Professional Associations
The following associations (and this is just a short list) support the value of lessons learned.- ACP: Association of Career Professionals
- AEA: American Evaluation Association
- AERA: American Educational Research Association
- AHA: American Hospital Association
- AITP: Association of Information Technology Professionals v
- AMA: American Management Association
- AMA: American Marketing Association
- ANSI: American National Standards Institute
- APA: American Psychological Association
- APICS: Advancing Productivity Innovation for Competitive Success
- ARL: Association of Research Libraries
- ARMA: Association of Records Managers and Administrators
- ASAE: American Society Association Executives
- ASIS&T: American Society for Information Science
- ASJA: American Society of Journalists and Authors
- ASQ: American Society for Quality
- ASTD: American Society for Training and Development
- FDA: Food and Drug Administration
- IAPPM: International Association of Project and Program Management
- ICCP:
- Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals
- ITAA: Information Technology Association of America
- ISPI: International Society for Performance Improvement
- ISA: Instrumentation Society of America
- ISM: Institute for Supply Management
- ISO: International Standards Organization
- OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- PMI: Project Management Institute
- PRINCE: Projects in Controlled Environments
- SHRM: Society of Human Resource Management
- SOL: Society for Organizational Learning
- SRA: Society of Research Administrators
- PDA: Parenteral Drug Association
- PRSA: Public Relations Society of America
- TechAmerica
- Toastmasters
- The Conference Board
- The Association of MBAs
- United States Chamber of Commerce

Professional association meetings, conferences, publications and networking should remain in your next steps of lessons learned.