Mindful PAUSE for Leaders Programme

The Mindful PAUSE programme at IMD is led by Professor Anand Narasimhan, Shell Professor of Leadership and Governance at IMD and an Oxford-trained expert in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. It is a specialised, cohort-based course designed to help senior executives combat leadership reactivity (distraction, disembodiment, disconnection) under pressure by creating a mindful pause between everyday stimuli and reflexive actions.

Designed as a multi-week immersion (e.g., spanning over five weeks), it focuses on accessible, bite-sized practices meant to be integrated directly into a demanding, real-world workday

The NEO-PI-3 is a world-leading personality assessment that provides a deep, evidence-based understanding of an individual’s behavioural tendencies, strengths and blind spots across the Five-Factor Model. It offers a nuanced picture of how people typically think, relate and take action, helping leaders build greater self-awareness, strengthen relationships, navigate pressure, and make more intentional choices about how they show up. In coaching, it serves as a powerful mirror — clarifying patterns, unlocking development priorities and supporting sustainable, authentic growth.

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Hogan Assessments Certification – Hogan Assessments Systems (HPI, HDS, MVPI)
This certification provides accreditation to interpret and debrief the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI), Hogan Development Survey (HDS), and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI). Grounded in decades of research on reputation and performance, the Hogan approach links personality to leadership effectiveness, derailment risks, and underlying values. The certification strengthens the capacity to integrate data-driven psychological insights into coaching and leadership development, enabling nuanced feedback on potential, style, and culture fit.

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Group-in-Self: Leadership and Coaching Insights – IMD Lausanne
This certification deepens the capacity to work psychodynamically with leadership groups and teams. Rooted in the tradition of Klein, Bion, Foulkes, and Moreno, it builds on the Tavistock systems-psychodynamic approach to explore how unconscious group processes shape leadership, followership, and collaboration. The program combines theory, experiential work, and reflective practice to heighten awareness of how groups “live inside” individuals and how collective anxieties, projections, and roles influence behaviour. Integrating these insights into leadership and coaching practice enhances the ability to recognise and work with the emotional and systemic forces that underpin effective group functioning.

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This accreditation in An Introduction to the Tavistock Model – Developing a Systems-Psychodynamic Approach to Team Coaching strengthens the capacity to work with today’s leadership teams in contexts of challenge and uncertainty. The systems-psychodynamic lens focuses on the hidden emotional and relational dynamics that can shape collaboration, decision-making, and performance. It recognises that leadership is influenced not only by the individuals in the room, but also by wider organisational factors such as structure, culture, and the preoccupations of top leaders. Integrating these insights into executive team coaching ensures that complexity is not left unaddressed, but becomes a resource for deeper reflection, stronger relationships, and more sustainable ways of leading together.

Comprehensive Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) Course

Cutting-edge science and insights into the interconnections of mind, brain and relationships

The course offers a comprehensive, science-based understanding of the human mind, including:

• How relationships shape brain development across the lifespan

• How the mind emerges as a process regulating energy and information flow

• The role of neuroplasticity in growth, healing, and change

• The importance of integration as the basis of mental health and resilience

It connects theory with application—supporting work in coaching, therapy, leadership, education, and personal development.

ICF Credential Certificate

The highest regarded coaching standards body in the world, ICF preserves the integrity of coaching through internationally accepted professional standards. Today, ICF is specifically recognized among coaching professionals worldwide as the gold standard.

Future Ready Leadership | Assessment Suite

IMD have combined deep insights into leaders gathered over 75 years with cutting-edge approaches to assessments to create an approach for shaping leader development for real impact on leader and organizational performance.

Drawing on research and thought leadership, IMD have developed a suite of talent management solutions and diagnostic tools to provide holistic, integrated and future-focused insights for talent strategy, leader assessment and executive progression planning.

The Hogan 360° Report is a comprehensive multi-rater feedback tool designed to help career-minded individuals and leaders at any level of an organisation gain a better understanding of how they are perceived by managers, peers, direct reports, and others. The report uses an easy-to-interpret framework to provide a real-time look at an individual’s attitude, behaviour, and performance. Commonly used for development purposes, the report offers constructive feedback and sets priorities for improvement.

CCL’s 360 Assessment Certification Course prepares executive coaches, consultants, and Human Resource managers to administer our industry-leading suite of 360° assessments, including learning to read and interpret 360 assessment reports, and giving developmental feedback expertly connected to targeted goal-setting.

• Standards of practice

• Planning for a well-orchestrated 360 implementation process

• Selecting the right assessment

• Working with group profiles

• Sample report preparation

• Explanations on psychometric and normative data reliability and validity

• Recognizing strengths and ways to leverage them

• Identifying skill gaps and creating development plans

While the results of the Leadership Circle Profile™ are shown on the Universal Model of Leadership (UML), the reality is it is much more. The UML integrates the best theory and research on leadership development available today. The science behind it magnifies why leaders do what they do and how they can transform. When your leaders transform, so does your organization. This translates into better results and a measurable impact for your business and life.

The 1-5-15 factor structure the EQ-i 2.0 features one overarching EI score (Total EI), broken down into five composite scores which, in turn, are broken down into a total of 15 subscales. The EQ-i 2.0 measures emotional intelligence (EI) and how it can impact people and the workplace.

The EQ 360 report offers an in-depth analysis by having those that work with an individual and know them personally provide feedback in addition their self assessment to provide a 360 degree view of his or her effectiveness and EQ competencies. This report can be used for results specific to a workplace context, enabling career and organizational development. It identifies blind spots, strengths, and developmental opportunities in the workplace.

ICF Membership Certificate

The highest regarded coaching standards body in the world, ICF preserves the integrity of coaching through internationally accepted professional standards. Today, ICF is specifically recognized among coaching professionals worldwide as the gold standard.

Over the past 20 years, CTI (Coaches Training Institute) have trained over 35,000 coaches, consultants and managers worldwide and today trains more new coaches each year than any other training program. CPCC is an ICF-accredited certification program, and the most rigorous and respected in the industry.

Team Diagnostic Survey & 6 Team Conditions of Team Effectiveness Framework

The Team Diagnostic Survey™ (TDS) is the world’s #1 team effectiveness instrument developed by renowned Harvard scholar-practitioners Drs. Richard Hackman and  Ruth Wageman. 

The online survey assesses teams on the 6 conditions of team effectiveness that predict up to 80% of a team’s ultimate success.  The resulting 27 page report helps teams and team leaders zero in on the levers that lead teams to becoming exceptional.

The TDS™ is the most rigorous and widely-validated team effectiveness instrument on the market today. The survey ensures that your team gets off to the right start.  The TDS can be used as a stand alone assessment for diagnosing teams as well as incorporated as an essential component of a teambuilding or team coaching process.

Team Coaching International trains and certifies systems coaches to work with teams to support clients in creating and maintaining high-performing teams and organisations.A suite of diagnostic tools and benchmark data support in this process in which measurable results over time can be shown. The flagship product, the Team Diagnostic™,  is still available in over 20 languages and that can be used to address the needs of multi-language and multi-cultural teams. 

The two-day Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching Fundamentals course explores a groundbreaking model for coaching teams, families, couples, and organizations. ORSC Fundamentals is the first course in an ICF Accredited Coach Training Program. ORSC is the first ICF accredited relationship systems-based training for coaches and therapists. 

Insights helps organisations improve individual effectiveness the performance of the organisation. Their Discovery Personal Profile provides information on an individual’s strengths and gaps, communications style, and their value to a team. Profiles also include suggestions and support for development. This tool can be used as part of a leadership or management development programme, to set goals as part of a personal effectiveness coaching programme, to improve a sales person’s performance, or be tailored to wider organisational assessments and development initiatives.

A 10-month, powerful, experiential personal leadership development program develops the capacity to be effective in a wide range of testing circumstances and environments. During 10 months, participants explore their personal style and strength, identify and bust perceived limits, become aware of impact on others, and create desired impact; evoking the natural leader within. Additionally, the essential ingredients for designing and delivering effective experiential workshops, trainings, and presentations are experienced and taught.

A 3-day immersion in experiential group learning of the 5 Dimensions of Co-Active® Leadership.

By the end of this course each participant will have discovered new principles and techniques for responding to any leadership situation with fluidity and flexibility, and the ability to achieve collaborative solutions that would never have been possible otherwise.

• Identify the strengths within your unique leadership.

• Acquire abilities to respond to any leadership situation creatively.

• Discover new leadership principles and techniques.

• Learn all 5 dimensions of the Co-Active® Leadership model and how to apply them in all aspects of your work and personal life.

• Create a plan for the next steps in your leadership development.

ICF CCEUs, 11.75 Core Competencies, 7.0 Resource Development