Every person carries
genius.
Most systems never find it.
Kintana Institute trains the people who do — executives, coaches, and teachers who build the conditions for others to heal, develop a growth mindset, become lifelong learners, and lead with joy, clarity, and love.
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Across organizations, schools, and communities — around the world — people with extraordinary potential shut down under poorly delivered feedback, cultural shame, and institutions that were never designed to see them fully. Their curiosity stops. Their critical thinking stalls. They stop asking questions, stop taking risks, and over time that shutdown compounds into something structural.
The research is clear. Identity formation is foundational to learning (Muhammad, 2020). Emotional intelligence — the capacity to know oneself, regulate oneself, and hold others with empathy — matters more than IQ in determining whether people grow or plateau (Goleman, 1995). And the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and what we are capable of shape every outcome that follows (Fletcher, 2022).
Kintana Institute exists to work at the source. We train the people who shape others — giving them the emotional intelligence, self-regulation, coaching skills, and unconditional regard they need to create conditions where the people around them can heal, grow, and lead well.
This is not personal development as an end in itself. It is formation in service of something larger: organizations that learn, classrooms where genius is recognized, and communities where leadership is an act of love (hooks, 2000).
Three pathways.
One underlying question.
How do we build the conditions for people to heal, grow, and lead with integrity — in the real complexity of the contexts where we work?
For founders, directors, and senior leaders navigating complexity without a peer at their level. Rigorous, confidential, and culturally grounded.
A 12-month ICF Level 1 aligned program for mission-driven professionals who already coach informally and want the formation and ACC credential to match.
Coaching-informed pedagogy for educators who want to bring genuine inquiry, emotional intelligence, and culturally responsive practice into their classrooms.
A formation center built
one program at a time.
Each program launches when it is ready — fully resourced, properly structured, and able to deliver what it promises. Not before.
ICF Level 1 aligned coach education for ACC credentialing. 4–6 participants. September 2026 to September 2027.
Individual and group coaching for founders, directors, and senior leaders. English and French.
Coaching-informed teacher formation launches. Kintana Institute achieves ICF Level 1 program accreditation.
Rigorous 16–19 formation for students preparing for competitive international university admission.
Advanced coach training for ACC-credentialed coaches pursuing Professional Certified Coach status.
An internationally recognized Montessori teacher certification program — the culmination of the Institute’s work in pedagogy, coaching, and child development.
Fitarihana. Fisainana. Fitsem-po.
We develop leaders who serve their communities, stay accountable to their values, and build the kind of trust that moves organizations and people forward.
Rigorous, evidence-based practice grounded in coaching science, emotional intelligence research, and the latest thinking in learning and identity development.
We practice unconditional positive regard for every client and student — not attached to their outcomes, but deeply committed to their growth and full becoming.
Rakotonirina
Fort Dauphin, Madagascar
I am a PCC-accredited executive coach and coach trainer with over 2,000 coaching hours. My clients include senior leaders at Bloomberg, Autodesk, and the World Food Program, as well as founders, directors, and social impact professionals working across Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
I founded Sekoly Kintana, a Montessori school in Fort Dauphin, Madagascar — which means I do not just coach and train. I build institutions. I understand what it takes to develop people in contexts where the infrastructure, peer community, and cultural models are not given.
I design and facilitate leadership development and coach training for organizations including Projet Jeune Leader, which serves over 400,000 young people across Madagascar, and Tekfutura. My work is grounded in ICF coaching methodology, Positive Intelligence™, applied positive psychology, and the conviction that identity and emotional intelligence are the foundation of everything else.
Kintana Institute is the formal expression of a decade of that work — and the beginning of something larger.
Where do you want
to begin?
Every program at Kintana Institute starts with a conversation. Tell us where you are and what you are building.