Board of Directors Kickoff Meeting for the National Association of Management Consultants

1. Board Meeting
December 16, 2009
National Association of Management Consultants
4860 Cox Road suite 200
Glen Allen, Va. 23060

2. Individuals, professionals and professional
service firms who are engaged in the advisory
role with businesses in all the major functions
IT
HR
Financial
Process
Marketing
Sales
Executive Development

3. Our mission is to provide leadership, standards,
best practices, and governance for professionals
serving as advisers and consultants to the
leaders of businesses, governmental
organizations, non profit organizations and
fortune 500 corporations. We seek to promote
industry excellence, education, training,
awareness, teeming opportunities and to
identify those who have achieved industry best
practices.

4. Setting the Standards
Code of Ethics
Business Development
Joint Marketing
Tools
Provide Continuity
Team Building
Clearing House
Customer & Consultant Rating Tools

5. NAoMC members pledge to abide by and uphold the Association’s Code of
Ethics.and CMC's pledge in writing to abide by the Institute's Code of Ethics.
Member support and respect of the Code invokes an assumption of self-
discipline above and beyond the requirements of law. Members are bound
by the following provisions:
Safeguarding Confidential Information & Intellectual Property
Render impartial, independent advice
Accept only those client engagements they are qualified to perform
Agree with the client in advance on the basis for professional charges
Develop realistic and practical solutions to client problems
Clients
We will serve our clients with integrity, competence, and objectivity.
We will keep client information and records of client engagements confidential and
will use proprietary client information only with the client's permission.
We will not take advantage of confidential client information for ourselves or our
firms.
We will not allow conflicts of interest which provide a competitive advantage to one
client through our use of confidential information from another client who is a direct
competitor without that competitor's permission.

6. Engagements
We will accept only engagements for which we are qualified by our experience and
competence.
We will assign staff to client engagements in accord with their experience, knowledge,
and expertise.
We will immediately acknowledge any influences on our objectivity to our clients and
will offer to withdraw from a consulting engagement when our objectivity or integrity
may be impaired.
Fees
We will agree independently and in advance on the basis for our fees and expenses
that are reasonable, legitimate, and commensurate with the services we deliver and
the responsibility we accept.
We will disclose to our clients in advance any fees or commissions that we will receive
for equipment, supplies or services we recommend to our clients.
Profession
We will respect the intellectual property rights of our clients, other consulting firms,
and sole practitioners and will not use proprietary information or methodologies
without permission.
We will not advertise our services in a deceptive manner and will not misrepresent
the consulting profession, consulting firms, or sole practitioners.
We will report violations of this Code of Ethics.

7. Enforcement
The Institute enforces the Code by receiving and investigating
complaints of violations and by taking disciplinary action, including
revocation of certification against any member who is found guilty of
Code violation.

8. Marketing
Joint Efforts
Multiple Discipline
Reduced Expense
Branding
Increase Top Line
Teaming Opportunities
Members have opportunity to network and team
with other members on RFP’s and consulting
opportunities

9. Initial Board
Vickie Beach - RBS
Marshall Bennett - RBS
Michael Keeley - RBS
Ben Meredith – B&B
Initial Advisory Board
Bill Eastman – AK Labs
Nhat Pham – Successwerks
Cindy Calhoun – Breakthru Board of
Mike Carroll – Sandler Sales Directors
Executive
Director
Advisory
Board
Exec.
Marketing Sales HR IT Financial Development

10. NAoMC has been registered with the State Corporation
Commission & Charter Issued
Need to determine additional Board members
501(c) 3 paperwork is in progress
Items needed from Board to complete
Bio for each Board member, role in organization & description of
their other business holdings
Copy of finalized 3 year budget with compensation noted for each
officer
Letter from member(s) (where applicable) describing any type of IP,
granted or to be used by the Association
Who owns
Usage Fees - How determined/Paid
How is IP marketed

11. Membership Solicitation & Goals
Sponsorship
Establish advisory board with domain expertise
in the primary Business functions

12. Type Benefits Price Notes
Basic  access basic materials $150 - $300  get people involved
 download general podcasts, individual  impart our thinking on their practices
 access general videocasts $500 corporate  become a portal for ideas and approaches
 basic tool packages at discount  create position as thought leader
 able to participate in general forums,  sell next level
webinars
Advanced Basic plus $300-$500  create installed base of users
 able to access all materials $1000 corporate  part of feedback loop for new product/service ideas
 download featured podcasts  part of feedback loop for continuous improvement
 access featured videocasts of current products/services
 download basic tool packages  make NAMC viral
Leadership Advanced Plus $500 -$1000  integral to product and service development
 participate in creating podcasts and $2,500 corporate initiatives - never develop on spec
videocasts  promote their organizations - brand association
 featured on website and marketing  build community of management consulting
materials professionals
 participate in product and service  offer scheduled events for creation and celebration
development  expand revenue stream
 part of royalty stream
 participate on executive council decisions
Sponsor Use our products/services and membership $5,000.00 larger organizations, trade associations, educational
 access institutions
 co-market  ability to leverage our offer for their members -
reduced price
 tax deduction
 brand association

13. Type Benefits Price Notes
Partner Use our research dbase, $25,000.00 larger organizations, trade associations,
product/service offer, and membership educational institutions
 access  license and private label our offer for their
 co-market members
 create new revenue stream from  tax deduction
sale/bundle of NAMC offer into  brand association
their offer  research partnership
Fellow Learn from us, share their knowledge to Endowment/Gra larger organizations, trade associations,
build something larger and more nt >$25,000 educational institutions
significant to improve the  participate with executive council on
professionalism of the industry governance and product/service
development
 tax deduction
 brand association
 research partnership

14. Repository of Best Practices Conference registration and
Real Time Information Sharing planning capabilities
Documents Member Teaming & Referral Section
Video Suite of Customer Assessment Tools
Full site search capabilities
Webinars
Forum topics
Web Conferencing
Q&A
Remote access capabilities NAoMC accreditation information
email Search of all uploaded
RSS Feeds documentation
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Internet Relay Chat
White Paper Repository
Capabilities via IRC
Full E-commerce capability
Blogging capabilities Ordering and paying for proprietary
Content Management NAoMC branded items
E-Learning Capabilities Other Ideas?

15. Membership Drive
Volunteers?
Marketing & Sales Plan
Social Media Brand
Volunteers?
Business Planning
Solidify Message
2010 Strategic Plan
Schedules for Board & Advisory Board Meetings
Other Items of Business?