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Mr. Unnikrishnan Balakrishnan, CLC, CMSLC

Mr. Unnikrishnan Balakrishnan, who hails from South India, is a Chartered Accountant, a Certified Internal Auditor and a Certified Information Systems Auditor. He held several key positions in the corporate sector for over two decades before he decided to take up life coaching and personal enrichment training full-time. “I find my life more meaningful when I am able to make a difference in the lives of others”, says Unnikrishnan, contended that he has found his life passion.

Why did he choose Life Coaching as a career?

“The choice of starting a career as a Life Coach was delightful and at the same time a bit scary”, says Unnikrishnan. “Delightful because it seemed to fulfill my passion and open up the life of my dreams before me, and scary due to the thought of quitting my long-established and successful career in Finance and Accounting. However, fear seemed to have less power when confronted by the power of my life-long passion.”

And why Symbiosis Coaching?

Here’s Mr. Balakrishnan again: “I came across Symbiosis Coaching through a web search. Since I had spiritual coaching as my key interest area, I was on the lookout for an institution which offered spiritual coaching as its specialization. I was glad when I found Symbiosis Coaching addressed my requirements in two stages – first by offering the core Certified Life Coach training program, and then allowing such coaches to take up the Certified Master Spirit Life Coach program. This was exactly what I was looking for.”

“I was impressed with the program as it allowed me to hone my life coaching skills and as I progressed, it also allowed me to introduce some structure to my sessions”, says Unnikrishnan. And the best part of the program was the price – easily affordable, yet being affiliated to the world renowned Certified Coaches Alliance. With all these, Symbiosis Coaching program proved to be my best choice, when it came to mastering life coaching methodologies.”

Unnikrishnan is now a well-known self-empowerment facilitator, trainer, speaker and life coach and has wide experience in mentoring individuals to success. He regularly conducts training programmes for corporate clients, teachers, students and parents and helps them tap into their inner potential to lead a healthy, happy and successful life.

Certified NLP Coach

Program Description: The Certified NLP Coach program allows you to incorporate very powerful NLP techniques you’re your day-to-day coaching practice.

ICF Training Hours: 65

Duration: 25-weeks

Schedule: One 2-hour class per week

Includes certificate: Yes

Certified Organizational Development Coach

Program Description:

The Certified Organizational Development Coach program is an exclusive and very unique program, designed for coaches who wish to coach entire organizations with their Organizational Development and Change Management goals. This program provides you with 65 ICF training hours - more than enough for the ACC credential. Over a series of 25 weekly lectures, it prepares you to deal with volatile group dynamics across entire organizations. Topics including OD interventions, Team Engagement, Buyer Behavior of internal customers, The Tripod of Success, Ensuring Sustainability, Performance-Retention correlation, Strategies to influence behavior - and many more - are covered in detail.

Coaches are introduced to the ARCS Model, as well as to the Organizational Culture Audit Toolkit. Employee motivation, satisfaction, and productivity are discussed, as well as their impact on the performance of the organization as a whole. Students are introduced to various Change Management models including Lewin's Planned Change model, the ADKAR Change Management model, and Kotter's 8 steps of Change Management. Resistance to change and its manifestation are discussed, as is Behavior Modification.

Upon completing this program, Certified Organizational Development Coaches will have all the tools they need to affect positive transformation within organizations, and will be able to coach teams and personnel at all levels - including initiators, decision makers, influencers, and intervention implementers.

In addition to coaches who are launching their own Corporate Coaching practices, this is an essential program for HR professionals, Training and Development Professionals, Managers, and Corporate Leaders who wish to implement internal policies and OD processes to guide their companies and people through ongoing change.

ICF Training Hours: 65

Duration: 25-weeks

Schedule: One 2-hour class per week

Includes certificate: Yes

Certified Executive Coach

Program Description

The Certified Executive Coach program has been designed for coaches who wish to coach managers, executives, and corporate leaders. The goal of this program is to cultivate a deep understanding of how the executive coaching process works as well as some of the challenges that come up in executive coaching conversations.

This program has been approved by the International Coaching Federation for 32 hours, and it comprises of 12 live, instructor-led, fully interactive virtual classes offered over zoom. These classes cover various aspects of executive coaching including, but not limited to Effective Collaboration, Performance Management, Upskilling, Conflict Management, Effective Collaboration, Developing Team Members, and many more.

This program has a very unique, hands-on, experiential structure. Classes are focused on active participation by students through real life Coaching Challenges and discussions of real life executive coaching situations.

ICF Training Hours: 32

Duration: 12-weeks

Schedule: One 2-hour class per week

Includes certificate: Yes

Certified Life Coach

Program Description:

The Certified life Coach program is an essential program for anyone considering coaching as a profession. The goal of this program is to create a deep understanding of the coaching process, along with how and why it is effective in catalyzing shifts in the mindset to create positive, sustainable transformation.

The training is based on the ICF’s core coaching competencies. It focuses on skills that lead to effective coaching conversations and that are required to build a successful coaching business. It evokes awareness about how identity, thoughts, and feelings determine mindset; and why a change in Think Feel Do impacts the achievement of goals though a change in this mindset.

This program is approved by the International Coaching Federation for 95 hours and comprises 24 live, instructor led, fully interactive virtual sessions offered over Zoom. These lectures cover all aspects of coaching – topics such as Human Emotions and the Brain, Coaching through Emotional Intelligence, The Belief System, Coaching Process and Structure, Deep Listening, Setting Worthy Goals, Asking Insightful Questions, Addressing Client Resistance, Coaching Groups, The Business of Coaching, and many more. These are complemented with a library of reading and reference material, coaching challenges based on various real-life coaching situations, extensive hands-on coaching practice, and assignments designed to trigger reflection on and mastery of coaching skills.

ICF Training Hours: 95

Duration: 24-weeks

Schedule: One 2-hour class per week

Includes certificate: Yes

Class Schedule
ProgramStart DateClass TimesClass Schedule
Certified Life CoachMonday, Nov 6th10:30am ET
3:00pm ET
8:00pm ET		Once a week, 2-hours, for 24-weeks
Certified Organizational Development CoachTuesday, Dec 12th10:30am ET
3:00pm ET
8:00pm ET		Once a week, 2-hours, for 25-weeks
Certified Executive CoachWednesday, Dec 13th10:30am ET
3:00pm ET
8:00pm ET		Once a week, 2-hours, for 12-weeks
Certified NLP CoachThursday, Dec 14th10:30am ET
3:00pm ET
8:00pm ET		Once a week, 2-hours, for 25-weeks
Level 1/2 - ACC/PCC
Mentoring		Friday, January 12th10:30am ET
3:00pm ET
8:00pm ET		Once a week, 1-hour
for 6-sessions PLUS 4 one-on-
one sessions with mentor