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Change Ninja Certification

The 4 day Ninja Challenge focuses on people over process, understanding the neuroscience of change and how to have a strategy for every scenario.

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About Change Ninja Certification

Change Ninja Certification Overview

Change Ninja is a neuroscience-based, people-focused change management approach designed to complement and support any existing methodology, framework, or process. Developed in collaboration with Professor Eddie Obeng, it offers practical, human-centred tools to help individuals and teams navigate change more effectively.

Training is delivered through a flexible online format—either via a virtual classroom or self-study using the Change Ninja Handbook. The programme consists of four two-hour modules, typically completed over four weeks.

Pricing options are available through The Change Ninja Limited, or for an exam-only option, via our Public Exam Portal.

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Who is Change Ninja Certification for?

Change Ninja certification is ideal for those leading or working in change, including:

  • C-suite executives
  • PMO teams
  • Project Managers
  • Business Managers
  • Change Managers.

Benefits of Change Ninja Certification

For Individuals

  • Increased understanding of how the brain has evolved and how it drives behaviors, emotions and feelings.
  • Hacks to shift your approach to change.
  • Insights to understand why people behave and react the way they do to change.
  • Strategies for managing change with people in mind to avoid the challenges change brings and get people excited by the change.

For Organizations

  • Improved well-being of staff, leading to increased motivation and decreased stress.
  • Efficient and productive tools to deliver change at speed and save time.
  • Ensure the change being delivered is solving an actual problem.
  • Outcomes of change delivered and well received.

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Pass the exam & receive a certificate

When you are ready to take your exam, book an online timeslot yourself with APMG, or your training organization may organize this for you. If you pass your exam APMG will issue you with a digital badge for you to share!

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Change Ninja Certification levels

Change Ninja Foundation badge

Change Ninja Foundation Certification

Focus on people and their reaction to change

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FAQs

Candidates will be able to claim their Change Ninja digital badge and electronic certificate from their APMG Candidate Portal within two business days of their exam result being issued.

Digital badges allow you to easily showcase your achievements online.

When you pass an exam - you'll instantly have the option to claim a digital badge representing your new certificate.

Your badge can be embedded on an email signature, website, social media or digital CV.

With just one click employers, customers and clients can easily view and verify your credentials and skills.

For more information, please see our guidelines on sharing digital badges.

Once you’ve been notified that you’ve passed your Change Ninja Foundation exam - you will have the option to create a digital badge in APMG's Candidate Portal.

Visit APMG's Candidate Portal, view your exam results and select 'Create Badge'.

This takes you to the Credly website where the digital badges are hosted. You will be guided through the Credly account creation process.

Once you have created an account with Credly - login into the account and accept your pending badge.

You can always access all your electronic certificates and badges via the APMG Candidate Portal. Once you have logged on to the Candidate Portal, click on the ‘Badges and Certificates’ option from the menu bar at the top of screen. From here you should click on the ‘Create Badge/Certificate’ button. This will take you to the Credly platform to create an account and download your Change Ninja badge and certificate.

Step-by-step guidance is available to download from the ‘Badges and Certificates’ area in your Candidate Portal.

Electronic certificates are environmentally friendly, but you can print the certificate yourself at home or work, if required.

If you have any problems with accessing your digital certificate, please contact our Customer Interaction Team - customerservice@apmg-international.com

Only organizations licensed to do so are allowed to use the Change Ninja ‘ninja head’ logo. Individuals are not permitted to use the Change Ninja logo, however, everyone who passes the exam is awarded with a digital badge which can be shared on social media and embedded into your CV/résumé.

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