Counseling leadership program for school leaders
Deepening school leadership understanding of career and college counseling to build structured, well-supported practices that maximize student success.
It is commonly believed that career and college counseling solely guides students toward the "right career" or "right college." However, its impact profoundly influences student outcomes, stakeholder relationships, and school culture holistically.
Studies reveal that schools equipped with structured guidance and counseling services witness:
While academic curricula have clearly defined metrics that are measured quantitatively, counseling often lacks a unified definition or structure in schools, leading to the absence of clear outcomes and measures of success.
Enrich is specially developed for school leadership—directors, principals, vice principals, and heads of school—who hold the macro responsibility for the school’s overall success.
This program focuses on how school leaders plan, report, resource, and evaluate counseling department activities to elevate the function into a structured, central pillar of student success.
A strategic framework providing school leaders with actionable tools, monitoring rubrics, and organizational roadmaps.
Enrich is conducted in-person across three intensive days hosted at partner university campuses.
Exclusively available to school leaders and IC3 Members at no tuition fee.
Upon successful completion of the intensive 18 hours of residential learning and collaborative workshops, school leaders are awarded an official Certificate of Participation from IC3.
Graduates join an influential peer network of school leaders committed to elevating counseling standards across schools globally.
Find answers to common questions about eligibility, accommodation, format, and participation in the Enrich program.
The host university takes care of accommodation and meals during the three days of the program. The travel cost is to be borne by the applicant or the school.
For the three days of the program, the host university will provide on-campus accommodation to the participating school leaders. In some cases, they may arrange for hotel accommodation on a twin-sharing basis.
Yes, participants are required to live on campus for the duration of the program. The program's core is peer learning, interaction, and community building.
Yes, a certificate of participation from IC3 will be awarded to the school leaders who complete the program
The program is offered at no cost to high school leaders.
It lasts for 18 hours over three days. Participants are expected to attend the three-day program in person at a partner university campus.
Application has to be submitted online through the application link on this page.
There are no assignments/ assessments, or projects in this course. There will be live experiential activities/ worksheets for participants to complete in the course of the program. The purpose is to design a suitable counseling practice and further develop the existing framework.
This program is designed to deepen the understanding of the school leadership on college and career counseling in schools, to identify both the vision and the strategy in which school leaders can build and nurture the practice of career and college counseling, making this function structured, well-supported and geared to achieve desirable outcomes.
We could collaborate in many ways to serve the mission of counseling in every school. Your school can host the IC3 Regional Forums. You will get an opportunity to interact with faculty and other school leaders from across the globe and generate awareness toward college and career counseling in your region. You can participate actively in the Annual IC3 Conference and inspire more leaders to join IC3 and become thought leaders in career counseling in your region. We also encourage our cohort to join IC3 as faculty or evaluator. You must fill out the application form to volunteer as an IC3 faculty or evaluator.
School Leaders – Director, High School Principal, Vice Principal, Head of the School
It is a three-day program with approx 18 hours of learning.
This workshop is currently accessible only to in-person attendees