INTRODUCING
The Certified Human Intelligence Practitioner™
PROGRAM

From Trainer to Trusted Partner…

Build the Human Intelligence, Consultative Skills, and Learning Expertise to Influence Leaders and Drive Business Results.

Coming Fall 2026

Today's learning professionals are being asked to do more than ever before.

You're no longer expected to simply deliver great training.

You're expected to sit at the table with leaders, understand business challenges, ask better questions, recommend solutions, build learning journeys, facilitate meaningful conversations, coach behavior change, demonstrate impact, and now leverage AI to work smarter than ever.

Unfortunately, most trainer certifications don't teach those skills.

They teach you how to deliver content.

The Certified Human Intelligence Practitioner™ (CHIP™) was created to develop something much bigger.

It prepares internal trainers, facilitators, HR professionals, HR Business Partners, Learning & Development professionals, consultants, and leadership practitioners to become trusted learning partners and advisors who help organizations solve business challenges through intentional learning, coaching, facilitation, and leadership development.

You'll learn how to move from being the person who gets asked to "deliver the training" to becoming the person leaders seek out to help solve problems, influence change, and build capability across their organization.

Because the future belongs to learning professionals who can think strategically, consult confidently, facilitate skillfully, and build human capability at scale.

Join the waitlist below!

You'll Learn More Than Facilitation

Throughout this immersive twelve-week experience, you'll develop the capabilities needed to become a trusted advisor—not simply a trainer. You'll learn how to...

  • Instead of immediately jumping to solutions, you'll learn how to ask better questions, conduct meaningful discovery conversations, identify root causes, and partner with stakeholders to uncover what the business actually needs—not just what someone requested.

    You'll leave with practical frameworks you can use immediately to lead stakeholder meetings with greater confidence and credibility.

  • Great learning professionals don't think in workshops.

    They think in learning journeys.

    You'll learn how to connect assessments, coaching, facilitation, reinforcement, and measurement into intentional learning experiences that create lasting behavior change.

  • Move beyond presenting information.

    Learn how to facilitate discussions that build trust, increase participation, encourage reflection, and help people think differently.

    You'll strengthen your facilitation confidence while learning how to read the room, adapt in real time, manage difficult situations, and create meaningful learning experiences people actually remember.

  • Learning doesn't end when the workshop does.

    You'll develop practical coaching skills that help leaders and learners apply what they've learned, create accountability, and sustain behavior change over time.

  • One of the biggest shifts from trainer to trusted advisor is learning how to communicate value.

    You'll learn how to evaluate learning beyond smile sheets, conduct executive debriefs, communicate meaningful outcomes, and position learning as a business investment—not simply a training event.

  • AI isn't replacing learning professionals.

    It's changing how we work.

    You'll learn practical ways to use AI to accelerate stakeholder preparation, learning design, facilitation planning, participant materials, coaching questions, evaluations, executive summaries, and reinforcement—freeing you to spend more time doing the uniquely human work that creates real transformation.

The Transformation

This program isn't designed to make you a better presenter. It's designed to change how you show up inside your organization. You'll leave with the confidence to:

✔ Lead consultative conversations with business leaders.

✔ Recommend solutions instead of simply taking orders.

✔ Design learning journeys instead of isolated workshops.

✔ Facilitate transformational conversations instead of delivering presentations.

✔ Coach leaders instead of checking the training box.

✔ Use AI to scale your impact without sacrificing human connection.

Most importantly...

You'll become the kind of learning professional organizations rely on when the challenge is too important for "just another training class."

Program Experience

Over twelve weeks, you'll participate in live, highly interactive virtual learning sessions where you'll learn, practice, apply, and receive coaching every step of the way.

Unlike traditional train-the-trainer programs, this experience goes far beyond presentation skills.

You'll learn how to become a trusted learning partner who can consult with stakeholders, design learning journeys, facilitate transformational conversations, coach for behavior change, and use AI to scale your effectiveness without sacrificing authenticity.

The Capstone Practicum

Your certification culminates in an immersive 3½-day, in-person Capstone Practicum in the Boulder/Denver, Colorado area.

This is where everything comes together.

Throughout the program, you'll build a complete learning experience based on a real business challenge. Before arriving, you'll submit a brief Learning Strategy outlining the business need, learning objectives, audience, and your design approach.

Then you'll bring it to life.

  • Deliver your 15-minute facilitated learning experience while being observed by experienced facilitators and executive coaches using the Human Intelligence™ competency model and certification rubric.

    Receive detailed coaching, practical feedback, and personalized recommendations.

  • Learning doesn't happen from feedback alone—it happens through application.

    Using the coaching you received, you'll strengthen your design, refine your delivery, and continue practicing inside a collaborative learning lab alongside your peers.

    This is where participants often experience their biggest breakthroughs.

  • Return to facilitate your revised learning experience and demonstrate how you've applied your coaching.

    This final facilitation serves as one of the requirements for earning your Certified Human Intelligence Practitioner™ credential.

  • Celebrate everything you've accomplished and officially receive your Certified Human Intelligence Practitioner™ credential.

    You'll leave with:

    • Official CHIP™ Certificate

    • Digital Certification Badge

    • LinkedIn and email signature assets

    • Social media graphics and announcement templates

    • Personalized Human Intelligence Development Plan

    • Invitation to the CHIP™  Practitioner Alumni Community

CONTINUE BUILDING CAPACITY

Certification is just the beginning.

Graduates will have the opportunity to continue developing their expertise through optional implementation and coaching experiences, including:

  • Intimate Coaching Cohorts for continued development, coaching from Tara, and peer learning.

  • Done-for-You Leadership and Team Topic Libraries complete with facilitator guides, participant workbooks, presentation decks, and implementation coaching.

  • Facilitation Observation & Coaching, where Tara observes your live workshops and provides personalized feedback and coaching.

  • Advanced Human Intelligence™ Practitioner programs and specialty certifications as they become available.

Is This Program Right for YOU?

This certification is designed for professionals who want to increase their impact inside their organizations, including:

  • Learning & Development Professionals

  • HR Business Partners

  • Organizational Development Practitioners

  • Internal Trainers & Facilitators

  • Managers Who Create Learning Experiences

  • Talent Development Leaders

  • Subject Matter Experts

JOIN
the Waitlist

We're currently building the inaugural Certified Human Intelligence Practitioner™ cohort, launching in Fall 2026.

If you're ready to move beyond delivering training and become a trusted partner who can build learning capability at scale, we'd love to keep you informed.

Join the Priority Waiting List to receive:

  • Early access to registration

  • Founding cohort pricing

  • Behind-the-scenes program updates

  • Launch bonuses available only to the inaugural class

As an Authorized Everything DiSC® and Five Behaviors® Partner for more than two decades and one of Wiley's Top Global Partners, Tara has certified and developed hundreds of facilitators, leadership professionals, and internal learning practitioners while earning Wiley's prestigious Diamond Award for excellence in leadership development.

Her work has also been recognized with multiple Brandon Hall Excellence Awards, HR.com's Leadership 500, and she serves as a judge for the internationally recognized Brandon Hall Excellence Awards, evaluating some of the world's most innovative learning and leadership programs.

Tara is also an international bestselling author, keynote speaker, and creator of Workshop Sundae®, a highly acclaimed program that has helped hundreds of coaches, consultants, speakers, and business owners design workshops that create transformation while growing their businesses.

Throughout the Certified Human Intelligence Practitioner™ program, Tara doesn't simply teach concepts.

She coaches participants in real time, shares lessons learned from decades of working with executive teams and global organizations, and provides direct feedback, observations, and practical strategies participants can immediately apply inside their own organizations.

This isn't theory.

It's the same consulting approach, facilitation methods, coaching techniques, and learning strategies Tara uses with executives and Fortune 500 organizations every day.

You're not learning from someone who teaches facilitation.

You're learning from someone organizations hire to solve their most important leadership and learning challenges—and who is passionate about teaching others how to do the same.

The Certified Human Intelligence Practitioner™ program is personally designed and led by Tara Powers, CEO of Powers Resource Center and one of the country's leading experts in leadership development, facilitation, learning strategy, and organizational capability building.

For more than 25 years, Tara has helped organizations move beyond one-time training events to build leadership pipelines, high-performing teams, and learning journeys that create measurable business results. She has partnered with more than 350 organizations and worked with 35,000+ leaders across industries including healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, energy, technology, government, and nonprofit organizations.

Unlike many certification programs taught by career trainers, Tara continues to do this work every day.

She serves as a strategic advisor to executives and Learning & Development teams, helping organizations diagnose business challenges, design custom leadership development programs, facilitate executive and team experiences, coach senior leaders, and build internal capability that lasts long after an engagement ends.

Learn from Someone Who’s Been There