Get ECD Certified in R&E's Emotional Culture System
Learn how to guide emotional culture conversations across leadership, teams, change, and stakeholder experience using a system trusted by over 1,000 organisations worldwide.
More than 500,000 people across 70+ countries use R&E’s tools and training to improve how people feel, connect, and perform at work.
Begin your certification journey >This Isn’t Just a Tool. It’s a System.
Most leadership and culture programmes ignore emotion. R&E’s Emotional Culture System doesn't.
The Emotional Culture Deck sits at the heart of a practical, proven system for shaping emotional culture—through tools, rituals, and emotionally intelligent design practices.
As an ECD Certified Consultant, you’ll learn how to apply this system across four key areas: emotional culture, leadership, change, and stakeholder experience. You’ll guide people through real transformation, not just surface-level workshops.
What is R&E’s Emotional Culture System?
Our Emotional Culture System is a human-first framework for building emotionally connected teams and organisations. It's an interconnected set of tools, conversations, rituals and design methods that help people name, express, and shape emotions at work.
It’s built around a deceptively simple tool The Emotional Culture Deck. But it’s not about playing cards. It’s about building emotional awareness, trust, and human connection through intentional, repeatable practice that drives performance and culture.
Our Emotional Culture Systems brings together:
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Tools, canvases, handbooks, conversation guides and other community tools
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Rituals that embed emotion into the flow of work
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Conversations that spark empathy, connection and trust
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Design frameworks that shape how people lead, change, relate and perform
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Programmes and pathways that grow emotional performance over time.
Four Entry Points
Our Emotional Culture system has four main entry points and pathways:
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Emotional Culture – redesign team culture from the bottom-up
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Emotional Leadership – help leaders lead with emotion and intention
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Emotional Change – Equip people to navigate change through emotion
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Emotional Stakeholder – embed emotional connection into customer and partner experiences
Each pathway is a new way to apply the same system. Together, they form one of the most flexible, human-first culture systems on the planet.
Why become ECD Certified?
Because we need more people who can help organisations feel their way forward.
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Learn to work with emotion as a performance driver, not a risk to manage
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Gain a system of frameworks, tools, and rituals that leaders actually use
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Grow your practice with a respected global certification
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Join a community of emotionally connected leaders shaping real human change
Your progress is recognised through six emotional milestones from Rising to Elite to Master. Each step is more than a title. It’s a signal that you’re deepening your practice and real-world impact.
How to Start
You don’t need to understand the whole system before you begin. Just choose one of the four ECD Specialist Courses and get started.
Each course is a focused, self-paced learning experience that introduces you to the Emotional Culture System through a specific lens:
- Emotional Culture Crafting → Co-create team culture and norms
- Emotional Leadership Development → Help leaders lead with intention and heart
- Emotional Change Strategy→ Guide people through the emotions of transition
- Emotional Stakeholder Engagement → Design emotionally connected experiences
Once you complete your first course, you’ll become a Certified Practitioner in that specialty. From there, you can grow your practice, build experience, and decide how far you want to go.
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What You’ll Learn & Apply
Everyone begins by becoming a Certified Practitioner in one of our four Specialist Courses. The moment you successfully complete your introductory course, you become a certified practitioner in that speciality.
These aren’t generic leadership modules. They’re deep dives into real-world emotional work:
- Culture – Design emotionally grounded team norms and behaviours
- Leadership – Coach leaders to lead with emotion, not just strategy
- Change – Guide teams through emotionally charged transitions
- Stakeholder – Create emotionally connected customer and partner experiences
Building experience as a practitioner qualifies you to undertake our Advanced ECD Certified Consultant Training and lift your level of standing to Certified Consultant. From there, you can progress your specialty as a Certified Consultant through to your ultimate goal and level – Mastery – and the title of Master in that field.
Curious what that journey actually looks like in one specialty?
Let’s walk through the full pathway—from first workshop to Master Consultant.
See the Full Emotional Culture Pathway in Action
What does it look like to go all the way in one specialty? Here’s how the ECD Culture Certification Pathway unfolds—step by step.
When you begin the ECD Culture Certification Pathway, you start as a Certified Practitioner, learning how to facilitate emotional culture conversations that help teams shape how they feel, connect, and perform.
From there, as you continue to build experience, deliver workshops, and deepen your understanding of the emotional culture frameworks, you earn Rising, Advanced, and Senior status.
When you’re ready, you join our Consultant Development Programme and take the leap into Certified Consultant. At this level, you’re endorsed by R&E to deliver our ECD Specialist Courses and certify new Practitioners across all four ECD Specialities.
From there, you can continue all the way to Master—our highest level of recognition—where you’re acknowledged globally for your depth, consistency, and leadership within emotional culture work.
This is what it means to not just use the system, but teach it and shape it.
How our ECD Certified Pathway Works.
One interconected emotional journey.
This isn’t a one-and-done course. It’s a structured, supported system for growth. On your ECD Certified Pathway you pass through three distinct Certification levels as you progress from Practitioner to Consultant to Master. And, along the way, it includes more moments of recognition than ever before with six status tiers.
Three Certification Levels:
- Practitioner – Learn to facilitate ECD experiences in your chosen speciality
- Consultant – Deliver ECD courses, certify practitioners, guide deeper programmes of work
- Master – Be recognised as a global leader in emotional culture
Six Recognition Tiers:
- Rising → Advanced → Senior (Practitioner Path)
- Pro → Expert → Elite (Consultant Path)
Six Status Tiers: Track Progress. Be Recognised.
Progress is emotional. Feeling yourself grow is one of the most powerful motivators in any learning journey.
That’s why your ECD Certified Pathway includes six formal recognition tiers, acknowledging your depth, consistency, and contribution over time.
As a Practitioner, you’ll earn titles and badges as you progress through → Rising → Advanced → Senior
Each badge reflects the real work you’ve done, whether in Culture, Change, Leadership, or Stakeholder Engagement. We also celebrate milestones like workshop delivery and community involvement.
These badges aren’t just markers. They’re proof that you’re helping reshape emotional culture, one workshop at a time.
Diversify & Deepen
You can specialise in one pathway or many. Go deep or go wide. You choose the pace, the sequence, the impact.
To diversify and deepen your professional proficiency, you can add further specialisations to give you greater skills and more opportunities to make an emotional difference. With each specialisation, you follow the same journey through the three Certification levels to advance from Practitioner to Consultant to Master.
You can do this one specialisation at a time. You can pursue different specialisations simultaneously. Or you can pace them in different ways. It all comes down to the journey you’re on and how the different Certification levels of specialisation help you achieve more in your workplace or business.
Master is the ultimate recognition.
Certified Master means you are recognised as a global leader in your chosen speciality.
This System Evolves With Work Itself
Emotions at work are changing. So are we.
Our ECD Certified Pathway structure with four specialisations, three certification levels, and six recognition tiers—reflects what our community and partners have told us matters most: depth, flexibility, and acknowledgement.
Wherever you’re at on your journey, the pathway will support your development and growth.
Gain the
Endorsement to Certify ECD Practitioners.
When you level up to become an ECD Certified Consultant, you go from using the system to teaching it.
At this level, you're officially endorsed by R&E to deliver our ECD Specialist Courses and certify new Practitioners across all four specialities. You don’t just understand the tools, you understand how the frameworks within the system connect.
You know how to guide people through transformational journeys with depth and care. This qualification tells organisations that you’re not only a skilled facilitator, but also a trusted advisor who’s equipped to embed emotional culture across leadership, change, teams and stakeholder experiences.
It’s one of the most valuable credentials we offer.
This is where your role shifts.
You’re no longer just applying the system. You’re trusted to teach it, grow it, and shape how others use it.
That’s what it means to move from doing the work… to leading it.
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You're never alone
From the moment you begin you’ll be invited into our global community. You’ll get 90 days of all-access to see the value for yourself, then you can choose to stay for a small monthly fee.
This is where the learning deepens. Our community is made up of practitioners, consultants, and leaders around the world who are rehumanising the places we work and live.
You’ll find support, inspiration, feedback, and shared tools. Whether you’re asking questions, sharing wins, or learning from others, you’ll never be on your own. The sense of connection, collective insight, and emotional encouragement lifts our collective impact and wisdom.
Being active in this community isn’t just helpful. It’s one of the most powerful parts of your certification journey.
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Begin your journey to emotional culture mastery
Ready to Flip What the World Feels?
Whether you’re just discovering R&E’s Emotional Culture System or ready to deepen your practice, this is your path to emotional mastery.
It’s not just a credential. It’s a way of working, leading, and living with more connection and intention.
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