Program & Project Manager Certifications

We offer the USA's only role-based, PPM competence-led certifications, assessed by professional assessors. We also offer exam-based certification. See our range of basic to Advanced PM certification offerings.

Evaluate Your Project/Program Management Complexity. Which Advanced Project and Program Certifications do your initiatives require?

Download ICB4, IPMA's Individual Competence Baseline. ICB4 shows the path from Knowledge, to Competence, to Certification, and PM Performance.

Standards 

IPMA's Project Excellence Baseline, 2nd Edition, is our foundation for guiding all aspects of project activities, resources, and people to excellence.  And it is free!  Learn more!

In addition to our unique advanced certifications for program and project managers, we also offer PRO, our Performance Rated Organization standard; click the PRO logo at right to visit our PRO section.

PRO is an organizational performance assessment standard. This process can help you benchmark to other organization, or  provides an action plan to improve PM performance. Download PRO; wouldn't you rather be served by a PRO?

IPMA-USA Young Crew

JOINING IPMA YOUNG CREW IS THE BEST CAREER MOVE A YOUNG PROJECT MANAGER CAN MAKE!

Young Crew is a key component of IPMA’s growth and development of the leaders of tomorrow. We are the premier global network for young professionals enthusiastic about project management, a platform for young project management professionals and students up to the age of 35.  

Join as a member or student member and select the Young Crew option to get started. 

Be a dauntless PM and join today!

Education (Learning)

See our Competence Enabler (CE) program. Participants can offer their services as coaches, trainers, consultants, or PRO Assessors! 

And, check out PM-SAT, our Self-Assessment Tool for PM Competences. Explore how your PM competences meet our standard.

News and Media

September 9th, IPMA-USA The U.S. Member Association of the International Project Management Association; the world’s first Project Management Professional Federation, announced today the launch of an eLearning platform in partnership with Thinkific.

The platform will initially offer an online IPMA Level D Certification Course developed by a team of twelve all-star trainers from nine different countries. Each trainer brings their unique expertise, perspectives, and insights on the IPMA Individual Competence Baseline (ICB4) resulting in a truly global course.

The learning platform will be further expanded to provide a wide variety of training to support individuals in continuing professional development.

IPMA-USA President Dr. Joel Carboni shared “We are thrilled to bring this platform to life and to share the knowledge of such an amazing group of individuals.  We have current and former IPMA Vice Presidents, Certification assessors, Standards authors, and so much more. Bringing global perspectives to the course was critical for us and we couldn't be happier with the outcome.

The site will go live on Monday the 14^th and can be seen at https://ipma-usa.thinkific.com

More to come!