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Certified Advanced DBT Practitioner

Online Certification  ·  10 Week  ·  Globally Recognised  ·  (CADBP)

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Executive Summary

Certified Advanced DBT Practitioner

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Advanced DBT Practitioner (CADBP) delivers a rigorous Advanced-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in human resource management, talent development and organisational effectiveness.

This 10 Week programme is structured around SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CADBP holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification
Certified Advanced DBT Practitioner
Acronym
CADBP
Category
Human Resources
Level
Advanced
Duration
10 Week
Delivery Mode
100% Online
Assessment
Online Examination
Certificate
Digital + Physical
CPD Eligibility
CPD Accredited
Alumni Benefits
GLI Network Access
Self-Paced
USD 449
Live Virtual
USD 649
Target Audience

Who Should Enrol?

  • Ethics, Supervision and Safety — applied to your own work
  • Outcomes and Review — applied to your own work
  • Scope, Boundary and Referral — applied to your own work
  • The Therapeutic Alliance — applied to your own work
  • Contracting and Confidentiality — applied to your own work
  • Listening, Reflection and Restraint — applied to your own work
Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

  • All study materials and study guide
  • Access to GLI online learning portal
  • Online examination and assessment
  • Digital certificate and digital badge
  • Physical certificate (shipped to you)
  • CPD credits for professional bodies
  • GLI alumni network membership
  • Facilitator and tutor support
  • Resource downloads and reference library
  • Automatic enrolment confirmation
Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Career Advancement
Accelerate your career towards CHRO and senior people-management roles
Professional Recognition
Credential aligned with SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards
Leadership Capability
Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex human resource management functions
Organisational Impact
Design and implement human resource management systems that drive performance and measurable results
Compliance Readiness
Master the standards, compliance and ethical governance central to human resource management
Global Employability
Qualify for human resource management roles across multinationals, NGOs and international organisations worldwide
Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

✦Clinical Approaches and Therapeutic Models
✦Assessment, Formulation and Treatment Planning
✦Performance, Reward and Employee Relations
✦HR Strategy, Analytics and Workforce Planning
✦Employment Law, Compliance and HR Governance
✦Professional Ethics and Governance
Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

Click any module to explore the detailed curriculum topics included in this certification.

1
Foundations and Professional Context of Certified Advanced DBT Practitioner
  • Certified Advanced DBT Practitioner: industry context, trends and professional standards
  • The helping relationship and its purpose
  • History and scope of counselling and coaching
  • Professional roles, boundaries and settings
  • Ethical principles and codes of practice
  • The self of the practitioner
  • Cultural competence and diversity
  • Confidentiality, consent and safeguarding
  • The evidence base for talking therapies
  • Wellbeing and the biopsychosocial model
  • Career pathways and professional development
2
Ethics, Supervision and Safety
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
  • Mentoring, sponsorship and developmental relationships
  • Evaluating coaching outcomes
  • Team coaching and the team as client
  • Cultural context and coaching across difference
  • Building and running a coaching practice
  • Clinical assessment and shared formulation
  • Therapeutic modalities and choosing an approach
  • Risk assessment and safeguarding in practice
  • Trauma-informed delivery and its limits
3
Outcomes and Review
  • Evaluating coaching outcomes
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • Values-based living
  • Coaching for resilience and wellbeing
  • Analytical techniques and bias
  • Brand strategy, identity and architecture
  • Brand equity and positioning
  • Integrated marketing communications (IMC)
  • Advertising and creative development
  • Preparing financial statements
  • Interpreting financial statements
  • Reputation and crisis communications
  • Brand guidelines and consistency
  • Measuring brand health
4
Scope, Boundary and Referral
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
  • Remote and telephone practice
  • Endings, relapse and maintaining change
  • Practitioner wellbeing and vicarious trauma
  • Outcome monitoring in therapeutic work
  • Referral, multi-agency work and the client pathway
  • Budget vs actual and variance
  • Cost and profitability analysis
  • Forecasting and planning
  • Behavioural and process addictions
  • Risk, protective and social factors
  • Data visualisation for finance
  • Stages of change and readiness
5
The Therapeutic Alliance
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
  • Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
  • Group facilitation and group process
  • Record keeping, notes and professional documentation
  • Decision support and insight
  • Communicating financial results
  • Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
  • Attachment and developmental theory
  • Managing boundaries and dual relationships
  • Relapse prevention planning
  • Peer support and consultation
  • Sustaining ethical, effective practice
  • Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
  • Duty of care and risk management
6
Contracting and Confidentiality
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
  • Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
  • Client feedback and satisfaction
  • Lessons learned and development
  • Driving effective, ethical outcomes
  • Professional standards in the field
  • Coaching principles and ethics
  • The coaching relationship
  • Psychoeducation and workshops
  • Strengths-based coaching
  • Group and team coaching
  • Designing an intervention or programme
  • Habits and behaviour design
7
Listening, Reflection and Restraint
  • Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Cultural context and coaching across difference
  • Professional case study and presentation
  • Marketing technology and the stack
  • Presenting, demonstrating and proposing
  • Negotiation and closing techniques
  • Sales forecasting and territory planning
  • Working with ambivalence and motivation
  • Recovery capital and community
  • Case management and referral
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Treatment planning and review
  • Managing complexity and comorbidity
  • Workplace and organisational contexts
8
Communication Skills
  • Professional presentation and pitching
  • Media and public communication
  • Facilitation, training and public presentation skills
  • Communicating technical information to diverse audiences
  • Professional report writing and presentation
  • Peer review and expert feedback
  • Communication and interpersonal skills
  • Closed-loop feedback systems
  • Influencing and presenting insights
  • Professional and persuasive communication
  • Presenting and influencing
  • Investor relations and market communication
  • Presenting financial information clearly
  • Crisis and reputation communication
  • Communication strategy in change programmes
9
Development and Learning
  • Leadership and management development
  • Training needs analysis and learning strategy
  • Organisation development principles and practice
  • Competency framework development
  • Succession planning and talent pipelines
  • Talent sourcing channels and pipelines
  • High-potential identification and talent reviews
  • Knowledge management and capability building
  • Change talk and readiness
  • Habit change and behaviour design
  • Accountability and follow-through
  • Capability and skills frameworks
  • Meaning, purpose and values
  • Continuous improvement and learning organisations
  • Delegating for development
10
Groups and Facilitation
  • High-performance team rituals and cadence
  • Productivity, collaboration and workflow tools
  • Team leadership in procurement
  • Outcome and process measures
  • Evidence-based practice and research literacy
  • Practice management systems
  • Designing and facilitating groups
  • Working with referrers and multidisciplinary teams
  • Leading groups and workshops
  • Collaboration and teamwork
  • Servant leadership and self-organising teams
  • Team leadership within HR
  • Facilitation, coaching and mentoring
  • Psychometric and screening tools
  • Team and engagement metrics
11
Behaviour and Change
  • Technology governance and change control
  • Foreign exchange and hedging
  • Engagement and motivation
  • Change management and adoption
  • Engagement, motivation and energisers
  • Motivation and self-directed learning
  • Cost concepts, classification and behaviour
  • Regulatory change management
  • Embedding values and behaviours
  • Benchmarking and best-practice adoption
  • Designing a strategic or change intervention
  • Baseline setting and change control
  • Team leadership and motivation
  • Motivation and engagement
  • Emerging tools and innovation
12
Goals and Measurement
  • Credit risk measurement and mitigation
  • Sales performance and pipeline management
  • Social performance and outreach
  • Investment principles and objectives
  • Metrics and reporting
  • Performance management systems and cycles
  • Performance measurement and KPI dashboards
  • Continuous feedback and performance conversations
  • Communicating with families and carers
  • Leading and lagging metrics
  • Policy, planning and objectives
  • Retail performance metrics: sales densities, conversion and basket
  • Measurement and analytics for media and social campaigns
  • Goal setting and contracting
  • Goal setting and action planning
13
Leadership Context
  • Social media and community management
  • Resilience, wellbeing and stress management
  • Leadership impact and organisational health metrics
  • Capstone scoping: a real leadership challenge
  • Risk management and contingencies
  • Strategic decision-making under uncertainty
  • Influencing and persuasion
  • Self-awareness and the leader's identity
  • Ethics and responsible leadership
  • Quality management and standards
  • Influencing and negotiation with stakeholders
  • Social media management: platforms, communities and algorithms
  • Psychoeducation and public communication
  • Procurement and stock management for health commodities
  • Management accounts and dashboards
14
Culture and Inclusion
  • Nomination, succession and diversity
  • The business case for diversity and inclusion
  • Cross-cultural and global inclusion
  • HR's role in culture, values and employer brand
  • Safety culture and leadership
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Creating a coaching culture
  • Writing advisory reports that drive decisions
  • Managing virtual and cross-cultural teams
  • Brand strategy, identity and equity
  • Projects, programmes and portfolios
  • Service culture and brand promise
  • Building a customer-centric culture
  • Building a service culture
  • Building a culture of compliance
15
Client Relationships
  • Contract law and formation
  • Contract exit and renewal
  • Stakeholder mapping and engagement
  • Stakeholders and users of financial information
  • Stakeholder mapping for the finance function
  • Managing audit and regulator relationships
  • Stakeholders, agency and accountability
  • Trends: ESG, transparency and stakeholder capitalism
  • Shareholder and stakeholder rights
  • Employment relationship and the psychological contract
  • Contractor and visitor safety
  • Stakeholder mapping in banking
  • Relationship management and cross-selling
  • Wealth, SME and corporate relationships
  • Stakeholder mapping and business partnering
16
Risk and Compliance
  • Tariffs, regulation and the economics of essential services
  • Regulation, ethics and misinformation in media and telecoms
  • Reporting quality and governance
  • Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
  • Managing risk and difficult cases
  • Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
  • Risk assessment and safety planning
  • Project management standards (PMI, PRINCE2)
  • Project governance and assurance
  • Project governance frameworks
  • Compliance and regulatory projects
  • Governance of campaigns and spend
  • Managing price and discount governance
  • Managing growth, risk and resilience
  • Regulatory compliance and biosafety
17
Evidence and Research
  • The project environment and stakeholders
  • Portfolio of evidence and reflective practice
  • Data-driven decision support and analytics
  • Complaint data and learning
  • Service analytics and dashboards
  • Text and interaction analytics
  • Data privacy and consent
  • Data ethics and customer privacy
  • Data protection and customer privacy
  • Data, analytics and customer insight
  • Data analytics in audit
  • Project roles and the project manager
  • Evidence, judgement and scepticism
  • Data migration and cleansing
  • Financial storytelling and data visualisation
18
Wellbeing and Resilience
  • Wellbeing and holistic health strategy
  • Working with organisations on wellbeing
  • Wellbeing and resilience coaching
  • Operational risk and resilience
  • Stress testing and scenario analysis
  • Workplace wellbeing strategy
  • Stress and psychosocial risk
  • Crisis, resilience and contingency planning
  • Wellbeing, fatigue and psychosocial risk
  • Organisational resilience and adaptive strategy
  • Business continuity and resilience
  • Stress testing and scenarios
  • Wellbeing and personal-effectiveness learning
  • Business case and strategic alignment
  • Stress testing credit portfolios
19
Workplace Context
  • Employee engagement models and drivers
  • Future of work and workforce transformation
  • The employee lifecycle and HR value chain
  • Strategic workforce planning and demand forecasting
  • Managing resistance and engagement
  • Communicating risk to the workforce
  • Worker engagement and empowerment
  • Workforce and shift management in retail
  • Strengths, flow and engagement
  • Building trust and engagement
  • Stakeholder engagement strategy
  • Win-back and re-engagement
  • Workforce planning and scheduling
  • Employee experience and engagement
  • Customer and community engagement
20
Practice and Business
  • Digital marketing strategy and channels
  • Content marketing and editorial planning
  • Email marketing and automation
  • AI and personalisation in marketing
  • Market research design and methods
  • Competitive and market intelligence
  • E-commerce and marketplace selling
  • Team leadership in sales and marketing
  • Carbon markets and climate finance
  • Reporting to boards and executives
  • Negotiation with buyers, suppliers and financiers
  • Sales and marketing transformation
  • Digital and data-driven go-to-market
  • Agile marketing and experimentation
  • Marketing and sales ethics
21
Digital Delivery
  • Automation and safety technology
  • Managing organisational politics
  • Digital transformation and IT strategy
  • Digital procurement and the future of the profession
  • Bancassurance and digital insurance models
  • Telehealth and digital care delivery
  • Change control and configuration
  • Ethics of technology in practice
  • Agile and digital transformation projects
  • Virtual and distributed teams
  • Emerging project technologies
  • Team leadership in technology
  • Treasury technology and systems
  • Virtual and hybrid facilitation
  • The finance function and digital transformation
22
Programme Delivery
  • Project management software and tools
  • Scheduling and planning tools
  • Project data, reporting and analytics
  • Automation in project delivery
  • AI and predictive project analytics
  • Programme management principles
  • Programme governance and assurance
  • Measuring programme success
  • Leading project teams
  • Leading project governance
  • Building high-performing project teams
  • Project management principles and lifecycle
  • Leading finance projects and change
  • Cost reduction and efficiency programmes
  • Leading governance projects and change
23
Community and Family Context
  • Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
  • Corporate responsibility and community
  • Sustainability and social impact in projects
  • Corporate social responsibility and community impact
  • Group dynamics, facilitation and community mobilisation
  • Social media customer care
  • Corporate social responsibility communications
  • Community and lifelong learning
  • Change and adoption in projects
  • Social and collaborative learning
  • Governance in state, donor-funded and family-owned entities
  • Community engagement and equity
  • Social and digital PR
  • Family intervention planning
  • Corporate social responsibility and ESG
24
Health Context
  • Healthy work design
  • Absence and health management
  • Health and safety legal duties
  • Confidentiality and health data
  • Innovation and continuous delivery
  • Public health programmes: prevention and outreach
  • Healthcare quality, safety and accreditation
  • Health financing: budgets, insurance and out-of-pocket realities
  • Health, safety and compliance in delivery
  • Customer and brand health metrics
  • Brand health and measurement
25
Standards and Quality
  • Service quality and the passenger experience in transport
  • Quality management on site: inspections, hold points and defects
  • Evidence-based improvement
  • Scaling delivery capability
  • Continuous improvement and retrospectives
  • Driving measurable delivery improvement
  • Delivery, quality and stakeholder plan
  • Quality planning and assurance
  • Quality control and continuous improvement
  • Integrated risk and quality control
  • Data quality and governance
  • Process improvement and lean thinking
  • Productivity and efficiency improvement
  • Professional standards and ethics (CIPS)
  • Sustainable procurement principles and standards
26
Conflict and Resistance
  • Negotiation strategy and planning
  • Property viewings, offers and negotiation to close
  • Managing difficult conversations
  • Managing resistance and readiness
  • Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
  • Negotiation and conflict management
  • Conflict resolution and negotiation
  • Conflicts of interest and transparency
  • Commercial negotiation and value capture
  • Sponsorship and negotiation selling
  • Negotiation with clients and partners
  • Integrity, confidentiality and conflicts
  • Negotiation with vendors
  • Working with conflict and change
  • Negotiation with banks, investors and suppliers
27
Records and Reporting
  • Professional reporting and documentation
  • Sustainability reporting and disclosure
  • Board and management reporting
  • Professional report writing
  • Risk registers and reporting
  • Vehicle documentation, compliance and consumer protection
  • Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
  • Integrated and sustainability reporting
  • Record-keeping and data protection
  • Data, records and confidentiality tech
  • Professional writing and reports
  • Board reporting and information flows
  • Governance of ESG and reporting
  • Management and board reporting
  • Environmental monitoring and reporting
28
Coaching Practice
  • Coaching and quality monitoring
  • Coaching for performance
  • Measuring coaching and mentoring impact
  • Coaching models and frameworks (GROW)
  • Mentoring and sponsorship
  • Solvency, capital and prudential supervision
  • Measuring coaching outcomes
  • Coaching and developing team members
  • Sales enablement and coaching
  • Quality monitoring and coaching
  • Sustaining benefits and change
29
Ethics and Safeguarding
  • Professional ethics in customer service
  • Responsible and ethical service
  • Ethics and integrity in banking
  • Professional ethics and banking conduct
  • Anti-corruption and financial-crime ethics
  • Ethics and independence
  • Ethics in communications
  • Ethics and suitability
  • Ethics and professional standards in finance
  • Ethics, confidentiality and professional conduct in HR
  • Ethics and duty of care
  • Ethical leadership and integrity
  • Professional standards and continuing development
  • Ethics and professional conduct in security
  • Measuring change and project impact
30
Professional Leadership Practice
  • Front office and reservations management
  • Professional ethics and responsibility (PMI)
  • Stakeholder and sponsor management
  • Organisational change management
  • Building project management maturity
  • Lessons learned and knowledge management
  • Project management maturity assessment
  • Value and benefits management
  • Requirements gathering and management
  • Project management plan development
  • Earned value management
  • Revenue management and yield
  • Key account management strategy
  • Renewals and churn management
  • Field sales and territory management
Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

  • Ethics, Supervision and Safety — applied to your own work
  • Outcomes and Review — applied to your own work
  • Scope, Boundary and Referral — applied to your own work
  • The Therapeutic Alliance — applied to your own work
  • Contracting and Confidentiality — applied to your own work
  • Listening, Reflection and Restraint — applied to your own work
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CADBP certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CADBP?

This certification is ideal for HR Managers and Directors, HR Business Partners, Learning and Development Managers and Employee Relations and OD Specialists, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in human resource management, talent development and organisational effectiveness with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CADBP certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 10 Week and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CADBP internationally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

What is the cost of the CADBP certification?

The Certified Advanced DBT Practitioner is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 449 and Live Virtual at USD 649. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CADBP certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CADBP?

The Certified Advanced DBT Practitioner is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CADBP?

The Certified Advanced DBT Practitioner carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CADBP while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CADBP?

Graduates progress towards CHRO and senior people-management roles. The CADBP strengthens your expertise in human resource management, talent development and organisational effectiveness and positions you for advancement across multinationals, NGOs and international organisations.

Graduate Voices

What Our Alumni Say

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The curriculum was directly applicable to my daily work. I immediately applied what I learned and saw results within weeks of completing the programme.

HR Director
Private Sector
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GLI's certification is the most practical professional programme I have attended. The international frameworks gave me credibility with my employer and clients.

People Manager
NGO Sector
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I earned my CADBP while working full-time. The self-paced format made it possible, and the quality of the content is genuinely world-class.

Talent Lead
Government
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