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Certified Motivational Interviewing Coach

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

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Executive Summary

Certified Motivational Interviewing Coach

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Motivational Interviewing Coach (CMIC) delivers a rigorous Intermediate-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in instructional design, training delivery and learning management.

This 10 Week programme is structured around recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CMIC 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 Motivational Interviewing Coach
Acronym
CMIC
Category
Learning & Development
Level
Intermediate
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 349
Live Virtual
USD 549
Target Audience

Who Should Enrol?

  • Trainers and Facilitators
  • Instructional and Curriculum Designers
  • Learning and Development Professionals
  • Academic and Education Administrators
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 senior L&D, academic and learning-leadership roles
Professional Recognition
Credential aligned with recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards
Leadership Capability
Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex instructional design functions
Organisational Impact
Design and implement instructional design systems that drive performance and measurable results
Compliance Readiness
Master the standards, compliance and ethical governance central to instructional design
Global Employability
Qualify for instructional design roles across training providers, universities, corporates and education institutions worldwide
Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

✦Spirit and Principles of MI
✦Open Questions
✦Summarising
✦Evoking Motivation
✦Strengthening Commitment
✦MI Session Analysis
Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

The full programme, module by module.

Core CurriculumModules 1–20 · specific to Certified Motivational Interviewing Coach · module 20 is the capstone
1
Motivational Interviewing Foundations
Investigative interviewing: an ethical, evidence-based approach · Motivational interviewing spirit and skills · Motivational interviewing · Coaching health habits: activity, attention to eating and readiness
2
Spirit and Principles of MI
Career coaching: direction, transition and decisions · Building a coaching culture and an internal coaching function · Coaching for performance versus coaching for development · Supervision, ethics and the coach’s own development
3
Client Ambivalence
Client relationships, accounts and retention · Working with resistance, ambivalence and stuck clients · Team coaching and the team as client · Contracting the coaching engagement
4
Engagement
Engagement mechanics: attention, activity design and gamification · The working alliance and coaching presence · The boundary between coaching and therapy · Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
5
Open Questions
Powerful questions and listening · Older adults and later life · Wellbeing and resilience coaching · Measuring coaching outcomes
6
Affirmations
Positive psychology practices: gratitude, optimism and strengths · Career and talent development · Building a coaching culture · Measuring coaching and mentoring impact
7
Reflective Listening
Ethics, supervision and reflective practice · Career conversations and growth · Coaching challenging situations · Measuring coaching impact
8
Summarising
Recognising distress and referring safely · Confidence, self-belief and working with the inner critic · Contracting and the three-way agreement · Mentoring, sponsorship and developmental relationships
9
Change Talk
Change talk and readiness · Stress, resilience and burnout prevention · Reflective practice and supervision · Goal setting and contracting
10
Sustain Talk
Behaviour change and adoption of innovations · Active listening and empathy · Closed-loop feedback systems · Motivation and recognition
11
Evoking Motivation
Recognition and motivation in everyday management · Anxiety, mood and behaviour in youth · Decarbonisation: targets, abatement and transition pathways · Climate risk: physical, transition and scenario analysis
12
Developing Discrepancy
Experiential and body-based practice in the session · Systems thinking, feedback loops and second-order effects · Collaborative reasoning, questioning and constructive disagreement · Voice of the customer: from listening to change
13
Supporting Autonomy
The executive transition: from function to enterprise · The executive transition: what changes when you lead the whole · Crisis, resilience and contingency planning · Cost concepts, classification and behaviour
14
Strengthening Commitment
Culture change and behaviour embedding · Performance management that changes behaviour · Motivation, recognition and consequences · Wellbeing, fatigue and psychosocial risk
15
Change Planning
Demand planning, forecasting and the distortion of signals · Difficult conversations and feedback · Mentoring and sponsorship · Giving and receiving feedback
16
Difficult MI Conversations
Managing difficult conversations · Handling client resistance and difficult conversations · Facilitation and difficult conversations · Managing pressure and difficult conversations
17
MI Session Analysis
Listening, questioning and conversational skill · Receiving feedback and criticism well · Sustainable food systems, loss and climate resilience · Resilience and future threats
18
Behaviour Change Tracking
Habit and behaviour change: making it survive a bad week · Behaviour change: why intention is not enough · Strategic risk and resilience · Climate risk: physical, transition and what it does to the business
19
MI Outcome Evaluation
Evaluation design: attribution, comparison and honest claims · Resilience and post-traumatic growth · Diagnosing client problems before prescribing solutions · Data literacy: reading, questioning and using data
20
Motivational Interviewing Practicum
Clinical documentation: notes that serve the client and stand up to scrutiny · Clinical supervision: the reflective space that keeps practice safe · Working across disciplines: referral, shared care and the client in the middle · Diagnostics, psychometrics and 360 feedback in coaching
Professional ElectivesModules 21–30 · common to all GLI certifications · broaden your professional range
21
Strategic Communication and Executive Presentation
Vision, purpose and translating direction into work · Audience-centred communication and message structure · Executive leadership: the board interface and enterprise stewardship · Persuasive structure: framing, evidence and the ask
22
Leadership and Team Effectiveness
Leadership identity, style and the limits of style · Leadership assessment, feedback and continuous self-review · What critical reasoning is and what it is not · Situational and adaptive leadership
23
Analytical Thinking and Evidence-Based Reasoning
Creativity and critical-thinking development · Analytical techniques and bias · Evidence-based improvement · Problem framing: symptoms, definition and scope
24
Professional Decision-Making
Managerial decision-making, bias and decision rights · Escalation and decision-making · Decision support: briefs, options and judgement under pressure · Decision frameworks: criteria, weighting and trade-offs
25
Negotiation, Influence and Stakeholder Management
Negotiation preparation: interests, options and the walk-away · Power, followership and organisational politics · Negotiation: preparation, interests and value creation · Concessions, anchoring and the shape of a bargain
26
Project and Execution Management
Proposals, bids and the business case · Project roles and the project manager · Developing the project business case · Planning, scheduling and personal workflow systems
27
Financial Literacy for Professionals
Financial reporting standards and their application · Financial management for the operating manager · Liquidity, funding and balance sheet management · Management accounting: costing, budgeting and decision support
28
Digital Skills, AI and Technology for Professionals
Digital workplace, collaboration and user support · Productivity, collaboration and workflow tools · Tools for interaction and collaboration · Working with data: quality, interpretation and honest presentation
29
Ethics, Governance and Professional Accountability
Ethical leadership: integrity, tolerated behaviour and moral courage · Ethics, conduct and speaking up · Business development risk, ethics and integrity · AI for managers: adoption, oversight and governance
30
Personal Effectiveness, Productivity and Career Growth
Emotional competence: awareness, regulation and expression · Self-awareness, strengths and the accuracy of self-image · Emotional intelligence and self-regulation · Priority: outcomes, importance and the urgency trap

Every module opens in the learning portal with its full lesson set, worked examples, further reading and video masterclasses. 30 modules · 150 lessons.

Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

  • Establish a comprehensive understanding of Certified Motivational Interviewing Coach principles aligned with recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards
  • Apply evidence-based methods to improve instructional design, training delivery and learning management
  • Master instructional design and curriculum development and facilitation, delivery and learner engagement
  • Apply digital, blended and e-learning and assessment, evaluation and quality assurance in real-world settings
  • Lead risk management, quality and compliance relevant to your field
  • Design stakeholder engagement and professional communication strategies
  • Use data-driven decision-making and performance-measurement tools effectively
  • Apply internationally recognised best practice to advance your career in instructional design
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CMIC certification?

The Certified Motivational Interviewing Coach is a professional certification awarded by the Global Leadership Institute. It covers 20 core modules specific to Motivational Interviewing Coach, culminating in the capstone “Motivational Interviewing Practicum”, plus 10 professional elective modules common to all GLI certifications. Candidates study through the online portal, submit the capstone project and sit a final examination; those who pass receive a verifiable certificate carrying a unique certificate ID.

Who should enrol in the CMIC?

This certification is ideal for Trainers and Facilitators, Instructional and Curriculum Designers, Learning and Development Professionals and Academic and Education Administrators, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in instructional design, training delivery and learning management with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CMIC 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 CMIC internationally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised instructional-design, quality-assurance and CPD standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

What is the cost of the CMIC certification?

The Certified Motivational Interviewing Coach is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 349 and Live Virtual at USD 549. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CMIC 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 CMIC?

The Certified Motivational Interviewing Coach 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 CMIC?

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

Can I study the CMIC 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 CMIC?

Graduates progress towards senior L&D, academic and learning-leadership roles. The CMIC strengthens your expertise in instructional design, training delivery and learning management and positions you for advancement across training providers, universities, corporates and education institutions.

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.

Head of Learning
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.

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

Lead Facilitator
Government
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