CAPstone Fall 2025 is 100% virtual and your opportunity to deep dive into Records Management, Human Resources, Project Management & Business Writing. A specialty certificate course provides relevant and up-to-date content designed specifically for administrative professionals.
CAPstone Fall 2025
Whether you are expanding your competencies for your current role or are looking to specialize for a new role, CAPstone offers just what you need, right to your home or office. Courses are open to all administrative professionals but spaces are limited to ensure personalized learning, so register early!
While most of the content can be experienced at times convenient to you (asynchronous learning), all specialties require attendance at one live virtual 60-minute session per week (synchronous learning). These sessions create space to connect with your learning community and facilitator for questions, discussion, and engagement for high-level learning.
You’ll also be invited to a Virtual Meet & Greet before launch to get to know the platform, expectations, and your fellow learners and facilitator.
We strongly recommend taking only one CAPstone course at a time to ensure you have the time and capacity to fully immerse yourself in the learning experience. This focused approach allows you to engage deeply with the material, apply your knowledge effectively, and achieve the best outcomes for your professional development.
Records Management
Live session Zoom call:
Fridays from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Central Time
An introduction to the discipline of Records Management, arming you with the Why, What and How of organizing, storing, accessing, and disposing of information once it is no longer needed.
Records Management Specialty Certificate CourseHuman Resources
Live session Zoom call:
Thursdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Central Time
A hands-on workshop covering HR-related duties and training to expand your knowledge and career opportunities.
Human Resources Specialty Certificate CourseProject Management
Live session Zoom call:
Wednesdays from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Central Time
Are your days filled with juggling projects, staff, customers, and your “day job”? Do you need some help engaging your teams, staff, and colleagues in various activities related to your projects?
Project Management Specialty Certificate CourseBusiness Writing
Live session Zoom call:
Fridays from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Central Time
This interactive eight-week studio session is designed for administrative professionals responsible for overseeing outgoing correspondence, professional documentation, and email each day.
Human ResourcesLive Session Dates
Starts on September 22, 2025 – Ends on November 14, 2025
All four specialty certificate courses are worth 25 recertification points for CAP designees.
Pricing of specialty certificate courses
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Specialty Certificate Course Facilitators
Tera Ladner
Records Management Specialty Certificate Course
Tera N. Ladner, JD, IGP, CRM specializes in cloud implementations of information governance enabled technologies, e-discovery and litigation preparedness and assuring alignment to information security programs. Currently she leads the strategy and implementation of a state-of-the-practice information governance and eDiscovery program for Aflac Inc. Aflac is a Fortune 200 company headquartered in Columbus, Georgia and the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the United States and Japan.
Julie Colgan
Records Management Specialty Certificate Course
Julie Colgan, a certified Records Manager (CRM) and certified Information Governance Professional (IGP), has over 20 years of experience as an advisor, consultant, executive and operational leader helping organizations identify, understand and manage the risks and capture the opportunities inherent in their information assets and business operations. At Epiq, Julie leads the Solutions group which focuses on ensuring the solutions Epiq builds for its clients are creative, modern, financially rewarding and deliver exceptional operational outcomes that solve real-world business problems.
Mandi Stanley
Business Writing Specialty Certificate Course
With more than 27 years of experience on the seminar circuit, Certified Speaking Professional Mandi Stanley works primarily with administrative professionals who want to boost their professional image by becoming better speakers and writers. She has traveled throughout North America entertaining and educating more than 95,000 seminar participants and has presented at several IAAP Summits.
Read More...Maggie Peters
Human Resources Specialty Certificate Course
Maggie is passionate about the role Human Resources and Change Management plays in people’s lives and towards the overall success of organizations. Maggie’s knowledge and experience in Human Resources is deep and wide. She has spent her career in both public and private organizations of all sizes, small to Fortune 500.
Mary Beth Imbarrato
Project Management Specialty Certificate Course
Mary Beth has over 25 years of experience in project management, change management, performance management, and risk. Mary Beth’s experience includes managing a wide range of project efforts in various market segments including finance, global risk, telecommunications, IT, publishing, health care, non-profit, state and federal agencies, and energy.
Read More...What Your Peers Are Saying
Megan Rasmussen, CAP, Administrative Coordinator Mercy Hospital
The final assessment was a real-life situation and how you were going to solve it using the knowledge gained in the past 8 weeks. I have never taken a more hands-on course where you could see how you could see solutions to problems in your current job every week.
Nora Onishi, CAP, Sr. Executive Assistant to the CLO at Hawaiian Airlines, Inc.
CAPstone takes your professional development to the next level by providing education that is relevant and by presenting opportunities to develop initiatives and strategies that can be immediately applied in the workplace. The learning environment is one naturally lends itself to active participation and engagement by all attendees, creating a community that encourages growth and commits to be being a supportive resource for the future.
Dexter Allen, MBA, CAP, Executive Administrator/Special Assistant to President/CEO National Alliance for Caregiving
This course was very informing and engaging. It allowed me to think outside the box and become more involved at work with the information that I was receiving from the facilitator. The information confirmed some of the information that I learned over the years, as well as think of new ideas to incorporate in my daily responsibilities. This course has given me additional confidence in my ability to excel and strive to become a great asset to my organization. I was able to ask any questions and was provided with excellent responses. This course is worth taking and the case studies were a hit.
