A research-backed micro-credential that gives you the model, the diagnostic, and the coaching playbooks to measurably improve your team's adaptive performance — with evidence, not intuition.
The Problem
You have the credentials. You know the frameworks. You can facilitate a debrief and run a planning session in your sleep. But when the pressure is real — when people are shutting down, when the goals shift mid-cycle, when the team stops caring — your certification has nothing for you.
So you do what most practitioners do. You carry it. You absorb the dysfunction. You become the glue holding everything together through sheer personal effort. And you call it leadership.
It's not leadership. It's survival. And it's unsustainable.
The gap between what certifications teach and what teams actually need is the reason this program exists. Adaptive Foundations closes that gap — not with opinions, but with a research-validated model that explains 73.9% of what makes teams adapt or collapse under pressure.
How it works
Self-paced. Research-grounded. Assessed for competence, not just completion.
Learn the model behind why some teams adapt under pressure and others fall apart — and what you can do about it.
Take five assessments that show you your own strengths and blind spots. No guessing.
Create a development plan that targets your weakest area with specific goals, resources, and practices — then submit it for evaluation.
Use the same framework to assess your team. Find out exactly where they're struggling — and where your coaching will make the biggest difference.
Choose from three coaching playbooks matched to your team's specific gap. Three targeted interventions. One clear focus.
Build a 90-day plan with checkpoints. Measure before and after. Walk away with evidence that your coaching moved the needle.
What you earn
Issued via Sertifier. Open Badge 2.0 compliant. Blockchain verified. One-click LinkedIn sharing.
ThrivQ measures your team across five constructs validated across four industries. Evidence, not guesswork.
Targeted interventions for resilience, goal commitment, and learning agility — each grounded in the theory that explains it.
Baseline scores, interventions, post-assessment. The difference between "I think I'm helping" and "here is the evidence."
Built on a structural equation model with 291 participants, R² = .739, and path coefficients that held across four industries.
This is Tier 1 of a credentialing ecosystem building toward ISO/IEC 17024 professional certification.
Founding cohort
The first 50 practitioners get founding cohort access before the program goes to full price ($247).
One-time payment. Immediate access. No payment plan — founding cohort is all in.
Only 50 founding spots available. Price goes to $247 when they're gone.
Who this is for
You coach teams through change but lack a diagnostic framework to know where to focus. You're working hard but can't prove what's working. This gives you the model and the measurement.
You manage the work but also manage the people. When team dynamics break down under pressure, your PM certification has nothing for you. This fills that gap with evidence-based tools.
You invest in team development but struggle to measure coaching impact. This program gives you a before-and-after framework that connects coaching interventions to measurable outcomes.
You work with multiple teams across multiple organizations. You need a repeatable, evidence-based methodology that produces measurable results you can show your clients — not just anecdotes.
The research
Every module, every playbook, and every intervention in this program is grounded in doctoral research that tested how team coaching, resilience, goal commitment, and learning agility predict adaptive performance under VUCA conditions.
Questions
7 modules. 21 videos. A diagnostic framework. Coaching playbooks. A 90-day measurable plan. And a credential that proves you can deliver.
