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Career Acceleration · July 2026

Become the person your career has been waiting for you to be.

In seven weeks, you will hold a recognised Cialdini Certified Practitioner credential—and the seven principles of ethical influence that determine whose voice carries in every room you walk into.

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The Silent Differentiator

You are not being overlooked because your work is weak.

For thirty years inside global institutions like Accenture and HSBC, I watched the same frustrating pattern repeat across four continents. The most technically qualified professional in the room rarely won the executive buy-in or strategic promotion. Someone else did. And almost always, that someone understood—instinctively or otherwise—how human decisions actually work.

As I often say: "Does a chiropractor market his diagnostic techniques, or does he market that he cures back pain?" To move past a career plateau, you must stop leaning solely on technical execution and learn how to make your voice carry weight when choices are being made. This programme is the step-by-step framework to unlock that leverage.

The Core Method

The Three Tiers of Influence

A structured psychological progression to move you from technical execution to strategic authority.

01

Clarity

We begin by exposing the hidden patterns of human choice. Through the initial Masterclass, we filter out academic noise and address the real questions behind why people say yes or no in high-stakes environments.

02

Self-Trust

True authority is not a performance; it is built through live application. Inside an intimate cohort capped strictly at 8 professionals, you work directly with live scenarios and build deep behavioral compliance.

03

Grounded Action

The ultimate goal is applied, sustainable capability carried into daily life. You translate the certified frameworks directly into your live corporate negotiations, board presentations, and leadership workflows on Monday morning.

Peer Perspective

Expertise forged in the trenches of senior leadership.

Before founding Inner Power, Karsten spent over three decades inside global institutions—Accenture, HSBC, and senior executive roles spanning Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. He was not an outside observer. He was directly in the negotiations, directing corporate turnarounds, leading teams, and engineering structural buy-in at the highest corporate levels.

You are not working with an academic coach who has only studied influence frameworks in textbooks. You are collaborating directly with a peer practitioner who holds specialty credentials in the neuroscience of change and is a licensed Cialdini Certified Trainer—giving you absolute executive-level insight to cross your current career threshold.

The Curriculum

Seven Principles. Seven Weeks. One Credential.

Each week opens with one principle, grounds it in peer-reviewed science, and closes with direct application to the conversations you are having at work the following Monday. No theory left orphaned.

01

Reciprocity

Give first—and give with intention. Learn the psychological mechanisms behind the oldest, most reliable lever in human behavior and group cohesion.

02

Commitment

Small operational decisions shape large strategic ones. Build progressive momentum from micro-agreements to critical stakeholder action, step by deliberate step.

03

Social Proof

What others do validation-wise directly shapes what we interpret as accurate. Deploy social frameworks transparently to validate your proposals and build authority at scale.

04

Authority

Expertise assumed is expertise invisible. Learn to communicate deep corporate credibility and pedigree in a way that respects the room and commands compliance.

05

Liking

Decisions are effortlessly accelerated when built on genuine, strategic alignment. Master the behavioral metrics of authentic interpersonal connection inside senior environments.

06

Scarcity

What is highly bounded or exclusive is instinctively valued. Frame your personal resources, availability, and programmatic timelines to reflect their actual worth.

07

Unity

The deepest level of influence. Understand how shared institutional identity, vocabulary, and mutual experiences alter compliance dynamics within elite leadership channels.

What Changes

What seven weeks actually delivers.

This is not vague "confidence" copy. These are the specific, observable professional shifts that executives report within the first month of finishing this experience.

01

Your ideas land the first time

Stop watching less qualified peers win credit for ideas you verbalized weeks earlier. Master the structural positioning and timing frameworks that secure consensus on first contact.

02

You close more of what you pitch

Whether you are presenting a brand-new corporate initiative, pitching high-value pipeline clients, or requesting an expanded strategic budget—turn logical options into the chosen reality.

03

You lead with quiet authority

No volume or artificial assertiveness required. Learn how top-tier consulting partners and senior executives command alignment through framing and calibrated silence.

04

You negotiate from strength

Elevate high-stakes salary conversations, master board contracts, and adjust scope parameters smoothly. Discover the implicit leverage you already hold and protect your positioning.

05

Credentials that travel globally

The internationally recognized Cialdini Certified Practitioner title establishes instant credibility across professional footprints, signaling a rigorous expertise in behavioral science.

06

A network that compounds

Intimate cohorts capped at 12 ensure zero fluff. You collaborate alongside high-caliber corporate peers, forging eleven key elite industry alliances designed to compound over your career.

The Structure

How the
seven weeks are built

This is not a course you watch alone on a Tuesday evening. It is a live, facilitated cohort — meaning the real growth happens in the room, between peers, with direct feedback from a Certified Trainer.

  • Duration
    Seven weeks · one 90-minute live session per week
  • Cohort size
    12 professionals maximum — never more
  • Format
    Live on Zoom · session recordings provided
  • Credential
    Cialdini Certified Practitioner on completion
  • Cohort opens
    July 2026 · 12 seats only
What is included
✓Seven live sessions with Karsten, 90 minutes each
✓Full Cialdini Certified Practitioner e-learning programme access
✓Cialdini Certified Practitioner credential on completion
✓Session recordings for every live session
✓Weekly exercises grounded in your real work
✓Peer cohort of 12 — accountability and connection
✓Direct access to Karsten across all seven weeks
Who this is for Managers and senior professionals who want to lead more effectively. Business developers and salespeople who want to close with integrity. Marketers who want their ideas to actually land. Leaders ready to stop being the most capable person in the room no one listens to.
Who this is NOT for People looking for manipulation tactics or shortcuts. Passive learners who will not apply the work between sessions. Professionals unwilling to challenge their existing communication habits. If any of this sounds like you, this cohort will not serve you — and we would rather you know now.
Common Questions

Answered, directly.

The book gives you the framework. The cohort makes you apply it. Most people who read Influence remember the principles for a month, then forget them. The seven-week structure forces you to apply each principle to real conversations that week — and be witnessed by peers who hold you accountable. That is what makes it stick.
90 minutes for the live session, plus one to two hours of exercises grounded in your existing work. The exercises integrate into what you are already doing — not a separate project. Roughly three hours per week for seven weeks.
Every session is recorded and available within 24 hours. That said, the live experience is where the real growth happens — peers, real-time feedback, Karsten's direct attention. The cohort is small enough that your absence is felt. Most participants protect the seven weekly slots in advance.
No. The principles apply across leadership, management, business development, marketing, negotiation, and senior career advancement broadly. If you have a job where you need other humans to do, decide, or buy something — these principles apply directly.
That is exactly what the masterclass is for. 60 minutes, free, no commitment. You leave with a working understanding of the first two principles regardless of whether you continue. We would rather you decide it is not right for you at that point than commit to the cohort and disengage halfway through.
The next cohort opens in Q4 2026. Waitlist members from the July cohort are offered places first — meaning public registration often does not open. If timing is tight, the July cohort is the safer choice.
Yes. The programme is structured as a recognised professional certification, and invoices can be issued to your company or learning and development budget. Karsten will provide whatever documentation your finance team needs.
Your Options

Two ways to get Cialdini Certified.

Both available exclusively through Inner Power. Karsten allocates every voucher personally. No portal. No third party. No middleman.

Certification Only

Cialdini e-learning

The full Cialdini Certified Practitioner programme — self-paced, without the live cohort experience.

$1,497 / person
✓Cialdini Certified Practitioner credential
✓Full e-learning programme access
✓Voucher allocated by Karsten directly
−No live facilitation sessions
−No executive peer cohort
−No weekly application support
Enquire About Certification Only
Full Growth Circle

Certified + Facilitated

The formal international certification plus seven weeks of live, Karsten-led facilitation in an elite cohort of 12.

$1,997 / person
✓Cialdini Certified Practitioner credential
✓Seven weeks of live sessions with Karsten
✓Peer cohort of 12 professionals
✓Weekly applied exercises from your real work
✓Direct access to a Certified Trainer throughout
✓All private session recordings included
Reserve Your Place In The Cohort
Do the math

$1,997 is what most professionals leave on the table
in a single conversation that did not go their way.

One promotion
One closed deal
One retained client
One salary conversation

The cohort pays for itself in a single conversation that lands the way it should have been landing for years.

Start Here

Attend the free
masterclass first. Then decide.

60 minutes. Live on Zoom. No commitment. You will leave with a working understanding of the first two principles — and a clear sense of whether this room is right for you.

60 minutesLive on Zoom
Free to attendNo commitment required
June 2026Date to be confirmed
12 cohort seatsOpen immediately after

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A personal note

"I have spent the last thirty years watching technically brilliant people lose rooms they should have won. The principles in this programme would have changed every one of those moments. I cannot give those years back. But I can give you the framework I wish someone had handed me at the start of my career — and the cohort of peers to learn it with."

— Karsten Alva-Jorgensen, Founder, Inner Power

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