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Marc-André Rochefort, Eng., MBA, CCMP®, MCMP™, Prosci® certified, is the founder and president of Leanova Academy, an official ACMP® Qualified Education Provider™ (QEP™) whose change management courses are followed in more than 50 countries. He writes the guides of this site from the ACMP® Standard for Change Management© and the providers’ public pages, and dates every price he quotes.
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The Leanova certificate of completion proves you finished the 21-hour QEP course and passed its 50-question exam. A digital badge lets anyone verify it. It is not the CCMP, which only the ACMP awards.
The ACMP Code of Ethics binds members, certificate holders and applicants to five duties: honesty, responsibility, fairness, respect and advancing the discipline. Each comes with an original fictional case, and how complaints are handled.
Annex B of the ACMP Standard re-sorts its processes into nine subject groups, and Annex A names sixteen knowledge areas. Read alongside the five process groups, they make a two-lens CCMP revision method. The Standard publishes no exam weighting.
Closing a change management effort, in the ACMP Standard, second edition, means judging the result against the goals, recording lessons, and getting approval to hand over ownership and release resources. Group 5.5 has three processes.
Group 5.4 of the ACMP Standard puts the approved plans to work: eight executions that carry out and monitor each plan, plus a controlled way to modify them when the evidence shows the change is drifting.
The change management plan of the ACMP Standard (group 5.3) turns strategy into eight component plans, aligns them with the project plan, wins approval from project leadership and sets up the feedback that keeps it honest.
Section 5.2 of the ACMP Standard, second edition (2025), sets out eight strategies, from resources to sustainability. Here is what each one decides, which assessments it draws on, and how it turns into one of the eight plans of section 5.3.
Section 5.1 of the ACMP Standard, second edition (2025), holds 16 processes that define the change, assess its impact and test capacity and readiness. This guide shows what each one looks for, what it produces, and why strategy has to wait for it.
The ACMP Standard, second edition, holds 33 processes in five groups, each ending in named outputs. Here is the full list, group by group, and a way to use it as an adaptable project checklist. We also explain why the contents page counts 32.
The second edition (2025) keeps the five process groups and the neutral stance, adds emphasis on change readiness and flexible sequencing, and applies to the CCMP exam from 1 April 2026. No official list of every wording change was found.
The ACMP asks for 10 training hours for the MCMP but names no topic, so CCMP holders leading AI work can aim them at AI transformation. The live course covers that block; it does not award the credential.
The main options for AI change management training are a Prosci programme, APMG's AIFT, a 10-hour ACMP QEP course, a business school programme or team training. Length runs from 10 hours to 15 weeks, and the credential differs.
