There's a moment in every certification review where we stop reading the application and start picturing the room it describes. A leadership team somewhere in the world, cards on the table, someone saying out loud how they actually want to feel at work. That moment is why the ECD Certified Pathway exists. Every badge below represents dozens of those rooms, and the ripples from each one travel further than any of us often get to see.

In the first half of 2026, fourteen leaders across eleven countries reached new milestones on the pathway, from Sri Lanka to Scotland, Ghana to Aotearoa New Zealand. Before the names, we feel it matters to say this. These badges are not certificates of attendance. They are proof of practice. Each one was earned by facilitating real emotional culture conversations inside real organisations, across our Culture, Change, Stakeholder and Leadership specialities.

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Senior Elephant Riders

• Azeem Saheer, Culture, Sri Lanka
• Erika Barden, Cult
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