CIPM launches CMI UK Diploma in Professional Consulting

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From left: Council Member Program Lead Prof. Ajantha Dharmasiri, CEO U.A.C. Obeyesekere, Professional and Academic Affairs Director G. Weeratunga, President Jayantha Amarasinghe, Vice President Ken Vijayakumar, and Secretary Priyankara Seneviratne

CIPM Sri Lanka – the nation’s leader in human resource management, having been appointed as an Approved Centre of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) UK, launched the CMI Diploma in Professional Consulting program at a ceremony held at CIPM’s head office ‘HR House’ in Colombo-5 recently.

It was held with the participation of CIPM Sri Lanka President Jayantha Amarasinghe, Vice President Ken Vijayakumar, Secretary Priyankara Seneviratne, Council Members of CIPM Sri Lanka, CEO U.A.C. Obeysekera, Professional and Academic Affairs Director G. Weeratunga, staff of CIPM together with the online participation of CMI UK Head of Division International Zain Munir.

“We are pleased to partner with CMI UK which enables us to offer world recognised professional training and development programmes to enhance the knowledge and skills of our HR professionals as well as professionals of other disciplines,” said Jayantha Amarasinghe.

“We are delighted to appoint CIPM Sri Lanka as CMI UK’s Approved Centre in Sri Lanka. The CMI Diploma in Professional Consulting programme launched in partnership with CIPM Sri Lanka is CMI’s very first professional consulting course to be launched in Sri Lanka and the Asian region,” said Zain Munir.

The CMI Diploma in Professional Management Consulting program has been designed for practising or aspiring senior management consultants wishing to formalise or develop their learning and progress to be qualified as a Chartered Management Consultant (ChMC) of CMI, UK. It is an eight-month (33 weeks) program with 200 learning hours which will be expertly facilitated by lead facilitator, CIPM Sri Lanka Past President and management guru Prof. Ajantha Dharmasiri.

The program, conducted in English, will be delivered in a hybrid model with both physical and online delivery and learning. The course is targeted for professionals from any discipline – HR Managers, Consultants, Finance Managers, Marketing Managers, Production Managers, Engineers, Scientists, etc, practicing management consultants seeking to acquire a world-renowned qualification in consultancy, aspiring senior management consultants, professionals closer to their retirement age and looking forward to working as consultants, and anyone interested to develop their career in consultancy.