Professional Certification
Add a Powerful Emotional-Intelligence Assessment to Your Professional Practice
Become certified to administer and interpret two of the most widely used emotional-intelligence assessments for leadership and professional development: EQ-i 2.0® and EQ 360®.
Designed for executive coaches, consultants, HR professionals, and organizational-development leaders, certification gives you a validated framework to deepen leadership conversations and turn assessment data into actionable development.
Turn Certification Into a Practical Tool for Coaching and Leadership Development
This certification gives coaches, consultants, HR professionals, and organizational leaders a research-based way to move beyond subjective conversations about leadership and behavior. You will learn how to use assessment data to identify strengths, uncover development opportunities, and guide more meaningful conversations with individuals, leaders, and teams.
Once certified, you can incorporate EQ-i 2.0® and EQ 360® assessments into your own coaching, consulting, leadership-development, and organizational work.
Who It Is For
- Executive and leadership coaches
- Consultants
- HR professionals
- Organizational-development professionals
- Leadership-development practitioners
- Internal coaches and talent-development leaders
What You Will Learn
You will learn how to confidently administer, interpret and debrief both EQ-i 2.0® and EQ 360®, including:
- Understanding the EQ-i 2.0® emotional-intelligence model
- Reading overall scores, individual competencies, and patterns in the results
- Understanding the difference between EQ-i 2.0® and EQ 360® results
- Leading productive feedback conversations
- Translating results into meaningful development priorities
- Applying the assessments ethically and responsibly
What Certification Allows You to Do
Certification gives you a practical tool you can bring directly into your work with clients and organizations. Use EQ-i 2.0® and EQ 360® to strengthen executive coaching, leadership development, team effectiveness, talent development and organizational programs.
Instead of relying only on observation or self-reported leadership challenges, you can bring validated assessment data into the conversation and help people understand what they are doing, how others experience them and where development can have the greatest impact.
Upcoming certification
Cohort Dates
EQ-i 2.0® + EQ 360® Certification
$1,700 USD
Invest in Your Certification NowWhy Get Certified?
- Build evidence-based conversations
- Identify strengths and development opportunities
- Support leaders, teams, and entire organizations
- Increase your credibility and impact
- Join a global community of certified professionals
All cohort dates
Select a cohort date to register. Each cohort runs live online over two days, Thursday and Friday. Plan to attend both days; preparation and participation details will be sent before your cohort.
Space is limited and availability varies by cohort.
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- NextDecember 9–10, 2027Register
Space is limited to the number of participants Dr. Hayles can effectively train and support during the certification experience.