The Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) continues to achieve milestones; celebrating our first official anniversary as an incorporated not for profit professional membership organization and hosting record attendance at ACMP Global Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada April 2012.
As ACMP continues to grow as a professional membership organization at all levels, we find it necessary to reorganize internal staff roles and responsibilities to support multiple program areas. This will allow us to sustain a more robust product, program, and service portfolio to meet the growing needs of our members and the profession. Over the next few months ACMP will be adding two new positions: Communications and Events Director and Member Relations Manager. The Communications and Events Director will oversee development and administration of ACMP Marketing, Communications and Events, and will serve as staff liaison to various volunteer committees. The Member Relations Manager will be responsible for membership data, processes and reporting, as well as provide support as needed for ACMP programs, products and services.
Ashley McNeal, ACMP Conference Director withdrew from consideration as Communications and Events Director May 1, 2011 to focus on other career opportunities and her growing family. ACMP is deeply grateful to Ashley for her dedication and professionalism in establishing an exceptionally strong professional standard with our growing annual ACMP Global Conference. Ashley was instrumental in delivering a high quality and fun event experience of which we will strive to maintain. We wish Ashley well in her new endeavors.
For more information, please contact Linn Wheeling, Executive Director at lwheeling@acmpglobal.org.
ACMP 2012 Board of Directors Election
The Association for Change Management Professionals (ACMP) is
marking yet another milestone in our organization’s development
with the 2012 Board of Directors election opening March 19,
2012. ACMP members in good standing as of March 9, 2012 will
select three (3) candidates to serve as Board Directors.
Candidates receiving the majority vote will join six returning
ACMP Board
Directors.
Members will receive an email invitation the week of March 12,
2012 to participate in this important event. Balloting will be
open through March 30, 2012 until 21:00 EDT (9:00PM).
Election results will be announced at the
2012 ACMP Annual
Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 2, 2012.
The ACMP Candidate Search, Nominating and Election Committee (CSNE)
carefully considered all nominations against the qualifications
and leadership experiences identified as necessary to further
advance the ACMP vision and mission. These are:
If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact ACMP at admin@acmp.info or call +1.301.200.2362.
ACMP Hits 1000 Members and Continues Strong Growth
We are excited to announce that since opening membership in May, we have already reached 1150 members! We rounded the 1000 member mark in February, achieving a key milestone for us as an association. We thank all of our members for their support as we have grown over the past 10 months and continue to develop for the future.
But we're not stopping there. Our goal is to reach 2013 members in 2013. Join us in helping build your profession and your professional network by sharing ACMP membership information with a colleague or friend.
ACMP has released an online change management job center for its members. This new site will enable employers from around the world to submit job, contract, and career opportunities accessible only to the ACMP community. This site features an online database of jobs, user friendly entries, and easy to navigate postings. Adding the job center to the ACMP Networking site has developed a new value to members and employers.
Posting a change management position is free for employers. Get started by visiting http://networking.acmp.info/jobs/ to list your employment opportunity. Members can view current job listings by logging into the networking site and clicking the Job Center link.
ACMP has opened registration for its second annual global conference, to be held April 1-4, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 2012 ACMP Global Conference theme is "Your Passport to Change" and will incorporate ACMP's focus as a global association. We are very excited about this event to be held at the new ARIA Resort & Casino and hope you will join us in April.
Last year's inaugural conference featured more than 50 esteemed speakers and 700 attendees - and our 2nd annual event will be even bigger and better. We listened to feedback and have incorporated attendee comments in many aspects of the planning for 2012 including keynote speakers, new session types and tracks, and expanded networking opportunities. This is an event not to be missed.
Visit www.acmp.info/conference for more details.
ACMP held its first webinar, focusing on association development and progress. If you were unable to attend, you can view the information that was covered here.
ACMP’s positive momentum continues. The ACMP Board has made progress on several important milestones. Key metrics for the 2011 Conference exceed expectations, with nearly 500 registrations. This represents a 25% increase over last year, and prompted the addition of a third track at the conference during the first two days. Moreover, the number of corporate sponsorships and pre-conference workshops significantly outpaced 2010 levels.
It's official. ACMP received a “Certificate of Incorporation” from the government of the District of Columbia on February 11th, having met the District's criteria for a non-profit professional association. We still need to get the IRS to declare for tax purposes that the ACMP is a non-profit 501(c)(6) organization, but that's a matter of paperwork. This codifies in a legal structure what we as change management professionals have been seeking for quite some time - our very own professional organization. Now we have it. Also, several important statements about the purpose of our new Association were described within the Articles of Incorporation:
Feel free to review and download the Articles of Incorporation: http://www.acmp.info/ACMP_Cert_of_Incorporation.pdf
ACMP has also established by-laws, which address key functional and decision-making processes.
International Movement
In many ways, the formation of ACMP underscores several important activities already underway around the globe. Three examples include:
ACMP Africa Regional Conference: Nearly 200 change management professionals participated in a November 2010 conference in South Africa. High-energy speakers, and higher-energy attendees, all in pursuit of advancing the important change management, work on the African continent.
ACMP Middle East Organizational Session: A smaller but equally dedicated group of change management practitioners attended a networking meeting late last year, focusing on Best Practices in Change Management, culminating in the formation of the ACMP Middle East Chapter and plans to hold an ACMP Middle East Conference in February 2012 in Dubai.
ACMP Europe Regional Conference: The ACMP European Chapter has scheduled its own inaugural conference also highlighting Best Practices in Change Management for September 18 – 20, 2011, in Copenhagen, Denmark. These regional examples, coupled with the dozens of requests received by ACMP since November’s announcement to participate and contribute, reinforce the notion that the timing of ACMP’s launch as a global organization is critical to helping advance the discipline around the world.
For more information, please visit our events page.