Train and Certify in the use of World-Class Models, Assessments & Team Processes with your clients and in your organisations
Centered on the Enneagram Model of Human Behaviour
Centred on the FIVE LENS assessment, our certification programme is an immersive and practical learning process underpinned by academically sound models and principles
"The Five Lens Practitioner Level Certification Course takes you deep into practical ways to understand ourselves and how we you show up in our interactions with fellow humans. The course throws up mirrors all around you to see yourself in how you show up in your world. This is one course that I want to bring into my whole organisation" (Dr Dumi Magadlela, Executive Coach and Acting Head: Learning and Development,
The entire process is world-class. The certification, the product, the support, the community is unmatched. As a globally focused executive coach and leadership instructor, the Five Lens Platform is perfect for all scenarios.
The 5 Lens is an outstanding coaching tool. I thoroughly enjoyed the course and highly rate Colin as a facilitator and mentor. The team including Jennifer and Hymie is extremely helpful and professional. My clients love the 5 Lens and have become 'addicts' of the Enneagram. Thank you for a valuable addition to my coaching practice.
People development with Five Lens helps my Coachees across the globe to activate beyond their capacity and abilities.
The Five Lens helps individuals to unlock their potentials, remove personal blockers (blind spots) and lead themselves before leading others.
It’s all about effectiveness and being a leader of influence not power.
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Internationally Recognised Accreditation
Our FIVE LENS Practitioner Level Certification Course is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
A FIVE LENS Enneagram Certification is recognised and delivered internationally
Recognised and utilised globally, our FIVE LENS Reports and Team Processes are trusted by many leading corporations, especially in Southern Africa and the United States.
Expert-Led Training:
Learn from our Founder and CEO, Colin Adam, a leading Enneagram and Human Behaviour expert with over 30 years of experience in this field.
He has co-developed research-backed Enneagram-based psychometric assessments since the mid-1990s.
Colin 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.
Follow Colin on LinkedIn where he posts valuable content: @Colin Adam
The Enneagram is the central lens of this assessment and we’ve integrated four additional “Lenses”. The FIVE LENSES are:
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.