Help your organization implement CII Best Practices

Become an Implementation Champion Improve performance by putting the latest CII knowledge to work in your organization. As a CII Implementation Champion (IC), you actively promote and use CII Best Practices and research findings to drive the most value from your resources. Picking a New IC Using highly engaged member organizations as examples, the Deployment Committee compiled a comprehensive, fit-for-purpose description of the IC role and responsibilities to help you identify the right individual(s) for this role within your organization. Typically, new ICs are named by the member organizations Board Advisor through the online form, then onboarded by CII Deployment staff. Joining Implementation Champion Network (ICN) The ICN brings together all the identified ICs across CII member organizations, creating a strong mix of fresh and seasoned individuals all tasked with implementing CII within their organizations. At quarterly ICN rallies on various topics, the fresh ICs can listen, ask questions, and request future topics, while the seasoned ones get to share their words of wisdom for the benefit of the industry. Accessing Available IC Resources With frameworks, roadmaps and other detailed tools, CII makes these resources available to you as an onboarded IC to make it easier to not only develop your vision to improve performance, but also bring it to life quickly and successfully within your organization. For those CII practices and findings selected by your organization for deployment, you will guide the deployment by: Determining the means and methods for distributing the research findings.Marshalling the necessary resources to accomplish updates to the organizations processes and procedures.Providing support and guidance to your internal deployment team. Upcoming Events Sep 09 Meeting Deployment Committee Virtual Meeting Sep 09, 2026 1:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Central Virtual Nov 11 Event Implementation Champion Quarterly Rally Nov 11, 2026 1:00 pm 2:00 pm Central Virtual Dec 09 Event Deployment Committee Virtual Meeting Dec 09, 2026 1:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Central Virtual May 04 (multi-day) Best Practice CII Best Practices Bootcamp May 04 - 07, 2027 Houston, TX May 13 Event CII Leadership Excellence Across Projects (LEAP) Program May 13, 2027 Virtual For more information Contact us Erika Corbell Associate Director for Deployment Bio + Contact Erika Corbell Associate Director for Deployment ecorbell@cii.utexas.edu 512-232-3016 Originally hired to manage CII publications in 2009, Erika quickly transitioned to supporting various CII initiatives and committees over the years. Most recently, she served as the Project Manager for Deployment. Before joining CII, Erika was the Director of Volunteer Services with Special Olympics Texas, managing its state-wide volunteer program requiring thousands of short-term and long-term volunteers each year. Erika brings this same passion to CII volunteers, helping them get the most out of CIIs research through our professional development and implementation programs. She holds a Masters in Education from Texas State University at San Marcos. Heather Beal Project Manager for Deployment Bio + Contact Heather Beal Project Manager for Deployment hbeal@cii.utexas.edu 512-475-9586 Heather came to CII with varied experience in the retail space, from team manager to project management for an e-commerce marketing department. In these positions she created work flow standards, and put in place processes where there weren't any and is now putting that knowledge into practice by supporting our Deployment efforts. The Implementation Planning Model: An Overview The Implementation Planning Model: An Overview .