“The Empowerment Institute is the most powerful results-oriented training program I have ever encountered. I have integrated the empowerment architecture and operating system into everything I do from our community development leadership training program, to my relationships with colleagues, family and friends. It’s now like breathing.”
-- Jeff Nugent, CEO, Development Training Institute

“The Empowerment Institute provided me with powerful tools to introduce and facilitate transformation with the people and governmental organizations with which I work. These versatile tools have also transformed the way I lead meetings, build teams and interact with colleagues.”
-- Montserrat Meiro-Lorenzo, Senior Health Specialist, World Bank

“As a result of the empowerment learning strategy with its focus on vision, transformation of limiting beliefs that undermine learning, and growing edges around specific new behaviors, students have improved their academic performance and interest in learning. The atmosphere in the classroom is much more dynamic. Aside from using the empowerment methodology with my students I use it for myself as a teacher. I created a vision for my classroom and my teaching and brought it into reality. It now embodies my values and my true being. My classroom is a different place to be.”
-- Debrah Breger, 6th Grade Science Teacher, Rhinebeck School System

“In using the empowerment methodology with one organization, the General Manager said, the behavior changes she witnessed from the workshop participants were dramatic. Now she wants more!”
-- Elizabeth Soltis, Organizational Consultant

“The Empowerment Institute is a must for all community organizers and social change agents. It is a true cutting edge technology in community empowerment and behavioral change that really works.”
-- Netrisa Dockery, Community Organizer, Philadelphia

“The Empowerment Institute provides a priceless road map for transformation. It is refreshing to find a body of work that really delivers. I have been blown away by the effectiveness of this model.”
-- Rha Goddess, Artist and Founder of Move the Crowd

Joseph Pine and James Gilmore in their best-selling business book The Experience Economy state: “Nothing is more important or more abiding than the wisdom required to transform customers; and nothing will command as high a price.” And the gold standard for evaluating transformation is its ability to enable behavioral change. Whether it is around health, learning, management, or social change, the differentiator of any training program is if it has empowered participants to achieve their desired new behaviors.

In this track you learn how to integrate Empowerment Institute’s behavioral change methodology—the empowerment operating system—into an existing or new training.

• • Educators from grades K to 12 wishing to integrate an empowerment approach into their curriculum to accelerate learning, academic performance and development of prosocial behaviors in students.
  • Health professionals (doctors, nurses, nutritionists, trainers, health educators, public/community outreach agents) wishing to empower clients or patients to adopt specific health-related behaviors and take greater personal responsibility for the long-term maintenance of their health.
  • Corporate trainers teaching leadership development, team building, communication skills, diversity and inclusion, and other organizational skills who wish to enable behavioral change around their content that can be sustained over time.
  • Community organizers, educators, and facilitators of public engagement processes who wish to further prosocial behavior change and transformation within a community.
  • Trainers and those responsible for instructional design who wish to make their existing or new training transformational and capable of eliciting behavioral change.