David Harrawood is the President of Baldrige Group, a performance excellence consulting firm. For the past 20 years, he has been a champion of performance excellence principles helping all types of organizations dramatically improve their performance and achieving their desired outcomes. He has the unique ability to translate complex subjects into easy to understand and implement solutions organizations can use to immediately improved performance.

As a performance excellence teacher and coach, he frequently works with executives and senior leaders to easily develop actionable strategic plans and successfully implement performance excellence best practices within their organization

He frequently lectures on strategic and performance excellence subjects around the county and has published numerous articles and research papers. He founded the National EMS Quality and Performance Management Workshop and was selected as the lead author for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA) Leadership Guide to Quality Improvement workshop, based upon the Baldrige Criteria. David has published seven Baldrige Category level best practices books and is the hosts of a free weekly national webinar assisting organizations implement the Baldrige Criteria.

In addition, Dave is also a Master Examiner with the prestigious Florida Governor’s Sterling Award for the past 18 years and has  led or participated in over 20 site visits helping a wide variety of organizations.