Performance Excellence Network

We are a non-profit, membership-driven organization serving Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Mission
PEN advances improvement and performance excellence. We identify strengths and improvement opportunities and build networks that bring information, resources, knowledge, and best practices to organizations, individuals, and communities desiring to improve.

Vision
The Performance Excellence Network will be the leader in driving organizational, individual, and community excellence.

Purpose/Passion
Our purpose is inspiring, advancing, and sustaining performance excellence.

History
PEN was founded as the Minnesota Council for Quality, Inc. in 1987, as a result of Minnesota Governor Perpich’s 1985-86 Commission on Minnesota’s Economic Future. Our mission then was to improve quality, productivity, and competitiveness of Minnesota businesses. Today, we serve all types and sizes of organizations – businesses, healthcare systems and facilities, education institutions, nonprofit and governmental agencies – helping them improve and sustain outcomes.

We Believe That...
Our socio-economic future depends largely on the effective management of organizations throughout the region. Therefore, our goal is to help organizations of all sizes, in all sectors, and in all communities improve their operations and their performance.
Communities within each state will be stronger if leaders work together to solve social and economic challenges that cross organizational boundaries. Therefore part of our focus is on providing leaders the network & means to improve the communities in which they live& work