Dr. D. Ivan Young, MCC, NBC-HWC, CPDC. America's leading behavioral and relationship expert. ICF Master Certified Coach. National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach. Member Forbes Coaches Council. Certified Professional Diversity Coach.
Dr. D. Ivan Young, MCC, NBC-HWC, CPDC. America's leading behavioral and relationship expert. ICF Master Certified Coach. National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach. Member Forbes Coaches Council. Certified Professional Diversity Coach.

We each desire to experience a deeply fulfilling, energizing, and purposeful life.

 

All of us are entitled to a life that not only nurtures our ambitions in both business and personal relationships, but a life that also allows us to thrive.

Identifying our inherent talents that drive us towards this reality is just the beginning; it is the process of mastering them that ensures our continued success.

“Knowledge of self is the cornerstone on which all success in life is built. Only when you stop embracing old attitudes and self-serving ideologies can things change for the better,” Dr. D Ivan Young, ICF- MCC.

If you truly want to change your life, you muster up the courage to take a deep, honest look at yourself. If you’re open to examining the ways in which you may have mishandled difficult situations in the past and are willing to re-evaluate your beliefs and actions, this practice can be highly beneficial for you.

Dr. D Ivan Young, an ICF Master Certified Coach, capitalizes on methods that empower you to reassess past experiences, and identify your true struggle and natural talents, so you can take actionable steps that will improve your life in a sustainable way. Dr. Young enlist Innovative methods that evoke awareness, allowing you to take control of the things that disrupt fulfillment and contentment in your life. By collaborating with him, you’ll gain valuable insights that enable you to overcome obstacles and achieve greater happiness and satisfaction you to overcome obstacles and achieve greater happiness and satisfaction.

Until you change and gain true clarity, it does NOT matter how many connections you have, how much money or power you’ve attained – you’re going to continue to fail in everything, including business and especially personal relationships. The only thing worse than failing is not being aware of the beliefs and ideas caused you to fail. It’s time to discover what that something is that’s keeping you one step away from reaching your full potential. 

Isn’t it about time you stop being controlled by things that you can overcome?

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About Dr. D. Ivan Young

ICF - Master Certified Coach
National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach
Certified Professional Diversity Coach
Behavioral & Relationship Expert

Dr. D Ivan Young is considered one of America’s most highly esteemed, preeminent life coaches. Hailed as the Reality Check Doctor®, he is known for empowering his clients to change their beliefs and behaviors utilizing a provocative teaching style on complex relational issues. Dr. D. Ivan Young, ICF-MCC, NBC-HWC, is a leading behavioral modification and relationship expert. In January 2021 Dr. Young was selected for membership in the esteemed Forbes Coaches Council.

Dr. Young is a Certified Professional Diversity Coach, credentialed through The Coach Diversity Institute. He is a long-standing expert in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training, specializing in conflict resolution and team building.

Dr. D Ivan Young states, “Master Level Coaching is a creative process. Our primary goal is to help our clients develop new neuronal connections and networks while imagining new possibilities as they develop new behaviors and mindsets.

Our methodology is rooted in evidence-based, research-based coaching. We accomplish this with concierge styled tailored coaching programs that target specific, measurable, and replicable outcomes by giving our clients the tools needed to master multiple brain states and mindfulness.

As one master’s Self-Awareness, Self-Determination, Self-Compassion, and Self-Regulation – Self Actualization is the result. Put mildly; Self-Mastery is critical for lasting and durable success in anyone’s life.”

Evidence and Research Based Coaching

Dr. D Ivan Young is an International Coach Federation Master Certified Coach, the worldwide gold standard in professional coaching. The ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential represents the highest level of achievement in coaching and identifies an expert coach. Dr. D Ivan Young, NBC-HWC is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach. The National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC) has collaborated with the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) since 2016 to provide a robust board certification examination for the NBC-HWC credential. The esteemed NBC-HWC credential represents training, education, and assessment standards, allowing for the profession to advance in all aspects of health-care and wellness.

He also has an EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360 Certification. The MHS EQ-i 2.0 & EQ 360 Certification ® is one of the world’s most widely used emotional intelligence tests. Emotional intelligence skills are critical for building relationships and teams, resolving conflict, solving problems, leading effectively, and building resilience. The EQ-i2.0 provides a detailed assessment of areas of strength and potential areas for development. This comprehensive assessment is widely regarded as the gold standard of emotional assessment testing.

As of July 2020, there are 30,079 coaches in 130 countries and territories who hold one of three ICF Credentials, of that only four percent are Internationally credentialed Master Certified Coaches. If you factor in those who’ve completed accredited training programs, who are “NOT” ICF credentialed, the number of Master Credentialed Coaches is less than one percent globally.

Globally, there are only Four Thousand Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coaches.

Coaching Programs

If you’re ready to stop procrastinating, if genuinely sick and tired of failing at the things that matter most in life, like having authentic, meaningful relationships, this program is well-suited for you.

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Healthy relationships are the result of strong communication skills, the ability to manage conflict, self-actualization, likened values, and the ability to achieve common goals.

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Diversity Coaching and Diversity Training is inescapable, especially the goal is to maximize your and your team’s potential while minimizing conflict and hostility. Additionally, if you’re like many organizations, you are trying to manage a multigenerational, multicultural, multiracial workforce.

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Leadership development coaching and professional leadership coaching with a diversity coaching focus are for every growing professional in a leadership role, whether you’re seasoned or just starting to stretch your legs as a manager or supervisor.

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Your effectiveness, coherency, strategic decision-making, and ability to create and maintain rich relationships within your sphere of influence as a thought leader, executive, or licensed professional boils down to how you navigate one thing: high stress.

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ICF Mentor Coaching by Dr. D Ivan Young, MCC, a registered ICF Mentor Coach, empowers you with the particular tools needed to separate yourself from cookie-cutter coaching approaches. If you desire to be the best, it only makes sense to learn from the best.

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Coaching Credentials

Dr. Young’s many credentials include: being a Behavioral and Relationship Expert, Credentialed Master Practitioner in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment, an ICF Master Certified Coach, a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, an American College of LifeStyle Medicine | WellCoaches Certified Health and Wellness Coach, a Certified Professional Diversity Coach credentialed through the renowned Coach Diversity Institute. Dr. D Ivan Young is as a member of the esteemed Forbes Coaches Council.

Dr. D Ivan Young became a member of the Forbes Coaches Council in January 2021, an invitation-only community for leading business and career coaches. Dr. Young was vetted and selected by a review committee based on the depth and diversity of his experience. Criteria for acceptance include a track record of successfully impacting business growth metrics, as well as his personal and professional achievements and honors.

Dr. Young is a distinguished Fellow and Co-Lead for the Council on Race, Equity & Inclusion at the Institute of Coaching at The Institute of Coaching McLean, a Harvard Medical School affiliate. His in-depth emotional intelligence theories helped launch his career as a world-renowned public speaker and one of America’s most sought-after life coaches. Two White House administrations, the United States Congress, and the Texas State Legislature have recognized Dr. Young for his positive influence on American culture and his contributions to the coaching field. Dr. Young has appeared on or is a featured expert for every major media outlet in the United States and many globally.

Dr. D Ivan Young’s theories are gaining the attention of world leaders, business execs, professional athletes and celebrities.

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His no-nonsense attitude and driven results continue to help individuals, couples, institutions and businesses transform from the inside out.

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Book an appearance or buy a book – Dr. Dr. D is a sought after author, speaker and TV personality.

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Helping others create a positive change

Dr. D Ivan Young, MCC, NBC-HWC, is recognized as one of America's Best Life Coaches

“Before you can fully understand anybody else, you need to have complete clarity about yourself.”Dr. D. Ivan Young, ICF-MCC

Dr. D is a highly respected and sought-after coach due to his unique perspective, innovative strategies, and level of credentials. Due to his busy schedule and his commitment to offering the highest quality of individualized service, Dr. D requires an equally high level of commitment from all of his clients. Scheduling a series of coaching sessions with Dr. D provides the necessary tools to equip individuals, couples, and organizations with strong, healthy habits and communications skills.

His concentration on emotional intelligence brings a no-nonsense approach to enable all genders of any age, race, religion, and cultural background to overcome seemingly hopeless circumstances. If you are a new client interested in scheduling an appointment with Dr. D, please email your request prior to booking. 

Due to consistently high demand for Dr. Young’s services, there is a screening process. Dr. D must approve all new client services prior to scheduling.

What is the MBTI?

With more than 70 years of science-based, research-based insight, the MBTI assessment is a highly useful tool for self-awareness and improvement. Dr. Young is one of few Master Credentialed Practitioners skilled in using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.®

Dr. Young utilizes this assessment to help support you in your relationships, well-being, and professional performance goals. His skillful interpretation of the clinical version of this assessment provides you with a deeper, much broader understanding of what makes you. With these insights, you’re well-positioned to make more informed decisions, better communicate with others, and build stronger relationships, all based on your unique personality type.

Self-evolution necessitates that one grasps the attributes that shape their personality!

Dr. D. Ivan Young Recipient of Presidential Lifetime Achievement Awards

Recipient of Presidential Lifetime Achievement Awards

World leaders are taking notice in Dr. D. Ivan Young’s innovative emotional intelligence theories. As a highly sought-after motivational and keynote speaker, he is the recipient of three Presidential Lifetime Achievement Awards for contributions of service, honored in the Top 50 African American Health, Wellness, and Mental Health Professionals in Houston, Life Coach of the Year by The National Black Life Coach’s Network and the Faith Awards.

America’s leading relationship expert

I help stressed, busy people find meaning and balance both personally and professionally.
Dr. D. Ivan Young, ICF-MCC

Media outlets around the world reach out to Dr. D on a weekly basis to help make sense of this crazy world. His keen understanding of behavioral science provides a unique insight to cultural diversity and human relations, regardless of the connection. In Dr. D’s private sessions, he provides one-on-one counseling for individuals, couples, and groups, diving deep into physical attraction, chemistry and personality traits that sometimes, lead to chaos, conflict and lack of communication. 

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