Welcome

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 the pioneering effort made since 2000, to lift consultation to a level on which developmental knowledge about adults’ mental growth becomes part and parcel of consulting activity. 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 mere “best practices”.

The Institute has developed a highly structured teaching and certification program. Teaching focus is on 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 and sense 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

IDM courses are held as international teleclasses. Use the link below to hear a 15 minute excerpt of a Gateway class led by Otto Laske.
Gateway #1 Sample Teleclass Audio Clip