About The Goal Imagery® Institute

The Goal Imagery® Institute was founded by Marianna Lead in 2005 to provide a truly comprehensive, holistic learning environment that taps the subconscious power of emotions and imagination to help individuals and organizations achieve their goals faster and easier. In 2008 the program received full accreditation and approval from ICF.

The Institute offers a variety of personal and professional development courses with a focus on coach training and mentoring. All our workshops, seminars, and training programs unite thinking, feeling, being, and doing—while helping you discover the path you were meant to follow—for your personal growth as well as your professional success.

We are sensitive to the fact that people have different learning styles and we strive to pay individual attention to everyone who studies with us to ensure that their learning needs are met. We empower our students to use their natural strengths, skills, and creativity to make the learning process joyful, fun, fulfilling, and meaningful.

Goal Imagery® Coach Training Programs

Goal Imagery® Coach Training programs offer a uniquely broad spectrum of traditional and holistic coaching techniques. The programs are rooted in the Goal Imagery® method which unites thinking, feeling, being, and doing—providing unparalleled education and practical hands-on training.

Through its International School of Coaching Mastery ™, the Institute employs a state-of-the-art, virtual learning platform reaching students across the globe, providing them with all the skills they need to help their clients recognize and utilize their spiritual, emotional, creative, intellectual, and other resources.

In keeping with the philosophy of Coaching Mastery, our students are trained to treat individual issues not as somehow separate from each other or the client, but rather as part of a whole which encompasses all aspects of their clients’ lives and well-being. 

Unlike other programs that focus on one specific approach or philosophy, Goal Imagery® Institute’s programs encompass a broad spectrum of theories and applications, utilizing a unique combination of subconscious and conscious techniques while blending concepts from many holistic modalities.

Through an emphasis on practical application, our programs empower personal self-discovery of its students who are literally coached on a weekly basis throughout the course—by their instructor and fellow students. Likewise, their professional growth and accelerated learning—along with growing confidence in their rapidly developing coaching skills—are achieved by their regular coaching of other students as well as volunteer clients.

This uniquely comprehensive, hands-on approach provides a solid coaching foundation. All programs are taught infusing the practical understanding of ICF core coaching competencies that were developed to support a greater understanding of the skills and approaches used within today’s coaching profession. They are used as the foundation for the Goal Imagery® Holistic Coach Training Examination as well as the ICF Credentialing Process Examination.