EMQ Certification
Know what's actually between your client and their goal.
The EMQ gives you a full blueprint of what's fueling — and draining — a client's capacity to reach what they're working toward, in one sitting. Get certified to administer it, debrief it, and back up what you already sense and see with a clear picture of the signals behind it.
Why do they keep stalling?
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They used to perform so well, what changed?
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What's blocking them from success?
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Why do they seem to keep spiraling?
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What's underneath the surface?
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Why do they keep stalling? ● They used to perform so well, what changed? ● What's blocking them from success? ● Why do they seem to keep spiraling? ● What's underneath the surface? ●
The Construct
Performance has a third input — and it's the one nobody's been measuring.
Capability
Skills, knowledge, and training
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Culture
Values and environment
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Capacity to Execute
Cognitive and energetic resources
= Sustainable Human Performance
Capacity to execute is powered by the brain's available energy, and how effectively that energy is used. It's what lets someone apply their capability and culture — consistently, under pressure, and in real time — which is why even high performers and well-supported people can still stall out. Refined and tested with people around the globe — including in high-demand environments and professions — to surface the clear signals that influence a person's capacity.
The EMQ measures it directly.
10 Years
of research and validation
1000’s
of data sources
100+
interrelated patterns
1
assessment
The Measure
Net execution capacity sits on a continuum, not a category.
Adaptive, long-term thinking. Renewable, stable energy that absorbs shocks without tipping over.
Inconsistent under pressure. More effort for the same tasks. Quietly borrowing energy just to keep pace.
Reactive, short-term thinking. Heavy autopilot reliance. Focus and follow-through start to collapse.
Not a profile or a type. A sliding score — someone at 72 has more capacity than someone at 68, even inside the same band.
Built from 100+ measurable indicators, as one integrated score — and it moves. Left untracked, small deficits compound into debt long before it becomes visible overwhelm. That's the risk you can now see coming, instead of finding out after it's already cost your client something.
What You Receive
Not a fixed trait or profile. It doesn't replace the read you already bring to a client — it adds precision to it.
A clear blueprint of what's fueling — and draining — someone's capacity.
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A single assessment shows exactly where a client is right now — so you can track movement over time and see risk before it becomes a crisis.
Where they sit on the capacity continuum
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Rumination, control, boundaries, energy drains in interactions — the actionable, modifiable levers, that explain their position. You know how to get capacity back, build more, and sustain it.
The gains and drains behind that position
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Not a ranked checklist — the key opportunities most likely to create movement toward their goal, so a client knows exactly where to put their energy first.
Where to start, with real momentum
Who It’s For
If you work with people or teams trying to perform, heal, or grow — whether as an external coach or practitioner, or from inside your own organization — this is for you.
Built for anyone driving real human transformation.
Life & relationship coaches
Business & performance coaches
Therapists & mental health pros
HR practitioners & L&D leaders
Physicians
Dietitians & nutritionists
...and anyone else driving behavior change across performance, wellbeing, and growth — whether that's one person or a whole team.
How It Helps
Four conversations you're already having — sharpened by the same underlying read.
Whether capacity is the hidden variable underneath the presenting problem, or what's actually blocking their success.
— BURNOUT & SUSTAINABILITY
See the drain before the crisis
Get the before-the-crisis read, naming the specific patterns driving the depletion in a client or a team member — not just noticing it after the fact.
— READINESS & CHANGE
Have the honest readiness conversation
Confirm someone has the actual capacity to show up for the change they want — a promotion, a new relationship, a big life shift — not just the desire for it, with something concrete to point to.
— ROOT CAUSE & CLARITY
Identify the underlying patterns
Look one layer deeper at the patterns that could be shaping someone's sense of purpose, level of motivation, relationship health, or relationship with food — capacity is often part of the picture that's easy to miss.
— FUTURE-PROOFING
Show adaptability, measured
In the AI era, nobody can say exactly what the next role looks like — this shows a client's actual adaptability, not an assumption about it.
How It Fits
It doesn't replace your toolkit. It's the layer underneath it.
The EMQ measures the capacity underneath — the resource everything else draws on.
Existing Assessments
Pair it with what you already run — MBTI, Hogan, DISC — for a clearer, fuller picture of what's actually driving someone's results.
Existing Content
Already using a content platform or resource library? Use the EMQ's output to tailor exactly what you give — the right piece, not more.
Existing Framework
The EMQ is broad and deep, spanning many aspects of human functioning. Fold its insights into the framework you already use.
Need supporting tools and resources of your own? Our platform has those too.
What It Gives You
A single assessment gives you the depth and breadth to bring robustness, quantification and to your engagements.
Precision you can act on.
Get to the real conversation faster
One 45-minute assessment surfaces what might otherwise take sessions to uncover — so your expertise starts from the real picture, sooner.
Back your work with data
Give clients and stakeholders an objective, credible number — not just a feeling or an anecdote.
Differentiate your practice
Be one of the first certified practitioners able to deliver a research-backed capacity diagnostic.
Deliver deeper debriefs, faster
Spend your time on the human work — the coaching — not the detective work of finding the pattern first.
Inside The Certification
A practical path, not a lecture.
Built so you're ready to deliver a real debrief with confidence — not just pass a quiz.
And it's not just tool training. You're learning execution capacity itself, and why it's the missing variable behind stalled performance, burnout, and change that doesn't stick — even when everything else looks right. That knowledge doesn't stay inside the EMQ; it shows up in every session you run afterward, whether or not you're using the assessment that day.
Learn the science and the framework on your own schedule — under 4 hours of video, done whenever fits your week.
Covers the science of human execution capacity and the role of energy management, how it relates to performance, health and relationships, the EMQ framework itself, how to read and interpret results, and how to run an ethical and effective debrief.
Short quizzes along the way confirm the model has really landed before you move on.
Deliver a test debrief and pass it — with direct, personalized feedback from a master coach. Budget about 60 minutes, plus whatever prep time you want.
Once certified, you're listed as an EMQ practitioner so new clients can find you.
What It Looks Like In Practice
What people say once they've seen it work.
"You can hire the best people, put them in the right seats, build a genuinely great culture — and still have everyone running below their potential if no one's tending to the human energy underneath it all. MEvolution is the first thing that actually measured it for me — and that's the difference between people who look fine and people who can deliver when it counts."
TREVOR CLAUS
14-yr Canadian Armed Forces veteran, leadership development
"The EMQ assessment offered eye-opening insights into how I manage and deplete my own energy. It helped me see patterns I hadn't recognized before and gave me a clearer framework for aligning my focus and effort with what truly sustains me."
DR. AL'AI ALVAREZ
Emergency Medicine Physician
Investment
Everything you need to bring capacity to your clients and patients.
CERTIFICATION TRAINING
$1,800
Includes 3 EMQ evaluations
$220 value per evaluation — a robust, research-grade diagnostic, not a quick quiz. Each one includes both a coach report for your own use and a client-ready report to hand directly to them.
$660
in evaluations included with certification
✔ Full EMQ certification credential
✔ 3 client evaluations, ready to use immediately
✔ Listing in the EMQ practitioner directory
✔ A research-backed framework to differentiate your practice
✔ Self-paced learning and development
✔ Master Coach reviewed and feedback
✔ A repeatable, data-driven debrief process for every future client
What you walk away with
Join as a Founding Practitioner — 15 spots
Every test debrief is with Sarah Deane, the EMQ's creator. Founding practitioners also lock in lower EMQ pricing, a permanent badge in the directory, and a live, virtual group coaching calls with Sarah alongside their fellow founding cohort.
Because of the nature of the data this work involves, enrollment starts with a short application — a chance for us to confirm fit before you begin. After you apply, we review applications personally and respond within 1–3 business days. Once approved, you'll receive a link to complete your purchase and enroll. The founding cohort is the first 15 approved practitioners to complete enrollment.
For Teams & Organizations
Certifying multiple people at once?
This page is priced for individual certification. If a coaching practice, HR/L&D team, or clinical group wants to certify several people together, pricing is custom.
For bulk certification of a team or organization.
Need more evaluations?
Bulk evaluation packs, at a discount off the standard $220 rate. Every evaluation includes a coach report plus a client-ready report to share directly.
$220
1 Evaluation
$195
Per Evaluation -5-Pack
$175
Per Evaluation -10-Pack
Running more than 10 evaluations, or certifying at enterprise scale? Volume pricing improves from here — talk to us.
Good To Know
Questions practitioners usually ask.
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About 45 minutes, in one sitting. In that time, it builds a robust model of how they actually operate — the equivalent of insight that might otherwise take multiple sessions to surface.
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No. It's not a personality quiz or a style label. It's a working map of their execution capacity — gains and drains — built to be discussed and acted on, not filed away.
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It can be standalone or complement them, depending on purpose. Where other assessments describe traits or style, the EMQ shows the underlying patterns driving capacity beneath them — one integrated map your existing tools can sit on top of.
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Self-paced training modules, short knowledge checks along the way, and a practice debrief personally reviewed by a master coach — not an automated pass/fail.
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Full certification, plus 3 client evaluations ($660 value) ready to use immediately, and a listing in the EMQ practitioner directory so new clients can find you.
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Yes — you have 60 days from enrollment to schedule and complete your practice debrief. That's plenty of room to move through the self-paced modules at your own speed and still have time to prepare. If you need more time, just reach out — we'd rather work with your schedule than have the clock be the reason you don't finish.
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No extra step to get certified, but the responsibility shifts slightly: you're expected to use results ethically and within your organization's own confidentiality practices, the same as any assessment you'd bring into an HR or L&D context. An individual's report belongs to the conversation you're having with them.
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A nominal annual renewal of $199 keeps your certification active, your directory listing live, and your evaluation rate locked at $195 — the 5-pack price, even on single purchases.
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Once you begin training, the certification fee is non-refundable. That said, you're never left stuck — you get two included attempts to pass your debrief, and if you're not feeling ready after the first, we'll work with you until you have a real plan to get there. Have questions before you commit? Email serena@jointhemevolution.com and we'll walk you through anything you want to know first.
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If it happens, we'll work with you on a plan — no one is left without a path to certification. Because each debrief involves a full hour of a master coach's time, additional attempts beyond the first two carry a $295 fee. This also renews your access to the course material for another 30 days, giving you real time to prepare before your next attempt.
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This certification gives you access to deep data about your clients — not a personality type or a preference score, but a genuine picture of what's driving someone's capacity. Because of that, we ask a few quick questions before certifying anyone: your current role, the kind of clients or teams you work with, and a reference or two we can check in with. It's not about credentials or gatekeeping — it's about making sure everyone holding this material is equipped to hold it responsibly, for the people on the other end of the debrief.
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We'd love that, and we want to make it worth your while. There's a referral fee involved, and the details depend on how you'd like to stay involved — whether that's a simple handoff or staying on as part of the delivery. We work this out case by case, so just reach out and we'll figure out what makes sense together.
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That's available directly — aggregated group reports start at $2,000, scaling with team size and scope. You can bill your client directly for it, or roll it into your existing engagement fee, whichever fits how you work. It's priced for what it actually delivers: a deep, organizational-level read that can feed into strategic planning, communications, and more — real runway to work with a team, and a genuine business case to bring to leadership. Every engagement is scoped to what you actually need, so just reach out and we'll figure out the right shape for your case.
Your clients are already carrying the patterns. Give yourself the map.
Modern life, work, and AI are accelerating faster than most people's capacity to keep up — and the practitioners who can name and measure it precisely will be the ones clients trust most. One certification. A research-backed instrument. A repeatable process for every client after this one.
One-time certification fee · Includes 3 evaluations · Master-coach reviewed