For Coaches

Get certified to run the Nayan Leadership Lens.

You would be certified by an ICF PCC Assessor, one of the people the profession trusts to decide whether a coach meets the standard, who also teaches on the faculty at Georgetown University's Institute for Transformational Leadership.

MEI is our Management and Executive Institute. Nayan Leadership builds the instruments; MEI certifies the coaches who use them. Certification licenses you to administer and debrief the Lens with your own clients, lists you in the public directory of certified practitioners, and gets you Lens units at the practitioner price.

$3,600, and you're assessed on a real debrief with a real person.

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One credential, two instruments.

MEI certification makes you a practitioner of the Ikigai Aperture Model and certifies you in the Nayan Leadership Lens, the assessment you'll administer and debrief with your own clients.

Where the instrument stands. The Lens is a new instrument, and validation is in progress. You should know that before you certify, and your clients should hear it from you when they ask.

Pure coaching builds the muscle.

Dr. Dhru Beeharilal tells his Georgetown students the same thing every cohort: real-life coaching isn't pure coaching. What they teach at Georgetown is pure coaching, to build the muscle. Then you meet your clients where they are and bring them along to real coaching as soon as you can.

The Lens gives you a place to meet them. Your client gets something concrete to react to, and the debrief opens into the coaching itself.

A real debrief, with a real person.

The assessment happens after the program. You deliver a full Lens debrief to a real person outside your cohort, record it with their written consent, and submit it within 30 days. We assess the recording against a marker rubric.

Debriefing a stranger is a harder and more honest test than debriefing a classmate who already knows the model. And nobody finds out they failed after flying somewhere.

Miss the markers the first time and you get written feedback plus one more Lens, free, to deliver with a different person.

What you walk away with.

Two-year cycle. No fee, at any tier.

Keep delivering Lenses and renewal takes care of itself.

Five or more Lenses

Delivered and debriefed in the two years: renewal is automatic. Nothing to submit.

One to four

Renewal takes CCE hours.

None

CCE hours plus an essay.

$3,600, assessment included.

CERTIFICATION

MEI Certification

$3,600

One price for the whole thing. The program, the assessment, and, if you need it, the written feedback and second Lens for another attempt.

  • Practitioner certification in the Ikigai Aperture Model and the Nayan Leadership Lens
  • Assessment by recorded debrief, submitted within 30 days
  • One free retake Lens with a different person if you miss the markers
  • Directory listing and practitioner pricing on certification

Assessment due 30 days after the program

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After that, Lens units run $300 when you administer and debrief them yourself, and $350 when you don't.

Assessed by someone who assesses coaches for a living.

Dr. Dhru Beeharilal is faculty at Georgetown University's Institute for Transformational Leadership, where he mentors coaches in training. He's also an ICF PCC Assessor, one of the people the profession trusts to judge whether a coach meets the standard. He runs MEI and its certification.

Start with a conversation.

No cost, no obligation. Tell us about your practice, and we'll walk you through the program, the assessment, and where the instrument stands.

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