IACET Blog

Hiring a consultant can be a helpful step for organizations pursuing IACET accreditation—but only when done with clear expectations and active involvement. This article outlines the potential risks of relying too heavily on outside support and emphasizes the importance of fully understanding and owning your accreditation application. It also introduces IACET’s Consultant Evaluation Framework (ICEF), provides key guidelines for consultant participation, and highlights the many free and direct resources IACET offers to support applicants throughout the process.

Standards are often described as voluntary, but in practice they can become mandatory through laws, contracts, procurement rules, or market expectations. This article explains how and why organizations adopt standards, how voluntary standards gain mandatory force, and why context—not labels—determines whether compliance is truly optional.

As accreditation grows in visibility, so do pay-to-play and copycat schemes. This article provides practical questions and indicators to distinguishing rigorous, accountable accreditation from surface-level credibility.

Through the lens of Iron Man’s leadership flaws, this blog explores why sustainable success comes from systems, not heroic personalities. It includes practical insights from accreditation, education, and nonprofit leadership.