PM-RISE is a 90-day cohort that surfaces hidden project managers inside organizations, builds their audit-ready PMI application, and hands them to an Authorized Training Partner prepared. The ATP gets a ready student. PMI gets a new PMP. The candidate gets a career.
additional project professionals needed globally by 2035. Source: PMI Talent Gap Report 2025
of PM work is already being done by people who do not hold the title or the credential
days from hidden PM to audit-ready PMP candidate with a warm ATP handoff
facilitated sessions with a 19-tab workbook covering eligibility through exam crosswalk
The PM-RISE Pipeline
PM-RISE does not deliver the 35 contact hours. That is the ATP's lane. PM-RISE owns the identification and preparation that happens before a candidate ever reaches an ATP.
Surface hidden PMs inside administrative, coordinator, and operations roles who qualify for the PMP but do not know it.
PM-RISE90-day cohort builds confidence, translates real experience into PMI language, and produces an audit-ready application with a personal exam crosswalk.
PM-RISEGraduate is handed to an ATP partner warm, confident, documented, and ready to complete 35 contact hours of PMI-approved education.
ATP PARTNERCandidate sits the PMP exam. PMI gains a new certified professional from a population that was previously unreachable.
PMIA candidate who has already identified their qualifying experience, documented their project narratives in PMI language, built an audit-ready application, completed a personal crosswalk to the PMP Exam Content Outline, and sees themselves as a project manager. The ATP gets a prepared student, not a confused applicant.
What PM-RISE Produces
Documented project experience, verified contact information, consistency-checked narratives, and a non-overlapping hours calendar. Built to survive a PMI audit, not just pass a review.
Each graduate's real work experience mapped directly to the PMP Exam Content Outline. They know their strongest and weakest performance domains before they start studying.
A personal introduction to an ATP partner with a handoff note that includes domain strengths, study focus recommendations, and readiness level. The ATP gets a candidate who is ready to learn.
The Opportunity
With PMI projecting a need for up to 29.8 million additional project professionals by 2035, the hidden PM population represents one of the largest untapped sources of qualified candidates.
PM-RISE reaches a population that currently falls outside the PMI funnel. People who qualify but do not know it and would never find an ATP on their own. Every graduate is a net-new candidate.
Every PM-RISE graduate arrives at an ATP with their application built, their experience documented, and their identity as a project manager established. ATPs teach. PM-RISE prepares.
Chapters, workforce associations, and HR departments all serve the hidden PM population. PM-RISE gives them a structured pathway to convert that population into PMP candidates at scale.
PM-RISE is in active conversation with PMI's channel partnerships team, IAAP, and PMI chapter leaders across North America about how the hidden PM pipeline fits into the broader certification ecosystem.
For PMI Chapters, Workforce Organizations, and HR Leaders
Whether you are a PMI chapter, a workforce association, an HBCU, or a corporate HR team, your people have hidden PMs. One conversation is all it takes to explore a pilot.