Earn Your CLEAR Method™ Certification
Add a proprietary, evidence-based methodology to your professional toolkit. Deliver better and more predictable outcomes for your clients. Earn a credential you can use from day one.
Most coaches and consultants help clients think more clearly about what they already know. The CLEAR Method™ goes further. It gives you a structured, repeatable process for discovering what people actually need through evidence-based conversations that replace assumption with insight. One client engagement pays for your certification. Every engagement after that is upside.
Who This Is For
Built for Practitioners Who Work at the Intersection of People and Decisions
Executive Coaches
Help senior leaders de-risk high-stakes decisions and build a defensible evidence trail before committing to a direction.
Independent Consultants
Launch new service offerings or enter new markets with evidence, not guesswork. Know your buyer before you build your pitch.
Career Coaches
Guide clients through career transitions grounded in real market insight, not assessments and hope.
Nonprofit Facilitators
Design programs with built-in stakeholder buy-in and a funder-ready evidence trail behind every decision.
HR and OD Professionals
Bring a structured listening methodology inside organizations to improve decisions, alignment, and change management.
Why Get Certified
Build a Steadier Pipeline. Reach New Markets. Grow Your Revenue.
Solve the Pipeline Problem
Building a steady pipeline is one of the hardest challenges in coaching and consulting. The CLEAR Method™ certification gives you a new, differentiated offer you can bring to new clients in new markets.
A New Tool for New Markets
The CLEAR Method™ travels across five distinct markets: nonprofits, corporate product teams, consultants, career transitioners, and executive leaders. One certification opens doors across all of them, expanding both your reach and your revenue potential.
This Isn't Taught in School
MBA programs teach strategy, finance, and management. They do not teach practitioners how to gather evidence from the people who matter most and translate it into defensible, actionable decisions. The CLEAR Method™ fills that gap, and you can offer it to your clients starting with your first certified engagement.
Build Relationships That Last
The CLEAR Method™ is not a one-time intervention. It is a repeatable process that clients return to again and again as their challenges evolve. Certified practitioners build deeper, longer-term client relationships as a result.
Program Investment
The CLEAR Method™ Certification is priced at a base program fee plus a success fee component, reflecting a shared commitment to your results. Pricing details and the success fee structure are discussed on your discovery call.
Book a free 15-minute call with Randy to learn about the investment and find out which cohort is right for you.
Base program fee plus success fee component applies. 3% bank and merchant fees apply. No refunds. Annual renewal required to maintain your CCC or CCF credential. Terms and conditions apply.
The Foundation
Customer Focus Begins with Curiosity and Empathy
Before any framework, before any question guide, before any data gathering, The CLEAR Method™ is grounded in two human disciplines that cannot be faked: genuine curiosity and deep empathy.
Curiosity keeps an interview open. Empathy makes people feel safe enough to tell you the truth. Together they unlock the quality of insight that surveys and data alone can never reach.
Curiosity
Asking questions without an agenda. Listening without rushing to conclusions. Letting the data surprise you.
Empathy
Creating the safety for people to share what they really think, not what they think you want to hear.
Evidence
Translating human insight into patterns, themes, and defensible recommendations that hold up under scrutiny.
The Curriculum
Learn It. Practice It. Apply It. Prove It.
The CLEAR Mindset and Evidence-Based Framework
Why evidence beats assumption. The cost of gut-feel decisions. Introduction to the five application scenarios. Question design, interview structure, and how to listen for insight, not just information.
Conducting Interviews I
Stakeholder mapping and prioritization. Identifying the right voices. Avoiding echo chambers. Live practice with real scenarios. Initial feedback and refinement.
Conducting Interviews II
Deeper interview practice. Handling difficult respondents. Probing techniques. Building rapport. Refining your personal interview style.
Data Gathering and Insight Generation
Moving from raw interview data to patterns, themes, and defensible insights. Recognizing what the data is actually telling you, and what it is not.
Insights Applied to New Opportunities, Markets and Customer Segments
Stress-testing insights against real business constraints. Surfacing new opportunities the client had not seen. Translating findings into strategic options.
Key Messages, Strategic Alignment and Positioning
Breakout sessions by scenario. Identifying and prioritizing customer segments. Developing market-specific messaging. Aligning findings to a positioning strategy that resonates with the right audience.
Validating Insights, Testing New Directions and Recommendations
Returning to people to pressure-test findings. Refining recommendations based on validation feedback. Building a defensible and actionable evidence trail.
Capstone Presentations
Each participant presents a real CLEAR Method™ engagement. Peer and facilitator feedback. Certification assessment. Next steps as a credentialed practitioner.
Your Credential
Three Badges. One Methodology. A Credential You Can Use Immediately.
All three credentials are earned through the same program. Participants self-select the badge that fits their professional context. Annual renewal is required to maintain your credential, protecting its value over time.
What You Get
What You Walk Away With as a Certified CLEAR Practitioner
Live Zoom Sessions
Weekly cohort sessions with Randy Shawn Fisher and your peer group.
Full Methodology Toolkit
Interview guides, stakeholder mapping templates, gathering frameworks, and capstone presentation structure.
Live Interview Practice
Structured practice with real scenarios and expert feedback before you work with clients.
Real Client Capstone
You complete an actual CLEAR Method™ engagement during the program, not a simulation.
Peer Cohort Community
Learn alongside coaches and consultants from all five markets. Cross-sector insight is a built-in benefit.
Named Credential
CCC or CCF after your name on LinkedIn, your website, and your proposals from day one of certification.
One Client Pays for Your Certification. Every Client After That Is Upside.
A single CLEAR Method™ engagement can be priced at $2,500 or more, depending on your market. Your certification investment is recovered on your very first client.
"Since I've worked with Randy, I have gained so much insight into how organizations like mine can bridge the gap between vision and impact and speak the language of funders who want to make a difference. I've become more confident. And I now see that I can be entrepreneurial too."
Alimatu Dimonekene MBE, Founder, A Girl At A Time, UK and Sierra Leone
Not ready for certification yet? Work with Randy directly on a specific challenge first and experience The CLEAR Method™ before committing to the full program.
Ready to Earn Your CCC or CCF? Let's Talk.
Book a free 15-minute call with Randy to find out when the next cohort opens and whether the certification is the right next step for you.
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