ECD Emotional Leadership Development Certification Programme (Singapore) 6.1.2027
Become A More Insightful and Impactful Leader in 2027
You can delegate tasks. You can rely on HR for people processes. But you cannot outsource what it is like - and feels like - to be led by you.
Experience and expertise help you make sound decisions. But how do you bring your people along when change creates uncertainty, emotions run high and familiar approaches no longer work?
The Emotional Culture Deck (ECD) offers a different way to understand what drives you and the people you lead.
In this experiential certification programme, you'll learn to recognise the emotions and habitual responses that influence your leadership, explore what enables or inhibits your team's effectiveness, and use practical tools to strengthen conversations, relationships and collaboration.
You'll gain more than an understanding of emotional intelligence. You'll learn a structured, research-informed approach to applying it — helping you navigate difficult conversations, shape team culture and lead more effectively through change.
Build on your experience. Expand your leadership capabilities. Put emotional insight to work.
What You'll Learn
Through four connected areas of leadership practice:
Lead Yourself: Understand the emotions and habitual responses that strengthen or limit your leadership effectiveness.
Lead People: Recognise emotional drivers, strengthen relationships and navigate difficult conversations.
Lead Teams: Use ECD tools to shape the emotional conditions that support trust, collaboration and performance.
Reflect & Review: Translate your learning into practical leadership actions, particularly during change and uncertainty.
Who Should Attend?
This certification is designed for leaders who want to strengthen their emotional leadership capability and intentionally shape the emotional culture of their teams and organisations.
Ideal for:
Emerging and Experienced Leaders looking to lead with greater confidence, influence and impact.
People Leaders and Managers who want to build trust, lead difficult conversations and develop high-performing teams.
HR and Organisation Development Professionals driving leadership, culture and people development initiatives.
Coaches, Facilitators and Consultants supporting leaders, teams and organisational change.
Whether you're leading a team, developing leaders or shaping organisational culture, this certification equips you with practical tools to translate emotional intelligence into effective emotional leadership.
What is Included in the Course?
Emotional Leadership Toolkit (S$365 value): Practical ECD handbooks, conversation guides, canvases and workshop resources.
Your own Emotional Culture Deck (S$135 value): A versatile tool for individual and team conversations.
ECD Emotional Leadership Certificate of Practice.
60-minute post-course group coaching session to support real-world application.
180-day access to the Global Elephant Rider Community for continued learning and resources.
50% discount on future ECD purchases through your Certified Consultant.
A certification is a starting point, not the destination.
Leave with a practical methodology, tools you can use immediately and continued support to develop your leadership practice.
The Emotional Culture Deck Leadership Toolkit
Packed with proven practical resources, The Emotional Culture Deck Leadership Toolkit helps you confidently apply the Emotional Culture Deck in your leadership, coaching and facilitation.
Lead Yourself
Develop greater self-awareness and understand how your emotions influence your leadership.
Know Yourself Handbook
Emotional Contagion Guide
Lead Meaningful Conversations
Facilitate conversations that build trust, strengthen relationships and create psychological safety.
Weekly Retro Check-in
Intention Setting Guide
Difficult Conversations Guide
Shape Emotional Culture
Intentionally design and influence the emotional culture of your team or organisation.
Leadership Handbook
Leadership Canvas & Workshop Plan
Reflect and Grow
Help individuals and teams learn from experience and continuously improve.
Reflect & Review Canvas
Each resource is introduced during the workshop, giving you the confidence and practical experience to apply it immediately within your team, organisation or consulting practice.
What Past Participants Say
"ECD is a wonderful tool that focuses first on self, then others & team... I think that's a wonderful starting point to be more self-aware and emotionally healthy, so that we can help others be the same as well" - YZ, Singapore
"Mary created a very lighthearted and safe environment for the participants to share. After attending the course, I now feel more confident in conducting a workshop or coaching session in using the deck." - MC, Singapore
"The course has helped me give more language and direction to individuals that I am working with. With the cards, conversations can go deeper hence becoming more meaningful and insightful to both parties." - JS Singapore
About Your Facilitator
Mary Chieu-Kwuan Loh is the Founder of Strengths for LYF, and Certified Emotional Culture Deck Consultant and Partner. She helps leaders and teams develop greater emotional intelligence, strengthen team culture, and lead more effectively through change, combining practical tools with evidence-basedleadership development..
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