About Dr. Janine Elias

Dr. Janine Elias – Her Story

Dr. Janine Elias is the President and the Principal Consultant of Elias Institute of Professional Coaching providing coach certification, continuing education, professional development, leadership training, custom programs, leadership retreats, and coaching and consulting for individuals, groups, and organizations.

Dr. Janine Elias has a doctorate in educational leadership and a master’s degree in clinical psychology. She was one of the first coaches in America to become a National Board Certified Health and Wellness. Dr. Janine Elias is a continuing education provider for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), International Coach Federation (ICF), National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching (NBHWC), and California Association of Marriage and Family Therapist (CAMFT).

She has developed certification programs in Cognitive Processing Therapy for War-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Transformational Leadership Coaching (TLC), Quiet the Noise Group Coaching (QTNC), and Crisis Response Coach (CRC). She is a certified Grief Recovery Specialist, a Master Trainer for the Hardiness Resilience Gauge (HRG), and has taught psychology at her local community college for over two decades. In addition, Dr. Janine Elias is a subject matter expert in transformational leadership, transfer of training, formal coach training, group coaching and team development, program development, building hardiness and resilience, the nonclinical education of trauma reduction, and system reform.

For the past three decades, Dr. Janine Elias has specialized in relationship development, improving the transfer of training to increase performance and organizational outcomes, the development of emerging leaders, guiding senior-level leaders in becoming more transformational in their leadership style, building hardiness and resilience, and the professionalization and advancement of the field of professional coaching.

In 2018 Dr. Janine Elias developed one of the first evidence-based formal coach training program, not a program based solely on the research of others, a program where she used pre-and post-training assessments to measure the level of increased coaching knowledge and transformational leadership tendencies of the participants who attended the first 21 of the 75 hours of her Transformational Leadership Coach Certification program. Dr. Janine Elias is dedicated to the development of transformational leaders and the advancement of formal coach training to transform the way business is experience within our ever-evolving global community.

In 2020 Dr. Janine Elias designed and launched the worlds first fully comprehensive Group Coaching Certification program designed specifically to meet the increasing demand for social support brought about due to a global pandemic. Dr. Janine Elias served on the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaches (NBHWC) Group Coaching Taskforce, tasked to established the group coaching competencies for National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coaches (NBC-HWC).

Dr. Janine Elias is currently conducting research to build hardy and resilient teams with the implementation of transformational leadership tendencies in response to a global pandemic and social unrest.