ARCHIVED September 12, 2011 8:34:02 pm

ActionExcellence one week away

By slynn

LOVELAND – There’s just one week left to plan to attend the ActionExcellence Conference: Re-imagining Your Organization’s Future. The keynote speaker at the Oct. 7 event will be Rulon Stacey, CEO of the Poudre Valley Health System.

PVHS was honored with the Malcolm Baldrige Award for Excellence in Health Care last year, and Stacey will be joined by representatives from two other Colorado Baldrige honorees at the event. ActionExcelllence takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Embassy Suites at Interstate 25 and Crossroads Boulevard.

Stacey will address what it takes to lead through change at the opening luncheon.

Under the overall guidance of Ed Goodman, Chief Experience Officer for TST Inc. in Fort Collins, five different “open space” sessions will discuss different factors that contribute to organizational excellence: Leadership; Innovation; Measuring Results; Bottom Line Benefits; and Excellence Processes.

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The leadership session will be led by Sharon Clinebell, assistant dean for undergraduate programs at the Monfort College of Business at the University of Northern Colorado, which won a Baldrige Award for Education in 2004. Goodman will helm the innovation session, while PVHS’s Chief Information Officer Russ Branzell and Director of Process Improvement Priscilla Nuwash direct the session on measuring results. Bottom line benefits will be the topic of the session led by Adam Cohen, vice president of quality and performance excellence at Denver-based CH2M Hill OMI, a Baldridge honoree for Service in 2000, and Tom Mauro, CEO of Colorado Performance Excellence in Denver, will direct the discussion of excellence processes.

Cost to attend the Action Excellence Conference is $109 per person; tables of eight are available for $775. The discount applies even if tablemates work for different organizations. Registration includes both lunch and a post-discussion reception that will allow participants to share their experiences.

For a conference agenda or to register online, visit http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=770257. More information is also available from NCBR Events Director De Dahlgren at 970-221-5400, ext. 202.

Sponsors include PVHS, Colorado Performance Excellence, the Monfort College of Business and the University of Northern Colorado Foundation, Northern Colorado Business Report and Palmer Flowers.