Joe Kilbride

Joe Kilbride
Joe Kilbride helps organizations achieve sustainable improvements in their key results through systematic approaches to strategy development, performance measurement, process improvement and organizational change management. For the past 25 years he has worked with executives, managers and teams to develop plans, implement strategies, establish key measures, design processes, manage projects, and accelerate organizational change. He also licenses methods and training to develop capabilities in decision making, idea generation, planning, problem solving, data analysis, process design, and team effectiveness.

Joe is a leading expert in use of the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence as a framework for organizational assessment, and has helped numerous organizations in the business, healthcare, education, non-profit and government sectors use the Criteria to accelerate their journey from good to great.

He is a member of the panel of Judges for the Lincoln Foundation of Performance Excellence, which administers Illinois’ recognition program modeled after the Baldrige Award. Joe received his Bachelors of Science in Biology from Benedictine University. Before becoming an external consultant in 1990, Joe held positions with Rockwell International and Johnson & Johnson.