Implementation Management Associates (IMA Worldwide) announced it has earned the Qualified Education Provider (QEP) designation from the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP). Three of its training programs—Introduction to AIM, ChangePro, and AIM Practitioner Certification—are now approved to award professional development credits toward the Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP) designation, the globally recognized credential for organizational change management practitioners.
The QEP designation is awarded to education providers whose programs align with the ACMP Standard for Change Management, the profession's definitive competency framework. IMA Worldwide's approval reflects the methodology's rigorous, research-based approach to behavioral adoption, executive sponsorship, and reinforcement strategy—core competencies evaluated under the ACMP Standard.
McKinsey & Company research indicates that approximately 70% of change programs fail to achieve their goals, largely due to employee resistance and lack of management support. IMA Worldwide's Accelerating Implementation Methodology (AIM) was developed specifically to address these failure modes by embedding visible sponsorship accountability, structured resistance management, and the EMR (Express-Model-Reinforce) framework to drive measurable behavioral adoption from go-live through sustained implementation.
"Having three programs approved for CCMP professional development credits under the ACMP QEP designation reflects the depth and rigor that practitioners expect from AIM-based training," said Ann Marvin, CEO of IMA Worldwide. "McKinsey's finding that 70% of transformations fail is a call to action for the industry. Our methodology is built to reverse that trend by providing practitioners with the behavioral tools and executive sponsorship frameworks necessary to drive measurable implementation success."
The three ACMP QEP-approved programs span the full arc of change management practice. Introduction to AIM provides foundational grounding in the AIM framework, equipping change agents and organizational leaders with core principles of behavioral adoption, Target Readiness assessment, and structured implementation planning. ChangePro is an interactive, employee-focused workshop designed to build individual readiness and resilience during organizational disruption. AIM Practitioner Certification is IMA Worldwide's advanced certification program, delivering comprehensive mastery of the AIM methodology, enabling practitioners to lead full-cycle change implementations, build internal organizational change capability, and apply diagnostic precision through the Target Readiness model.
"For more than 40 years, IMA has refined AIM through field research across global enterprises in healthcare, technology, finance, and government," said Ann Marvin. "ACMP QEP recognition validates what our clients have experienced firsthand—that behavior-focused change management, grounded in executive sponsorship and reinforcement science, consistently outperforms approaches that treat implementation as a project management exercise."
IMA Worldwide delivers AIM globally through certification programs, enterprise licensing, implementation advisory services, and organizational training, building the internal change capability organizations need to implement change successfully, repeatedly, and at scale. Change management practitioners pursuing the CCMP designation can apply credits earned through IMA Worldwide's QEP-approved programs toward their certification requirements. For more information, visit https://imaworldwide.com.
