Dale Crownover, president of Texas Nameplate Company, will be the keynote speaker for the 2008 Georgia Oglethorpe Annual Conference and Awards Banquet. A visionary leader and inspirational speaker, Crownover led the continuous quality improvement program at Texas Nameplate and achieved many impressive organizational performance improvements within a three-year period:

• Doubled market share, sales growth, and productivity
• Increased profits by 18%
• Reduced costs by 18%
• Reduced staffing by 30% while employee turnover dropped from 45% to 8%
• Cut cycle time in half and defects by a third

With these outstanding results, Texas Nameplate won the Texas Quality Award then went on to be the smallest company ever to win the Malcolm Baldrige National Award, not once but twice!

Join us at Georgia’s premier event to promote and recognize achievement in organizational performance improvement and excellence. Seven Georgia organizations will be honored during this year’s Georgia Oglethorpe Awards Banquet.

WHEN:

Conference: Wednesday -Thursday, October 1-2, 2008
Dale Crownover speaking: Thursday, October 2 at both 9:00 a.m. & 12:15 p.m.

WHERE:

The Loudermilk Center, 40 Courtland Street, SE, Atlanta

ATTEND THE FULL CONFERENCE:

The public is invited to attend the full two-day Georgia Oglethorpe Annual Conference and Awards Banquet to be held on October 1-2 at The Loudermilk Center. This two-day event focuses on learning about and using the Georgia Oglethorpe (Baldrige) Criteria for Performance Excellence to improve organizational performance. On October 1, the conference offers eleven concurrent workshops and an evening reception with networking opportunities. On October 2, the conference offers five morning workshops and culminates with the Awards Banquet. Dale Crownover speaks on October 2 both at 9:00 a.m. and at the Awards Banquet beginning at 12:15 p.m. The Awards Banquet provides a forum to recognize role model organizations and their use of Georgia Oglethorpe criteria and principles to improve bottom-line performance. Attendees will gain new insights and enthusiasm for creating and sustaining high performance in their organizations.

REGISTER BY EVENT PREFERENCE:

$395 for all events for the two-day conference
$225 for single-day events
$75 Thursday awards banquet only
$25 Wednesday evening reception only

Meals and snacks are included as appropriate.

RESERVE YOUR SEAT TODAY:

RSVP with check or credit card by noon on Friday, September 26, 2008.
*** First 30 full-conference registrations receive a special gift bag! ***
For program information and to register for all or part of the conference, click Registration or visit www.GeorgiaOglethorpe.org and click on “Conference.” To register by phone, call 404-232-3808 (Voice Mail).

Georgia Oglethorpe Award Process, Inc. is a nonprofit public-private partnership that provides low-cost, high-value education, assessment, feedback, and recognition to Georgia’s business, industry, government, education, healthcare, and nonprofit organizations. It promotes both strategic and tactical organizational performance improvement and excellence through use of the Criteria for Performance Excellence - the same Criteria used to determine recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Award.

The Coca-Cola Company is a corporate sponsor of this event. Sponsorships opportunities and exhibit tables are still available.