Vivacity Consulting

What Vivacity Consulting does

Vivacity Consulting is a privately-held consulting firm based in Foothill Ranch, California, founded in 2010, that provides continuing medical education (CME) expertise to healthcare organizations. Led by CEO Erin Schwarz, the firm assists specialty societies, hospitals, university health science centers, and medical education companies with obtaining and maintaining accreditation from the ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education), Joint Accreditation (JA), and state medical associations (CMA). Its core offerings include accreditation and reaccreditation consulting, CME planning services, implementation support, evaluation, leadership development, and organizational development, with add-on services for MOC (Maintenance of Certification) credit integration and PARS learner credit reporting.

The firm operates as a professional services business with a sales-led, direct consulting engagement model. Services are delivered through custom engagements on multi-year contract cadences, covering ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence, documentation review, committee facilitation, and trainer development. The company has no proprietary technology platform; its intellectual capital resides in regulatory expertise and established methodologies for compliance assessment, with pricing not publicly disclosed and structured around individual client engagements.

Vivacity Consulting's go-to-market is anchored on thought leadership: an active blog, social media presence, and repeated invitations to present at industry conferences (ACCME 2025, ACEhp, Alliance Annual Conference). The client base spans specialty societies (SAGES, IPEG, AHNS), hospitals (Good Samaritan Hospital), and medical education companies (Benchmark CME). Engagement is episodic and tied to accreditation cycles, with the CEO's track record of 40+ successful initial and reaccreditation applications serving as the primary credibility asset.

Name

Vivacity Consulting

Legal name

Vivacity Consulting, LLC

Website

https://vivacity-consulting.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Vivacity Consulting is a privately-held CME consulting firm founded in 2010 that helps specialty societies, hospitals, university health science centers, and medical education companies obtain and maintain ACCME, Joint Accreditation, and CMA accreditation through direct consulting engagements.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Medical Education Consulting

NAICS

Other Management Consulting Services (541618), Management Consulting Services (54161), Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (541611)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare & Clinical Professional Development (CME/CE) (EDAGANAJ)

Keywords

• Medical education consulting
• CME accreditation
• ACCME compliance
• Continuing medical education
• MOC consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Foothill Ranch

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Professional Consulting Services: Vivacity Consulting provides expert consulting services to help organizations obtain or maintain ACCME, JA, or CMA accreditation. Services include accreditation and reaccreditation applications, CME personnel training, policy setting, documentation review, committee facilitation, and strategic planning for CME programs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Vivacity Consulting provides expert consulting services for organizations seeking to obtain or maintain accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), Joint Accreditation (JA), or state medical associations (CMA). The firm assists specialty societies, hospitals, university health science centers, and medical education companies with all aspects of CME program design, implementation, evaluation, and compliance with the New ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence.

Product overview

Vivacity Consulting offers a unified suite of consulting services for Continuing Medical Education (CME) programs. The core offerings include Accreditation and Re-Accreditation Consulting (for ACCME, Joint Accreditation, and CMA), Leadership Development, Planning, Implementation Support, Evaluation, and Organizational Development. These services are designed to help specialty societies, hospitals, university health science centers, and medical education companies obtain or maintain accreditation, improve educational quality, and connect activities to organizational goals. Additional specialized services include MOC (Maintenance of Certification) consulting for ABIM credits and PARS learner credit reporting guidance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Accreditation and Re-Accreditation Consulting Assistance for specialty societies, hospitals, university health science centers, and medical education companies with obtaining or maintaining ACCME, Joint Accreditation (JA), or CMA accreditation, including implementation of ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence, initial applications, reaccreditation applications, progress reports, documentation review, and CME committee facilitation.
• Leadership Development Training and development of key CME stakeholders, coaching future leaders and staff, working with leadership to ensure organizational goals are met, and developing strategic relationships with other organizations.
• CME Planning Services Pre-planning with leaders and committee members, policy setting, developing measurable learning objectives, disclosure mitigation, and documentation support for ACCME, JA, and CMA accreditation requirements.
• Implementation Support Project plans and timelines, benchmarking as projects continue, documentation for ACCME, JA, and/or CMA, and certification of CME activities for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credits.
• Evaluation Services Measurement of educational objectives, assessment of overall program, recommendations for improvement, and monitoring for bias in CME activities.
• Organizational Development Overall mission review, redefining or expanding the CME program, fundraising strategy, and staff training and skills development for CME programs.
• MOC (Maintenance of Certification) Consulting Assistance with adding ABIM Part 2 MOC credits to CME programs and supporting surgeon compliance with ABS Continuous Certification requirements.
• PARS Learner Credit Reporting Step-by-step guidance for CME providers on reporting individual learner credit data through ACCME's Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS), including pilot project setup, with particular focus on surgeon learners subject to ABS Continuous Certification requirements.

Quantifiable outcome

• Successfully led 40+ initial and reaccreditation applications for ACCME and Joint Accreditation
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVivacity Consulting partnered with SAGES in the design and implementation of impactful educational activities. Ms. Schwarz facilitated two longitudinal Performance Improvement educational activities designed to increase adoption of complicated hernia surgery procedures into practice. Also collaborated on published research analyzing practice gaps from survey data from attendees at the 2011 SAGES Annual Meeting, published in Surgical Endoscopy.
• International Pediatric Endosurgery Group (IPEG)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerVivacity Consulting worked with IPEG where Ms. Schwarz coordinated email-based committee meetings with effectiveness, supporting international committee operations and CME program coordination.
• American Head & Neck Society (AHNS)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerVivacity Consulting supported AHNS in creating a conference comprised of two different target audiences (clinical and research oriented physicians). Ms. Schwarz met in person with organizers and then multiple times via conference call to ensure educational content was appropriate and met stated objectives.
• Good Samaritan HospitalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with Vivacity Consulting to develop a FAQ sheet regarding brand names, devices, commercial interests and certified CME. The questions on the FAQ sheet resulted from CME conflict of interest queries by Course Directors, faculty and others.
• Medical Association of GeorgiaminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPartnered with Medical Association of Georgia to offer training to State Providers on ACCME Standards for Commercial Support, specifically Accreditation Criteria 7-10 regarding the Standards for Commercial Support (SCS).

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Med-IQ: Med-IQ is a CME/CE provider that designs, accredits, and measures continuing education for healthcare professionals, overlapping directly with Vivacity's accreditation and MOC consulting offerings.
• Vindico Medical Education: Vindico Medical Education is an ACCME-accredited provider of CME/CE activities with deep experience in accreditation compliance, outcomes, and MOC, a direct parallel to Vivacity's consulting scope.
• PeerView Institute for Medical Education: PeerView Institute produces accredited CME/CE activities and works with specialty societies on enduring and live education, similar to the specialty-society engagements Vivacity supports.
• Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning (ACHL): ACHL is an ACCME-accredited provider delivering certified CME activities and outcomes measurement, competing in the same medical-education accreditation and program-design space as Vivacity.
• Clinical Care Options: Clinical Care Options develops accredited continuing medical education programs and provides compliance expertise for activity certification, comparable to Vivacity's accreditation-support services.
• Pri-Med: Pri-Med operates one of the largest U.S. networks of live CME meetings and online CME activities for primary care clinicians, overlapping with Vivacity's specialty society and hospital CME clients.

Emerging players

• CE Outcomes: CE Outcomes specializes in CME outcomes measurement and evaluation, overlapping with Vivacity's evaluation and performance-improvement service lines.

Broad incumbents

• Medscape Education: Medscape Education is one of the largest CME providers globally and runs an ACCME-accredited program, setting the competitive context Vivacity operates in as a much smaller, specialized consultancy.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/vivacityconsult
• Facebookfacebook.com/VivacityConsulting
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/vivacityconsulting

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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