IMM Course
INTERMEDIATE MARINA MANAGEMENT COURSE:
FEES: $3,275 (members), $3,750 (non-members) includes four nights of lodging, opening reception, closing dinner, and breakfast, breaks and lunch daily and study tour of local marinas
June 1-5, 2025 - Fort Lauderdale, FL - It's not to late to register, seats still available !
Registration
Agenda
November 2-6, 2025 - Fort Lauderdale, FL Registration Opening July 2025
February 2026 - TBA
VIRTUAL INTERMEDIATE MARINA MANAGEMENT COURSE:
FEES: Members: $1,995 - Non-Members: $2,495
Course meets 2x per week (via Zoom) from 1pm - 4pm EST on Tuesdays and Thursdays for 4 weeks
September 3, 25, 2025 Registration opening June 2025
January 7-29, 2026
The Intermediate Marina Management Course, AMI's most popular program, has been designed with the right balance of relevant management topics presented by leaders in their industry coupled with valuable facilitated group discussions to create the ideal setting for learning. The intensive participatory nature of this residency course will also provide one of the greatest assets, an invaluable life-long peer network. The agenda has been designed to provide guidance on the issues affecting the industry today and to sharpen leadership skills to ensure successful management of these issues. The IMM program is the first step toward becoming a Certified Marina Manager (CMM) and Certified Marina Operator (CMO) and is a prerequisite for admission to the Advanced Marina Management course.
Course Highlights:
- New ways of dealing with the issues and challenges common throughout the industry
- Full contract review to provide proper contract language to significantly reduce risk of liability to your facility
- Use of the Predictive Index to help students identify their management strengths and weakness and create a balanced team
- Best practices for recruiting, retaining, and managing your team
- Master planning and permitting
- Exposure to OSHA and Environmental regulations that are industry-centric and critical in protecting your facility from crippling fines and your staff from life-altering injury
- Direction on marketing and branding your facility and how to use social media to self-promote
- A lifelong invaluable network of industry-leading peers
- New perspective and fresh approach to management and leadership that will benefit a facility in its entirety
- Invaluable tools for success
A Week of Learning Opportunities:
- Over 40 contact hours
- Formal lectures by leading experts
- Facilitated roundtable discussions
- Field trip to inspect and critique nearby marinas
- Marina/boatyard-industry networking
- Networking with peers & colleagues
- Introduction to the CMM and CMO Certification Program
A minimum of two full year's experience working either as a marina manager or in a marina-leadership position, in which the applicant has performed day-to-day onsite work in a marina of 50 or more berths or at least $500,000 in gross revenues. Limit: 28 students
Faculty:
Dennis Nixon, Steve Chandler, Kellie Thornell-Crete, Jim Frye, CMM, Tim Mason, Michelle Alexandrowicz
For more information send email to: malves@marinaassociation.org or call (401) 682-7340.
