NeuroChange Coach Certification
Neuroscience-Powered. Life-Transforming.
Join an inaugural coach training experience designed to create profound, lasting transformation—starting with you. This program is currently under review to meet the ICF standards and requirements of an ACC-level accreditation program!
Rewire Your Brain. Transform Others
Why NeuroChange Coaching?
This is not just another coach training program. It’s an immersive, neuroscience-driven journey for coaches and leaders who believe true transformation reaches deeper than behaviors and goals. If you’re looking for tools that engage hearts, shift neural pathways, and drive lasting change, you’re in the right place.
As the the coaching industry matures, the demand for evidence-based, transformational approaches is rising, particularly in executive and leadership coaching. One of the most powerful emerging trends is neuroscience-informed coaching.
The Makin Institute’s NeuroChange Coach Training Program fuses gold-standard coaching competencies with the neuroscience of how people actually change—emotionally, relationally, and neurologically. This immersive training experience will prepare you to create sustainable change at the synaptic level and meet the growing demand in the market.
Who This Program Is For
You’ll thrive in our program if:
- You’re passionate about creating sustainable transformation—not just performance or mindset tweaks.
- You sense traditional coaching models often overlook deeper emotional and relational layers.
- You want to harness cutting-edge neuroscience to anchor change in the core of human identity.
- You're ready to grow personally, becoming a transformative presence in your clients' lives.
Ideal participants include:
- New coaches aiming for top-tier training with NeuroChange Coaching Certification
- Experienced coaches seeking advanced neuroscience-based tools.
- Counselors, pastors, and spiritual leaders expanding into deep coaching.
- Purpose-driven individuals committed to catalyzing genuine transformation.
Distinctives of NeuroChange Coaching
Memory Reconsolidation Methods
Permanently rewrite maladaptive emotional memories that drive distorted beliefs and ineffective behaviors, which hinder high performance.
Powerful Relational Presence
Learn right-brain-to-right-brain skills to deeply engage the client, catalyzing their internalization of who you are and the realness of the relationship as another means for neural and emotional restructuring.
Co-Created Experiential Insight
Shift from coach-driven advice to mutual discovery, through felt experiences, pulling insights from within the client that empower self-awareness, ownership, and agency.
Neural Narrative Anchoring
Put words, understanding, meaning, and personal story to emotionally powerful experiences created by Corrective Relational Experiences. This anchors changes in the neo-cortex, making them automatic and effortless.
What You’ll Master
You won’t just learn how to coach. You’ll learn how to rewire the brain for transformation.
- NeuroChange Strategies: Go beyond surface-level coping techniques to experiential, bottom-up change focused on the root causes of internal barriers to change.
- NeuroRelational Skills: Move from powerful questioning to full-bodied attunement, where motivation and identity shifts begin.
- NeuroAssessment Methods: Understand the unique developmental, relational, and cultural needs of each individual to increase the specificity of your interventions, thereby maximizing your influence.
You’ll graduate equipped with the neuroscience, strategy, and relational presence to drive lasting change.
Program Overview
Next Start Date: March 1, 2026
Duration: 6 months (March- August)
- Weekly live interactive Zoom sessions led by PCC-level instructors.
- Supplemental asynchronous content through Heartbeat, our online learning platform.
- Seven hours of group mentor coaching (included).
- Optional: Three individual 1:1 mentoring sessions (available separately).
Tuition: $3499 (flexible payment options available)
- $2999 pricing if paid in full before March 1, 2026
- 5% discount if paid in full via ACH (use code Coaching2025)
- Monthly installments available over 6, 12, or 24 months. Please email Bruce Makin to set up a payment schedule.
Meet Your Lead Instructor
Dr. Gregg Makin, PCC
Executive coach, neuroscience expert, and co-founder of the Makin Institute for NeuroChange.
Gregg Makin has a PhD in Organizational Leadership, is a NeuroChange Certified Specialist, and a Professionally Certified Coach. Gregg brings decades of transformative coaching and relational neuroscience experience, having trained hundreds of coaches globally.
“NeuroChange Coaching doesn’t just teach me how to coach—it changes how I show up in every relationship. I’m finally working from a place of wholeness, not performance.”
— Recent NeuroChange Graduate
“I’ve trained with top-tier programs before, but NeuroChange Coaching taught me to access the emotional core beneath mindset shifts—that’s where real transformation happens.”
— Executive Coach, PCC
Frequently Asked Questions
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*ICF Program Status
This program is currently under review to meet the ICF standards and requirements of an ACC leveled accreditation program.