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Certified Strategy & Performance
Maturity Assessment Practitioner

An exciting educational program engaging learners in a scenario-based practice to build skills and confidence in conducting maturity assessments.

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Who is this certification for?

Certified Strategy & Performance Maturity Assessment Professionals who want to become GPAU Authorized Assessors.

What you'll learn

Apply the assessment criteria to organizational practices reflected by key documents.
Select the right audience for maturity surveys and aggregate results.
Calculate and interpret maturity levels.
Structure findings, conclusions, and recommendations into effective assessment outputs.

Skills you'll gain

Document review and evidence extraction Scoring accuracy & consistency Quantitative & qualitative data analysis Professional report writing Prescriptive reasoning / prescriptive problem solving

Certification Process

To become a Certified Strategy & Performance Maturity Assessment Practitioner, candidates must complete the following steps:

1. Practitioner Simulation - Independent completion of a structured, real client engagement simulation (~40 hours), covering documentation scoring, survey data analysis, and assessment reporting.

2. Portfolio Submission - All simulation deliverables are compiled into a Practitioner Portfolio and submitted for evaluation.

3. Portfolio Review - Evaluated by a GPA Unit Accreditation Mentor across four competencies: Document Review & Scoring Accuracy, Analysis, Interpretation & Report Writing, Recommendations Formulation, and Professional Conduct & Methodology Adherence (a behavioural competency assessed throughout the experience).

4. Practitioner Interview - An online discussion of your submission with the evaluator to review the work and receive feedback.

5. Certification Award - A minimum score of 4 out of 5 in each competency area is required to receive the Practitioner certification for the chosen specialization track.

Participant Benefits

Certifications awarded upon completion:

A Certified Practitioner diploma for each specialization track you complete (e.g., C-PAP-SP, C-PAP-PM).

Certified Strategy & Performance Maturity Assessment Practitioner (C-PAP) - the additional credential for candidates who complete all five core tracks.

GPAU Authorized Assessor credential - issued per capability, recognizing competence to conduct GPAU Maturity Assessments.

Additional benefits:

  • One-time access to PerforAssess | QuickScan for the capability of your chosen track.
  • Eligibility to conduct PerforAssess | Diagnose assessments if there is a corporate partnership agreement with the GPA Unit.
  • A discounted license fee for PerforAssess | Diagnose or Recognized, applicable within your organization.

GPAU Accreditation Mentor

Doina Popovici

GPAU Accredited Assessor - Master Level, GPA Unit

Doina Popovici

Head of Assessment and Accreditation Services

Doina leads complex organizational maturity assessments under GPA Unit's proprietary maturity model evaluation frameworks, while shaping and reinforcing the assessors accreditation framework and its practical application across engagements. She brings extensive expertise in evaluating organizational maturity, ensuring that assessments are conducted with rigor and methodological integrity.

As an Accreditation Mentor, she is responsible for evaluating and accrediting candidates, while expanding and supervising the assessors' faculty and wider network of qualified assessors, ensuring full adherence to the Institute of Standards and Accreditation requirements. In this capacity, she safeguards the end-to-end quality of the assessment process by maintaining high standards in both assessor qualification and the rigor and reliability of assessment outputs.

  • Works with government, semi-government, and private sector organizations
  • Led over 10 maturity assessments in the past 18 months
View Accreditation Mentor Profile

Continue the Journey

After the Practitioner track, you can continue to Assessor Authorization.

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