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Salute to Excellence
Each year, we proudly host the Salute to Excellence, a day honoring dedicated community behavioral health professionals across the Commonwealth. This special event brings together providers, advocates, and community leaders to recognize the compassion, resilience, and life-changing impact of behavioral healthcare workers.
This Year's Event Details:
Salute to Excellence 2026
October 30, 2026, 8am-2pm
Where: Boston Marriott Burlington
One Burlington Mall Road, Burlington, MA
Early bird registration is now open!
Thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate a colleague for this year's awards. Your thoughtful submissions highlighted the incredible talent, compassion, and dedication that define our behavioral healthcare community. Every nomination was a reminder of the meaningful impact our members make each day.
Congratulations to this year's award winners and thank you to all of our nominees for your commitment to improving the lives of those you serve.
We are proud to celebrate each of you!
Sponsorship Opportunities
Event sponsorship provides a meaningful opportunity to showcase your organization's commitment to advancing behavioral healthcare while connecting with industry leaders, professionals, and community stakeholders.
The sponsorship packet has more details about sponsor levels, exhibitor tables, and program book advertisements.
If you are interested in sponsoring, reserving an exhibitor table, or buying a program book ad, please fill out the sponsorship form.
Thank you for your support!
Introducing This Year's Keynote Speaker:
Amelia Rose Earhart
Amelia Rose Earhart was given the name Amelia Earhart, which prompted her to learn to fly. As a professional speaker, pilot, author, and artist, she faced this question head-on and chose to fully commit, completing her private, instrument, and commercial flight training with the dream of flying around the world, much like the legendaryAmerican hero she was named after, Amelia Mary Earhart.
In 2014, she achieved her goal of circumnavigating the globe along a 28,000 nautical mile route in a single-engine aircraft. Amelia believes the most important lesson from her journey is that true success and personal growth require embracing life's turbulence by staying agile amidst the storms that inevitably arise on our paths.
Amelia has fifteen years of experience as a helicopter and breaking news reporter in Denver and
Los Angeles. She has sent numerous teenage girls to flight school during her ten-year tenure as
president of the Fly With Amelia Foundation, hosts a tech podcast focused on the future of AI in
business, and is currently transforming her aerial photos into original paintings. She has been
invited by companies like Apple Computers, Boeing, American Express, Berkshire Hathaway, United Healthcare, and many other industry leaders to share her story.
In her recently published book, "Learn to Love the Turbulence: ‘Flight Lessons’ on becoming the
pilot in command of your own journey," Amelia shares insights on how to think like a pilot, moving
through life with agility and confidence.