Credentialing Insights Editors Share Their Vision for 2025

As the year winds down, this is the perfect opportunity for setting intentions for your professional and personal goals in 2025. We have asked some members from the Credentialing Insights Publications & Editorial Committee to share their goals for the new year. Hopefully these goals will inspire you and your organization’s own vision boards.

What is your professional goal for 2025? 

Tara Myers, PhD, ICE-CCP, SHRM-SCP, ICF-ACC (TM): I am aiming for professional progress in 2025. 

Karen Sturges-Vera, MA, ICE-CCP (KSV): As I was certified ICE-CCP in 2021, my professional goal is to recertify, either through CEUs or taking the exam again. 

John Dight (JD): My goal is to master the subject of AI and how it can be used in test development. 

Margaret Lyons, ICE-CCP (ML): One of my professional goals (aligning to my company’s new strategic pillar of “Enhancing Candidate Experience”) is to ensure that our credentialing process is trusted by candidates and employers, maximizes effective learning and responds to market needs. 

What is your organization’s goal for 2025? 

TM: The American Nurses Credentialing Center’s goal for 2025 is to grow item banks. 

KSV: Our 2025 goal at the Professional Testing Corporation is to continue improving services to our clients. 

JD: To introduce AI for our clients integrated into Surpass Assessment. 

ML: One of the major pillars of the Casualty Actuarial Society’s new strategic plan is “Enhancing Candidate Experience.” We will be focusing on this and other pillars next year. 

Sandy Hogg, PMP (SH): iTS’s goal for 2025 — redefine assessment with next generation AI tools for test development, delivery and reporting. 

If you could use one word to describe the theme for your 2025, what would it be? 

TM: Advance. 

KSV: My personal theme is Harmony, as productive relationships depend on mutual understanding, whether they are professional or personal relationships. 

JD: Change, because I have to change how I think about the test development process and I have to help others make a transition in order for AI to be adopted and reach its potential. 

ML: Congruity or harmony. 

SH: Resilience. Uncertainty and rapid change is everywhere — in the world, in the workplace, and for some, in our personal lives. This year, I want to focus on accepting, adapting to, and recovering from change more effectively, recognizing that each adversity offers an opportunity for personal growth. Cultivating this mindset can also help us strengthen systems and strategies to be resilient in the face of future challenges.  

Melanie Graw: I don’t make annual resolutions for several reasons (they’re easily broken, they’re usually too big to maintain and so on). Instead, I think of a word to meditate on for the coming year. I think of the word as a guide that can influence all areas of my life rather than something like “lose 10 pounds” or “exercise three days a week.” Meditating on this word daily shapes my mindset and actions in small but meaningful ways. 

My word didn’t materialize for 2024. I kept a list of about 15 words near my computer, and none of them felt right, but in reflecting on the year, perhaps they all applied and guided me to some degree. My 2025 word “Has” materialized and is now taped to the top of my laptop: “Simplicity.” The world is becoming increasingly complex, and, as a result, things in our lives may appear to be more complex than necessary. By focusing on Simplicity, I hope to prioritize what truly matters, let go of unnecessary distractions, create space for clarity and balance, be present and approach all aspects of life with intention.