Certified Business Associates

Overall Benefits for Certified Business Associates
  1. Helps individual and small groups of external consultants and trainers to achieve Business Excellence, wealth, and balance in their work and lives
  2. Become a respected Master Level Consultant and Trainer in Strategic Management...Our Only Business (Planning-People-Leadership-Change to Deliver Customer Value)
  3. Become part of a world-wide group of "thought leaders" in the state-of-the-art Systems Thinking applications from its Best Practice research
  4. Increase your income, rates, competence, prestige, and credibility while still maintaining your own desired practice, markets, separate P/L, lifestyle, and career/life goals

Become part of the World Leaders in Strategic Management—Powered by Systems Thinking.

Join consultants and trainers in over 25 countries at the Haines Centre—founded in 1990.

Six Program Components and Features

I. Learning and Development Component:

  1. Public workshop attendance at wholesale prices
  2. Gold Mastery Certifications, webinars and on-demand archives on all seven components of the Business Excellence Architecture
  3. First year Coaching and Mentoring by a Global Partner
  4. Member meetings twice a year (face-to-face learning)
  5. Special regular bridge calls on specific learning topics
  6. "InfoExchange" intranet with a wealth of materials for members and associates only—see Component V
  7. Systems Thinking Library (12 Volumes with 7,000 Best Practices reference pages)
  8. A wealth of Global Partners and others in the network to call on for any advice and counsel needed
  9. Get a Ph.D. equivalent in Systems Thinking and Strategic Management
  10. Involvement, participation, and co-facilitation on international projects and public workshops with other members and associates
  11. Workshop design, agendas, participant notebooks, and PowerPoint Presentations available to you

II. Haines Centre Brand Component to Supplement your Own Practice:

  1. Haines Centre brand support through specific world-wide yearly Marketing and PR plan
  2. Branded products and services to use and recommend to others
  3. Haines Centre branded, highly visited five websites with strong client testimonials
  4. Brand Identity Brochure—high quality CEO level presence
  5. Use of Certified Business Associate logo and certification through Haines Centre logos and brand standards
  6. Use of University of San Diego brand, logo, and Continuing Education Units (CEUs) as a sponsor and certifier of Haines Centre Workshops

III. Marketing and Sales Component:

  1. Marketing materials on all Haines Centre products and services along with the ability and permission to tailor them
  2. Haines Centre website featuring you along with links to your own website
  3. Local Marketing and Public Relations framework, suggestions, and support for you
  4. Haines Centre referrals for follow up, networking, and sales from free articles, Systems Thinking Press® sales, phone calls, and emails
  5. Extensive email database for local marketing support
  6. Start up marketing, sales, pricing advice on InfoExchange along with member coaching
  7. Earn commissions on sale of Haines Centre products, workshops, and in-house consulting work
  8. Professional advice on how much/how fast to raise your daily rates due to Haines Centre association
  9. Instant home office daily support and advice on all matters through our headquarters' staff "service bureau" concept
  10. Support to develop your own:
    • Strategic Life Plan
    • Strategic Plan
    • Marketing and Sales Strategic Plan
    • Individual Development Plan (IDP)
    • Your own sales process and sequence
  11. Involvement and visibility in our monthly newsletter, Strategic Management Insights
  12. Involvement and visibility on our client webinars along with follow up coaching and blended learning
  13. Assistance with proposal (RFP) development along with samples to guide you
  14. Online assessment instrument support and customizing
  15. Sample agendas and client documents to use to guide your practice

IV. Copyrighted Materials Use Component:

  1. CEO level books/Executive Briefing Booklets to support/give credibility to your practice areas and presence
  2. Electronic and hard copy materials to use, sell, gain commissions (including articles, models, instruments, and templates)
  3. Electronic/hard copy PowerPoint slides to use, sell, gain commission on all seven hexagon Best Practices for public or in-house training and consulting
  4. Continuous stream of new products and services from Haines Centre—all based on 50 years of scientific research on Systems Thinking as proven Best Practices
  5. Wealth of samples, tips, and trends on InfoExchange
  6. Specialty materials in different languages (Arabic, Spanish, French)
  7. Ability to author, develop, sell your own (or joint) Systems Thinking Products through the Systems Thinking Press® online store
  8. Ability to purchase all Systems Thinking Press' materials at wholesale prices
  9. Ability to purchase a yearly unlimited reproduction master of all PowerPoint presentations, as well as all articles, models, instruments, and templates

V. Haines Centre InfoExchange Component:

  1. Haines Centre for Strategic Management policies
  2. Member plans and communications
  3. Member expertise
  4. Samples, trends, and consultant tips
  5. Haines Centre Consulting and Training services and flyers
  6. Marketing and sales materials
  7. Business Excellence Architecture and content
  8. Systems Thinking Press®—authors, products and flyers
  9. Centre PowerPoint presentations and models

VI. International Work and Travel Component:

  1. Paid and unpaid International work and travel combined
  2. International vacations as part of the Global Partner Meetings with tax write offs
  3. International travel as a business expense for tax purposes


Footer image