We invite anyone to become certified, and in particular, we encourage HR, faculty affairs, faculty, diversity officers, student affairs professionals, and others to consider this opportunity.

Note that certification is limited to using the assessment within an individual institution; certification does not allow you to facilitate public workshops where leaders from multiple institutions participate. This certification is achieved via an online program.
Prefer to do this facilitator training in person? Check out the iteration in Denver in November.
Bring a Partner for a Discount!
The Five Paths to Leadership℠ is best facilitated by a pair, so we highly recommend bringing someone that you plan to facilitate with at your institution in the future.

Registering two people for this training gets you a special price of $2,000 per registration. To purchase registrations with this deal, please email operations@academicimpressions.com.

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In this five-session workshop, you will do a deep dive into The Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment, where you will learn:

• The origin of the model.
• The inner workings of how wisdom turns to shadow.
• The design of the model, including how to understand each path, the tensions between them, and how fear and insecurity play into each path.
• The scoring model, as well as how to help others interpret their scores.
• The best practices to facilitate the session, including common scenarios and questions.
• The most effective exercises to make the sessions interactive and applied.
• The ways each path influences a person’s leadership, both individually and collectively.
• The tensions within and across paths, and how to achieve dynamic balance.
• To understand the dimensions of intersectionality in the Five Paths.

The sessions will be highly interactive and applied, and they will model the same activities that we recommend using when facilitating your own sessions. You will be asked to role play and practice delivering the material throughout the five sessions! Please note that you will be required to attend all five sessions in order to earn the certification.
Session 1 | Introductions and Overview
October 16, 2024, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET (3 hours)
In this first session, we’ll begin by discussing your own Five Paths to Leadership℠ scores and why you want to be certified. We will also demonstrate a Five Paths facilitation and situate the Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment as a tool for personal effectiveness and leadership development. You will have the opportunity to begin reflecting on your own facilitation.

Session 2 | Understanding the Model
October 23, 2024, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET (3 hours)
During this session, we will dive deeper into how the Five Paths to Leadership℠ model works and how to begin facilitating the introduction to the model. You will practice by describing your highest and lowest paths with other participants.

Session 3 | Presenting Each Path
October 30, 2024, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET (3 hours)
As we continue with practice, you will have the opportunity in groups to break down a path that is neither your highest nor your lowest path. You will lead the whole group through a presentation of that path and have time to reflect on how to facilitate that path.

Session 4 | Understanding the Sage and Balancing the Paths
November 6, 2024, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET (3 hours)
In this session, we will dive deeper into what the path of the Sage means and how to facilitate this part of the Five Paths to Leadership℠. Additionally, we will debrief full sets of scores to demonstrate how to engage in a questioning process throughout this piece of the facilitation. Finally, you will break down how your paths are balanced and are in tension with one another.

Session 5 | Practicing the Five Paths to Leadership℠
November 13, 2024, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET (3 hours)
During our final session together, you will work in groups to facilitate a full Five Paths to Leadership℠ session with Academic Impressions coaches to help guide you. You will also learn more about the process for certification and the limitations on it.