U.S. Senate Productivity and Quality Award
for Virginia and DC
Our Mission
The mission of SPQA is to promote continual improvement strategies and provide training, mentoring, and recognition to organizations in pursuit of performance excellence.
Our Work
SPQA uses the Baldrige Performance Excellence Framework as our foundation in our efforts to assist organizations in Virginia and Washington, DC to achieve better results.
Our Story
For more than three decades, SPQA has been serving healthcare, businesses large and small, not-for profits, school systems and government agencies to achieve excellence.
Ones to Watch is a partnership between SPQA and Commonwealth of Virginia focused on supporting small businesses. The program provides training, coaching and resources to identified small businesses..
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Time is Running Out. Register now for QUEST
Quest is the official conference of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award featuring national award winners, and sessions on organizational best practices. Network with other performance excellence enthusiasts from all sectors at the premier showcase of current and former Baldrige Award recipients April 7–10, 2019, Gaylord National Harbor, National Harbor, MD.
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Register Now for April 10 Baldrige 101 Training
Baldrige 101: Introduction to the Baldrige Framework, is a one-day case-study based workshop where participants become familiar with the basics of the Framework—its Core Values, the Criteria, guidelines for evaluating processes and results, and an introduction to applying the Framework in an organization. Training is led by experienced members of the SPQA and Baldrige communities….
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