Stop Guessing.
Get CLEAR.
The CLEAR Method™ Certification trains coaches and consultants to replace gut-feel decisions with structured stakeholder evidence across every market they serve.
Most decisions in business, nonprofits, careers, and organizations are made on assumption. The cost of being wrong is high: wasted budgets, failed programs, stalled careers, and career-limiting mistakes. The CLEAR Method™ gives you a repeatable, evidence-based process to discover what stakeholders actually need before you commit to a direction.
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.
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 Leaders and 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.
Gut Feel Is Not a Strategy. And Surveys Only Confirm What You Already Believe.
Most coaches and consultants help clients think more clearly about what they already know. The CLEAR Method™ goes further. It helps your clients discover what they do not know through structured, curiosity-driven conversations with the stakeholders who matter most.
The result is not just better decisions. It is decisions with evidence behind them, buy-in built into them, and a defensible rationale that holds up under pressure.
Where CLEAR Works
One Methodology. Five Markets. Unlimited Application.
Nonprofit Program Development
Design programs with evidence from beneficiaries, funders, administrators, and volunteers before launch, not after.
Corporate Product Development
Bring product-market fit discipline inside established organizations. Build what the market actually wants.
Consultant Go-to-Market Strategy
Position a new service offering using buyer language, real objections, and channel clarity not assumptions.
Career Transition Coaching
Guide clients through career changes with outside-in market evidence, not inside-out self-assessment alone.
Executive Decision-Making
Help senior leaders stress-test assumptions before committing to decisions that are career-defining and sometimes career-limiting.
The Foundation
Customer Focus Begins with Curiosity and Empathy
Before any framework, before any question guide, before any gathering the CLEAR Method is grounded in two human disciplines that cannot be faked: genuine curiosity and deep empathy.
Curiosity is what keeps an interview open. Empathy is what makes a stakeholder 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 stakeholders 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.
Two Ways to Engage
Start with a Challenge. Graduate to a Credential.
CLEAR Skills Coaching
You have a specific challenge a decision to make, a program to design, a service to launch, a career to pivot. We work through it together using the CLEAR Method. You solve your challenge and experience the methodology firsthand.
- 1-1 or small group format
- Stakeholder interview design and preparation
- Facilitated gathering and insight generation
- Actionable recommendations grounded in evidence
- 4 x 50-minute Zoom sessions
- Email correspondence between sessions
CLEAR Method Certification
Earn your CCC or CCF credential and add the CLEAR Method to your professional toolkit. Deliver the methodology to your own clients and charge for it accordingly.
- 8-week live cohort (Zoom)
- Cohort limited to 10-15 participants
- Real client capstone project
- Peer learning across 5 markets
- Full methodology toolkit and templates
- Annual renewal to maintain credential
Many participants start with a coaching engagement and then pursue certification after experiencing the methodology's impact on their own challenge.
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 stakeholders 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 8-week program. Participants self-select the badge that fits their professional context. Annual renewal is required to maintain your credential protecting its value over time.
"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
Program Format
What You Get 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.
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