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Certification Oversight Committee

Twelve independent Customer Success profession leaders and subject matter experts, plus our own Founder and CEO Rick Adams.

The Certified CSM Professional syllabus is based on the Practical CSM Framework, and it is overseen by our Certification Oversight Committee of twelve independent Customer Success profession leaders and subject matter experts, plus our own Founder and CEO Rick Adams.

The training content for all ten training modules as well as all of the questions for the tests at the end of each module, and all of the questions for both parts of the final, two part exam for attaining CCSMP status are all based on the syllabus.

Rick Adams - CEO PracticalCSM

Rick Adams

Founder and CEO PracticalCSM.com

Jared Raftery Director, Cloud & Managed Services Juniper Networks

Jared Raftery

Director, Cloud & Managed Services Juniper Networks

Irit Eizips Chief Customer Officer & CEO CSM Practice

Irit Eizips

Chief Customer Officer & CEO CSM Practice

Jason Noble VP Global Customer Success Vinli Inc

Jason Noble

VP Global Customer Success
Vinli Inc

Jeff Sheehan CX Consultant Independent Practice

Jeff Sheehan

CX Consultant Independent Practice

Maranda Dziekonski VP Customer Success Swiftly Inc

Maranda Dziekonski

VP Customer Success Swiftly Inc

Rav Dhaliwal Investor & Venture Partner Crane Venture Partners

Rav Dhaliwal

Investor & Venture Partner Crane Venture Partners

Kristi Faltorusso VP Customer Success InteliShift Technologies LLC

Kristi Faltorusso

VP Customer Success InteliShift Technologies LLC

Scott Morgan VP Customer Success Strategy PracticalCSM.com

Scott Morgan

VP Customer Success Strategy PracticalCSM.com

Peter Armaly Senior Director, Customer Success Strategy Oracle

Peter Armaly

Senior Director CS Strategy Oracle

Heather Thompson Manager, Customer Success EMEA, HubSpot

Heather Thompson

Manager, Customer Success EMEA, HubSpot

Alan Fecamp Director SaaS Recruitment PIE Recruitment

Alan Fecamp

Director SaaS Recruitment PIE Recruitment

Sarah Bierenbaum Founder & Principal, Sarah B Consulting

Sarah Bierenbaum

Founder & Principal, Sarah B Consulting

The syllabus is used to both to create the training content for each module within the training and certification program, and all of the questions both for the tests at the end of each module, and for the final, two part exam for attaining CCSMP status

The committee’s role is to review the syllabus on a regular basis and agree additions and amendments to ensure it always stays fresh, up to date and relevant to the current needs of the CS profession. Changes to the syllabus are made by a majority decision within the committee, and are then passed through to the content development team. The content development team then make the appropriate changes to the content (including training materials and test/exam questions), and these are then published in due course for members to access.