Welcome to Six Seconds
Emotions drive people. People drive performance.
Welcome ICF Converge members! Explore our programs and services below, and contact us if you have any questions.
The emotional intelligence network
Six Seconds is a nonprofit dedicated to growing the world’s emotional intelligence. We certify ICF-accredited coaches and partner with organizations to make their coaching and leadership programs more effective and evidence-based.
A long-time ICF Business Solutions Provider. Our coaching programs are ICF-accredited at Levels 1, 2 and 3, and nearly every other course we run carries Continuing Coach Education units (CCEs).
Level 1 · Associate Brain CoachYour entry into ICF-accredited coaching. Graduates are eligible to apply for the ACC credential. 
Level 2 · EQ Coach CertificationThe professional-level pathway, adding assessment mastery. Leads to the PCC credential. 
Level 3 · EQ Master CoachThe capstone for experienced, credentialed coaches. Counts toward an MCC application. Meet our team
The Six Seconds team behind our work with coaches and organizations. Hala and Mariaelena are at ICF Converge — come find us at the booth, or get in touch and we’ll follow up.
Hala Jimenez
Mariaelena Welch
Chris Draper
Elise Jones
Susie Lubbers
Lead an ICF chapter?
We'd love to speak on emotional intelligence at one of your gatherings.
What's your primary focus?
We offer certification programs for individuals and enterprise solutions for organizations. Choose your lens and get started today.
For my organization
Make people your competitive advantage.- Make your coaching programs more effective
- Measure what matters with leading EQ and climate assessments
- Certify your coaches to ICF standards or bring in ICF-accredited coaches
For me & my clients
Make your coaching measurable and more effective.- Get your Level 1, 2 or 3 ICF-accredited certification
- Earn CCEs while building a real EQ specialty
- Coach with the Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Assessment (SEI) and its family of reports
Take the Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Assessment
The Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Assessment is the world’s leading EQ assessment, taken by over 1 million people worldwide. Answer the 77 questions yourself and get your free Brain Brief Profile — the complete report, not a preview — along with samples of the other reports produced by the SEI that you can use with your clients.
- Takes 5-10 minutes
- 77 questions
- Brain Brief Profile by email
Level up your work with ICF-accredited resources
Explore EQ coach certifications
ICF-accredited coaching programs at all three levels, grounded in emotional intelligence.
Explore certificationsEarn CCEs
Keep your ICF credential current while you build expertise in emotional intelligence. Explore the range of our courses that carry Continuing Coach Education units.
Build internal coaching & leadership programs
Combine leading assessments and certified coaches to get the measurable results you need.
Explore enterprise solutionsWhat people say after working with us
Coaches and leaders who brought emotional intelligence into their organizations.
An assessment you can stand behind
The Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Assessment (SEI) is psychometrically validated and normed against a global dataset of more than a million assessments across 200+ countries. The findings below are drawn from that data, and several are published in peer-reviewed journals.
Into the Headwinds: Women's EQ & Workplace Wellbeing
Analyzed 43,080 women across 114 countries. Three EQ capacities — Commitment, Resilience, and Proactivity — made women 8.6× more likely to report high wellbeing.
Read paperThe Emotional Recession
Global EQ scores declined 5.79% from 2019–2024 across 28,000 adults in 166 countries. People with higher EQ were 10× more likely to report strong life outcomes. Frontiers in Psychology, Freedman et al.
Read paperWant to use the SEI in your coaching?
The same assessment behind that research is the one coaches all over the world use every day with clients. The SEI produces a range of reports, from the approachable Brain Profiles to the in-depth Leadership Report.
Brain Profiles
A one-page read on how a client takes in information, decides and acts. Enough insight to open a relationship without spending an hour on a full debrief.
Leadership Report
How a leader uses emotional intelligence under pressure, where the gaps are, and what to work on first — scored against global norms.
Vital Signs
Measures a leader’s emotional intelligence against how the people around them experience it — trust, engagement and the drivers underneath.
Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions
Emotional literacy is a core foundation of emotional intelligence. At Six Seconds, we use Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions to learn and grow our emotional vocabulary in workshops, training programs and coaching sessions.
- Eight primary emotions. Joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger and anticipation.
- Opposites sit across from each other. Joy and sadness, trust and disgust, fear and anger, surprise and anticipation.
- Intensity rises toward the centre. Annoyance becomes anger becomes rage. Naming the right rung is half the work.
- Blends fill the gaps between petals. Joy and trust make love; anticipation and joy make optimism.
There are no good or bad emotions on the wheel. It is a map for noticing what is there — not a way to trade a difficult feeling for a nicer one.
