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Certified Leadership Development Readiness Coach

Online Certification  ·  10 Weeks  ·  Globally Recognised  ·  (CLDR2)

✅ 2026 Edition 🎓 CPD Accredited 🌍 100+ Countries 📜 Digital + Physical Certificate 100% Online
Executive Summary

Certified Leadership Development Readiness Coach

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Leadership Development Readiness Coach (CLDR2) delivers a rigorous Intermediate-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in instructional design, training delivery and learning management.

This 10 Weeks programme is structured around recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CLDR2 holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification
Certified Leadership Development Readiness Coach
Acronym
CLDR2
Category
Learning & Development
Level
Intermediate
Duration
10 Weeks
Delivery Mode
100% Online
Assessment
Online Examination
Certificate
Digital + Physical
CPD Eligibility
CPD Accredited
Alumni Benefits
GLI Network Access
Self-Paced
USD 399
Live Virtual
USD 599
Target Audience

Who Should Enrol?

  • Trainers and Facilitators
  • Instructional and Curriculum Designers
  • Learning and Development Professionals
  • Academic and Education Administrators
Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

  • All study materials and study guide
  • Access to GLI online learning portal
  • Online examination and assessment
  • Digital certificate and digital badge
  • Physical certificate (shipped to you)
  • CPD credits for professional bodies
  • GLI alumni network membership
  • Facilitator and tutor support
  • Resource downloads and reference library
  • Automatic enrolment confirmation
Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Career Advancement
Accelerate your career towards senior L&D, academic and learning-leadership roles
Professional Recognition
Credential aligned with recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards
Leadership Capability
Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex instructional design functions
Organisational Impact
Design and implement instructional design systems that drive performance and measurable results
Compliance Readiness
Master the standards, compliance and ethical governance central to instructional design
Global Employability
Qualify for instructional design roles across training providers, universities, corporates and education institutions worldwide
Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

Counselling Theories and Models
Facilitation, Delivery and Learner Engagement
Positive Psychology and Wellbeing
Mindfulness, Resilience and Self-Leadership Assurance
Meaning, Purpose and Flourishing
Professional Ethics and Governance
Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

Click any module to explore the detailed curriculum topics included in this certification.

1
Foundations and Professional Context of Certified Leadership Development Readiness Coach
  • Certified Leadership Development Readiness Coach: industry context, trends and professional standards
  • The helping relationship and its purpose
  • History and scope of counselling and coaching
  • Professional roles, boundaries and settings
  • Ethical principles and codes of practice
  • The self of the practitioner
  • Cultural competence and diversity
  • Confidentiality, consent and safeguarding
  • The evidence base for talking therapies
  • Wellbeing and the biopsychosocial model
  • Career pathways and professional development
2
The Working Alliance
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
  • Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
  • Referral, multi-agency work and the client pathway
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • Mentoring, sponsorship and developmental relationships
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • Evaluating coaching outcomes
  • Team coaching and the team as client
  • Cultural context and coaching across difference
  • Building and running a coaching practice
  • Clinical assessment and shared formulation
  • Therapeutic modalities and choosing an approach
3
Questioning and Restraint
  • Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • Outcome monitoring in therapeutic work
  • Risk assessment and safeguarding in practice
  • Trauma-informed delivery and its limits
  • Working with ambivalence and motivation
  • Group facilitation and group process
  • Record keeping, notes and professional documentation
  • Remote and telephone practice
  • Endings, relapse and maintaining change
  • Practitioner wellbeing and vicarious trauma
4
Challenge, Safety and Change
  • Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
5
Boundaries, Ethics and Supervision
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
6
Evaluating What Changed
  • Evaluating coaching outcomes
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
7
Contracting the Engagement
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
8
Digital Delivery
  • Automation and safety technology
  • Preparing financial statements
  • Emerging-technology evaluation
  • Digital leadership and business transformation
  • Leading technology adoption and change
  • Managing distributed and digital teams
  • Technology strategy and investment
  • Digital currencies and CBDCs
  • Emerging payment technologies
  • Digital transformation and IT strategy
  • Digital procurement and the future of the profession
  • Ethical and responsible technology
  • Digital transformation roadmaps
  • Innovation and technology investment
  • Team leadership in technology
9
Programme Delivery
  • Interpreting financial statements
  • Management accounts and dashboards
  • Budget vs actual and variance
  • Cost and profitability analysis
  • Forecasting and planning
  • Content marketing and editorial planning
  • Sales forecasting and territory planning
  • Continuous improvement in delivery
  • Audit programmes and fieldwork
  • Planning and understanding the entity
  • Family intervention planning
  • Relapse prevention planning
  • Land-use planning and management
  • Managing boundaries and dual relationships
  • Peer support and consultation
10
Community and Family Context
  • Duty of care and risk management
  • Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
  • Corporate social responsibility and community impact
  • Group dynamics, facilitation and community mobilisation
  • Social media customer care
  • Social media and community management
  • Customer and community engagement
  • Social performance and outreach
  • Corporate social responsibility communications
  • Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
  • Corporate responsibility and community
  • Measurement and analytics for media and social campaigns
  • Recovery capital and community
  • Sustainability and social impact in projects
  • Community natural-resource governance
11
Health Context
  • Public health programmes: prevention and outreach
  • Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
  • Healthcare quality, safety and accreditation
  • Health financing: budgets, insurance and out-of-pocket realities
  • Procurement and stock management for health commodities
  • Health, safety and compliance in delivery
  • Customer and brand health metrics
  • Brand health and measurement
  • Wellbeing and holistic health strategy
  • Confidentiality and health data
  • Psychoeducation and workshops
  • Telehealth and digital care delivery
  • Health records, data and confidentiality
  • Health and safety legal duties
  • Absence, capability and ill-health management
12
Standards and Quality
  • Quality management systems and audits
  • Designing an intervention or programme
  • Roles, standards and professional conduct
  • Governance of service standards
  • Quality monitoring and coaching
  • Continuous improvement in service
  • Driving measurable service improvement
  • Designing a service or experience improvement
  • Coaching and quality monitoring
  • Service quality and turnaround metrics
  • Continuous improvement and lean banking
  • Continuous improvement of finance processes
  • Product safety and standards
  • Sustainability standards (GRI, ISSB)
  • Continuous improvement cycles
13
Conflict and Resistance
  • Managing difficult conversations
  • Managing resistance and readiness
  • Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
  • Negotiation and conflict management
  • Conflict resolution and negotiation
  • Conflicts of interest and transparency
  • Commercial negotiation and value capture
  • Sponsorship and negotiation selling
  • Negotiation with clients and partners
  • Managing difficult customers
  • Negotiation with buyers, suppliers and financiers
  • Property viewings, offers and negotiation to close
  • Managing risk and difficult cases
  • Conflict resolution over land, water and resources
  • De-escalation and difficult customers
14
Records and Reporting
  • Vehicle documentation, compliance and consumer protection
  • Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
  • Integrated and sustainability reporting
  • Reporting quality and governance
  • Record-keeping and data protection
  • Data, records and confidentiality tech
  • Professional writing and reports
  • Writing advisory reports that drive decisions
  • Reporting to boards and executives
  • Monitoring, control and reporting
  • Professional documentation and presentation
  • Governance of ESG and reporting
  • Communicating and reporting to leadership
  • Management and board reporting
  • Environmental monitoring and reporting
15
Coaching Practice
  • Coaching models and frameworks (GROW)
  • Facilitation, coaching and mentoring
  • Creating a coaching culture
  • Mentoring and sponsorship
  • Solvency, capital and prudential supervision
  • Wellbeing and resilience coaching
  • Measuring coaching outcomes
  • Coaching and developing team members
  • Sales enablement and coaching
  • Coaching for performance
  • Coaching and reinforcement
  • Measuring coaching and mentoring impact
  • Building a coaching culture
16
Therapeutic Practice
  • Resilience, wellbeing and stress management
  • Risk assessment and safety planning
  • Working with organisations on wellbeing
  • Goal setting and contracting
  • Employment relationship and the psychological contract
  • Succession planning and talent pipelines
  • Reward strategy and total reward frameworks
  • Continuous feedback and performance conversations
  • Onboarding and time to productivity
  • Safety culture and leadership
  • Safety communication and campaigns
  • Treatment planning and review
  • Managing complexity and comorbidity
17
Ethics and Safeguarding
  • Regulation, ethics and misinformation in media and telecoms
  • Sustaining ethical, effective practice
  • Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
  • Driving effective, ethical outcomes
  • Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
  • Ethics of technology in practice
  • Professional ethics and responsibility (PMI)
  • Professional standards and ethics
  • Marketing and sales ethics
  • Workplace and organisational contexts
  • Goal setting and action planning
  • Ethics and suitability
  • Ethics and professional standards in finance
  • Ethics, confidentiality and professional conduct in HR
  • Data ethics, privacy and responsible analytics
18
Communication Skills
  • Voice of the customer and feedback
  • Managing sensitive communications
  • Presenting risk and recommendations
  • The media and telecommunications landscape
  • Accountability and follow-through
  • Communicating financial results
  • Client feedback and satisfaction
  • Professional case study and presentation
  • Communicating with families and carers
  • Psychoeducation and public communication
  • Communication planning and management
  • Internal communications
  • Event and sponsorship communications
  • Communications analytics
  • Presentation and public speaking
19
Development and Learning
  • Monitoring, evaluation and learning for accountability
  • Attachment and developmental theory
  • Lessons learned and development
  • Scaling delivery capability
  • Project management plan development
  • Schedule development and optimisation
  • Team development and effectiveness
  • Your one-year professional development trajectory
  • Meaning, purpose and values
  • Outcome and process measures
  • Practice management systems
  • Competency framework development
  • Talent sourcing channels and pipelines
  • High-potential identification and talent reviews
  • Knowledge management and capability building
20
Groups and Facilitation
  • Team leadership in security operations
  • Psychometric and screening tools
  • Emerging tools and innovation
  • Designing and facilitating groups
  • Working with referrers and multidisciplinary teams
  • Leading groups and workshops
  • Collaboration and teamwork
  • Servant leadership and self-organising teams
  • Facilitation and workshops
  • Virtual and distributed teams
  • Team leadership and motivation
  • Risk, protective and social factors
  • Team and engagement metrics
  • Aligning teams around strategy
  • Team formation and effectiveness models (Tuckman, Lencioni)
21
Behaviour and Change
  • Cost concepts, classification and behaviour
  • Regulatory change management
  • Embedding values and behaviours
  • User adoption and change
  • Benchmarking and best-practice adoption
  • Motivation theories and engagement
  • Buyer behaviour and the customer journey
  • Negotiation tactics and behaviours
  • Variations, claims and delay: managing change on site
  • Change talk and readiness
  • Habit change and behaviour design
  • Motivation and self-directed learning
  • Behavioural and process addictions
  • Stages of change and readiness
  • Change control and configuration
22
Goals and Measurement
  • Credit risk measurement and mitigation
  • Sales performance and pipeline management
  • Performance and load testing
  • Metrics, velocity and flow
  • Measuring IT value and performance
  • Investment principles and objectives
  • Performance measurement and attribution
  • Warehouse performance metrics
  • Learning objectives and outcomes
  • Metrics and reporting
  • Performance management systems and cycles
  • Projects, programmes and portfolios
  • Leading and lagging metrics
  • Policy, planning and objectives
  • Productivity and effectiveness measurement
23
Leadership Context
  • Pollution and waste management
  • Sustainable input management
  • Capacity and performance management
  • Team leadership in field and project settings
  • Project management standards (PMI, PRINCE2)
  • Implementation planning and risk management
  • The project environment and stakeholders
  • Project roles and the project manager
  • Business case and strategic alignment
  • Project governance and assurance
  • Project governance frameworks
  • Values, purpose and authentic leadership
  • 360-degree feedback and leadership assessment
  • Strategic decision-making under uncertainty
  • Influencing and persuasion
24
Culture and Inclusion
  • The business case for diversity and inclusion
  • Cross-cultural and global inclusion
  • HR's role in culture, values and employer brand
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Stakeholder and sponsor management
  • Managing virtual and cross-cultural teams
  • Brand strategy, identity and equity
  • Managing organisational politics
  • Compliance and regulatory projects
  • Leading project governance
  • Organisational change management
  • DevOps culture and practices
  • Awareness and security culture
  • Financial inclusion strategy
  • Learning cultures and the learning organisation
25
Client Relationships
  • Vendor, contract and asset management
  • Stakeholder mapping and business partnering
  • Stakeholder communications
  • Contract law and formation
  • Contract exit and renewal
  • Stakeholder mapping and engagement
  • Stakeholders and users of financial information
  • Stakeholders, agency and accountability
  • Trends: ESG, transparency and stakeholder capitalism
  • Shareholder and stakeholder rights
  • Contractor and visitor safety
  • Contract types and risk allocation
  • Contract administration and variation
  • Contract governance and compliance
  • Stakeholder mapping and liaison
26
Risk and Compliance
  • Technology governance and change control
  • Interest-rate risk and gap analysis
  • Asset-liability committee (ALCO) governance
  • Derivatives and risk instruments
  • Regulatory liquidity ratios (LCR, NSFR)
  • IT governance frameworks (COBIT)
  • Enterprise architecture governance
  • Risk, compliance and audit
  • Control environment and risk assessment
  • Governance and the three lines model
  • Fraud risk and controls
  • Intelligence-led risk assessment
  • Continuous risk monitoring
  • Programme governance
  • Real estate regulation, licensing and professional conduct
27
Evidence and Research
  • Comparable sales analysis and market evidence
  • Analytical techniques and bias
  • Data visualisation for finance
  • Decision support and insight
  • Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
  • Evidence-based improvement
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Evidence-based practice and research literacy
  • Project data, reporting and analytics
  • AI and predictive project analytics
  • Data quality and governance
  • Data protection and customer privacy
  • Data, analytics and customer insight
  • Working papers and evidence
  • Data analytics in audit
28
Wellbeing and Resilience
  • Stress testing and scenarios
  • Managing growth, risk and resilience
  • Operational risk and resilience
  • Stress testing and scenario analysis
  • Training needs analysis and learning strategy
  • Team leadership within HR
  • Strategic workforce planning and demand forecasting
  • Supply analysis, gaps and scenario planning
  • Influencing and safety leadership
  • Change and adoption in projects
  • Innovation and continuous delivery
29
Workplace Context
  • Workforce and shift management in retail
  • Strengths, flow and engagement
  • Building trust and engagement
  • Stakeholder engagement strategy
  • Advocacy and policy engagement
  • Workforce management and scheduling
  • Proactive engagement and success
  • Win-back and re-engagement
  • Workforce planning and scheduling
  • Employee experience and engagement
  • Customer and employee satisfaction
  • Worker engagement and empowerment
  • Assurance engagements and standards
  • Agile and digital transformation projects
  • Engagement and motivation
30
Practice and Business
  • Developing the project business case
  • Project budgeting and financial control
  • Funding, cash flow and financing
  • Financial risk in projects
  • Business case and requirements
  • Value management and business value
  • Market analysis and environmental scanning
  • Go-to-market and channel strategy
  • Marketing planning and budgeting
  • Setting objectives and marketing KPIs
  • Marketing and sales: scope, roles and value
  • Carbon markets and climate finance
  • Building project management maturity
  • Sustaining benefits and change
  • Measuring change and project impact
Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

  • Establish a comprehensive understanding of Certified Leadership Development Readiness Coach principles aligned with recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards
  • Apply evidence-based methods to improve instructional design, training delivery and learning management
  • Master instructional design and curriculum development and facilitation, delivery and learner engagement
  • Apply digital, blended and e-learning and assessment, evaluation and quality assurance in real-world settings
  • Lead risk management, quality and compliance relevant to your field
  • Design stakeholder engagement and professional communication strategies
  • Use data-driven decision-making and performance-measurement tools effectively
  • Apply internationally recognised best practice to advance your career in instructional design
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CLDR2 certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CLDR2?

This certification is ideal for Trainers and Facilitators, Instructional and Curriculum Designers, Learning and Development Professionals and Academic and Education Administrators, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in instructional design, training delivery and learning management with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CLDR2 certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 10 Weeks and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CLDR2 internationally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

What is the cost of the CLDR2 certification?

The Certified Leadership Development Readiness Coach is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 399 and Live Virtual at USD 599. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CLDR2 certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CLDR2?

The Certified Leadership Development Readiness Coach is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CLDR2?

The Certified Leadership Development Readiness Coach carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CLDR2 while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CLDR2?

Graduates progress towards senior L&D, academic and learning-leadership roles. The CLDR2 strengthens your expertise in instructional design, training delivery and learning management and positions you for advancement across training providers, universities, corporates and education institutions.

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The curriculum was directly applicable to my daily work. I immediately applied what I learned and saw results within weeks of completing the programme.

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GLI's certification is the most practical professional programme I have attended. The international frameworks gave me credibility with my employer and clients.

L&D Manager
NGO Sector

I earned my CLDR2 while working full-time. The self-paced format made it possible, and the quality of the content is genuinely world-class.

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