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APMP offers the world’s first, best and only industry-recognized certification program for professionals working in a bid and proposal environment. APMP certification is the global standard for developing and demonstrating proposal management competency. Achieving APMP certification:

• Demonstrates a personal commitment to a career and profession.
• Improves business development capabilities.
• Creates a focus on best team practices.
• Gains the respect and credibility of peers, clients and organizational leaders and, in some cases, additional compensation.
• Reinforces bid/proposal management as an important role within an organization and not as an ad hoc function that anyone can perform. 

APMP Certification Program - Association of Proposal Management Professionals

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APMP is the only professional association for the bid, tender, business development, graphics and proposal management community worldwide, providing tailored membership options for individuals and corporate members. 

If you or your business is committed to professional development, success in winning more business and performing to your full potential in delivering compelling bids, tenders and proposals then APMP is the professional association for you.

 The support and development available through APMP Membership empowers teams and individuals to compete and to win more business in every competitive environment. Our members have an enviable track record of success across B2B; B2G; B2C and even in-house.

We are the acknowledged and respected voice of our industry, working hard for our members at every level to educate, inform and to promote better understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing our members and the procurement community.

Members have 24/7 access to the respected APMP ‘Body of Knowledge’ (BOK) which is a vast, peer reviewed, evidence based and member only repository for the collected wisdom of the world’s leading professionals in proposal, bid and opportunity management

Investing in APMP Membership represents an investment in your future success on a personal, individual level or as a team and business. By investing in professional development through APMP you can expect to see real and tangible improvements in terms of employee satisfaction and self-esteem in the workplace, better recruitment and retention rates overall and importantly, better results in business gained and retained.

More details here :  APMP Membership - Association of Proposal Management Professionals

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Jessica Rodriguez-Privett has over 10+ years experience in Proposals. She is currently Proposal Coordinator with Akima. Jess is APMP Foundation Certified. 

 Jessica has been active with APMP’s NCA chapter since 2017, volunteered at 2019’s Mid-Atlantic Conference, then joined the NCA Board in 2020, initially as the Annual Conference Chair in 2020, up until COVID-19 effectively shut down the 2020 MAC. She then transitioned to Marketing Co-Chair. She lives in the lovely mountains of VA with her husband, daughter and too many pampered pets.

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Heather Finch first encountered the acronym “RFP” when seeking ways to diversify funding sources for a human services company in 2012 and hasn’t looked back since. Since then, she has moved on to lead proposal teams in both the commercial and government sectors, refining processes and developing efficiencies along the way.
             The hobbies and interests Heather pursue are pretty diverse. She enjoys running, practicing yoga, crafting, starting home improvement projects and, occasionally completing home improvement projects. She attempts to try her hand in everything from reading, hiking, camping and exploring new places to most things ending with “ing”.

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LJ Turner is the Sales Operations Director for Jigsaw24, based in Nottingham, where she leads the Bids and Tender Teams, drawing on all of the knowledge she has gained in her 20+ years career. After completing her Management and Technology BSc (Hons) degree at Brunel University, LJ moved into IT Sales with a Telco, which established her love of all things technology-based. She moved into Bid Management in 1998 when she got so exasperated with the poor sales contracts, she decided to move down the chain and ensure quality tenders would result in quality contracts! Since then, she has supported over £4bn of bids and worked in industries from Oil and Gas, to Rail, to Business Processes, to IT – introducing Governance and Process to many of her roles.

She is a passionate mentor, encouraging and supporting internal colleagues and supporting women from all walks of life. Her leadership and expertise were critical in winning a key Public Sector Covid project that saw Jigsaw24 rolling out 7,500 devices a week to the NHS.

Her mentorship extends to the Military Spouse Network which supports other military spouses into work or self-employment, and the Warrior Programme which teaches resilience skills in the face of adversity. She’s a part of the #1-of-a-million, a campaign for women in STEM, and the Women’s Salesforce Trailblazers in Newcastle to support more access and progression in STEM. Being a proud advocate of gender diversity, she was named one of the Top Women in Tech in 2018 and has been a PCR Role Model of the Year. She is also a TVTA Women of the Year finalist, and a Highly Commended Exec Mentor in the CRN awards in 2020. 

In her personal life, Turner enjoys motorsports, holidays, science fiction, and spending time with her family. With her husband being in the military, the family holds a love for military history and constantly engages in the social side of military life.

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Chris Colquitt currently directs the operational and strategic proposal center at Clarivate, a global provider of Scientific and Intellectual Property solutions. The team works within the commercial operations division to manage hundreds of complex proposals each year across all geographies, as well as maintaining opportunity pipeline and proposal automation/content curation processes.

Chris is APMP professional qualified (2015) and has previously sat on the UK APMP board as founding director of Technology. At Clarivate, he has been shortlisted for the Sales Partner of the Year award (2016), Deal of the Year award (2016) and multiple APMP UK Awards (including Leadership and Knowledge Management as well as additional nominations from within his team). Chris has been accepted as an APMP UK mentor in 2021, as well as previously mentoring practitioner candidates to successful passes. Chris is finalizing an undergraduate degree at the Open University in the UK in Psychology, and hopes to progress into Doctoral research, exploring the Psychology of the bids and tenders market from 2022.

In his spare time, Chris enjoys spending time with his family – especially at the movies, growing at the family allotment and training together in Taekwondo. He studies and is an avid runner, having recently completed a 100Km ultramarathon in London (with more booked for 2022). He loves camping, and is an active volunteer for local community ventures such as Greenslate community farm in Wigan.

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Angie Wolfe, CP APMP, is a creative and analytical proposal professional and business owner with 18 years of experience at large Fortune 500 companies in business development and marketing. Based in Denver, she started her consulting firm, Ideas at Dawn Marketing Consultants, in 2019. Ideas at Dawn brings large civil engineering and construction firms a competitive advantage with their proposals to win more work without adding more payroll. These services include proposal management, writing, editing, graphic design support, and training to meet the increased demands on the proposal staff.

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With 10 years of experience, Katherine Becchina brings a unique background in event planning and strategic proposal, and marketing management in the A/E/C industry. She collaborates with sales teams to preposition for multi-million dollar business opportunities, develop compliant and responsive proposals, and create compelling content for shortlist interviews. This experience includes managing the proposal process, writing and co-authoring technical content, and designing the proposal response in Adobe InDesign. She leads and coaches capture teams in shortlist strategy sessions, interview preparation, and presentation development for client-facing and industry-focused events.
Katherine continually seeks opportunities for professional growth and development. She looks to professional associations like the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) to connect and engage with other professionals in the industry. Starting in 2017, Katherine participated in the mentorship program and served on the Marketing Committee for the Greater Midwest Chapter (GMC). In 2019, she expanded her involvement in the chapter and served as the Publications Chair, where she collaborated with other board and chapter members to develop quarterly newsletters that engage more than 730 readers. Currently, Katherine is serving as the Vice Chair for GMC and is excited for 2022 when she will serve as the chapter’s President.

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Katherine love listening to true crime podcasts, reading, biking, hiking, and spending time with her husband and new puppy, Remy. She is currently reading Dare to Lead by Brene Brown and listening to her podcast series. She believes it is a good one if anyone is looking to expand their leadership skills! Growing up, Katherine was obsessed with horses, and strongly feels, if she won the lottery today, the first thing she would do is buy a ranch and have horses.

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Hayley Watkins, CP APMP, CCMP, is a pursuit and marketing professional with a passion for fostering business growth. For more than a decade, she has helped critical infrastructure organizations in a variety of industries win more work by developing forward-thinking marketing and proposal processes and teams. Hayley is experienced throughout the sales and marketing lifecycle, including partnering with business developers to identify target markets and clients, developing marketing campaigns to promote thought leadership, leading capture planning and strategy development to win new business, and managing all aspects of proposal development. As a leader, she serves as an advocate, coach, and mentor, continuously seeking ways to elevate team abilities and promote career advancement for proposal professionals. Hayley is an active member of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals, having served on the Greater Midwest Chapter Board of Directors for the past eight years. When not working on marketing initiatives or upcoming deadlines, Hayley enjoys traveling (currently, she is working towards visiting every country in Central America), road-tripping throughout the United States, and finding excitement and adventure in each day.

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