Cadmium University

LMS Success Starts Here: Conducting a Needs Assessment That Delivers

Includes a Live Web Event on 09/23/2025 at 3:00 PM (EDT)

Before you choose your next LMS, take a step back. This webinar is designed for CE and CME professionals who want to avoid costly missteps by starting with a thorough needs assessment. Learn how to evaluate your organization’s goals, internal capacity, and program-specific requirements before selecting and implementing an LMS. We’ll walk through the must-ask questions, key stakeholders to involve, and how to set your team up for a smooth transition from selection to launch. 

Key Takeaways:

  • Define what a comprehensive LMS needs assessment entails. 
  • Identify key stakeholders and their roles in the assessment and selection process. 
  • List critical functional, technical, and reporting needs specific to CE/CME programs. 
  • Evaluate current internal capacity and personnel requirements for implementation and maintenance. 
  • Avoid common pitfalls in the LMS selection journey. 

Laura Johnson

Independent Consultant

LRJ Consulting

Laura Johnson is an accomplished development strategist and accreditation consultant with over two decades of experience advancing mission-driven organizations. She has secured more than $12M in grants and funding for healthcare and education initiatives, guided multiple organizations through complex accreditation processes (ACCME, ACPE, Joint Accreditation), and built sustainable funding infrastructures for NGOs across Africa and beyond. Currently serving as President of the U.S. Board for the DeSanto Centre for the Deaf in Zambia and Development Strategist for Eye Corps in Tanzania, she leads comprehensive fundraising, donor engagement, and strategic planning efforts. Through her independent consultancy, she partners with organizations worldwide to strengthen compliance, expand funding capacity, and design frameworks that ensure long-term impact.

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Amanda Law (Moderator) (Moderator)

Event Marketing Manager

Cadmium

Prior to joining Cadmium in the Summer of 2024, Amanda spent 18 years managing events across her home state, North Carolina. From the American Diabetes Association to Biltmore Estate, she has honed a spectrum of event skills, finding her specialty in planning for unique details (did you know cattle should be moved 10 days prior to a hillside event?) and designing creative and bold events and marketing. Amanda received a Bachelor of Science in Communications at Appalachian State University (go Mountaineers!) and currently lives in Apex, NC with her husband and two zany kids (8g & 6b). She loves to practice hand lettering and painting with unusual watercolors, of which she has far too many and continues to purchase...maybe that's the real hobby.

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