The Excellence Accord

The USA Southwest and Rocky Mountain territory represents America's most dynamic economic frontier, with a combined regional GDP exceeding $2.8 trillion and five states ranking in the top 10 for GDP growth nationally. As the region’s premiere performance excellence programs, Southwest Alliance for Excellence (SWAE.org) and Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence (RMPEx.org) are transforming this unprecedented opportunity into measurable excellence.

As the region’s leading performance excellence resource, we’re transforming organizations across seven states, driving measurable economic growth and operational excellence that directly impacts your bottom line. We seek to enable all organizations, private for-profit, non-profits, and government agencies, to prepare, adapt, innovate, and thrive in the dynamic world of continuous change.
To better serve, we have transformed our operating model from one of recognizing high performance in organizations to one of facilitating the development of high-performing cultures that deliver sustained, transformative results. Today, we serve as a business excellence incubator, nurturing high performance and organizational excellence by identifying and sharing best practices within and between organizations in the areas of leadership, strategic planning, creating customer value, engaging the workforce, operational excellence, and knowledge-driven decisions. SWAE and RMPEx are aligning efforts to expand our impact. 

Our objective is bold: increase our impact of helping dozens of organizations achieve their desired results each year to enabling hundreds — and eventually thousands — to embrace performance excellence as a sustainable approach to how work gets done. 

We envision a future where performance excellence becomes the standard, not the exception— driving a flywheel effect that transforms our regional economy and ensures sustainable success for all organizations we serve. 

Creating Competitive Advantage 

We champion a performance excellence framework that gives organizations a competitive edge by leveraging their unique strengths and resources. Our mission is to transform performance excellence into a cultural advantage, enabling organizations to confidently navigate opportunities and challenges. By embedding innovation and excellence into their core, organizations thrive, adapt to change, and create lasting impacts for their teams, customers, industries, and economies. We serve as a
performance excellence incubator, fostering collaborative networks that integrate best practices into everyday operations. Our approach cultivates a collaborative environment where continuous
improvement and performance excellence become sustainable business practices. Performance Excellence includes a focus on agility and resilience for organizations to adapt quickly to address
changes in the operating environment 

Driving Success Through Dynamic Collaboration 

Imagine a thriving ecosystem where a hospital in Denver enhances patient care by learning from a manufacturing plant in Phoenix, or a small business in Omaha accelerates growth using strategies from a school district in Salt Lake City. This daily cross-pollination of excellence is made possible through our collaborative networks. Our collaborative networks deliver:

1. Organizational Impact – We bring together business, healthcare, education, government and non-profits to learn from each other.
2. Cross-Sector Value – We break down knowledge silos and foster cross-industry innovation 
3. Economic Growth – We serve as an economic engine in one of the fastest growing regions of the country
4. Strategic Member Benefits – We develop leadership for today and tomorrow through participation in our collaborative networks

What sets our approach apart is the belief that excellence is a journey, not a destination, best traveled together. When an organization identifies an area for improvement, they are instantly connected with others who have either mastered that challenge or are actively working on it. This collaborative method creates a multiplier effect, turning every success story into a catalyst for regional transformation. It's not just about sharing best practices; it's about building better practices and fostering a sustainable
culture of excellence that adapts, evolves, and thrives in an ever-changing landscape.

Imagine: Your investment catalyzing a movement where thousands of organizations across seven states (AZ, NV, UT, CO, NE, WY, MT) achieve breakthrough performance, driving unprecedented regional economic growth and innovation.

We invite you to learn more about our two nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations of volunteer professionals and how we incubate and recognize performance improvement through "Communities of Practice" collaborative networks and coaching.

Michel S. Gratz, Executive Director
executivedirector@rmpex.org
(612) 845.6132
www.rmpex.org

Robert H. Mitchell Jr., Executive Director
rhmitchell@swae.org
(651) 270.2452
www.swae.org
RMPEx.org