Event takes excellence to bottom line of business

LOVELAND – If you could invest one afternoon in re-imaging your organization’s future and see results on your bottom line, would it be worth your time?

If you could learn from local experts nationally recognized for their investment in excellence and take those lessons back to your business, would it be worth the price of admission?

And if you could do all this in the elegant surroundings of the Embassy Suites Loveland rather than traveling to Chicago or New York or Washington, D.C., would it be worth the drive?

If you answered yes to any of the above, the Northern Colorado Business Report has a new event for you. On Oct. 7, the 2009 Action Excellence Conference: Re-imagining Your Organization’s Future takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Embassy Suites at Interstate 25 and Crossroads Boulevard.

The keynote speaker will be Rulon Stacey, CEO of the Poudre Valley Health System, which was honored with the Malcolm Baldrige Award for Excellence in Health Care in 2008. He will address what it takes to lead through change at the opening luncheon.

“This event has a totally different structure than any other we have done,´ said Jeff Nuttall, publisher of NCBR. “In addition to Rulon’s remarks, we will have five different ‘open space’ facilitators who will lead discussions around different factors that contribute to organizational excellence. It’s a very exciting format for a very important topic in these times.”

Under the overall guidance of Ed Goodman, Chief Experience Officer for TST Inc. in Fort Collins, the open space sessions will cover Leadership; Innovation; Measuring Results; Bottom Line Benefits; and Excellence Processes.

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 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, 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; corporate tables of eight are available for $775. This includes both lunch and a post-discussion reception that will allow participants to share their experiences.

For a conference agenda or to register online, go to www.ncbr.com and click on the Events heading on the left-hand side of the homepage. 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 and Palmer Flowers.

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