Emotional Intelligence for Nonprofits
Support your people, measure your impact and build internal capacity for sustainable growth.
Elevate your programs and your people with emotional intelligence.
Strengthen your participants’ capabilities and build your organizational effectiveness with emotional intelligence assessments, training, and certification.
Do you want?
• Exceptional leadership
• Highly engaged staff
• Empowered participants
• Objective impact data
Developing emotional intelligence supports your long-term vision and the realization of your mission.
Magnify your impact and measure your progress.
Nonprofits all over the world use Six Seconds tools and methods to create cultures where people thrive. From UNICEF to Make-a-Wish to the Wangari Maathai Foundation, we partner with organizations to build sustainable high performance and make an even greater impact on the world.
Get the results you want with
emotional intelligence.
Explore our major areas of expertise.
Trusted Leaders
Equip leaders with the emotional intelligence skills they need to lead effectively.
Empowered Participants
Set your participants up for personal and professional success with critical emotional intelligence skills.
Engaged Staff
Validated Metrics
Measure the impact of your programs on emotional intelligence and critical life outcomes.
24% increase in key life outcomes at Twin Cities R!SE
4 pilot schools investing in emotional intelligence in Kenya
3.5M children learning SEL skills at POPUP Festivals
The complete solution for
emotional intelligence.
Assessments – Curriculum – Certification
Measure what matters.
There are two ways nonprofits do better work with Six Seconds tools and assessments: 1. Build internal capacity as an organization and 2. Measure the impact of a service or program. In its holistic workforce development program, Twin Cities R!SE both invests in emotional intelligence training for every trainer at its Personal Empowerment Institute and measures pre- and post- results for program participants, to measure changes in emotional intelligence and key life outcomes. All Six Seconds assessments are normed and validated with a global dataset, anonymous for users, and easy to use.
Build capacity.
Put insights into action to meet your goals.
All of our assessments are designed within models and frameworks that make the feedback practical and actionable. Our mission is growing the world’s emotional intelligence. Tell us about your most pressing needs and how we can help you solve them.
Take the survey in less than 15 minutes, get a fully integrated report within days, and start implementing solutions for your people.
Get certified.
Experience the power of Six Seconds at one of our world renowned certification courses. This is is a community unlike any other, but don’t take our word for it. Check out this testimonial and dozens of others:
“Six Seconds enriched my work through their powerful tools, structured framework, endless library and transformational trainings and certifications. Belonging to this community and being a network leader has inspired me both professionally and personally on my own self development journey.”
Ana Sofia Santos, Founder, Mind Over Matter
The Business Case for Emotional Intelligence
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