their time; they serve on a voluntary basis. In "Baldrige Examiners: Patriots, Community Members, Elite Quality Professionals," Baldrige examiners themselves provide additional reasons for service to Baldrige.

What Baldrige Examiners Are Saying

most practical and impactful training ever received

Dr. Terry Holliday, Commissioner of Education Commonwealth of Kentucky
(Former Superintendent, Iredell-Statesville Schools, NC, 2008 Baldrige Award Recipient in Education)
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As a leader, the most practical and impactful training I have ever received was through the Baldrige examiner program. Our success in improving education in Iredell-Statesville [school district] and now in Kentucky can certainly be attributed to lessons learned from examiner training and the implementation of the Baldrige Criteria.

Contacts

Baldrige Customer Service

baldrige@nist.gov

(301) 975-2036

NIST/BPEP
100 Bureau Drive, M/S 1020
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1020

Created February 19, 2010, Updated November 30, 2020