When this model fits
Some organizations need a program delivered. Others already have the machine: pathways, program managers, facilitators, a platform, badges. What they need is the content.
This model fits when:
- You run internal academies or cohort pathways with your own program managers
- You have people who deliver well, or a community of practitioners ready to become your trainers
- Your population is measured in thousands, far past what per-cohort external delivery covers
- You want the curriculum inside your own stack, running on your own calendar
If you would rather we run the program end to end, start with the cohort program instead. Same curriculum, delivered by us.
What you license and what we keep
Licensed programs fail on fuzzy IP boundaries, so here is ours:
You license, for internal use
- The full curriculum: facilitator guides, session designs, participant materials, worked examples
- The measurement instruments and rubrics
- The reinforcement content that keeps the practice alive after sessions end
We keep
- Ownership of the methodology, and the responsibility to keep evolving it. You receive the evolution as updates for as long as your license is active.
- The certification standard: who can teach this, and what it takes
The rules that protect both sides
- Internal use only. Your certified coaches teach your employees. Materials never leave your organization.
- Participant materials are licensed per person. The facilitator kit contains a specimen set; every learner gets their own.
- No derivative works, and no loading the materials into your own AI tools. The license includes its own AI coach, built for exactly that job.
The layers
Five layers make the model work. Here is who runs each one.
| Layer | What it is | Who runs it |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | A working session that installs the mindset shift and the shared language. Runs per timezone, several hundred people at a time. | Curious Lion |
| Content | The curriculum, session designs, and materials, loaded into your own platform. | Yours, licensed from us |
| Practice | Small-group learning circles working on live problems. The engine of the whole system. | Your certified coaches |
| Certification | The gate that qualifies your coaches to run practice, published in full below. | We certify, you deliver |
| Reinforcement | The platform carrying content, refreshers, and the AI coach after sessions end. | Self-serve, updated by us |
Coach certification, concretely
Licensed programs live or die on who teaches them, so we publish exactly how certification works. Most licensors keep this vague. We think it is a part worth knowing.
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Participate first
Every candidate has been through the program as a participant in a live delivery. People teach a loop they have run themselves.
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The certification course
Two to three days, in person or virtual, in small groups. Candidates learn the facilitation design behind each session, then teach it back.
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Evaluated teach-backs
Every candidate facilitates real segments against named criteria and gets coached between rounds. Attendance alone certifies nobody.
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Provisional, then full
New coaches leave the course provisional. Full certification follows their first delivery, which we observe, audit, and debrief together.
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A credential that lasts
Certification does not expire, and it moves with the coach. It can be exercised at any organization holding an active license.
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The next generation
Later coach cohorts qualify through any live delivery, whether we ran it or your certified coaches did. The system feeds itself.
The reinforcement platform and the AI coach
Behavior change decays without something carrying it after the sessions end. Two things carry it here:
The platform. One place holding the licensed content, refresher material, and the AI coach. Participants keep access for as long as their seats are active, and everything in it updates as the methodology evolves. Nothing for your team to build and nothing to integrate.
The AI coach. A coach, deliberately, and never an answer machine. It walks a participant through the loop on a live problem from their real work, asking the questions a good thought partner would ask. It is built to coach the thinking and it refuses to do the thinking for you.
The rollout sequence
Six stages, starting small on purpose.
Pilot
A tightly scoped first cohort: diagnostic baseline, mindset activation, the tools. Tests the model, reduces the risk.
Design
Define scope, timeline, comms, and sustainment together.
Build
Create the customized learning pathways in your platform.
Communicate
Align leaders and set expectations before anything launches.
Launch
Activate the mindset and roll out the toolset in waves.
Sustain
Embed the system in the flow of work, carried by your coaches and the AI coach.
What each side supplies
A licensed deployment is a partnership with a clean division of labor.
You bring
- A strategic vision and deployment goals
- An LMS or LXP for hosting
- An internal build team
- A measurement strategy
- Ownership of internal comms and rollout
We bring
- The toolkit: an operating system for facilitators and participants
- SCORM-compatible learning assets
- Design and support through setup
- A measurement framework you can adopt
- Comms and reinforcement assets
- Implementation guidance to embed the practice in the flow of work
Cost parameters
Three pieces decide the budget.
Initial engagement
The custom work that stands the whole system up.
Custom Scoped with you- Discovery and customization
- The capability diagnostic
- Activation sessions
- The first delivery wave
Participant seats
Every person going through the program holds a licensed seat.
$200 Per participant per year- Participant materials
- Reinforcement platform access
- The AI coach
- Content updates as the methodology evolves
- Renews annually for continued access
Coach certifications
One fee per coach you certify, paid once.
$3,995 Per coach, one time- The certification course
- Evaluated teach-backs
- An audited and debriefed first delivery
- A credential that does not expire
What moves the custom number: population size, how many coaches you certify, customization depth, delivery mix, and geography.
Where the outcome guarantee applies
Our fee-on-outcome guarantee covers what we deliver: the initial engagement and any cohorts we run. Once your coaches carry delivery, quality is protected by the certification gate and delivery audits.
See if the model fits
A short conversation is enough to tell. If it is not a fit, we will say so.
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