During the past 18 months we’ve been on a truly breathtaking journey in terms of CIPD professional standards and membership. Our membership manager, Christine Williams, has been with the institute for the best part of two decades. She’s clear that as the work of the past year comes to fruition, it marks the biggest change in our approach to membership in 20 years.When Jackie Orme joined us as our new chief executive, we already knew our professional standards needed more than just another update. But Jackie made clear that we needed to look at transforming them to reflect the enormous changes in the profession, so we were equipped to help build an HR profession fit for the future.