About YouMap® Certification

YouMap® is a world-class certification. It is practical, actionable, and game-changing for you and your coaching or consulting clients, regardless of niche or specialty. Created in 2018, the YouMap® certification rating by coaches in 9 countries is 4.94 out of 5 and 100% of participants in the post-certification survey said they'd recommend the program! YouMap® coaches receive the support of an established online community, a robust toolbox, monthly group calls, dedicated email support, profiles at wholesale, NO recertification or annual fees, and more.

 

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Who is YouMap® Certification For?

This certification was developed to provide coaches, consultants, and leaders with a comprehensive framework to support clients, employees and students.

 

Certified Practitioners are using YouMap® as a foundation for a larger program, or as a standalone program. Following are some examples of how professionals are using YouMap®:

 

• Leadership development

• Executive coaching

• Life coaching

• Group coaching, team building, and workshops

• Career management, associate development, and mentoring

• Student coaching

• Job seeker, career discovery, and career transition coaching

• Job placement and workforce development programs

• Hiring and staffing

• Personal branding and communication coaching

• Niche specializations such as divorce and grief, relationship and marriage, health and wellness, confidence and success coaching

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Why Become YouMap® Certified?

While anyone may purchase YouMap® profiles at retail from the website to use with clients or employees, there are big advantages to becoming certified. Here are a few:
 

Wholesale Cost
YouMap® Certified professionals receive a 54% discount on YouMap® profiles, as well as many additional tools and resources at no additional charge.

Community Support & Tools
The YouMap® coach community is an active community with unparalleled support:

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• Monthly Mind Meld (3M) – a monthly virtual meeting to learn, share, and grow and discover what’s new and coming with YouMap®

• Community of Practice – an active online forum to crowdsource ideas, gain insight from experienced YouMap® professionals, ask questions, and build community.

• Monthly Meet & Greet – network with other YouMap® certified professionals. Kristin Sherry, the YouMap® creator, is active in these vehicles of community to keep product iterations relevant to user needs. The community also often refers business to one another based on area of specialty.

• Email Support – A dedicated email to support you during and after certification.

• YouMap® Resource Website – Certification includes an online website packed with tools from workshop presentations, sales and marketing materials, communication templates, clients resources that enable you to offer additional services and sessions, and much more.

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What Does the YouMap®Certification Program Look Like?

Certification is offered in both 8 weekly sessions and a 4-week format (twice weekly, two hours per session) for a total of 16 hours of virtual interactive classroom instruction.

 

As a participant, you proceed through the YouMap® process, experiencing it as both a coach and coachee.

 

All assessments and exercises are included in the cost of the program.

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Testimonials

The following are a sample of what program participants have said in the post-certification survey:​