Sponsorship opportunities are available for the 2012 ACMP Global Conference to be held April 1 - 4, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. There are three sponsorship levels to suit varied budgets and exposure needs. To gain full value, it is recommended to secure your spot as a sponsor early as you will receive web marketing in the months leading up to the conference.  Sponsor status is not tied to speaking opportunities in any way - all presenters are selected by an independent committee.  We do have a limited number of sponsor-hosted workshops on Sunday, April 1 - please contact conference@acmp.info if you are interested in more information.  Deadline for sponsoring the conference is February 15, 2012.

Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of strategy and technology consulting for nearly a century. Today, Booz Allen is a leading provider of management and technology consulting services to the US government in defense, intelligence, and civil markets, and to major corporations, institutions, and not-for-profit organizations. In the commercial sector, the firm focuses on leveraging its existing expertise for clients in the financial services, healthcare, and energy markets, and to international clients in the Middle East. Booz Allen offers clients deep functional knowledge spanning strategy and organization, engineering and operations, technology, and analytics—which it combines with specialized expertise in clients' mission and domain areas to help solve their toughest problems.

The firm's management consulting heritage is the basis for its unique collaborative culture and operating model, enabling Booz Allen to anticipate needs and opportunities, rapidly deploy talent and resources, and deliver enduring results. By combining a consultant's problem-solving orientation with deep technical knowledge and strong execution, Booz Allen helps clients achieve success in their most critical missions—as evidenced by the firm's many client relationships that span decades. Booz Allen helps shape thinking and prepare for future developments in areas of national importance, including cybersecurity, homeland security, healthcare, and information technology.

Booz Allen is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, employs more than 25,000 people, and had revenue of $5.59 billion for the 12 months ended March 31, 2011. Fortune has named Booz Allen one of its "100 Best Companies to Work For" for seven consecutive years. Working Mother has ranked the firm among its "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers" annually since 1999. More information is available at www.boozallen.com. (NYSE: BAH)

Since its founding in 1994, Prosci has become the world leader in change management research. Today, the Prosci change management methodology is one of the most widely used approaches for driving business performance on change projects in corporations and government around the globe.

Customers say they choose Prosci for their change management approach because Prosci's resources are:

• Research-based, leveraging lessons learned from multiple research studies with over 2000 end-user professionals and leaders around the world.
• Holistic and easy-to-apply, including both individual and organizational models that drive results at all levels of an organization.
• Geared toward competency-building and knowledge transfer, providing a comprehensive framework for developing long-lasting internal change management abilities.

Prosci's models and tools are available through organizational site licenses, training courses and stand-alone products. As a research and learning organization, Prosci is in a unique position to help end-users build internal change competencies that are at every level in the organization.

Learn more about Prosci's research, training and change management resources at the Change Management Learning Center: www.change-management.com.

PREMIER LEVEL

Brio Change, a consulting firm created in 2005 and based in Montreal, Canada, focuses all of its interventions on change management, results and value-add for its clients. Our track record demonstrates efficiency and commitment to achieving them in a human and relevant fashion.

Our services leverage a 360-degree vision of change, including change management and strategic thinking, design and optimization of business processes and benefits. Brio Change also offers exclusive access to a new change management expert system based on best practices and tools: Sherpa T.O. (transforms your organization).
The result of 70 years of combined research and project management conducted by Brio Change, HEC Montreal, and a client, in the private, public and academic sectors, Sherpa T.O. is the first interactive change management expert system in the cloud - an innovative solution to meet client's needs and address their issues relating to change management.

Sherpa T.O. includes 14 tools, three deliverables, five indicators (one per phase) and an executive change management dashboard. These interactive graphic elements give users a quick overview of their project status that can be presented to management. Each tool allows users to build in real time action plans in change management, communications and training. With just one click, experts and managers can then produce a dashboard to get the big picture of their change management project, allowing them to devote more time to bringing about change rather than communicating its progress.

For more information, please visit us at: http://www.briochange.com/en/sherpa/

Emerson Human Capital Consulting Inc. is a change management consulting firm with a passion for turning people potential into business performance. Clients call us when they need to improve operations, deploy new strategy or technology, or simply help their employees perform. Throw any change initiative our way – a new technology, product, service, market strategy, operating model – we'll help you achieve the intended benefit sooner. Why? Because we get your people on board fast, and ready to work. How? We create change strategy. We help people internalize the new way of doing business, so they behave differently and successfully. We focus their attention and give them tools and information, so they know what to do, when and how. Then we build the means to sustain this new way of working. We have the know-how to shorten learning curves, prevent workarounds, and improve work processes — all while staying focused on the bottom line.

Emerson includes 110 of the human performance industry's most talented professionals: both full-time employees and consultants who are part of Emerson ReadyStaff, a wholly owned subsidiary of Emerson. Managing change is what we love and as every client discovers: we take change personally. Want to learn more? Check out our website at: www.emersonhc.com.

Expressworks International is a proven leader in all aspects of Change Management consulting and implementation. Driven by the most competent, accomplished and coordinated network of Change Management professionals in the country, we excel in behavioral change, process development, business engagement, and communications: disciplines that support our focus on implementation – where the value of technology, process, and strategy is realized. We work to create a partnership with each of our clients, providing trusted guidance, planning and execution. Our collaborative approach allows us to successfully leverage our expertise with your two greatest resources: keen knowledge of your specific business, and your people. Together we can produce fit-for-purpose solutions that create sustainable change. Our team of executive-level consultants is a nimble, experienced force with the right training, tools and methodologies to truly deliver with you, not around you.  www.expressworks.com

As Hitachi, Ltd.'s (NYSE: HIT) global consulting company, Hitachi Consulting is a recognized leader in delivering proven business and IT solutions to Global 2000 companies. With a balanced view of strategy, people, process and technology, we work with companies to understand their unique business needs, and to develop and implement practical business strategies and technology solutions.

Hitachi Consulting's client base includes nearly 25 percent of the Global 100 and many leading mid-market companies. From business strategy development through application deployment, we help clients quickly realize measurable business value and achieve sustainable ROI. www.hitachiconsulting.com

The Implementation Institute is dedicated to increasing organizations' capability to manage change and effectively implement initiatives. The Institute integrates proven experience and cutting edge research with innovative education, coaching, mentoring and assessment to positively impact leaders and organizations worldwide. The Institute's purpose is to gather, establish and disseminate best practices which align change management and project management principles, driving the behavior change necessary to deliver intended business results. The Institute's proprietary Implementation Effectiveness™ materials have been used in a wide variety of business initiatives including: acquisition integration, organizational restructuring, global business process redesign, systems implementation, cultural change and other business critical strategies.

Implementation Effectiveness™ (IE) is the bridge between strategy and execution. It is the process of developing and executing plans to produce the behavioral change required to deliver the business results expected of an organizational initiative.

The IE methodology provides a process and framework to assess and align an organization's culture and expectations of talent with changes in the business strategy, organizational structure and/or systems. The purpose of the IE methodology is to drive the desired business results by helping employees accept, adapt to, and adopt behavior changes that must be made to improve performance.

The Implementation Effectiveness Methodology Builds:

• Knowledge/understanding of the short term plan and long term goal
• An organization designed to achieve desired business results
• An infrastructure that will sustain results over time
• An understanding and application of the tools and assessments within the methodology

www.implementationinstitute.org

International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) is an independent non-profit professional association serving the growing field of business analysis. For individuals working in a broad range of roles – business analysis, systems analysis, requirements analysis or management, project management, consulting, process improvement and more – IIBA® can help you do your job better and enhance your professional life.

IIBA was established in 2003 as a Canadian Corporation and has become the leading association for business analysis around the globe. We help business analysts develop their skills and further their careers by providing access to unique and relevant content. Visit: www.iiba.org.

Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) helps individuals and organizations learn and adapt to their changing environment by building knowledge, skills, talent and engagement. LCE's team of learning, leadership and change management professionals integrate the art and science of learning and change in order to change behavior to produce desired results.

LCE combines a wealth of thought leadership, experience and process improvement expertise with one of the most widely used approaches for managing the people side of change: the Prosci methodology. As the first U.S. Authorized Training Provider for Prosci, we deliver Prosci's change management programs integrated with adult learning principles that minimize lecture and emphasize hands-on learning, leading to higher retention.

In addition to delivering Prosci change management training, LCE helps organizations adopt change management as an enterprise competency and apply Prosci's tools with specific change initiatives. Our experience spans the Fortune 500 and includes information technology, financial, insurance, manufacturing, government, chemical, utilities, and non-profit clients. www.LCE.com

Navigator Management Partners is a regional consultancy comprised of individuals with a proven track record in business and technology consulting, many having served Fortune 500 companies and public sector institutions as employees of the world's market-leading consulting firms. Our model allows us to provide what Gartner describes as 'magic quadrant' consulting resources without many of the drawbacks associated with our larger competitors.

It's always easier to deal with change when you've got a well charted course. Navigator Management Partners has the Fortune 500 and public sector experience to help you look ahead, plan for, and meet your business and technology challenges. Depend on our guidance as you navigate the course of change.  www.navmp.com

North Highland is a global consulting firm that has changed the model of how a consultancy serves its clients. The firm hires only experienced consultants who live and work where their clients do, leveraging a global network of service area expertise. They also guarantee their work, achieving exceptional results for some of the most recognizable names in the world.

North Highland helps business, government and non-profit clients define strategies, streamline operations, empower people, integrate suppliers, leverage technology and maximize customer interaction. Its innovative approach sustains successful, long-term relationships by helping clients achieve their business objectives again and again.

In 2011, Consulting Magazine ranked North Highland third on its list of the world's "Best Firms to Work For", marking its fifth consecutive year in the magazine's top four. North Highland's consistently high ranking is due, in part, to its employee value proposition: "own your life…own your career…own your company", an entrepreneurial focus made possible because the firm is 100% owned by its employees. The resulting culture allows North Highlanders to make a lasting impact on the communities in which they live, and allows the company to attract and retain top talent across industries and service areas. For more information, please visit www.northhighland.com.

PeopleFirm is a consultancy passionate about a single mission: helping clients achieve a competitive advantage through their people. We started with the idea of creating a different kind of consulting firm, a company focused on people and grounded in our collective experiences in transforming businesses and leading strategic change. Our team combines deep knowledge and a unique approach to identify and implement targeted investment in the human side of organizations.

In short, PeopleFirm is a strategy and implementation firm assisting with both the "what" and the "how". We bring proven experience to drive performance and create differentiation through four interrelated solution areas: People Strategy, Organizational Performance, Talent Management and Change Management.

Our Change Management Offerings
In the field of Change Management, we are recognized for our best practices in designing and leading change and adoption efforts. Whether driven by technology implementations, acquisitions or divestitures, restructuring, business process redesign or leadership, our proven approach ensures change sticks. We have a passionate focus on managing change which is demonstrated by our people; 70% of our change management practioners have over 12 years' practical experience in the field of sustainable change. Quite simply, managing successful change is what we do.

Our Services

Visit our website: www.peoplefirm.com

Resilience Alliance provides tools to help organizations navigate turbulence. Internal and external change practitioners apply our assessments, training programs, and other materials to:

• Help individuals and teams understand and develop their resilience
• Assess and mitigate human risks in change initiatives
• Prepare sponsors, agents, and targets to play their roles effectively during change

Our tools and materials are practical, simple, flexible, and compatible with multiple change management methodologies. The Personal Resilience Profile allows individuals to compare their perspectives on change to a database of over 70,000 people across the globe. It is currently available in eight languages including Mandarin, Russian, and Swedish. The Team Resilience Profile helps key teams increase their effectiveness during change. The Change Landscape Profile enables planners to address issues that can hinder the progress of a critical change initiative, with scores compared to a growing database of other organizations and initiatives. We also work with clients to develop custom assessments and change-related training. Come visit our booth at the ACMP conference, and visit us online at www.resiliencealliance.com.

ASSOCIATE LEVEL

Brighton Leadership Group helps clients rapidly recognize strategic outcomes and work closely with leaders to maximize the results of their strategy. We create enduring project results with proven change management techniques to ensure long term adoption. Brighton Leadership Group helps clients achieve a competitive advantage by transferring skills and creating core competency in the areas of change and project management. We build change leadership capacity through coaching, individual resilience though measurement and skill building and organizational change capacity through our consulting engagements.

To learn how you can maximize the impact of your next change project by partnering with Brighton Leadership Group, go to www.brightonleadership.com and download a free whitepaper.

Given the highly challenging current competitive, economic and social landscape, delivering effective change is the key strategic challenge for organizations. Perhaps more than ever, having strong organizational change implementation capabilities is a critical business imperative.

Founded in 1995, Changefirst has extensive experience of helping large, US based corporations including Novartis, Zurich and Genentech (Roche), build OCM capabilities globally and deliver major change from within their organization by working collaboratively with internal change experts.

PCI® (People-Centered Implementation) is our proven, structured and systematic change implementation methodology that enables people - at all levels inside your organization – to initiate, plan, execute and measure change effectively. It provides everything needed to implement change projects successfully including training, expert coaching, a comprehensive online change toolkit and practitioner certification. By focusing on the engagement of your own people, PCI® transforms the way they operate and behave when implementing projects and other strategic change initiatives.

We know that by building executive support for a consistent approach to change and helping our clients to apply PCI® within their organizations they implement more change more successfully. PCI® is also:

• more cost effective to implement than using external consultancies or building in-house change solutions
• flexible enough to be customized to fit your required or to be integrated with existing business processes including Lean, Six Sigma, PRINCE2 and other project approaches
• immediately applicable to a wide range of business changes from the introduction of new technology such as ERP systems and process improvements, to outsourcing, restructuring and mergers

To visit our Change Implementation Knowledge Center and find out more about our training workshops, elearning, online toolkit and expert coaching visit www.changefirst.com/usa.
 

Change Guides helps organizations get people Ready, Willing, and Able to work in new ways. Our principles and tools have been used by thousands of employees in hundreds of organizations around the world to implement change. Change Guides' broad range of products and services help people learn and apply best practice solutions as they drive change in their organizations. These services and tools include consulting, training, books, computer based training, electronic tools and much more.

Our partners have authored two top selling books in the area of Organizational Change Management and nearly 100 articles in nationally distributed publications. We are frequently cited and sought out as experts in the area of organizational change. The Change Management Pocket Guide: Tools for Managing Change is a tactical, hands-on guide that leads change managers through the change process from planning for change through sustaining new ways. The Eight Constants of Change: What Leaders Need to Know to Drive Change and Win outlines the fundamental truths about changing organizations, guiding leaders in achieving their manageable goals.

Change Guides is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. To learn more about Change Guides, visit us at www.changeguidesllc.com.

For over 10 years, Emergence One International has been providing corporate clients with targeted solutions for people, projects, and change. We do so much more than sprinkle a few change management activities into a project management plan and claim "integration." Instead, we fuse these two disciplines together into one comprehensive and seamless approach. After all, the "people issues" affect time, scope, and budget just as much as the project planning, design, and execution process will ultimately affect organizational adoption and business value realization.

Because we take a unified project management/change management approach, we don't divide the initiative between the "people side" and the technical or project side. Thus, there is a more streamlined execution of project activities instead of the disjointed, often convoluted approach that often comes with trying to apply two separate methodologies to a single initiative. And along with this innovative approach, change management is no longer gets questioned as being an adjunct, "nice to have" activity but now becomes truly integral to the success of each phase of the project life cycle.

Guiding us is our breakthrough methodology, "The Emergence One Method for Total Project Success;" a complete project life cycle methodology that merges both change and project management perspectives into the same sequential set of activities… resulting in a more cohesive and effective approach to meeting client needs. The Emergence One Method can be used as a complete, standalone project methodology or utilized to augment and enhance existing approaches.

Since 2001, Emergence One has grown beyond its Silicon Valley roots to offer clients and project professionals nationwide the following solutions and services:

• Integrated Change Management/Project Management expertise
• Project planning and execution processes that further facilitate organizational adoption and business value realization
• Mature and structured approaches to change management
• Certification and training in the Emergence One Method - allowing practitioners to add value to both the people and project sides.
• "Enhanced Advantage" Premium Tools, Templates, and Project Guides

In addition, we literally wrote the book on how best to fully integrate project and change management: "The Next Evolution – Enhancing and Unifying Project and Change Management" by Thomas L. Jarocki (Brown & Williams Publishing, hardcover, 326pp) has been hailed as the one book that "… defines how project management and change management work together." Released in June, 2011, this groundbreaking book is available from major booksellers worldwide.

For those who want to add more structure, maturity and rigor to their change management and project execution practices, we invite you learn more at: www.emergenceone.com

LaMarsh & Associates, Inc. is a global consulting firm that for over 30 years has been a pioneer and thought leader in change management. We focus solely on providing strategic and tactical change management consulting and learning services to our clients using a proven and methodical model for change. We also offer advanced certification, executive coaching and electronic learning to support our client’s goals toward the institutionalization of change management.

Our approach is called Managed Change™. It is founded upon a data driven model and a process that acts as a "roadmap" for project teams, their internal change agents and project sponsors to follow as they navigate through complex change projects. Its "open architecture" allows Managed Change™ to enhance and support other change management methodologies as well as to align and integrate with project management and Six Sigma disciplines.

The Managed Change™ Approach is entirely aimed at developing and implementing winning solutions in our client engagements. We accomplish this by helping our clients systematically

1. identify the people who will have to change,
2. identify the potential reasons they might resist the change and,
3. develop action plans designed to minimize or eliminate this resistance.

By doing so, we help the team mitigate the risk that is associated with this resistance and facilitate acceptance of the change at a more rapid pace, ultimately increasing the likelihood of delivering the expected results, on time and within budget.  www.lamarsh.com

The McColl Master of Science in Executive Coaching (MSEC) develops skilled change agents who are dedicated to improving personal and organizational performance through the utilization of behavioral science interventions in planned change efforts. The MSEC program, the only MS degree of its kind in the nation, is designed for the needs of working professionals and provides a low residency schedule using adult learning principles and various mediated learning technologies. Students participate in a cohort group designed to complete the program of study in two years. The program is appropriate for a wide and diverse range of professionals who are interested in coaching as a profession or as a core element of their work as a change agent.

Queens University of Charlotte is a private, co-ed, comprehensive university with a commitment to both liberal arts and professional studies. Located in Charlotte, NC, Queens serves undergraduate and graduate students.

For more info - www.queens.edu/MSEC

Shape Consulting provides professional Change Management services to private and public organisations in Australia and New Zealand. Our focus areas include Technology Implementations, Process re-design, Organisational Restructures, Mergers & Acquisitions, new business, product & service expansion and major office relocations. Shape Consulting also has specialist teams focused on Cultural Change and Creating High Performance – especially in large collaborative projects. Our team of consultants are known for their delivery on promises using the collective strengths of our knowledge base and team. We live by a motto of balance which includes providing balanced advice to our clients, focusing on real work-life balance and ensuring we have a balance between our contributions and rewards.

Our client focus areas include:- Mining, Engineering, Water, Electricity, Government, Rail, Construction, Banking, Mineral Processing and Health.

If you would like to know more about Shape Consulting please visit our website:- www.shapeconsulting.com.au