What is the Certified GBV Prevention Specialist?

The Certified GBV Prevention Specialist is a globally recognised professional certification by the Global Leadership Institute (GLI), designed to equip professionals with advanced competencies in Soft Skills & Personal Dev..

How long does this certification take?

The programme is 11 Week and can be completed at your own pace through our self-paced online option, or alongside live virtual sessions.

Is this certification globally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are internationally recognised and carry CPD credits, making them valuable for career advancement worldwide.

What level is this certification?

This is a Advanced Level certification, suitable for professionals with relevant experience or background in the field.

You can enrol by emailing info@leadership.co.ke, contacting us via WhatsApp at +254 722 223 084, or filling the enrolment form below.

Certified GBV Prevention Specialist (CGBVS) | Online Certification

Executive Summary

Certified GBV Prevention Specialist

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified GBV Prevention Specialist (CGBVS) 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 11 Week programme is structured around SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CGBVS 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 GBV Prevention Specialist

Acronym

CGBVS

Who Should Enrol?

The Practitioner Remit — applied to your own work
Alliance and Presence — applied to your own work
Change Between Sessions — applied to your own work
Ethics and Supervision — applied to your own work
Working Across Difference — applied to your own work
Building a Sustainable Practice — 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

✦Core Therapeutic Skills

✦Assessment, Formulation and 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.

Foundations and Professional Context of Certified GBV Prevention Specialist

Certified GBV Prevention Specialist: 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

The Practitioner Remit

Contracting and the three-way agreement
The boundary between coaching and therapy
Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
Presenting, demonstrating and proposing
Negotiation and closing techniques
Sales forecasting and territory planning
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

Alliance and Presence

The working alliance and coaching presence
Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
Stages of change and readiness
Collaborative and client-led planning
Analytical techniques and bias
Preparing financial statements
Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
Interpreting financial statements
Relapse prevention planning
Integrated and sustainability reporting
Management accounts and dashboards
Budget vs actual and variance
Cost and profitability analysis
Recovery capital and community

Change Between Sessions

Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
Evaluating coaching outcomes
Forecasting and planning
Habits and behaviour design
Data visualisation for finance
Decision support and insight
Communicating financial results
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
Attachment and developmental theory
Managing boundaries and dual relationships
Peer support and consultation
Sustaining ethical, effective practice
Values-based living
Coaching for resilience and wellbeing

Ethics and Supervision

Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
The boundary between coaching and therapy
Building and running a coaching practice
Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
Duty of care and risk management
Record-keeping and data protection
Behavioural and process addictions
Risk, protective and social factors
Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
Case management and referral
Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
Client feedback and satisfaction
Lessons learned and development
Driving effective, ethical outcomes
Designing and facilitating groups

Working Across Difference

Cultural context and coaching across difference
The working alliance and coaching presence
Mentoring, sponsorship and developmental relationships
The coaching relationship
Psychoeducation and workshops
Strengths-based coaching
Group and team coaching
Designing an intervention or programme
Brand strategy, identity and architecture
Brand equity and positioning
Integrated marketing communications (IMC)
Advertising and creative development
Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
Professional case study and presentation
Reputation and crisis communications

Building a Sustainable Practice

Building and running a coaching practice
Evaluating coaching outcomes
Contracting and the three-way agreement
Outcome monitoring in therapeutic work
Referral, multi-agency work and the client pathway
Evidence-based practice
Risk assessment and safety planning
Professional standards in the field
Coaching principles and ethics
Brand guidelines and consistency
Measuring brand health
Digital marketing strategy and channels
Content marketing and editorial planning
Goal setting and contracting
Treatment planning and review

Records and Reporting

Record keeping, notes and professional documentation
Data, records and confidentiality tech
Professional writing and reports
Writing advisory reports that drive decisions
Reporting to boards and executives
Anti-corruption and honest reporting
Monitoring, control and reporting
Professional documentation and presentation
Reporting and dashboards
Project data, reporting and analytics
Document and configuration management
Dashboards and reporting
Board reporting and investor relations
Board and executive financial reporting
Financial reporting standards (IFRS/GAAP)

Coaching Practice

Managing performance through coaching
Coaching challenging situations
Measuring coaching impact
Coaching, mentoring and on-the-job development
Coaching and skill development
Guard force management and supervision
Mentorship, networks and the community of practice
Supervised and unsupervised learning
Coaching and reinforcement
Financial regulation and prudential supervision
Coaching leaders and managers
Quality monitoring and coaching
Coaching and quality monitoring
Coaching for performance
Building a coaching culture

Therapeutic Practice

Employment relationship and the psychological contract
Wellbeing and holistic health strategy
Resilience, wellbeing and stress management
Managing complexity and comorbidity
Working with organisations on wellbeing
Wellbeing and resilience coaching
Workplace and organisational contexts
Wellbeing, fatigue and psychosocial risk
Innovation culture, incentives and psychological safety
Wellbeing and personal-effectiveness learning
Workplace wellbeing strategy
Goal setting and action planning

Ethics and Safeguarding

Risk assessment and safeguarding in practice
Ethics of technology in practice
Professional ethics and responsibility (PMI)
Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
Professional standards and ethics
Marketing and sales ethics
Accountability and follow-through
Measuring coaching outcomes
Ethics and fair customer treatment
Professional ethics in customer service
Responsible and ethical service
Confidentiality and health data
Ethical decision-making under pressure
Ethics and responsible leadership
Professional standards and ethics (CIPS)

Communication Skills

Ethics in communications
Communications strategy and planning
Internal communications
Corporate social responsibility communications
Presentation and public speaking
Assessment and feedback online
Professional report and presentation
Voice, communication and delivery
Feedback and developmental conversations
Language and communication training
Investor relations and market communication
Safety communication and campaigns
Communicating risk to the workforce
Toolbox talks and safety communication
Communicating vision and telling stories

Development and Learning

Assessment that measures capability
Evaluating learning: from reaction to results
Learning needs analysis at organisational level
Knowledge management and organisational learning
Inclusive learning and accessibility
Managing resistance and capability building
Category management and strategy development
Supplier development and improvement
Real estate development and project appraisal
Proposal development and donor reporting
Monitoring, evaluation and learning for accountability
Your one-year professional development trajectory
Meaning, purpose and values
Deep learning and neural networks
Complaint data and learning

Groups and Facilitation

Group facilitation and group process
Group dynamics, facilitation and community mobilisation
Leading service teams
Stakeholder mapping and collaboration
Team leadership in customer service
Team leadership in banking operations
Innovation and fintech collaboration
Microfinance and group lending
Virtual classroom facilitation
Facilitation skills and presence
Virtual and hybrid facilitation
Cross-functional and matrix teams
Leading remote and hybrid teams
Team diversity and inclusion
High-performance team rituals and cadence

Behaviour and Change

Change talk and readiness
Habit change and behaviour design
Change control and configuration
Organisational change management
Change and adoption in projects
Measuring change and project impact
Baseline setting and change control
Team leadership and motivation
Motivation and engagement
Outcome and process measures
Behaviour change and adoption of innovations
Change management and adoption
Engagement, motivation and energisers
Motivation and self-directed learning
Cost concepts, classification and behaviour

Goals and Measurement

Net Promoter Score and satisfaction metrics
Performance management in service
Service quality and turnaround metrics
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
Policy, planning and objectives
Measuring HSE performance
Measuring innovation performance
Setting goals, roles and accountability

Leadership Context

Social media and community management
Revenue management and yield
Influencer and affiliate marketing
Key account management strategy
Renewals and churn management
Data-driven decision-making
Field sales and territory management
Tender and bid management
Reporting to leadership
Team leadership in sales and marketing
Capacity and performance management
Workforce and shift management in retail
Ground control and strata management
Mine water, tailings and environmental management
Quality management on site: inspections, hold points and defects

Culture and Inclusion

Evidence-based practice and research literacy
Service culture and brand promise
Building a customer-centric culture
Building a service culture
Building a culture of compliance
Financial inclusion and agency banking
Financial inclusion strategy
Learning cultures and the learning organisation
Financial inclusion and serving underbanked markets
Nomination, succession and diversity
The business case for diversity and inclusion
Safety culture and leadership
Practice management systems
Managing virtual and cross-cultural teams
Brand strategy, identity and equity

Client Relationships

Stakeholder mapping in banking
Relationship management and cross-selling
Wealth, SME and corporate relationships
Stakeholder communications
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
Stakeholder mapping and influencing
Contractor and visitor safety
Contractor safety and shared workplaces
Categories of spend and stakeholders

Risk and Compliance

Governance, risk and compliance (GRC)
The regulatory and legal environment
Governance and organisational value
Public, private and non-profit governance
Responsible and sustainable governance
Governance frameworks and codes
Compliance frameworks and programmes
Compliance monitoring and testing
Environmental governance and climate risk
Governance of ESG and reporting
Employment compliance and the HR risk agenda
Project governance frameworks
Compliance and regulatory projects
Leading project governance
Health, safety and compliance in delivery

Evidence and Research

Data-driven decision support and analytics
Statistics and exploratory data analysis
Service analytics and dashboards
Text and interaction analytics
Data privacy and consent
Influencing and presenting insights
Data ethics and customer privacy
Data protection and customer privacy
Data, analytics and customer insight
Data analytics in audit
Evidence, judgement and scepticism
Data protection and employee privacy
Data ethics, privacy and responsible analytics
People analytics and HR measurement
Data collection and analytics

Wellbeing and Resilience

Managing growth, risk and resilience
Operational risk and resilience
Stress testing and scenario analysis
Stress and psychosocial risk
Crisis, resilience and contingency planning
Psychometric and screening tools
Stress testing credit portfolios
Stress testing and scenarios
Organisational resilience and adaptive strategy
Business continuity and resilience
Segmentation and needs analysis

Workplace Context

Employee relations, discipline and fair process
Employee engagement and what actually drives it
Managing resistance and engagement
Worker engagement and empowerment
Strengths, flow and engagement
Building trust and engagement
Stakeholder engagement strategy
Advocacy and policy engagement
Workforce management and scheduling
Proactive engagement and success
Win-back and re-engagement
Employee engagement models and drivers
The employee lifecycle and HR value chain
Strategic workforce planning and demand forecasting
Workforce planning and the capability gap

Practice and Business

Email marketing and automation
Marketing technology and the stack
Scaling technologies and business models
Access to finance, grants and investment
Digital and market transformation
Emerging tools and innovation
Financial and technical feasibility analysis
Regulatory compliance and market requirements
Working with referrers and multidisciplinary teams
Linking CX to business performance
Aligning service to brand and business
SME lending and value-chain finance
Communicating with families and carers
Impact, blended and concessional finance
Supply market analysis

Digital Delivery

Learning technology ecosystem
Innovation in learning technology
The finance function and digital transformation
Digital finance, mobile money and payment operations
Psychoeducation and public communication
Digital permits and inspections
Automation and safety technology
Leading groups and workshops
Digital, blended and low-bandwidth delivery
Digital transformation and IT strategy
Digital procurement and the future of the profession
Payment technology and switches
Cybersecurity and fraud technology
Technology governance and change control
Digital credit and alternative data

Programme Delivery

Designing voice-of-customer programmes
Governance of the CX programme
Voice of the customer programmes
Loyalty programmes and rewards
Leading service projects and change
Banking products, services and delivery channels
Leading banking projects and change
Risk-based audit planning
Tender planning and documentation
Session and lesson planning
Continuous improvement of delivery
Event risk, safety and contingency planning
The vehicle sales process from enquiry to delivery
Demand, master scheduling and material requirements planning
Capacity planning and line balancing

Community and Family Context

Sustainability and social impact in projects
Corporate social responsibility and community impact
Social media customer care
Community and lifelong learning
Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
Corporate responsibility and community
Governance in state, donor-funded and family-owned entities
Corporate social responsibility and ESG
Corporate social responsibility and sustainability
Building strategic customer relationships
Account planning and whitespace analysis

Health Context

Healthcare quality, safety and accreditation
Health financing: budgets, insurance and out-of-pocket realities
Customer and brand health metrics
Brand health and measurement
Healthy work design
Absence and health management
Forecasting and pipeline health
Collaboration and teamwork
Board, governance and C-suite dynamics
Corporate strategy and portfolio choices
Growth strategy: organic, M&A and partnerships

Standards and Quality

Reporting quality and governance
Evidence-based improvement
Project management standards (PMI, PRINCE2)
Quality and delivery metrics
Continuous improvement and retrospectives
Driving measurable delivery improvement
Delivery, quality and stakeholder plan
Quality planning and assurance
Quality control and continuous improvement
Continuous improvement and optimisation
Benchmarking against standards and best practice
Continuous improvement cycles
Driving measurable safety improvement
Continuous environmental improvement
Management review and improvement

Conflict and Resistance

Negotiation and conflict resolution
Negotiation strategy and planning
Property viewings, offers and negotiation to close
Managing risk and difficult cases
Managing difficult conversations
Managing resistance and readiness
Negotiation and conflict management
Conflict resolution and negotiation
Conflicts of interest and transparency
Commercial negotiation and value capture
Sponsorship and negotiation selling
Negotiation and influencing
Handling difficult customers and disputes
Managing resistance and reskilling
Integrity, confidentiality and conflicts

Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

The Practitioner Remit — applied to your own work
Alliance and Presence — applied to your own work
Change Between Sessions — applied to your own work
Ethics and Supervision — applied to your own work
Working Across Difference — applied to your own work
Building a Sustainable Practice — applied to your own work

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CGBVS 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 CGBVS?

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 CGBVS certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 11 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 CGBVS internationally recognised?

What is the cost of the CGBVS certification?

The Certified GBV Prevention Specialist 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 CGBVS 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 CGBVS?

The Certified GBV Prevention Specialist 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 CGBVS?

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

Can I study the CGBVS 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 CGBVS?

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

Certified GBV Prevention Specialist

Certified GBV Prevention Specialist

Certification at a Glance

Who Should Enrol?

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Core Competencies You Will Develop

Programme Modules

What You Will Achieve

How to Get Certified

Common Questions

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