CCMP renewal: 60 PDUs over three years and fees from US$100

How many PDUs do you need to renew the CCMP?

You need 60 professional development units (PDUs) within the three-year validity of the credential, earned from several types of activity. The renewal fee is US$100 for ACMP members or US$150 for non-members, according to the ACMP renewal page read on 7 October 2026. Spread over the three years, that is roughly 20 PDUs a year.

The ACMP accepts several sources: conferences, QEP courses, webinars, reading, work, non-QEP courses and volunteering. That list is wide. A practitioner who attends one chapter event, reads a book now and then and runs change projects is already collecting PDUs without noticing, and the real task is to record them as they happen.

PDU sources: the activities the ACMP lists

The ACMP lists conferences, QEP courses, webinars, reading, work, non-QEP courses and volunteering as PDU sources. How many PDUs each activity yields is set by the ACMP and shown in its portal, so we do not quote conversion rates here: write “as accepted by the ACMP” in your own notes until the portal confirms the number.

Our advice is to keep one evidence file per activity from the first day: a registration email, a certificate, the programme of the event. When the ACMP asks questions, a clear paper trail saves an afternoon. Work itself counts as a category, which is good news for anyone who leads change projects full time, but it still needs a short description of what you did.

Date (fictional)	Activity	ACMP source category	Evidence kept	PDUs
March	Chapter conference day	Conferences	Ticket and programme	As accepted by the ACMP
June	Webinar on change analytics	Webinars	Attendance email	As accepted by the ACMP
September	QEP course	QEP courses	Certificate of completion	As accepted by the ACMP
November	Volunteer mentor at a chapter	Volunteering	Chapter confirmation	As accepted by the ACMP

The log above is an invented example of the columns we suggest, not an ACMP template. Fill the last column only with what the portal credits.

Can a QEP course count toward your renewal?

Yes, QEP courses are one of the PDU sources the ACMP lists, and a course from a provider listed in the ACMP registry is the easiest to document. The ACMP decides how many PDUs a given course earns, so ask your provider for the QEP course code and hour count and enter both in your record.

Leanova Academy, an official ACMP QEP, offers an AI-focused sequence that suits this purpose: LCeX-Essentials (5 QEP hours, US$195), LCeX-Specialist (8 QEP hours, US$295 added to the first step) and LCeX-Master (10 QEP hours, US$395 added), described on the LCeX pathway page, prices as displayed on 7 October 2026. This site follows Leanova Academy, so read this as a provider presenting its own courses. The LCeX levels give certificates of completion and digital badges; they are not ACMP credentials, and we do not claim a PDU number for them.

MCMP renewal: 15 PDUs, including 6 in mentorship

MCMP renewal takes 15 PDUs, including 6 in mentorship, over its three-year validity (ACMP, 7 October 2026). If your CCMP expires, the MCMP expires with it, so the two renewals are really one plan with an extra mentoring strand.

The MCMP itself requires an active CCMP, 8,400 hours of experience, 10 hours of change management training different from the one used for the CCMP, and at least 6 hours of Standard-aligned mentorship as a mentor, all within the 10 years before applying. Fees are US$655 for members and US$855 for non-members on 7 October 2026. If you are weighing the step up, our page on the MCMP certification and its 10 hours of training explains the route, and the Leanova MCMP 10-hour course (QEP code Q000655, US$395 on that date, self-paced) is one way to cover the training requirement.

The 6 mentorship PDUs are the part that cannot be earned alone. You need someone to mentor, so name that person early, agree on a rhythm of meetings and note each session as it happens. A mentor who starts looking in the last year of the cycle usually runs out of time.

Records to keep for the ACMP, activity by activity

Keep a dated proof for each activity, the ACMP source category it belongs to and the hours it took. That is enough for most entries, and it takes two minutes if you do it the same day.

• Conferences and webinars: registration confirmation, programme or agenda, attendance email.
• QEP and non-QEP courses: certificate of completion, provider name, course code when there is one, number of hours.
• Reading, work and volunteering: a short note of what you read or did, the dates and the outcome.

Our fictional practitioner Marta, a programme lead in Lisbon, keeps these in a single spreadsheet with a folder of PDFs beside it. She reviews it every January with her manager, which doubles as her development conversation. Nothing in the ACMP rules requires that habit, and it reduces the renewal to a form you fill in one evening, with every proof already at hand.

When the three years run out: the one-year suspension period

The ACMP describes a one-year suspension period before expiry, which gives a late renewer some room. The exact mechanics, including what you may call yourself during that year, are on the renewal page, and you should read them before you rely on the grace period.

For planning, we suggest three milestones: a mid-cycle review at month 18, a gap check at month 30 and a submission at month 33, leaving three months of margin. Those dates are our habit, not an ACMP rule. If you are mapping where the credential fits in a longer career, the practitioner track from CCMP to MCMP and the overview of the change manager career path show how renewal sits among the other milestones.

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