Corporate Professional Instructors: Strengthen Workforce Knowledge Transfer
AI for Trainers, Facilitators, Coaches & Educators — Included with FCI.
Build a Professional Capability That Goes Far Beyond One Platform.
Corporate Professional Instructors: Strengthen Workforce Knowledge Transfer: Turning Expertise Into Instructional Capability
Build a Professional Capability That Goes Far Beyond One Platform.
Corporate Professional Instructors: Strengthen Workforce Knowledge Transfer: Professional context
Technical, industry and professional experts can turn existing subject-matter expertise into a portable professional capability: helping other people understand, retain and apply knowledge. FDTEC Certified Instructor™ (FCI) is designed for professionals whose careers may span technologies, employers, industries, consulting engagements and geographic markets.
Corporate Professional Instructors: Strengthen Workforce Knowledge Transfer: Application
Professional instruction is more than knowing a subject. Effective instructors communicate clearly, listen actively, facilitate productive discussion, present with confidence, ask useful questions, coach, provide feedback, adapt to learners and solve problems while maintaining professional presence. FDTEC develops these capabilities around the expertise candidates already possess.
Corporate Professional Instructors: Strengthen Workforce Knowledge Transfer: Knowledge transfer
The FCI framework covers 15 competencies: Communication, Active Listening, Facilitation, Emotional Intelligence, Presentation, Questioning, Classroom Management, Conflict Resolution, Executive Presence, Coaching, Feedback, Adaptability, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Knowledge Transfer.
Corporate Professional Instructors: Strengthen Workforce Knowledge Transfer: Career opportunity
Eligibility can be established through a recognized technical, industry, professional or occupational certification; at least one year of relevant professional experience; or employer verification of relevant expertise. The pathway is designed to recognize real professional capability without requiring candidates to start their careers over.
The FCI assessment contains 50 questions, provides a two-hour testing window, allows multiple attempts and requires a 75% passing score. Successful candidates receive a digital certificate and credential record. FCI validity is 36 months, with no additional yearly FDTEC program fee.
Portable capability for a changing professional market
FDTEC has developed professional instructors since 1999. The objective today is broader than a single vendor program: develop a durable capability for transferring knowledge wherever your expertise creates value.
Your organization already has people who understand the technology, systems, products, processes, customers, and work.
The bigger challenge is whether those experts can transfer what they know to everyone else who needs to perform.
FDTEC develops internal trainers, technical instructors, subject-matter experts, facilitators, customer educators, consultants, coaches, and learning professionals into stronger professional instructors.
Transfer What You Know. Develop What Others Can Do.
Technical or occupational expertise provides the subject foundation. Professional instructor capability strengthens communication, facilitation, coaching, and the application of knowledge in real work.
Any One of These Three Pathways Qualifies
Recognized Certification
Relevant technical, industry, professional, or occupational certification.
Professional Experience
At least one year of relevant professional experience.
Employer Verification
An employer verification letter confirming relevant expertise.
Only one accepted pathway is required. No college degree is required.
Choose Your Professional Instructor Certification Pathway
FDTEC Certified Instructor™
Develop professional instructor competencies around the expertise you already possess. Includes the AI module, digital credential, and lifetime course access.
Explore Standard FCIFCI Capstone Verified
Extend the FCI pathway with applied instructional performance verification.
Explore Capstone VerifiedWhat This Opportunity Means in Practice
Build a Professional Capability That Goes Far Beyond One Platform.
Technical, industry and professional experts can turn existing subject-matter expertise into a portable professional capability: helping other people understand, retain and apply knowledge. FDTEC Certified Instructor™ (FCI) is designed for professionals whose careers may span technologies, employers, industries, consulting engagements and geographic markets.
Professional instruction is more than knowing a subject. Effective instructors communicate clearly, listen actively, facilitate productive discussion, present with confidence, ask useful questions, coach, provide feedback, adapt to learners and solve problems while maintaining professional presence. FDTEC develops these capabilities around the expertise candidates already possess.
The FCI framework covers 15 competencies: Communication, Active Listening, Facilitation, Emotional Intelligence, Presentation, Questioning, Classroom Management, Conflict Resolution, Executive Presence, Coaching, Feedback, Adaptability, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Knowledge Transfer.
Eligibility can be established through a recognized technical, industry, professional or occupational certification; at least one year of relevant professional experience; or employer verification of relevant expertise. The pathway is designed to recognize real professional capability without requiring candidates to start their careers over.
The FCI assessment contains 50 questions, provides a two-hour testing window, allows multiple attempts and requires a 75% passing score. Successful candidates receive a digital certificate and credential record. FCI validity is 36 months, with no additional yearly FDTEC program fee.
Professional instructor capability can support technical training, customer education, consulting, enablement, implementation, workforce development, coaching and other knowledge-intensive roles. It can also expand remote and virtual delivery options and help professionals carry their instructional capability across AI, cloud, cybersecurity, data, healthcare, government, education, sales and professional services.
FDTEC has developed professional instructors since 1999. The objective today is broader than a single vendor program: develop a durable capability for transferring knowledge wherever your expertise creates value.
Your organization already has people who understand the technology, systems, products, processes, customers, and work.
The bigger challenge is whether those experts can transfer what they know to everyone else who needs to perform.
FDTEC develops internal trainers, technical instructors, subject-matter experts, facilitators, customer educators, consultants, coaches, and learning professionals into stronger professional instructors.
The result is a more portable, cross-platform instructor capability that can support technology adoption, employee development, customer education, implementation, workforce readiness, and organizational performance.
Your Experts Know the Work. Can They Develop the People?
Strengthen internal trainers and technical instructors.
Develop subject-matter experts who teach or enable others.
Improve facilitation, questioning, coaching, feedback, and communication.
Strengthen customer education and implementation support.
Use AI to accelerate preparation, examples, scenarios, and instructor productivity.
Create professional instructor capability that can travel across technologies and business functions.
Build stronger internal learning and knowledge-transfer capacity.
Subject expertise is essential. The ability to transfer it is an organizational capability.
The Microsoft Use Case Was Important. The Organizational Need Was Always Bigger.
The original version of this page focused on organizations developing Microsoft Certified Trainers to support Microsoft learning.
FDTEC's long Microsoft/MCT history gave us decades of experience working with technical professionals who already possessed strong subject-matter expertise.
What organizations needed from us was the capability behind the technology: communication, facilitation, questioning, coaching, engagement, adaptability, problem solving, and knowledge transfer.
Microsoft is part of our history. Professional instructor development is our business.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the AI module included with FCI?
Yes. AI for Trainers, Facilitators, Coaches & Educators is included with FCI.
How do I qualify for FCI?
Candidates qualify through one accepted pathway: a relevant technical, industry, professional, or occupational certification; at least one year of relevant professional experience; or employer verification of relevant expertise. No degree is required.
What is the FCI certification assessment?
The assessment has 50 questions, a two-hour time limit, a 75% passing score, and multiple attempts.
What are the self-paced program prices?
FDTEC Certified Instructor™ is $1,497. FCI Capstone Verified is $2,497.
How long is the FCI credential valid?
The FCI credential is valid for 36 months.
Expand Where Your Expertise Can Take You.
Cross-Platform. Cross-Industry. Professional Instructor Certification Is Here.