The People-Centered Culture Specialist (PCCS) Certification equips emerging practitioners with the frameworks, tools, and confidence to create workplace cultures where every person feels valued, heard, and empowered to contribute their best work. This is not theory-heavy training. This is applied practice for real organizational challenges: building psychological safety, navigating cultural dynamics, reducing turnover, and fostering authentic belonging.
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Over six weeks, you'll develop concrete skills in four core competency areas:
Explore the business case for belonging, psychological safety research, and the SCARF model for understanding social threats in the workplace. Complete a self-assessment on your current team's inclusion climate.
Study the neuroscience of threat and trust. Learn Amy Edmondson's framework for team psychological safety and apply it through role-play scenarios involving feedback, dissent, and risk-taking.
Learn to identify subtle (and not-so-subtle) forms of exclusion in meetings, decision-making, and day-to-day interactions. Practice stakeholder mapping and power analysis to understand who holds influence and who gets left out.
Understand how cultural norms around communication, hierarchy, and feedback create friction. Practice using the Ladder of Inference and SBI (Situation-Behavior-Impact) feedback to address misunderstandings constructively.
Move beyond individual behavior change to systems-level design. Learn to audit processes (hiring, onboarding, promotion, recognition) for bias and redesign them to be more equitable and transparent.
Present your applied capstone project: a real-world intervention you designed, piloted, or planned for your organization. Receive peer and facilitator feedback. Complete your post-assessment and earn your EBIS credential.
Your capstone is not a theoretical exercise. You will design and document a concrete intervention to improve belonging, psychological safety, or inclusive collaboration in your actual workplace. Examples include:
You'll present your project during Week 6, explaining your diagnosis of the problem, your intervention design, anticipated outcomes, and how you'll measure success. This becomes a portfolio piece you can use to demonstrate your expertise to employers, clients, or internal stakeholders.
By the end of this certification, you will be able to:
This certification is designed for practitioners who are:
You do not need prior experience in culture work or formal HR credentials. You do need curiosity, openness to self-reflection, and a real organizational context where you can apply what you learn.
Program Fee: $879
Includes all recorded sessions, learning materials, toolkits, capstone feedback, and certification credential.
Group Discounts Available:
Scholarship Opportunities:
We reserve 10% of seats in each cohort for practitioners from community-based organizations, nonprofits, and under-resourced institutions. Apply during enrollment for need-based tuition reduction.
Enrollment is limited to 25 participants per cohort
Professional certification is an investment that pays dividends throughout your career:
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