12 Driving Forces Certification

Become a 12 Driving Forces Certified Facilitator — and show people the why behind what they do.

Walk out prepared to facilitate Driving Forces sessions, debrief results one-on-one, and bring motivators into how your organization hires, coaches, and leads — in person or virtually.

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Investment

$1,995 / person

Format

Virtual or in-person, Austin

Next Session

October 13–15, 2026

Virtual · 10 AM–1 PM CST daily

Credential

12 Driving Forces Certified Facilitator

What You'll Be Able To Do

Leave ready to add the why to your toolkit.

This isn't a certificate you frame and forget. You finish able to facilitate, debrief, and coach with motivators — the layer behavior alone can't show you.

Facilitate Driving Forces^® sessions for teams — in person and virtually
Debrief the 12 Driving Forces assessment one-on-one
Coach teams to communicate better by understanding what motivates each person
Help new managers understand not just how their people behave, but what drives them
Benchmark jobs and bring motivators into hiring decisions

You won't start from a blank page.

What surprises most people is how much they walk out with: a complete, ready-to-use deck built for multiple training scenarios, ready to customize to your exact need. You leave equipped to run a session, not just talk about one.

Why It Matters

Behavior tells you how. Driving Forces tells you why.

Motivators tell you what puts gas in someone's tank — what gets them up in the morning, why they show up and do what they do. When you can speak to a person through their why, it lands differently. It's engaging. And you start placing people in roles that actually motivate them for the things they're driven by.

Behavior alone doesn't give you the full picture. Picture someone with a steady, Compliance style who suddenly starts pushing back and speaking up — seemingly out of character. Behavior can't explain it. Their motivators can: a strong drive to command and lead. Once you see the why, it makes sense — and you know how to communicate with them and where they'll actually thrive.

And if you want to use DISC in hiring, you need motivators too — full stop. Jobs get benchmarked on both: not just how someone needs to communicate in a role, but what the role rewards and motivates for, measured against every candidate.

How The Certification Works

Three steps from enrolled to certified.

Prework

Complete your own 12 Driving Forces assessment and experience your personalized report, then work through on-demand modules before your first live session.

Three Live Sessions

Three live, three-hour sessions with Stacey; she models the full workshop with constant Q&A and application, with teach-back time built in where you present to peers and exchange feedback as you certify.

After You Certify

Your portal, materials, and credentials in one place, plus ongoing support by email and phone after you certify. We don't disappear when the class ends.

What You Receive

Everything you need to walk in and deliver.

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Your Own 12 Driving Forces Report

Completed as prework and personalized to you. You experience the instrument before you ever facilitate it.

On-Demand Modules

Self-paced learning you complete before the first live session, so everyone arrives ready to apply it.

Ready-to-Use Training Materials

A full PowerPoint deck built for multiple scenarios, which you can customize to your exact training need.

Ongoing Support

We don't disappear when the class ends. Email or call, set up a time, and our team is fully present to help — whether you certified last month or two years ago.

Lifetime · Included

Lifetime Access to the Trainer Resource Library

Certify once and the resource library is yours for good — facilitator guides, slide decks, recorded sessions, and every new material we add over time. You keep growing long after the class ends.

Driving Forces certification reveals what energizes and drives you. When you understand the drivers, it makes such a difference — when there is alignment with your role, you feel more engaged and purposeful, and genuinely just inspired to do better work.

— Stacey Harris · Leadership Resources and Consulting

A Real Graduate

What people do with it.

One recent graduate now reaches for the combined Talent Insights report — DISC and Driving Forces together — almost every time.

She says she can't go back to DISC alone: her participants get both the how and the why, and connect with their teams on a deeper level because of it.

The Certification Experience

The sessions are highly engaging — never lecture. Lots of activity and participation, and you learn as much from the other participants' organizations as you do from us. In one recent cohort of about twelve trainers, we paired people by their own motivators — the intellectual drivers who love learning for its own sake alongside the intentional drivers who want to apply it immediately. The synergy was the point: together they learned everything there was to learn and figured out how to use it right away.

Who Should Attend

Built for the people ready to add the why.

The people who get the most from this certification are usually already DISC certified — they know how their people communicate, and they're here to learn why they do what they do, so they can tie the two together. DISC certification isn't required. But come ready to learn: if you're not, this isn't the room for you.

Certification Options

Choose the format that fits your team.

Add the why to what you already do.

Frequently Asked Questions

A starting point — not an exhaustive list. For questions not covered here, reach out directly.

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I already use DISC — do I really need Driving Forces too?

If you want to use DISC in hiring, yes — full stop. You benchmark jobs on both, so you're not just measuring behavior fit but whether the role actually motivates the candidate. And in everyday coaching, behavior tells you how a person operates; motivators tell you why — the part that's hard to read from behavior alone.

Do I need to be DISC certified first?

No, it's not required. Most people who thrive here already are, because they're tying the how of DISC to the why of Driving Forces — but come ready to learn and you'll be in the right place.

What's the difference between DISC and Driving Forces?

DISC shows you how people communicate and work. Driving Forces shows you what motivates them — why they do what they do. Put them together and you get Talent Insights, the fullest picture of a person.

Can my whole team certify together?

Yes. We regularly certify multiple people from one organization and will customize dates to fit your team. Ask us about on-site certification at your location.

When can I get certified? I'm worried about fitting it in.

We keep multiple dates on the calendar throughout the year, plus customized on-site or virtual sessions around your team's schedule. The prework is self-paced, so you complete the modules on your own time before the live sessions begin.