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The FIVE LENS Enneagram Certification Courses

Join 700+ coaches, HR leaders, and facilitators who are driving meaningful change with the Five Lens model.

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Why choose the Five Lens Enneagram?

Scientifically Validated

Based on psychometric principles and internationally accepted behavioral models.

Multi-Dimensional Analysis

Goes beyond personality typing with five integrated behavioral lenses.

Trusted & Proven

Trusted by 700+ certified practitioners worldwide in 100s of corporations.

Ideal participants

  • Executive & Life Coaches

  • HR & Talent Managers

  • Learning & Development Specialists

  • Organisational Development Practitioners

  • Internal Coaches & Team Facilitators

What you'll gain

  • Administer & debrief Five Lens assessments

  • Unlock deeper client self-awareness

  • Access advanced coaching & team tools

  • Run impactful team-building workshops

  • Earn 23.75 ICF CCEUs

Five Lens Certification

There are two levels of certification training:

Practitioner Level

Provides access to a set of Five Lens professional reports aimed at deepening awareness of individual’s behavioural patterns, specific strengths and developmental themes.

The course for this level empowers participants with the ability to debrief our Personal Feedback Reports (PFR) with individuals.

Team Facilitator Level

Learn to facilitate our game-changing team development processes.

Provides access to a range of skill development modules that can be used ‘as is’ or customised & integrated into existing development interventions for teams aimed at enabling sustainable high performance.

*Team facilitator certification is only possible after completing practitioner certification.

ICF Accredited

Our FIVE LENS Practitioner Level Certification Programme is accredited by the ICF (International Coach Federation). ICF credentialed coaches can claim CCE (Continuing Coach Education) hours as follows: 7.25 hours for Core Competencies, and 16.5 hours for Resource Development.

On successful completion of the programme and certification, delegates receive a certificate that confirms their CCE hours.

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Our FIVE LENS Practitioner Level Certification Programme is accredited by the ICF (International Coach Federation). ICF credentialed coaches can claim CCE (Continuing Coach Education) hours as follows: 7.25 hours for Core Competencies, and 16.5 hours for Resource Development.

On successful completion of the programme and certification, delegates receive a certificate that confirms their CCE hours.

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Course Structure & Pricing

Choose your certification path

Empowered woman engaging in a professional development conversation at Five Lens People Development.

Five Lens Practitioner

Practitioner Certification

Learn to debrief Five Lens reports with clients to uncover behavioral patterns, strengths, and growth areas — ideal for one-on-one coaching and personal development.

Structure Summary

  • 8 hours self-paced online learning

  • 6 x 3-hour live Zoom sessions over 2-3 weeks

  • Pre-course feedback session based on your own Five Lens profile

  • 2 guided case studies (assess, debrief, and submit reflections)

  • ICF-accredited (23.75 Continuing Coach Education points)

$1200

(excluding VAT)

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Empowering workplace training and leadership development by Five Lens People Development in South Africa.

Team Facilitator Certification

Team Facilitator Certification

Facilitate team-building sessions using Five Lens modules focused on trust, feedback, collaboration, and more designed to elevate group performance.

Structure Summary

  • 8-10 hours self-paced online learning

  • 1:1 preparation call with a Five Lens Moderator

  • Learn to facilitate the Team Discovery Day process

  • Learn to facilitate a library of customisable Team Skills Modules (trust, feedback, collaboration, etc.)

  • Designed for team coaches, facilitators, and in-house L&D use

  • 1:1 course completion call with a FIVE LENS moderator

$800

(excluding VAT)

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Bundle Certification Offer

Bundle Both & Save

Get both certifications and all the tools at once. This bundled track offers full access to the Five Lens framework for both individual coaching and team interventions.

Save: $305

$1695

(excluding VAT)

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Colin Adam

Facilitator: Colin Adam

Colin has co-developed research-backed Enneagram-based psychometric assessments since the mid-1990s. He is an accomplished Executive Coach, holding an ICF PCC credential since 2005 (one of the first in South Africa to achieve this). He is also an Accredited Professional with the International Enneagram Association (IEA). His professional studies and skills additionally include Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Psychology. With decades of experience, Colin has coached and trained thousands of professionals, including CEOs and Senior Executives from some of South Africa’s largest corporations.

Here's what our 700+ students are saying

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    Oladele Tokosi Managing Director - Molten Point

    The Five Lens is such a great holistic development tool that I have personally used to increase such a greater awareness of myself and an absolute receptive tool to all the individuals i have been privileged to coach. It really is a People Development tool.

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    Brett Mark Preston CEO Mirari Group

    I have been on a long journey working on myself, trying to identify my true strengths and weaknesses and how to manage them. I truly believed that I had obtained a fairly extensive handle and awareness until I was offered the opportunity to do the Five Lens programme.

    I was utterly blown away by Five Lens People Development.

    This is a comprehensive and in depth programme which offered me a level of appreciation of myself which I had never touched on, presented in a way that was specific and detailed but easy to understand, one of the most enjoyable experiences.

    What I loved was the flexibility of not only experiencing this for myself but also to bring this into my organisation. The impact was phenomenally effective for all staff that went through the programme.

    Id like to say a special thank you to everyone involved either face to face or behind the scenes, you all made this an unforgettable experience.

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    Steve Pyszka Executive Coaching and Assessments at N2Growth

    5 LENS People Development is doing life-changing work. I can attest to how the 5LENS assessment facilitates insight for the client. The accuracy of the assessment is second to none. Colin, Jennifer, and Retha care deeply about people and they continually provide resources to help facilitators become even more successful.

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    Jason Newmark Founder New-Mark Group, Shark Tank Winner, Co-Founder LeanStart

    The course is a must for all businesses and individuals to help people understand themselves better and how they can better function as teams within a business

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    Maravi Melendez-Davis, PCC CAC SHRM-CP Strategic Coach for Executives & Leaders

    I have had the privilege of being a certified Five Lens People Development Practitioner since 2016, and recently completed retraining in 2021 for Practitioner and Team Development levels. My trainer and the president of Five Lens People Development, Colin Adam, is truly exceptional. Colin is a longstanding, leading consulting and coaching professional in South Africa, and his expertise and care have been invaluable to me.

    Colin and his team at Five Lens have consistently provided outstanding support, holding masterclasses and generously sharing their knowledge and experience. Colin's unique perspective and dynamic teaching style have greatly enhanced the work I do with clients. His commitment to our development as practitioners is evident in everything he does.

    I cannot recommend Colin and Five Lens People Development highly enough. If you are looking to deepen your coaching practice and make a meaningful impact, Colin and his team (Retha Van Staden, Jennifer Adam, etc.) are the ones to guide you on that journey.

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    Jimmy Khanyile Executive Coach

    The Five Lens is a highly effective assessment tool. The insights from the assessment help the coach and client to work as thinking partners at a more profound and transformational level. A coach's reports are excellent support for a coaching relationship and, for the client/coachee, a key to unlocking great depth in self-development and personal growth. I love using the Five Lens assessment tool!

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    Dolores Mashishi Human Capital & Business Advisor | Executive Transition coach, INED

    I completed the Five Lenses people development certification programme. I have experienced a number of assessments in my professional career and this one specifically provided much more clarity and deeper understanding on human behavior, and how our behaviors shows up and can be explained.
    The time and the transformational experience that my clients get from their reports as part of their own personal development has been the greatest highlight. This tool is also the best way to assist client and coach to craft a more focused coaching plan moving forward.
    I will recommend the Five lenses personal development assessment programme to Everyone.

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    Veronique Breugelmans Founder - Managing Director, Coaching & Consulting

    What an incredible experience. Not only did every one of the company representatives show up with integrity, professionalism and passion, they also clear live and breathe the work they teach. What a simply refreshing and welcoming start to the new year. I enjoyed every second of every part of the accreditation. Thank you. Here's trusting that more people get to experience your course as well as the benefits of understanding the 5 Lens Enneagram approach to personal and professional development.

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    David Smith Company Owner at Coachsmith

    I attended the Five Lens Practitioner Course and a year later, I
    was invited to attend a free refresher course as part of the Five Lens community. I have promoted it extensively with my coaching clients and have done many debriefs on the Standard and Premium Personal Feedback Reports to the delight of clients. It has become the baseline of all of my coaching interventions and having attended the refresher course has given me confidence and deeper insights that I am able to share with clients. A must-do course, it WILL change your outlook on life with this 'in-look' brilliant course.

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    Verna Eagles Integral Coach Practitioner

    Excellent facilitators; very practical and knowledgeable and supportive of the learning for the delegates on the course. The prework/online learning is easy to understand and you can work at your own pace, leading up to the workshop. Five Lens is comprehensive and detailed, yet easy to understand insight, into one's styles of behavoiur.

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    Colleen Swarts Executive & Leadership Coach

    The course gave me additional insight into human behaviour - my own and that of Others - which has already helped me in my life as well as my practice. I also came to greatly appreciate my awareness of context and the role it plays in EVERYTHING. And knowing that we can learn, unlearn and relearn behaviours that benefit us and the world we inhabit, once we open ourselves fully.

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    Ankia van Rooyen Integral Coach Practitioner

    This certification is worth the ROI to me as Integral coach practitioner. Its value lies in the comprehensive holistic perspective it provides me with, an additional overlay to explore clients true coaching needs objectively and accurately.

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    Silke Liebberger Director at Prime Pharma

    An Enrichment for any one who strives for personal development and growth for one self and others. The 5 lenses certification program offers a great set of tools to work with in the Coaching space, Thank you very much for creating this platform which has developmental growth at heart, truly.

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    Akunna Onwu Founder of Grane Lux, Integral Coach

    I thoroughly enjoyed the course. It is quite rich with really useful tools that will assist my clients in bringing about awareness of themselves as they begin their personal development journeys. I wish everyone could, at some point in their life, engage with the five lens model. It really is a great model for engaging and understanding oneself on a deep level.

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    Paddy Gray Executive Coach and Consultant at HighThrive (Pty) Ltd

    As an executive coach for individuals and teams, I am grateful to the Five Lens team for your excellent range of Five Lens assessment and skills modules products. My clients have confirmed that they have benefited from significant insights, both about themselves and also about their team members.

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    Sam Wilcox-Diedericks ACC (ICF) Founder | Executive & Leadership Coach

    The Five Lens People Development Team are incredibly knowledgeable, process driven & supportive. I never imagined that getting Certified as an Enneagram Practitioner would be so enjoyable & clear. What stands out as well are all the ongoing learning opportunities through regularly held masterclasses. This Behaviourial Assessment Tool is a gamechanger and has offered a lot of clarity to my clients. I am passionate about what the Growth and Personal Mastery amplification Enneagram has offered me as a System, and what it can offer my Clients: an Opportunity to ‘shine a light’ on their ‘way of being’ and to illuminate forward growth and expansion strategies.

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    Leandre Ehlers Business & Personal Coach, Leadership Facilitator, ACMA | CGMA

    The certification has been an incredible experience from start to finish, leaving me proud to be a part of this professional community.

    Colin as a facilitator has been one of the best I’ve ever had the privilege of learning from, and his in depth knowledge and style complements the learning greatly.

    I value and respect the work they do and feel grateful to work with and continuously learn from this community!

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    Liezl Cromwell Leadership Specialist, Professional Coach

    My experience with the Five Lens Enneagram has been transformational, both personally and for my clients. The integrated approach of the five different lenses increases self-awareness, confirming in 'black and white' what they have been experiencing or surfacing 'blind spots'. This deeper understanding of self enables them to 'dial up' strengths, while focusing on developmental areas. The report is rich with reflections and further insights. I would highly recommend this product.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. How can this be used in hiring or succession planning?

The FIVE LENS assessment has been designed for use in the people development context. This includes coaching, counselling, mentoring, and group/team development processes. It would fall into the broad category of ‘personality assessments’ that focus on the way people behave feel and think. It identifies certain behavioural patterns that may contribute or detract from a person’s overall effectiveness and can be used in situations where deepening personal and interpersonal awareness is important. It is NOT designed for selection & recruitment contexts or to assess specific skills or competencies.

More info on choosing the right assessment tool for your organisation: https://fivelens.co.za/optimising-people-development-a-comprehensive-guide-to-choosing-the-right-assessment-tool-for-your-team/

2. Can reports be used at scale across departments?

Yes, absolutely. The reports are built for individual and team scaling, group analysis, and behavioural trends. Ideal for teams, departments, and org-level rollouts.

3. What support is provided after certification?

Once certified, you become part of the FIVE LENS Community and gain access to many free exclusive community continuous learning online sessions. We currently offer masterclasses and community of practice sessions. We also send out monthly articles and marketing resources for the community. Ongoing report debrief support is available from the Five Lens moderator when needed. Admin and marketing resources are available.

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