Performance Improvement Facilitator Development and Certification

Boost Your Career Trajectory with The Certified Performance Improvement Facilitator Training and Certification

Develop your competency and demonstrate your proficiency in using systematic processes to guide systemic, collaborative improvement across groups and organizations. The Performance Improvement Facilitator Learning & Performance Journey provides a performance-based learning experience while connecting learners with peers across sectors for mutual benefit.

The Institute for Performance Improvement provides the comprehensive virtual development program with embedded project-based Performance Improvement Facilitator certification.
Enrollments are currently being accepted for this engaging and practical virtual series . Choose your “Big Rock” , your complex challenge that requires collaboration. Apply your learning and tools immediately with coaching. Earn the Certified Performance Improvement Facilitator designation and digital badge awarded by The Institute for Performance Improvement.
Contact Deb Page at Deb@TIFPI.org for more information and to attend a complimentary webinar overview. Private cohorts are available for organizations and groups.

Learning with Peers Leverage the Power of Social Learning

Synchronous learning in class is aligned with asynchronous peer-to-peer learning and coaching via the Promote digital platform. Participants report the rich peer interaction to be a highly valuable aspect of the experience, as well as the opportunity to immediately apply their learning to meeting their goals. The most common participant response: “I wish I had this training earlier in my career. I have really improved my impact, and now I have a true, coherent professional practice and toolkit!”

As Change Accelerates, Focus on Creating the Future of Education, and Economic, Workforce, and Community Development Collaboratively

As Perkins funds shift from the Department of Education to the Department of Labor and federal education funds and decisions shift to states, AI and technology are rapidly changing work and education, and demographics, policy, economics and other systemic forces are creating a powerful confluence of change. Schools cannot do what must be done alone. Partnerships and collaborative efforts are no longer nice to have – they are critical to the success of communities, states, and the nation. The Performance Improvement Facilitator Learning & Performance Journey allows local, regional and state peers across sectors to learn and work together to become collaborative partnerships for improvement, innovation, and implementation for shared success.

Participants develop a shared language, focus together on creating vibrant partnerships, and apply all their learning and tools to creating and achieving a shared vision for mutual success. They learn why collaborative efforts get stuck or fail, and how to achieve sustainable progress and results.

Apply Your Learning to Guiding an Improvement Project and Earn Certification CPIF

Enroll and select a “Big Rock”, a project that will require you to facilitate collaborative improvement or innovation.
Progress through the course series, applying your learning and tools to the project, with coaching.
Submit your work as assignments, getting feedback from your peers and instructors.
Network with your peers, sharing knowledge and assets.
Complete the work/assignments and earn the Certified Performance Improvement credential and digital badge awarded by ISPI and The Institute for Performance Improvement.

Leverage Performance Improvement Facilitation as a Game-Changer for Economic Development Organizations and Stakeholders for Shared Success

Limited Enrollment Training Begins October 2025 – Apply Today

Economic development success hinges on more than good strategy. EDOs across the country are under increasing pressure to deliver visible, lasting outcomes — from workforce development and business expansion to educational partnerships and quality-of-life improvements. Yet many well-intentioned coalitions stall, struggle with trust, or never fully implement what they plan.

Why? Because most EDOs are missing one critical capacity: Performance Improvement Facilitation — the skill set required to lead sustained, cross-sector collaboration that delivers measurable results for successful economic development.

Attend a Free Online Intro Session
Led by Deb Page, President of the Institute and co-author of The Performance Facilitator Playbook, this 30-minute session will:

• Overview the virtual training and certification format and tools
• Help you identify how you can best leverage this opportunity through participation or sponsorship and maximize your ROI
• Answer your questions about benefits, costs, and outcomes
• Provide early access to apply for the cohort and a $1000 discount

Choose a date and time:

Apply to Join the EDO Certification Cohort
This certification is ideal for EDO professionals and their chosen collaborators and planning and implementation facilitators who want to:
• Guide or sponsor impactful coalitions
• Facilitate real implementation and results
• Use practical, proven tools and processes to build trust and collaboration for improvement, innovation, and sustainable implementation
• Avoid pitfalls and move from strategic planning to strategic implementation

What’s Included:
• Live virtual training sessions
• Virtual access to resources, coaching, tools, and peers
• Tools from the Playbook

Virtual office hours for one-on-one coaching

Participants who enroll in this EDO Cohort will receive a $1000 tuition discount. More information will be shared in our live, virtual introduction.

Preview the Playbook
Download a free excerpt from The Performance Improvement Facilitator Playbook: Guiding Collaboration – Driving Results to begin to explore some of the tools and frameworks you’ll gain through certification.

The Performance Improvement Facilitator Playbook

Dr. Judith Hale, CPT and Deb Page, CPT researched the practices of effective performance improvement facilitators and codified and validated the ten standards of Certified Performance Improvement Facilitator™ (CPIF) practice. These practices and dozens of proven tools are embedded in The Performance Improvement Facilitator Playbook, available from Amazon and Kindle. Filled with proven processes and tools, the Playbook is the text for the Performance Improvement Facilitator Learning & Performance Journey.

Collaborate With Peers

Participants find the immersive experience to be very valuable, as they work across sectors to support each other to guide complex, collaborative improvement.

Apply Proven Processes

Experience applying proven processes that support human performance improvement from analysis to implementation sustainability — all in one course series.

Build Your Brand

Through your network of peer experts and your CPIF certification you will enhance your value, reputation and tool kit, and enjoy a vibrant community of practice.

Demonstrate Mastery in High-Demand Skills

Employers report that the skills they need and expect in candidates and the employees they need today are in short supply. The CPIF certification provides evidence of high-demand, “21st Century” skills, needed to succeed in the Fourth Industrial Revolution:
Certified Performance Improvement Specialists facilitate improvement and innovation using high- demand skills to do things that have not been done before. This requires being able to guide those they serve to work collaboratively across groups, organizations and sectors to change how they work together to solve complex challenges.
Work within and between groups, organizations, communities, and sectors as a Certified Performance Improvement Facilitator. Boost your career trajectory as you demonstrate your mastery of high-demand skills. Guide collaborative improvement, innovation, and success.

The virtual Performance Improvement Facilitator Learning & Performance Journey begins January 25 and runs through June 2025.

The Learning & Performance Journey is grounded in the international discipline of Human Performance Improvement and the Certified School Improvement Specialist standards.

Employers may choose to sponsor tuition for their associates or sponsor a private course series. Contact Deb Page at Deb@TIFPI.org to apply or to sponsor employees or a course. Use the contact form to request more information. We collaborate with corporate universities and other entities for employee development.

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