Board Members
PEN Governing Board:
Chace Anderson (chair)
Superintendent
Wayzata Public Schools
Pam Helgeson-Britton
Director of Quality (former)
St. Luke’s Hospital, Duluth
Tom Henry
Chief Executive Officer
Episcopal Homes of Minnesota
Karen Kiel Rosser
VP & Quality Improvement Officer
Mary Greeley Medical Center
Brian Lassiter
President & CEO
Performance Excellence Network
Lori Meyer
Chief Operating Officer
LeadingAge Minnesota
Arun Natarajan
Senior Director
Seagate Technology
Sandra Ogunremi
Vice President, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
Monument Health
GEN Mike Oster
Director of Performance Excellence, Strategic Planning (former)
South Dakota Army National Guard
Tami Reuter
Chief Business & Marketing Officer
MRCI
Marshall Smith
President/CEO
State of Minnesota, Direct Care & Treatment
SE Regional Advisory Board:
Adam Dickinson (Chair)
Program Director of IBM Power Systems Global Fulfillment Engineering
IBM
Kay Erwin
Project Assistant
Olmsted County
Michael Garner
President
Momentum Consulting
Amy Grover
Director of Planning
Southeast Service Cooperative
Michele Hoover
Section Head
Mayo Clinic
Karen Lemke
Head of Marketing & Community Engagement
Rochester Public Library
Jack Priggen
CEO/President
Cardinal of Minnesota
Cassie Ray
WorkForce Development Specialist
Rochester Community & Technical College
Claudine Van Meeteren
Director of Diagnostic Services
Winona Health
Twin Ports Advisory Board:
Tess D’Andrea
Manager
Laker Superior College (former)
Pam Helgeson-Britton
Director of Quality
St. Luke’s Hospital, Duluth
Tania McVean
Director of Marketing
Bayshore Residence & Rehabilitation
Linnea Mirsch
Deputy Administrator
St. Louis County
Anne Schilling
Director of Quality and Safety
AMSOIL
Pam Solberg-Tapper
Executive Coach/Leadership Development
Coach for Success
Twin Cities Advisory Board Members:
Margie Kissner
Director of Quality and Customer Experience
Portico Benefits Services
Mary Chapa
Health Care Technology Specialist
Health Information Management
Performance Outcomes Ebenezer Fairview
Beth Schaeffer
Metropolitan State University’s Director of the Institute for Professional Development
Metropolitan State University
Dominique Palumbo
Continuous Improvement Leader
Agile Marketing Coach General Mills
Brenda Welch
Director of Quality and Regulatory Affairs
LifeSource
Phil Zeccardi
Performance Improvement Lean in Healthcare
Organizational Development Children’s Hospital and Clinics of MN
“I wish I had discovered Baldrige a couple decades earlier.”
-Jack Priggen, CEO, Cardinal of Minnesota, Ltd
