Trust & Assurance

Verify a Member, Organisation, Centre, or Course

Confirm an individual or Student membership, a Corporate Membership, a Recognised Centre and its approved programmes, an endorsed course, or a certificate — free, without an account, in seconds. Every credential remains verifiable indefinitely, even if a centre’s recognition has since ended.

Certificate Verification

Verify a certificate or membership

Enter a certificate number, or the completer's name together with their consented verification identifier, to confirm a credential. The service returns issued/valid, revoked, or not found — never any personal contact data. Digital certificates also carry a QR code resolving directly to the verification result.

Written verification. Employers and institutions may request written verification of any certificate, membership grade, or centre status by emailing centres@instam.org. Membership status can also be confirmed via enquiry@instam.org.

The Public Registers

Five registers, one purpose: trust

IAM Recognised Centres

Every centre currently recognised to deliver IAM Certified Programmes — the programmes each is approved to deliver, the approved sites and countries, and the recognition period. Only organisations listed hold current recognition.

About centre recognition

Endorsed Provision

Third-party qualifications and courses endorsed by the Institute — provider, title, category, indicative Career Stage alignment, and endorsement period.

About endorsement

Programme Completers

Every Certified Programme and Role Mastery completion, carried on a digital badge with verifiable metadata — the programme, the role course, and the designation where one was chosen.

The programmes

Seen a false claim? If an organisation claims to deliver an IAM Certified Programme and does not appear on the register, please tell us at centres@instam.org — we investigate every report. Use of IAM post-nominals after membership has lapsed is likewise prohibited and should be reported.

Looking for someone?

Verification confirms; the Directory finds

Verification answers a question about a person you have already identified. If you are trying to find a recognised professional in the first place — by grade, country, sector, Competency Domain, or mentoring availability — that is what the IAM Directory is for.

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Precisely what Verify returns

Five registers, five answers

Verification is free, needs no sign-in, and discloses nothing beyond what is necessary to confirm the credential.

What you check	What is returned
An individual member or Student Member	Membership status, membership number, category or grade, post-nominal entitlement where one applies, and Good Standing. For a Student Member, the programme or course of enrolment. Nothing else, and no contact details.
A Corporate Member	Organisation name, Corporate Membership status and band, year of admission, and Good Standing.
A Recognised Centre	Recognition status and period, the programmes approved for delivery — Certified Programmes, specialised programmes, and CPD courses — and the approved sites.
An endorsed course, qualification, or event	The title, the provider, the Competency Domains it maps to, the Career Stage, and the two-year endorsement period.
A certificate or digital badge	The holder’s name, the programme or course, the awarding date, and the certificate reference — whether awarded by the Institute directly, through a Recognised Centre, or as a co-badged certificate on an endorsed course.

Verification works whichever Directory privacy level a member has chosen — a withheld Directory entry does not withhold verification. That is deliberate: a credential is worth holding because it can always be checked.

Credentials you can rely on

Registers searchable by name, country, and programme; verification results in under two seconds; certificates that outlive any centre's recognition.

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