Certification · Sansberry Organizational Harm Institute™

Certified Organizational
Harm Analyst™

A forensic-level specialization for experienced practitioners who are ready to identify, document, and intervene in organizational harm with clinical precision.

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The Program

Built for the cases that break generalists.

There are cases in this field where standard approaches fail. The harm is covert, the institution is resistant, or the behavior is sophisticated enough that existing practitioner tools don't produce findings that hold up. COHA was built for those cases.

The program trains HR consultants, mediators, workplace investigators, executive coaches, and organizational development practitioners to identify, assess, document, and intervene in organizational harm using our proprietary diagnostic methodology.

COHA™ certification is not designed for entry-level practitioners. It is a specialization for experienced professionals who are ready to operate with forensic-level precision in the field's most complex environments. Every module delivers a complete, deployable service offering, not theoretical knowledge detached from practice.

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Professional Impact
"AI can flag toxic behavior. Only a trained specialist can intervene in it."
Core Outcome
"Leave with six new billable services your competitors cannot offer."
Why This Specialization Matters
Every skill this program teaches requires human judgment under pressure, with a high-conflict person or resistant institution present. That is the definition of an AI-resistant specialization, and it is the honest differentiator this certification delivers.
Competency Framework

Three domains. Every module develops all three.

All COHA™ learning objectives, skills, and assessment standards are organized within three competency domains. The relative emphasis shifts across modules, but no module teaches one domain in isolation from the others.

Domain 01
Diagnostic Precision
The ability to identify, classify, and distinguish OHT™ behaviors with forensic accuracy. Practitioners can name what they are looking at with clinical confidence and explain why it is one behavior and not another.
Domain 02
Evidence Craft
The ability to build, document, and present an evidence trail that is specific, corroborated, and legally defensible. Practitioners can take findings into legal, HR, and organizational settings where they will be challenged.
Domain 03
Intervention Strategy
The ability to select, sequence, and execute intervention strategies appropriate to the active harm mechanism. Practitioners can move from assessment to action and explain why they chose a particular strategy over the available alternatives.
Program Architecture

Seven modules. One integrated practitioner.

The curriculum advances from the most externally visible harm to the most institutionally embedded, culminating in a capstone that requires the simultaneous integration of all five clusters across all three competency domains.

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Practitioner Foundation · Required Prerequisite
Before You Can See Clearly
Establishes the practitioner identity, ethical orientation, and self-management framework that every subsequent module depends on. Introduces the integrated practitioner model: forensic precision and person-centered capacity as two equally foundational orientations, not competing approaches. Includes Transactional Analysis as a self-management tool for navigating the relational dynamics of high-conflict cases.
All Clusters
Foundation
01
Cluster 1 · Aggressive Domination
When the Threat is Visible
Classification and documentation of Aggressive Coercion, Threats as Control, and Retaliation. Primary competency emphasis on Evidence Craft: building a legally defensible trail for harm that is observable but must meet legal standards under adversarial scrutiny, including AI-laundered forms of each behavior.
Workplace Investigation
Threat Assessment
02
Cluster 2 · Cognitive Manipulation
When the Threat is Invisible
Diagnostic framework for Reality Distortion, Deceptive Influence, Emotional Exploitation, and Undermining Others. Primary competency emphasis on Diagnostic Precision: identifying harm that leaves no visible marks and building corroboration when the target's account is the primary available evidence.
Psychological Harm
Assessment
03
Cluster 3 · Systemic Deprivation
When the Harm is in What's Missing
Assessment methodology for Access Control, Voice Suppression, and Inequitable Treatment. Harm is structural and defined by what does not happen; practitioners must construct the comparative benchmark that makes absence visible and legally legible.
Organizational Equity
Audit
04
Cluster 4 · Social Suppression
When the Harm is in the Culture
Classification of Identity-Based Targeting, Cultural Coercion, and Social Isolation. Primary competency emphasis on Intervention Strategy: translating diffuse cultural harm patterns into specific, actionable findings that connect to legal and organizational accountability frameworks.
Culture & Climate
Assessment
05
Cluster 5 · Structural Entrenchment
When the Organization is the Problem
Forensic analysis of Dysfunctional Authority, Deliberate Ambiguity, and Structural Protection. The organization itself is actively resisting accountability; practitioners must build findings that withstand the highest level of institutional and legal adversarial scrutiny.
Policy Forensics
Structural Audit
06
Capstone · All Five Clusters
The Full Assessment
Application of the complete OHT™ framework to a real or simulated organizational case, with all three competency domains required simultaneously. All mechanisms may be active at once; the practitioner must prioritize, sequence, and present findings that reflect the full complexity of the organizational harm system.
Full OHT™
Assessment
Who This Is For

Experienced practitioners who are ready to specialize.

The COHA™ program is not designed for entry-level HR professionals or new consultants who do not yet have clients. It is designed for practitioners with active practices who are ready for a methodology that transforms what they can see, name, and act on.

Independent HR Consultants
Three or more years of active practice. A proprietary diagnostic methodology that differentiates you from generalist competitors and opens new categories of billable service, including individual-facing diagnostic consultation.
Workplace Investigators & Title IX Coordinators
A behavioral science framework that gives investigative work clinical precision and legal defensibility beyond current practice standards, with explicit attention to AI-enabled harm mechanisms.
Organizational Mediators
A forensic toolkit for the cases where standard mediation fails: coercive, manipulative, or high-conflict environments where the presenting issue is not the actual driver of harm.
Executive Coaches
Diagnostic language and a person-centered consultation methodology for clients who are experiencing organizational harm they cannot name, document, or act on with their current frame of reference.
Internal HR at Director Level+
A structural analysis framework for the moment when internal processes have failed and institutional complicity has become part of the problem you are being asked to solve.
Ombudspersons
Assessment and evidence documentation methodology for the complex, multi-party cases that define ombudsperson work: situations that existing frameworks were not designed to address with adequate precision.
Program Investment

Founding cohort pricing. Available once.

$1,197
Founding Cohort · COHA™
Founding cohort members receive the full program at a reduced rate in exchange for structured feedback that will shape subsequent cohorts. This pricing will not be offered again. Full program pricing for Cohort 2 and beyond: $2,000+.
What's included
Full seven-module COHA™ curriculum with Module 0 prerequisite
COHA™ Practitioner Field Guide (proprietary reference manual)
Commercial license to apply the OHT™ methodology in client engagements
COHA™ credential and designation upon successful completion
Direct access to Dr. Kevin Sansberry II throughout the program
Founding practitioner recognition in the SOHI practitioner directory
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Founding Cohort · COHA™

Currently reviewing inquiries for the founding cohort.

Founding cohort enrollment is limited to a small group of experienced practitioners who will apply the full methodology in active field settings from the start. If you work in HR consulting, workplace investigation, organizational mediation, executive coaching, or ombuds practice, and you are ready to operate with forensic-level precision in complex harm environments, we want to hear from you.

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