NeuroChange Coach Certification
Neuroscience-Powered. Life-Transforming.
We are thrilled to announce that the Makin Institute for NeuroChange is now an ICF Level 1
Accredited Coaching Education Provider. Our NeuroCoach Training Program has been
rigorously reviewed and approved for 97+ hours of coach-specific education.
Join our coach training experience designed to create profound, lasting transformation—starting with you.
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 that 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.
- ACC Credential Eligibility: Upon graduating from our full Level 1 program, you are eligible to apply for your Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential using the simplified Level 1 application path.
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 and thereby maximize your influence.
You’ll graduate equipped with the neuroscience, strategy, and relational presence to drive lasting change.
Program Overview
Next Start Date: April 15, 2026
Duration: 6 months (April- September)
- Weekly live interactive Zoom sessions led by PCC-level instructors.
- 97.5 Instructional Clock Hours of neuroscience-based coaching education.
- 5 Observed Coaching Sessions with feedback.
- Supplemental asynchronous content through Heartbeat, our online learning platform.
- 7+ Hours of Mentor Coaching integrated into the program to refine your skills.
- A Final Performance Evaluation (oral exam) to demonstrate your competency at the ACC
level. - Optional: Three individual 1:1 mentoring sessions (available separately).
Tuition: $3499 (flexible payment options available)
- 5% discount if paid in full via ACH (use code Coaching2025)
- Monthly installments available, up to 12 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
Can I earn my ICF ACC credential through this program?
We’re excited to share that the NeuroChange Coach Training Program is accredited by ICF Coaching Education as a Level 1 ICF Accredited Coaching Education Provider.
How is this different from other coaching trainings?
Do I need a counseling or leadership background?
NEXT STEPS: Join Our Second Cohort
Take advantage of this foundational opportunity to shape your coaching future.
Gain certification as a NeuroChange Coach by the Makin Institute, which aligns with recent studies and trends confirming elite coaches integrate neuroscience as a necessary framework.
Seats are limited—reserve your place in this transformative journey today. (5 spots left)
ICF Program Status
NeuroChange Coach Training Program is accredited by ICF Coaching Education as a Level 1 ICF Accredited Coaching Education Provider