(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- For the second year in a row, the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP) has received the first place award in the government and military category of the Leadership 500 Excellence Awards, an annual recognition of the world’s best leadership development programs and initiatives. The honor was announced on March 31, 2015—World Leadership Day—during a dinner at the LEAD 2015 conference in Dallas.

Rounding out the top three awards in the government and military category were two Texas organizations: the City of Houston Learning and Development Center—The Center for Excellence and the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.

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