About Us
IDM consists of the Interdevelopmental Institute and IDM Associates, a cadre of international students who have been certified in leading-edge psychological assessment and process consulting (interviewing / coaching) techniques. Our Associates work together on consulting and assessment projects and teach various aspects of the Constructive-Developmental Framework in English, German, French, and Spanish.
The Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM) is the world's leading provider of research-based adult-developmental education for consultants, coaches, HR strategists, facilitators, mediators, social workers, and psychologists. The Institute's consulting arm, Interdevelopmental Associates (IDMA) delivers teaching, mentoring, coaching, and talent management services to innovative organizations worldwide who seek to leverage cutting-edge research on adult development in optimizing innovation.
IDM owes its reputation as an educational institution to its pioneering efforts to lift one-on-one leadership consultation and coaching to a level on which developmental knowledge about adults’ mental growth becomes part and parcel of the engagement activities. This entails more than acquiring a new set of interviewing and assessment skills. Rather, it requires of the professional him- or herself a developmental shift to the self-authoring level, on which consultations are firmly based on one’s own values and principles, rather than merely on “best practices” as taught by most other coach training organizations.
The Institute teaches a decision science for organizational human resources. The teaching comprises two highly structured programs: (1) a certification program and (2) a professional development program. Both are based on cutting-edge developmental research, including findings from assessments made by IDMA members. The first program focuses on reshaping one’s career as a consultant or coach by acquiring developmental listening and analysis skills. The second program is more directly geared to practical issues daily dealt with by working professionals, and serves their continuing education.
Along both tracks, teaching focuses on frameworks, concepts and skills needed in process consultation, a consultation to clients’ mental process (E. Schein). Process consultation requires of the consultant a deep understanding of clients’ way of making meaning (social-emotionally) and sense (cognitively) of their work and life. From an organizational perspective, this kind of consultation includes leadership support as well as talent management, executive development, succession planning, team building and recruitment.
For IDM’s Certification program, go to Certification
For IDM’s Professional Development program, see Professional Development