Scientific Trainer · Professional development for experienced trainers, coaches & L&D
Give your expertise influence and impact.
Learning and development have never mattered more than they do now. The faster AI, work and organisations change, the more we need people who provide orientation, take a professional position and shape the future of learning with authority.
In Scientific Trainer you connect your experience with science: for offerings of your own, a judgement that carries weight, and impact that is more than a claim.
Live online · 12 evening webinars plus a final day · your own project · TÜV Rheinland optional
Personally guided byDr. Franz Hütter
Your scientific upgrade
Three steps to more influence and impact.
01
Understand more deeply. Why people learn, why they change, and why methods work or fail.
02
Take a clear position. What current research supports, where the limits lie and what you stand for professionally.
03
Build something stronger. Develop an offering of your own or an L&D project out of it and make the impact visible.
On the final dayyou present your professional position as a transfer concept ready to use.
13learning units
1your own real project
liveonline & alongside your work
from 2.900 €net per person
Personal project guidance instead of an anonymous self-study course
Optional person certification to ISO/IEC 17024
60+ specialist publications by the academic director
What science changes
Experience becomes a professional position that carries weight.
Scientific Trainer is not another training in methods, instructional design or marketing. You work on the operating system: on your business model if you are self-employed, on your role if you are responsible for internal L&D. Your experience is the capital here, your DNA. Science makes it connect to what is needed from now on.
From good practice …
You know many methods. But your professional core stays hidden between familiar models and interchangeable promises.
Methods are easy to copy.
The difference comes only from your own understanding and your reasoned position.
Trend knowledge quickly sounds plausible.
Without research, myths, half-knowledge and strong claims are hard to spot.
Impact is often promised.
Without suitable indicators it remains open what your offering actually changes.
After your project work
You stand behind an offering of your own with a professional core that does not come from the next toolbox of methods.
Deep understanding: why the approach you chose can work and where its limits lie.
Your own position: which findings you connect and what you stand for professionally.
A stronger offering: what follows from your position for structure, methods and transfer.
Credible impact: where change could later become visible.
From administering programs …
AI, transformation and new ways of working change learning needs faster than off-the-shelf programs can answer them.
Providers deliver ready-made answers.
You need a judgement of your own about what fits the organisation and its future.
Trends create pressure to decide.
You need to place evidence, contrary findings and context more confidently.
L&D is expected to provide orientation.
That takes more than administration: a professional position and a learning architecture that can be checked.
After your project work
You help shape learning as a professional authority instead of only administering programs.
Orientation: you place new findings and developments in context for the organisation.
A judgement with weight: you give reasons for what holds, what does not hold and which limits remain.
Your own learning architecture: you derive a fitting project from research and context.
Visible impact: you plan how change could later be recognised.
“Science makes you strong against myths, bullshit and waffle. For work that has substance and makes a difference.”
Bianca GrünertStark mit Worten
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Franz explains Scientific Trainer
In about eight minutes: how experience becomes a position that matters for the future.
At the end you have your own transfer concept, ready to present.
The connection to YouTube is established only when you click.
What is in the program
Science is the upgrade. Your experience remains the starting point.
You understand more deeply why people learn and change. You tell reliable findings from claims that merely sound plausible. And you connect several fields of research into a professional position of your own.
What comes out of this is not simply more knowledge but a stronger offering: independent, defensible, and with a plan for how its impact can become visible.
NeuroscienceLearning & change
PsychologyPerception & decision-making
Systems theoryPeople & organisation
Neuroscience-informed learning designTransfer. Impact in everyday work
AI & researchwork faster, check for yourself
EvaluationPlanning indicators & data
It all comes together inyour transfer concept, ready to present.
“Right for anyone who genuinely wants to learn something. Not for those who are only after a few buzzwords.”
Prof. Dr. Anke van KempenProfessor of Research, Innovation and Transfer
The full program
13 learning units, and each one answers a question in your project.
6Foundation units6Transfer units1Final day
Module 01Foundations · Units 1–6
Unit 01Translating science into practice & critical thinking
You tell reliable statements from trainer myths and decide which claims may carry the professional core of your project.
Unit 02AI tools for L&D
You use AI for research and structuring without handing over source checking, data protection and your own judgement to the tool.
Unit 03Neuroplasticity & synaptogenesis
You check which statements about learning and change hold up neurobiologically and how they become relevant for your project.
Unit 04Neuroanatomy you can grasp with your hands
You experience an embodied learning format and check what of it makes sense for the target group and learning objective of your own design.
Unit 05Neuropsychology
You take perception, emotion, motivation and decision-making into account where they actually influence the behaviour of your target group.
Unit 06Bio-psycho-social system levels
You avoid single-factor explanations and place causes and interventions at the biological, psychological and social level.
Module 02Transfer · Units 7–12
Unit 07Neuroscience-informed learning design & future skills
You translate learning principles into concrete learning steps, exercises and transfer tasks in your project.
Unit 08Artificial intelligence in L&D
You decide where AI usefully supports your own work and where AI competence itself has to be part of the learning objective.
Unit 09Evaluating impact and ROI
You define the change you want, possible indicators, data sources, points of measurement and the limits of what your evaluation concept can say.
Unit 10Neuropsychotherapy & evidence-based coaching
You check which therapeutic models can be carried over into coaching and training in a professionally sound and responsible way.
Unit 11Behavioural economics & neuroleadership
You analyse decision-making and leadership situations and give reasons for which models actually help your project.
Unit 12Neurosystemic change processes
You place your training in the wider context of change and plan what has to happen before, during and after the learning intervention.
Unit 13Presentation & pitch
You bring all project decisions together, present your transfer concept and answer professional questions.
Your path to a finished project
Four steps from knowledge to impact.
Every learning unit works on your real project. You do not simply collect research. You turn it into a better decision.
01
Understand
Why does something work, why does it fail?
You connect neuroscience, psychology, systems theory and your own context. That way you see more than individual methods.
You gaina deeper understanding of what works
02
Judge
What holds, and what do you stand for?
You examine sources, contrary findings and limits. Then you formulate the professional core that you stand behind yourself.
You developa professional position of your own
03
Design
What follows from that for your offering?
You translate your judgement into a training, consulting model or L&D project of your own, with fitting learning and transfer steps.
You builda stronger offering of your own
04
Make an impact
Where does change become visible?
You plan fitting indicators and data sources. On the final day you present understanding, position and design as one whole.
You createan impact plan and a project pitch
“The neurobiological foundations are exactly what I need to pull things together and see how they connect.”
Rolf AllemannDipl. Psychologe FH/SBAP · Career counsellor
What you actually book
Not a course to click through. A workspace for your own project.
The components are not add-ons. Each one solves a concrete problem in finishing your transfer concept.
Core element
Your real transfer project
A training, coaching offering, consulting model, a learning journey or an internal L&D project that you genuinely intend to implement.
Everything in the program is applied to it.12 × 3 hours
Interactive live evenings
Professional input, examination of examples, discussion of limits and immediate transfer to your project.
So that knowledge turns into a project decision the same evening.Weekly
Implementation office hour
Space for questions about sources, conceptual dead ends, priorities and the next concrete step of work.
So that your project moves on between sessions.6–18 people
A small, experienced learning group
People from different industries check whether your concept is understandable and bring in their perspective.
So that unclear points show up before the client conversation.1 full day
Final day with the project pitch
You present the problem, the professional core, methods, transfer and the evaluation plan, and you answer questions.
So that the material becomes a whole you can show.Optional
TÜV Rheinland person certification
Separately bookable exam preparation course and external examination procedure to ISO/IEC 17024.
So that your individual qualification can also be checked publicly.
Real final projects
This is how varied your own project may be.
These topics were worked on as transfer concepts in Scientific Trainer. They show the range of projects, not a guaranteed success in the market.
Corporate Learning · Pharma
Neuroscience of storytelling for effective communication
Negotiation · consulting
Neuropsychological grounding for a negotiation model of your own
Public administration
Innovation lab in the context of municipal job centres
Leadership development
Self-regulation in leadership, grounded in neuropsychology
Diagnostics
Scientific foundations of a strengths-profile certification
Online training
Neuroscience-informed design of communication in video calls
“I was able to put what I learned straight into a real project. I am thoroughly delighted and recommend the program without reservation.”
Iris TeicherHigher Education Consulting · former university chancellor
The larger purpose · Complexability
AI is taking over parts of thinking. What is needed is Complexability.
The industrial revolution replaced muscle power. AI is now taking over parts of human thinking, particularly in demanding knowledge work. What gains value is what sits above that: analytical, critical and creative thinking, and the ability to stay connected to what will be needed from here on.
We call that Complexability: the capacity for complexity plus the capacity to connect. In research its foundation is called Absorptive Capacity: not only taking in what is new, but letting better thinking and better action grow out of it. For organisations this is a question of survival: whoever cannot take up and use what is new loses the ability to innovate. You practise this capacity on your own project.
After every piece of work with AI, both should be better off: the work and the person who answers for it.
What participants say about Scientific Trainer
What changed in practice after the program.
Trainers, coaches, consultants and L&D leaders report on scientific depth, concrete transfer projects and the benefit for their work.
Xenia GerresheimCoaching-Scheune Hamburg
“A game changer, with a wow effect on the client side. I hardly need to do any acquisition any more.”
Client benefit & demand
Dr. Tobias PfallerMedicinal chemistry, pharma · Resilience trainer
“This is what makes learning fun. The three-level perspective helped me bring my skills together into a business model with a clear thread running through it.”
Integrating skills
Birgit ThedensChair of the Board, dvct
“I now design my training so that even more knowledge transfer and lasting effect is possible. Absolutely worth recommending.”
Transfer & lasting effect
Video statements
Eight graduates tell their own story.
How they use scientific depth, project guidance and transfer in their concrete work. Each YouTube video is loaded only after you click.
Dr. rer. medic. Franz Hütter, M.A.Academic director & personal project guidance
Who guides your project
Science becomes personal when someone works with you for the better judgement.
Franz Hütter connects neuroscience research, psychology and systems theory with many years of work for trainers, consulting and L&D. He developed Scientific Trainer and guides your project himself.
In the live evenings and the weekly office hour it is about your sources, your assumptions and your professional decisions: open, critical and without an anonymous ticket system.
Dr. rer. medic. doctorate on genetic determinants of the capacity for empathy
60+ specialist publications and three books
University teaching in Applied Cognitive Neuroscience
APA Teacher Status Member
“Franz Hütter is like a lucky dip. In his Scientific Trainer Program he keeps pulling something new out of the hat with real passion: on brain research, on neuroscience-informed learning design, on science, on VR technology and on using AI. The way he sees the world and leads people into well-founded depth is addictive. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to work on a scientific footing and to demonstrate the impact of their own work.”
Prof. Dr. Axel KochThe Transfer Strength Method
Dates & investment
Three start dates. Each in three levels. Bookable directly.
Choose your start date and then how far you want to go: Scientific Trainer, with TÜV certification, or straight through to the Masterclass. If you want to clarify first whether your project fits, talk to Franz for 25 minutes.
Course V · Monday evenings · starts 21 September 2026
Registration open
Twelve live evenings from 21 September to 14 December, final day on 9 January 2027. See all individual dates ↓
Course V · from 21 Sep 2026Basic
Scientific Trainer
2.900 €net per person
Twelve evening webinars plus a final day with your own transfer project. Final qualification: Advanced Scientific Trainer (BRAIN-HR). TÜV certification can be booked separately for 1.200 €; without it the Masterclass stays closed.
3.900 €net per person · 2.900 € course plus 1.000 € TÜV package
Everything in Scientific Trainer, plus the exam preparation day and TÜV Rheinland person certification to ISO/IEC 17024: the key card to the Masterclass. The preparation day is on Friday, 8 January 2027.
Optional: professional development flat rate, all ten Hard Facts Seminars, twelve months, 2.500 € (6.000 € booked individually).
Further start dates in January 2027: in English from 11 Jan (Mondays) and in German from 12 Jan (Tuesdays). Expand for details.
Course ST-EN-1 · in English · starts 11 January 2027
Provisional booking possible
Twelve Monday evenings until 12 April, final day on 19 April 2027, break during the Easter holidays. See all individual dates ↓
ST-EN-1 · from 11 Jan 2027Basic
Scientific Trainer
2.900 €net per person
Twelve evening webinars plus a final day with your own transfer project. Final qualification: Advanced Scientific Trainer (BRAIN-HR). TÜV certification can be booked separately for 1.200 €; without it the Masterclass stays closed.
3.900 €net per person · 2.900 € course plus 1.000 € TÜV package
Everything in Scientific Trainer, plus the exam preparation day and TÜV Rheinland person certification to ISO/IEC 17024: the key card to the Masterclass. The preparation day is on Wednesday, 28 April 2027.
Optional: professional development flat rate, all ten Hard Facts Seminars, twelve months, 2.500 € (6.000 € booked individually).
Course ST-DE-1 · Tuesday evenings · starts 12 January 2027
Provisional booking possible
Twelve Tuesday evenings until 13 April, final day on 20 April 2027, break during the Easter holidays. See all individual dates ↓
ST-DE-1 · from 12 Jan 2027Basic
Scientific Trainer
2.900 €net per person
Twelve evening webinars plus a final day with your own transfer project. Final qualification: Advanced Scientific Trainer (BRAIN-HR). TÜV certification can be booked separately for 1.200 €; without it the Masterclass stays closed.
3.900 €net per person · 2.900 € course plus 1.000 € TÜV package
Everything in Scientific Trainer, plus the exam preparation day and TÜV Rheinland person certification to ISO/IEC 17024: the key card to the Masterclass. The preparation day is on Thursday, 29 April 2027.
Optional: professional development flat rate, all ten Hard Facts Seminars, twelve months, 2.500 € (6.000 € booked individually).
The TÜV module on its own: Exam preparation day: Friday, 8 January 2027 for course V, Wednesday, 28 April 2027 for the English-language course, Thursday, 29 April 2027 for the German-language course starting in January. Plus the TÜV Rheinland person certification to ISO/IEC 17024. Booked together with a course the module costs 1.000 €, so 3.900 € in total. Booked afterwards it costs 1.200 €: book the TÜV package on its own.
Special terms: A 5 % volume discount from the second person onwards. From seven people, your own in-house cohort is possible.
Hard Facts Seminars at a reduced rate: For the duration of the program you book any open professional development seminar at the participant price of 450 instead of 600 € net. See all seminars →
Documents to read up on
Take the program and the reasoning with you.
Both documents cover the price, the program structure, the optional TÜV package and the current distinction from the Masterclass.
“I have learned so much from Franz that I can put to good use right now. He knows what he is doing.”
Anna MomberFacilitation, Consulting & Lectures
Can be added · the three-year next step
Your transfer concept becomes a business developed further on a scientific footing.
In Scientific Trainer you bring your project to presentation readiness. In the Senior Scientific Masterclass you develop it further over three years in your live business: with entrepreneurial advice, scientific guidance and your own evaluation.
Complete package12.000 €net · Scientific Trainer including the TÜV package plus three years of the Senior Scientific Masterclass
The 12.000 € are the complete package: Scientific Trainer, the exam preparation course and the TÜV certification are included. Nothing is added on top.
A transfer concept you can present, for your own training, coaching offering or L&D project: with a project brief, a checked professional core, a justified structure, a transfer design and an evaluation plan. On the final day you present this concept.
Do I need an academic degree?
No. You need practical experience in training, coaching, consulting, HR development or L&D, and a willingness to examine sources and your own assumptions critically.
Which project can I bring?
For example a new training offering, a learning journey, a coaching or consulting model, an internal qualification program, or an existing format that you want to rebuild and examine professionally.
Do I already carry out an evaluation during Scientific Trainer?
You develop the plan for it: the change you want, possible indicators, data sources, points of measurement and the limits of what the results can say. Building measurement instruments in practice, collecting data and analysing it statistically are covered in depth in the Senior Scientific Masterclass or carried out as separate research.
Is the TÜV certification mandatory?
No. The program can be booked without the TÜV package. The optional person certification to ISO/IEC 17024 is an additional, externally examined proof of qualification. The Advanced Scientific Trainer qualification is the basis of admission to it.
How large is the group?
Typically 6 to 18 people learn together. From 10 participants onwards, a certified Scientific Trainer supports the group as a co-facilitator.
Can my employer fund my participation?
Yes. In the introductory call we are glad to work through the business benefit of your specific project. A volume discount applies from two people onwards; from seven people your own in-house cohort is possible.
What is the difference from the Senior Scientific Masterclass?
In Scientific Trainer you put your concept on a sound footing, present it and plan its later evaluation. In the three-year Masterclass you go on to work practically on measurement instruments, statistics, your own data and field evaluation.
“The brain seminars are informative, intelligent, inspiring, entertaining and never the same twice.”
Vivien MarschHuman Resource Development
Your project is the starting point
Give your expertise more influence and impact.
In the 25-minute call, Franz and you look at your specific project: where can science change your judgement, your offering and its later impact the most, and is Scientific Trainer the right step for that?
With the AI Practitioner programme, with the six hard-fact seminars, with both together, or with three years of the Masterclass. Four bundles, each of them cheaper than the sum of its parts, with a flyer to take away.
See the bundles
Optional person certification to ISO/IEC 17024