Intro
David Norman, CMC®, FIMC, CMC-AF President, David Norman & Associates Chair, The Consultants Peer Group and High Country Peer Group. David Norman holds two certifications: the Certified Management Consultant® (CMC®), from the Institute of Management Consultants, the only accrediting body requiring client references, evidence of successful engagements, and completion of a sitting examination on ethics; and the Certified Business Manager (CBM), from the Association of Professionals in Business Management, the only masters-level certification and the most integrated certification available for business professionals. Overall, Norman has over 53 years’ experience consulting concurrent with 17 years’ experience as executive coach with the owners/executives of a wide variety of, mostly, closely held clients. In addition, Norman has helped management through development of long-range plans and strategic plans and assisted in resolving succession issues. He has served as chair of three nonprofits and as interim executive director at three nonprofits undergoing change. He has assisted troubled organizations with improving operations, strengthening management, and increasing profitability. After 22 years of consulting experience in boutique and regional professional services firms, Norman founded his own consulting firm, David Norman & Associates, in 1995 to offer results-oriented services to small and mid-sized companies, nonprofit organizations, and governmental agencies. The firm specializes in financial, operational, and general management consulting services tailored to the client’s specific needs. Norman has extensive experience in EOS, Entrepreneurial Operating Business model, as a former Certified EOS Implementer. Norman has been recognized for his consulting; first, internationally in 2017 with the CMC-AF (Academic Fellow by ICMCI); second, in 2018 as a Fellow of IMC USA (FIMC); and third, as only the 21st recipient of IMCUSA’s Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2021. Norman served on the Institute of Management Consulting USA (IMC USA), Carolinas Chapter Board, the National Board of Directors, served as CEO and Chair of the National Board of Directors (2011-2013), and currently is once again involved with IMC USA as Secretary of the Board. He is also chair of the Board of IMC USA Foundation, a nonprofit organization promoting ethics education. Norman also served as founding Chair of the Board of Lost Province Center for Cultural Arts in Ashe County, NC. He and his wife, Louise, have a lavender farm in the county, near Lansing, NC. After graduating from Furman University, Norman earned an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Norman has had over 25 years’ experience as an adjunct professor at McColl School at Queens University and at Pfeiffer University. He taught investments, strategic management, corporate finance, organizational behavior, principles of management, and principles of marketing. Norman has published a wide variety of blogs on consulting, leadership, and EOS; 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. In May 2025 Norman published Supercharge: A New Playbook for Leadership, in May 2026 Norman published Accountability Shift: Tips, Traps, and Techniques, and now writes several times a week on davidtnorman.substack.com on leadership.