Change

Yourself,

Change

the World

Build a transformational coaching practice with proven tools, a remarkable community, and methods so effective we’re accredited by the International Coaching Federation at the highest level + graduate credit. Join the global leaders in executive and life coaching with emotional intelligence.

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Become an excellent coach.

Coaching is a powerful process of developing awareness, overcoming obstacles, and intentionally choosing the best path forward. For many, it is a life changing process with dramatic results both personally and professionally. As a professional coach, you have the opportunity to empower clients with the tools they need to achieve their goals and more.

“EQCC has been a truly life-defining journey. It blends profound, timeless theory with ample practical opportunities, all ably supported by exemplary mentor coaches.”

David Edwards

CityFibre Ltd, UK

Is this a fit for you?

Come experience the global EQ coach community, and meet members of our EQ Coach team & Joshua Freedman, MCC (Six Seconds’ ceo & cofounder) in our monthly free Coaching Connections online session

Experience the EQ Coach Approach

The complete solution for emotional intelligence coaching 

Accredited at the highest level by the International Coaching Federation, join Six Seconds to get started coaching, learn the tools, grow your capacity, and then continue toward world-class mastery:

Start with Level 1: Become an Associate Brain Coach

Learn to coach, collect certifications as you learn practical, proven tools. Earn Associate Brain Coach and ACC from ICF.

Get expertise with Level 2: Certified EQ Coach

Become a transformational coach with life-changing learning, extensive practice & advanced tools. Earn Certified EQ Coach and PCC from ICF.

Lead the Way with Level 3: Certified EQ Master Coach

As an experienced professional coach using emotional intelligence to fuel transformation, you know that emotions are the key. You have the skills. You are becoming the coach you mean to be.  Step more fully into your presence of BEING COACH, tap your and your clients’ emotions even more clearly, and cocreate the future of EQ coaching.

Earn Certified EQ Master Coach status (MCC-Level to meet ICF’s MCC education & mentoring requirements. Then, when you choose to, pursue MCC status from ICF).

 

 Next available session starts Oct 2026     
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Choose EQCC if you want:

Do you want to learn from the world’s leader in emotional intelligence and get practical tools to make coaching more powerful?

 
 

Emotional intelligence fuels personal and professional success.

Research has linked emotional intelligence to critical life success factors like effectiveness, relationships, wellbeing and quality of life. Are you ready to increase your emotional intelligence and create the context for your clients to do the same? Are you ready to achieve extraordinary results with your clients?

This course combines the ICF competencies with the latest research on neuroscience and emotional intelligence. You’ll learn how to BE a coach, and how to deliver coaching – through intensive training with deeply experienced faculty, a worldwide community, and a complete system of tools for measurement and development.

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Optimized Learning

Using robust design, engaging experiences, well designed materials and remarkable facilitators, this course is a transformational learning process.
 
  • Expert faculty
  • Hands-on, practical activities
  • Ample practice time
  • Access to world’s leading emotional intelligence tools

Earn your MA or MBA

The EQ Coach Certification is one of a handful to coach certifications in North America that also confers graduate credit. You’ll earn almost 1/3 of your MBA or your Masters in Nonprofit Management or Master of Human Services Administration — at Antioch University. Not only has it been consistently accredited for over 125 years, it’s one of the most supportive graduate schools in the country.

Hear what recent graduates have to say:

I experienced a far deeper personal and professional transformation than any other learning journey I have ever been on. I’m a different person now, equipped with a new perspective and incredibly impactful and practical tools to help others harness their emotions to yield positive outcomes and to find their true life’s purpose. Simply amazing. Thank you Six Seconds!

Veronica Barber

Chief People Officer

The breadth and depth of the course exceeded my expectations! The perfect blend of practicality and inspiration.

May Duong

Director of Emotional Intelligence, Synapse School

I found the model to be thorough, easy to understand and well-grounded in solid research. Their resource library and support personnel are extremely knowledgeable and responsive and the way they melded their EQ model into the International Coaching Federation credentialing is outstanding.

Rick Smith

Chief Administrative Officer, Vail Health

Associate Brain Coach Details

# Class Name
1 Unlocking EQ
2 Brain Profiler Certification
3 Brain Coach Mentoring
4 Coach Certification Foundations *
5 Completion (mentoring, final exam)

* also counts toward the PCC Level 2 program

  • Dates/locations: See below
  • Language(s): English, Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese (plus partial completion hours in Italian, French, Arabic, Japanese)
  • Delivery method: Virtual/online
  • Hours for each course: See our Knowledge Base article on ICF hours
  • Participants: Professionals committed to developing expertise in people development
  • Pre-requisites: Readiness for in-depth training
  • Contact: 831-763-1800 or via email at 6sec.org/contact
  • Contact names: Vary by region; Director of Education is Joshua Freedman, MCC

Certified EQ Coach Details

# Class Name
1 EQ Practitioner Certification
2 Coach Certification Foundations
3 EQ Assessor Certification
4 Coach Cert Integration
5 Coach Cert Solutions
6 Completion (mentoring, final exam)
  • Dates/locations: See below
  • Language(s): English, Chinese (plus partial completion hours in Spanish, Italian, French, Arabic, Vietnamese, Japanese)
  • Delivery method: Virtual/online
  • Hours for each course: See our Knowledge Base article on ICF hours
  • Participants: Professionals committed to developing expertise in people development
  • Pre-requisites: Readiness for in-depth training
  • Contact: 831-763-1800 or via email at 6sec.org/contact
  • Contact names: Vary by region; Director of Education is Joshua Freedman, MCC

Certified EQ Master Coach Details

  • Class Names & contact hours:
    EQMC: 80 (40 synchronous)
  • Dates/locations: See below
  • Language(s): English
  • Delivery method: In-person + online
  • Participants: Professional Coaches with deep experience and commitment to leading the emotional intelligence coaching field
  • Pre-requisites: PCC + significant experience with Six Seconds EQ tools + >500 hours of professional coaching experience
  • Contact: 831-763-1800 or via email at 6sec.org/contact
  • Contact names: Vary by region; Director of Education is Joshua Freedman, MCC

 

Next available session: Oct 2026, Bali

 

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You can transform people’s lives.

For over 20 years, Six Seconds has been training and supporting people to use emotions as resources. We’ve seen first hand how simple tools and practices of emotional intelligence can get big results – and this course is designed to equip coaches with those transformational tools and methods.

You will take away a range of hands-on tools to make coaching more powerful and measurable, meet your tribe of coaches striving for a more emotionally intelligent world, and have access to expert faculty with decades of transformational coaching experience.

We can’t wait to get you started coaching with EQ!

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Change yourself, change the world.

Get certified as an EQ coach (PCC) with the global leaders in executive and life coaching with emotional intelligence.