IMC USA Names Management Consultant & Vistage Chair to New Chair-Elect

Washington, D.C. (11/12/2010) – The Institute for Management Consultants USA (IMC USA) announced today it has selected David T. Norman CMC^® to be the next Chair of IMC USA. Norman will succeed current Chair, Dr. Drumm McNaughton CMC^® in May of 2011.

Norman is founder and President of David Norman & Associates, a consulting firm offering results-oriented operations and general management consulting services to small and mid-sized companies, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies. In his nearly thirty-seven years of consulting experience, Norman has helped owners/executives of a wide variety of organizations develop long-range and strategic plans, assisted with succession issues and improved profitability. He has served as Interim Executive Director at several not-for-profits and has assisted troubled organizations with improving operations, strengthening management and increasing profitability. Norman is also Chair of a Charlotte Vistage group. Vistage International is the world’s leading CEO membership organization.

Norman holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a Certified Management Consultant™ (CMC^®) and Certified Business Manager (CBM). He has published a wide variety of reports on technology and productivity; articles for magazines and newsletters on sales compensation, costing, creative problem solving and increasing profitability; and three books on costing, pricing and cost control. Norman is an adjunct Professor at McColl School of Business at Queens University and at Pfeiffer University.

Since 1968, the Institute of Management Consultants USA has set the standards for professionalism, competency and ethics for the management consulting profession in the United States through its CMC^® (senior practitioners) and Certified Management Consulting Firm™ (CMC Firm™) certifications. IMC USA’s CMC^® certification process has earned the prestigious ISO/IEC 17024 accreditation. IMC USA is only the second Institute globally to earn ISO recognition, further substantiating the high professional standards and ethics it has set as a benchmark for its certification process and the CMC^®. A 501c(6) nonprofit based in Washington, DC, IMC USA is a charter member of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI), the 48-nation body that sets global standards for competence, professionals and ethics for the management consulting profession. IMC USA has approximately 2,000 individual members and 22 chapters.