Get certified to apply neuroscience-based coaching and mentoring strategies that improve performance, engagement and development in the workplace.
Online Learning
3-4 hrs per week
9-18 months
NQF 6 Competency
R46 200 ex VAT (~2900 USD)
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Course Summary
This programme is designed by industry experts for aspiring coaches and mentors – whether you’re developing people at work or building your own practice. It is also ideal for professionals who want a workplace-focused coaching and mentoring programme grounded in neuroscience and neuro-economics.
Specialisations
- Neuro Coaching
- Neuro Mentoring
- Neuro Coaching and Mentoring
- For both coaching and mentoring, the course can take up to 18 months.
Foundation of the programme:
Neuroscience, neuro-economics, ICF core competencies, and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Global Code of Ethics.
Who This Programme Is For
HR, People Leaders & OD Professionals
Industrial & Organisational Psychologists
Coaches & Mentors
Entry Requirements
- Admission: NSC with Diploma Pass (or equivalent)
- Experience: 3 years working for / in an organisation
The Right Tools Matter
Coaching and mentoring involve guiding individuals or groups toward outcomes by working with thoughts, emotions, and behaviour.
Doing so without the correct tools can do more harm than good.
While the profession is not yet as regulated as it should be, organisations and individuals are increasingly asking for credentials – and this will likely become a requirement over time.
What Makes This Programme Different
This programme sets you apart from more traditional coaching and mentoring courses. NIB does its own brain research using EEG (electroencephalogram) and qEEG (brain maps) and focuses on rigorously tested insights. The programme includes:
- Demonstrations of real-time EEG monitoring of brain performance
- Discussion of brain-map (qEEG) results and how to interpret them in the workplace
- Gaining practical experience via 12 coaching and/or 12 mentoring hours
- Earn a minimum of 35 CPD points per annum (HPCSA accredited)
Benefits Of Becoming A Neuroscience Coach And Mentor
Community
Become part of a community of neuroscience coaches and mentors.
Resources
Access tools to help you secure your niche in the world of coaching and mentoring.
Qualification
Get your certification to coach and mentor professionally.
Your Practice
Learn how to set up your brand and practice, including billing and marketing.
What You Will Learn
- How to develop people with powerful brain-based coaching and mentoring tools
- Neuroscience and approach/avoid states
- Neurotransmitters and neurorhythms
- How to coach and mentor effectively using neuroscientific principles
- Neuroplasticity, apoptosis and synaptic pruning and its relevance and application to coaching and mentoring
- Coaching and mentoring models (including A.R.R.O.W and the mentoring relationship model)
- How to analyse, assess and plan to improve your own coaching and mentoring ability
- How to grow yourself, individuals, and teams through practical neuroscientific principles
- Tools for succession planning
Benefits In The Workplace
- Build a strong repertoire of neuroscience, coaching, and mentoring competencies
- Develop others at a deeper level using neuroscience
- Apply neuroscience to coaching and mentoring within your organisation or practice
- Develop yourself and others using practical neuroscientific principles
- Support effective succession planning
- Improve productivity and performance (including better health, lower absenteeism, and increased responsibility)
Programme Structure
- Modules: 5–7 modules (depending on your specialisation)
- Self-paced learning: min. 70 hours (peer coaching, assignments, extra reading)
- Work-based assignments
- Personal Development Plan
- Self-study reflective log (guided journaling)
- Own research and further reading
- Assessor support throughout your certification journey
- Meetings with assessor on assignments
What's Included
- Access to the online learning platform NIBLearn (and app)
- Pre- and post-questionnaires measuring your growth
- Training materials and supporting resources (electronic format)
- Co-coaching circles
- Support available throughout your certification journey
- Meetings with assessor on assignments
- 4 hours individual online supervision
- Certification on successful completion (through ILM)
- Free one-year membership with the Institute of Leadership
Choose Your Specialisation
You can qualify as a Neuro Coach, a Neuro Mentor, or complete the combined route. The best choice depends on whether you’re supporting people through goal-driven change (coaching), longer-term development (mentoring), or both.
Neuro Coaching
Coaching is a goal-focused, performance-driven partnership. It helps individuals clarify outcomes, remove obstacles, build new habits, and sustain behaviour change – using neuroscience-based tools to support thinking, emotion regulation, motivation and performance.
Neuro Mentoring
Mentoring is a development-focused relationship where experience and guidance accelerate growth over time. It supports learning, career development, confidence, and capability-building – often helping the mentee navigate decisions, context, and development pathways.
Combined Route
Choose the combined route if you want the full toolkit for workplace development – coaching for performance and change, mentoring for longer-term growth and development. This option is ideal for leaders, HR/OD professionals, and practitioners who support people in multiple ways.
Not sure which is right?
Review the course modules below or contact us and we’ll help you choose.
Course Details
The programme includes 7 modules in total. You’ll complete 5 modules for a single specialisation (Coaching or Mentoring), or all 7 modules if you choose the combined route.
Module 1: Neuroscience
(Mandatory module)
- Different parts of the brain related to coaching and mentoring
- What G.R.I.T is neuroscientifically
- Nested systems and causal chains
- Neurotransmitters
- Hormones
- Thoughts and emotions
- Neuroplasticity, apoptosis, neuro-rhythms, synaptic pruning
Module 2: Understand Good Practice in Workplace Coaching
(Mandatory module)
- Role of coaching in the workplace
- Behaviours required by a workplace coach
- Skills, abilities and characteristics of an effective workplace coach
- Importance of confidentiality
- Developmental goals that can be met through coaching
- Purpose and content of contracting
- Nature, purpose and importance of coaching records
- Progress monitoring methodologies and records
- Barriers to coaching in the workplace
- An integrated approach to neuroscience
Module 3: Undertaking an Extended Period of Coaching in the Workplace
(Neuro Coaching specialisation module)
- Plan and organise your own workplace coaching sessions
- Start your journey of completing at least twelve hours effective workplace coaching activity
- Collect feedback from coaching clients on your performance as a workplace coach
- Use tutorial supervision (4 individual sessions) to improve your coaching practice and plan continuing development
- An integrated approach to neuroscience
Module 4: Reflecting on Workplace Coaching Skills
(Neuro Coaching specialisation module)
- Assess your own abilities and characteristics as a workplace coach
- Reflect on communication and interpersonal skills when coaching
- Summarise coaching reflections and plan for future development needs
- An integrated approach to neuroscience
Module 5: Understanding good practice in workplace mentoring
(Mandatory module)
- The context for effective workplace mentoring
- The nature and purpose of workplace mentoring
- Formal and informal workplace mentoring
- The role and responsibilities of an effective workplace mentor and mentee
- Environmental considerations to ensure quality workplace mentoring
- Barriers that may exist
- An integrated approach to neuroscience
Module 6: Undertaking an extended period of mentoring in the workplace
(Neuro Mentoring specialisation module)
- Plan and organise formal workplace mentoring sessions
- Summarise and analyse a period of formal mentoring within the workplace using stakeholder feedback
- Start your journey of completing at least twelve hours effective workplace mentoring activity
- Know how to use supervision to enhance workplace mentoring
- An integrated approach to neuroscience
Module 7: Reflecting on workplace mentoring skills
(Neuro Mentoring specialisation module)
- Assess your own abilities and characteristics as a workplace mentor
- Reflect on communication and interpersonal skills when mentoring
- Demonstrate understanding of your effectiveness as a workplace mentor
- An integrated approach to neuroscience
We cover all ICF core competencies under: Foundation, Co-creating the relationship, Communicating effectively, Cultivating learning and growth.
- Demonstrates ethical practice
- Embodies a coaching mindset
- Establishes and maintains agreements
- Cultivates trust and safety
- Maintains presence
- Listens actively
- Evokes awareness
- Facilitates client growth
Once you adhere to the NIB requirements, you will be able to coach and mentor both in your own practice or within your organisation. The ICF Core Competencies and the EMCC form the foundation of the certification process. If you would like to be credentialed through the ICF, you may use these hours toward that process.
Requirements (steps):
- Participate in peer coaching sessions
- Complete all assignments and submit them on the NIBLearn platform
- Attend 4 individual supervisor sessions with your assigned supervisor
- Complete required practice sessions (coaching and/or mentoring depending on your route)
- Submit one coaching audio recording on NIBLearn
- Receive feedback on your recordings; once you meet the required standard, you receive a pass
- Complete all online training
- Certificate validity and renewal: Your certificate is valid for 1 year; thereafter you are required to attend a minimum of 8 masterclasses per year (included). The annual renewal fee is USD 100.
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Meet The Team
Dr Charléne
Facilitator
Dr Charléne is the facilitator for the course and the founder and CEO of Neuroscience Institute for Business (NIB). She holds a PhD and qualifications in medical neuroscience, business, neuro-economics, neurofeedback, coaching, and mentoring. She is an ACC credential coach (ICF), strategist, neurofeedback practitioner, and neuro-economics specialist.
She has 20+ years’ experience across private and government sectors, including:
• Neuroscience coach, mentor, leadership and management certification
• Neurofeedback (brain training): peak performance, anxiety, stress, depression
• qEEG (brain maps)
• Neuroscience-based executive coaching and mentoring
• Strategic planning facilitation
• Organisational behaviour
• Leading teams
• Training and facilitation (change management, neuroscientific emotional intelligence, neuroscientific mindfulness, group coaching, corporate entrepreneurship)
In 2022 she published “Discover your Amazing Brain” (available on Amazon.com). She believes in equipping others to leave a legacy.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes – it is delivered online via NIBLearn and is self-paced, with guided support.
Most participants complete it in 9-12 months. If you complete both coaching and mentoring routes, it can take up to 18 months depending on your pace and submissions.
You’ll need NSC with Diploma Pass (or equivalent) and 3 years working for / in an organisation.
It’s presented at the competency level of NQF 6 (South Africa’s National Qualifications Framework) – broadly comparable to an advanced post-school / diploma level.
Instruction language is English.
No – you can specialise in Neuro Coaching, Neuro Mentoring, or complete both (Neuro Coaching and Mentoring).
You’ll receive facilitator support (WhatsApp/MS Teams), assessor support and assignment guidance, meetings with your assessor on assignments, and 4 hours of individual supervision.
You complete workplace coaching and/or workplace mentoring activity depending on your specialisation, and submit at least one coaching/mentoring audio recording for assessment and feedback.
Many programmes offer a certificate of completion. This programme supports competence through assignments, feedback, supervision, and a pass standard before certification is awarded.
If you would like to be credentialed through the ICF, you may use these hours toward that process.
The fee includes NIBLearn access, learning materials, assessments, supervision, and certification once requirements are met. It excludes ICF credentialing.
You’ll receive an invoice with banking details. International payments can be made via EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer) or via PayPal.
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Centre Number: 821764
ASP number: PSB006/2025/ASP007