Professional Certification
GInI's Professional Certification Program involves six unique certifications, each based on a corresponding professional examination. View the descriptions below to determine which of these best matches your education, experience, and professional needs. The six certifications are:
Certified Innovation Professional (CInP)®
GInI Certified Innovation Professional (CInP)® is GInI’s recognition of working professionals who have demonstrated an advanced understanding of key topics relating to business innovation and innovation management. CInP certification affirms an individual’s proficiency at key and foundational innovation methods and tools. This includes: research and insights mining, brainstorming and the GInI Breakthrough Innovation Method, Design Thinking, innovation project structuring, the GInI Innovation Management System, the different roles of the Innovation Manager, leading and building innovation teams, engagement & intrapreneuring, open innovation, innovation storytelling, and idea selection.
Certified Innovation Professional (CInP)®
Benefits
Become an Innovative Thinker
You will come to understand what innovation is and the role it plays in driving business forward. You will learn how to think differently about the value and experiences your organization delivers to the markets. You will learn specific methods and techniques for pursuing innovation and ensuring innovation projects make it safely from concept to market.
Become the Driving Force for New Levels of Market Connection
By learning how to drive powerful and market-led solutions to emerging challenges, you will become recognized as a driving force for constantly reconnecting your business and its markets at increasingly higher levels. This will enable you to deliver meaningful impact to the business and transform it into a truly innovative organization.
Learn to See the World with New Eyes
You will come to understand how innovation requires stepping back and looking at challenges through a new set of lenses. You will learn how to decompose challenges into new hypotheses that can be tested and verified. You will also learn how to reexamine and challenge existing orthodoxies in the hunt for new and better ways to solve challenges.
Become a Catalyst for “What’s Next“
You will develop a deep appetite for finding new and better ways to deliver customer value and experiences. You will learn how to conceive market-winning next generation solutions and how to advocate for these within the organization. You will come to understand how to be deeply attuned to your markets and how to deliver new demand-creating value in those markets.
Obtaining
Step 1- Meet the exam eligibility requirements:
To be eligible to register for the CInP exam, an individual must show proof ownership of the GInI Applied Innovation Master Book®.
Step 2- Apply for and pass the CInP exam:
The CInP is a 90-minute exam with 90 multiple-choice questions and a passing score of 60%.
Maintaining
To maintain your CInP Certification, you must earn 45 Innovation Development Units (IDUs) every three years, or retake the CInP® exam. Detailed information can be found under Maintain Your Certificate
Investment
Obtaining CInP Certification | GInI Member | Non-Member |
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Exam Enrollment Fee | 450 USD | 550 USD |
IDU Application Submission fee** every 3 year cycle | 75 USD | 125 USD |
Testimonials

Braden Kelley
International Keynote Speaker / Design Thinking Facilitator / Bestselling Author

Samuel Broomer
Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer

Peter Farrington
Principal Environmental Studies and Research Specialist

Adam Hartung
CEO and Managing Partner at Spark Partners

Holly Green
Board of Directors at The Warrior Connection

Ramon Vullings
Speaker at RamonVullings.com

Dr. Marc Sniukas
Head of the Innovation Practice at The Garage

Greg Satell
Author of Mapping Innovation & Cascades

Dr. Justin James Kennedy
TEDx Speaker, Author, Executive Coach, Psychologist, Leadership Coach, Career Coach, Public Speaking Coach

Marc Kolp
Director at UMBC Training Centers

Shona Welsh
Principal Consultant at The Intrapreneur Expert

Bryan Mattimore
Co-Founder at Growth Engine

Tarick Odeh
Chief Operating Officer at Odeh Holdings Group

Tracy Paddock Beam
CEO & Chief Transformation Officer at Strategic Transformation Partners

Teresa Spangler
Founder & CEO at Plazabridge Group

Samuel Broomer
Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer

Tarick Odeh
Chief Operating Officer at Odeh Holdings Group

Bryan Mattimore
Co-Founder at Growth Engine

Bettina von Stamm
Director of Awards Program at Katerva

Rafidah Kasdi
Senior Manager at at Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad

Fadi Rabie
Service Excellence Executive Manager at Jordan Commercial Bank

Dr. Hussam Mohammed
Director of Service Innovation & Enterprise Architecture at Dubai Customs

Khalid Al Hosani
Trainer in Innovation and Change Management

Marc Kolp
Director at UMBC Training Centers

Mohammad Habib
Associate Partner at Siegel Human Resource Ltd

Mohammed Alibrahim
Innovation Catalyst at Innovation Nation

Omar alharbi
ISO technical committee member at Ministry of industry and mineral resources

Osama Badandy
Certified Creativity and Innovation Trainer Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu

Teresa Spangler
Founder & CEO at Plazabridge Group

Bettina von Stamm
Director of Awards Program at Katerva

Shona Welsh
Principal Consultant at The Intrapreneur Expert

Soha Radwan
Excellence Assessor& Auditor at Dubai Government

Suhail Al-Almaee
Executive Director at Tatweer Education Holding Company

Tarek Naghaway
Executive Director at Tatweer Education Holding Company

Teresa Spangler
Founder & CEO at Plazabridge Group

Wahed Alqahtani
Innovation Advocate at Innovation Nation

Abdulla Mohammed Naqi
Support Services Sector Adviser

Adel Al Yahmadi
Customer Service Agent at TRA

Ayman Abualsunun
Digital Innovation Analyst at Riyad Bank

Wahed Alqahtani
Innovation Advocate at Innovation Nation

Basela Islim
DGM and Sales Manager at Petra Scientific Technologies L.L.C

Khalid Al Hosani
Trainer in Innovation and Change Management