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Certified AI Coach (CAIC)

Are you ready to show and grow your impact?

Led by Dr. Matt Barney, Founder & CEO of TruMind.ai

Award-Winning Organizational Psychologist, Inventor of 4 Patents, and Serial Entrepreneur

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A Paradigm Shift in Coaching Effectiveness

  • Learn new, zero friction tools to show clients their gaps before coaching to win more new clients
  • Learn about how to set better goals with the Harvard Model of Hierarchical Complexity
  • Appreciate TruMind.ai's feedforward that clients want to focus in their "Goldilocks Zone
  • Flipped Classroom with 3-5 minute self-paced videos and live sessions with Dr. Barney as your "Guide on the side"
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Part 1: Self-Paced Foundational Learning

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Module 1: The Coaching Revolution – Unobtrusive & Explainable AI Assessment

Gain a compelling narrative for your clients on the "why" behind this paradigm shift. You will learn to articulate the limitations of traditional assessments and the profound benefits of objective, transcript-based analysis.

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Module 2: Leadership Science for the AI Era– 9 Dimensions & The Harvard Model of Hierarchical Complexity (MHC)

Ground your coaching in the latest science. This module provides a deep dive into TruMind.ai’s initial 9 Dimensions of Leadership (Leading Self, Team, and Business) and the Model of Hierarchical Complexity (MHC)—the Harvard developmental model that makes our AI uniquely explainable and eliminates "black box" ambiguity of other AI systems.

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Module 3: The TruMind.ai Engine – Understanding the Technology

Confidently explain the "how" to your clients. This module demystifies the technology, including the role of LLMs as Synthetic Raters as a key component to AI Precision Measurement for both traditional obtrusive and unobtrusive text-based assessment , so you can build trust and credibility with clients with medical-grade privacy, and zero chance for their data to be used for others AI systems.

Part 2: Live Application with Dr. Barney

Come to weekly live Zoom sessions with your toughest questions

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Activity 1: Case Studies

Working in small, collaborative groups, you will analyze real-world, anonymized transcripts. Using your CAIC Job Aides, you will practice identifying the behavioral indicators of different developmental stages, debating your findings with peers before comparing your analysis to the official TruMind.ai recommendation. This exercise sharpens your diagnostic eye and builds your confidence in the model.

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Activity 2: Role Play 

This is where the data meets the dialogue. In guided, peer-to-peer role-playing scenarios, you will practice using a TruMind.ai report not as a script to be read, but as a map to guide your inquiry. You will master the art of formulating powerful, open-ended questions that empower your clients to arrive at their own profound insights, fostering true ownership of their development.

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Activity 3: Influencing with our AI Hippocratic Oath

Educating clients and creating psychological safety for them is even more important with AI tools than it is in traditional executive coaching engagements, because clients also need to trust what is happening with their data, and whether they can trust the insights. In this activity, we’ll talk about client concerns and how we address them.

Resources Included

  • White Papers

    Practical white papers explain the science and practice of TruMind.ai's 9 leader dimensions

  • Baseline Interview Guide

    To win more business, we recommend a structured interview to make sure you know the client's peaks and valleys to show them gaps before setting goals you can achieve together.

  • The CEO Protocol

    For CxO clients, aligning your coaching with organizational targets is key, and this job aide helps you diagnose and set goals aligned with the science of TruMind.ai

  • Free Lifetime Updates

    Our vision will continue to build out new dimensions for both clients and coaches, and all CAICs get lifetime access to self-paced learning and weekly developmental sessions.

  • Community of Practice

    Weekly sessions will evolve into a community of practice for CAICs that want peer support in surfing the rapidly changing AI coaching marketplace

  • Roadmap Visibility

    Our CAICs are the first stakeholders we listen to about new features they want, and our vision of helping coaches migrate into the Organizational Digital Twin future of CFO human capital purchasing.