Stellar Solutions
Crossing the Boundaries
June 23, 2018
Check out the Growth Igniters podcast ‘CEO Lessons from a 2017 Malcolm Baldrge Winner’ where Stellar CEO Celeste Ford speaks to navigating uncharted territory in business.
April 11, 2018
Great article in Space News on the changing space industry and dynamics between government and entrepreneurship, featuring quotes from Stellar CEO and Founder, Celeste Ford:
Celeste Ford, CEO of Stellar Solutions – an aerospace consulting firm in Silicon Valley — said bridging “old and new space” is harder than it seems. “Legacy space was all government funded. The government said ‘jump’ and the industry said ‘how high.’” And government agencies also worry about protecting their jobs and budgets. “Now we have other sources of money in space that didn’t exist before.”
What worries DoD and the intelligence community is that if they don’t keep pace with the innovations in space, the United States could be at a disadvantage, said Ford. “It’s obvious that our adversaries have access to the same technologies we do. We need to plan for that.”
Read the full article here.
March 12, 2018
Palo Alto Weekly’s article on Silicon Valley startups who are “beating the odds” features both Stellar Solutions and QuakeFinder. Stellar is highlighted for its unique vision of being built to last in the current environment full of startups that are built to flip, and QuakeFinder’s pioneering earthquake research is featured as well. Read the full article here!
December 1, 2017
Last night, Celeste was honored at the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s first ever C-Suite Awards Ceremony. The C-Suite Awards honor top executives from 10 Silicon Valley companies and we are honored to be among them. Thank you all for playing an integral part in this recognition by embodying Celeste’s and Stellar’s vision of satisfying your customer’s critical needs while realizing your dream jobs. View the Silicon Valley Business Journal announcement here and Celeste’s acceptance speech on our facebook page.
Today, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce named Stellar Solutions a recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest honor for performance excellence and sustainability. Stellar Solutions is a woman-owned small business in the aerospace engineering services field with a vision of satisfying customer critical needs while realizing dream jobs. Founded in 1995 by Celeste Ford, Stellar Solutions has been providing innovative solutions and high impact for its customers (government and commercial, national and international) for over 20 years. Receiving the Baldrige Award is an incredible honor that recognizes Stellar’s sustainability through visionary leadership, organizational alignment, and systemic improvement and innovation.
“We at Stellar Solutions are honored and humbled by the National Baldrige Award recognition. It is especially important for me as the Founder to have created an exciting business that is “built to last”, and to have the efforts of our Stellar team recognized,” said CEO and Founder of Stellar, Celeste Ford. “We work hard each and every day to have high impact and to live our vision of ‘satisfying our customers’ critical needs while realizing our dream jobs’, and the Baldrige framework has been an important element in making our business successful and sustainable.”
The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program is managed by the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). An independent board of examiners evaluated 24 applications this year on their processes around leadership, strategy, customers, measurement & analysis, workforce, and operations, as well as their results related to each of these categories. Stellar is one among five award recipients who will be presented the award in April 2018 during the Quest for Excellence Conference (the Baldrige community’s national meeting) in Baltimore, MD. Only 110 organizations have received the award (out of over 1,600 applicants) since 1987 when the Baldrige program began.
View the NIST Press Release here and their profile of Stellar Solutions based on the judges feedback report here.
