Programme Overview
Real Leadership Development for Real Impact
In today’s vibrant workplace, leadership means going beyond managing tasks—it’s about genuinely connecting, inspiring trust, and driving change. This Level 7 UK Master’s Degree equips you with the practical emotional intelligence (EI) skills crucial for navigating complex interpersonal dynamics, empowering your leadership and enhancing organisational effectiveness.
- The world’s first and only University validated MSc in Applied Emotional Intelligence.
- Awarded by Manchester Metropolitan University.
- Designed 100% online, specifically for busy leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs.
Flexible. Practical. Transformational.
Why Choose the MSc in Applied Emotional Intelligence?
2 Years Part-Time
100% Online
Fit to your schedule
Zero Exams, all coursework
Globally Recognised
International Cohort
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Satisfaction Guarantee
We’re so confident you’ll appreciate our modern, family-centered approach to higher education that we offer a no-questions-asked, 30-day refund policy. If you don’t feel it’s the right fit within your first month, let us know, and we’ll return your full tuition. No strings attached.
Unlock Your Full Emotional Intelligence Potential
Master Emotional Influence
Learn advanced strategies to understand and positively shape emotional dynamics, boosting your ability to inspire, motivate, and lead effectively.
Build Unshakeable Resilience
Gain practical techniques to maintain clarity, composure, and confidence in high-pressure situations, enhancing both personal wellbeing and professional performance.
Elevate Your Communication
Develop expert skills in verbal and non-verbal emotional intelligence, enabling you to communicate with authenticity, empathy, and influence.
Deepen Your Social Insight
Learn how to decode group dynamics and subtle emotional cues, equipping you to manage teams, facilitate collaboration, and navigate complex relationships effortlessly.
Accelerate Career Progression
Leverage your newfound expertise in applied emotional intelligence to open doors to senior leadership positions, promotions, and greater earning potential.
Achieve Lasting Organisational Impact
Apply scientifically-backed EI frameworks to create positive cultural shifts, improve team productivity, and foster innovation across your organisation.
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Your Leadership Will Never Be the Same Again
Uniquely interdisciplinary, this MSc blends cutting-edge insights from psychology, sociology, neuroscience, and linguistics to give you a deep and holistic understanding of emotional intelligence. By integrating these diverse perspectives, you’ll gain richer insights into human behaviour, communication, and emotional dynamics, enabling you to respond to complex challenges with clarity and confidence.
This multidisciplinary approach not only enhances your decision-making and interpersonal effectiveness but also equips you with versatile, evidence-based skills highly valued in today’s rapidly evolving professional landscape.
A Unique Fusion of Academic & Industry Expertise
Benefit from EmotionIntell’s practical mastery in emotional intelligence and behavioural analysis, combined with the academic prestige and Gold-rated teaching at Manchester Metropolitan University. EmotionIntell handles all training, workshops, and 24/7 student support, while MMU ensures your MSc meets rigorous academic standards.
- Earn a respected university-awarded MSc.
- Learn through hands-on, industry-led coaching.
- Connect in a collaborative, supportive learning environment.
This dynamic partnership ensures your learning is both practically relevant and academically robust, tailored for senior professionals seeking real-world impact.
Hear from Our Graduates
While the MSc in Applied Emotional Intelligence is a brand-new addition to our portfolio, our proven approach to delivering high-quality postgraduate programmes has consistently transformed careers and personal growth. Here’s what graduates from our other Master’s Degrees say about their experience studying with EmotionIntell.
This degree marks the fulfillment of a dream I’ve had since I was 14 years old. Holding it in my hands now, I feel a deep sense of peace and closure – and immense gratitude for the journey that brought me here – MSc in CBCA Graduate
The delivery and the content was absolutely on-point and very professional. My critical take away is to not search for cues but to observe and let points of interest come naturally merely. I cant recommend this course enough, hence the 5 star rating.
The Curriculum
Emotional Intelligence - Models & Strategic Application
This cornerstone unit is a deep dive into the heart of the MSc. You will critically explore the key models of emotional intelligence (from Goleman to Bar On, Salovey, Caruso and Mayer) and, crucially, learn to translate them into tangible leadership strategies. You’ll move beyond definitions to gain hands-on experience applying these frameworks to real-world challenges, from leading change to building deeply engaged teams. Here, you learn not only to manage your own emotions but to positively influence the emotional landscape of your entire organisation.
Behaviour Analysis - Non-Verbal Communication for Leaders
Great leaders don’t just listen to what is said; they understand what is felt. This unit is about developing your ‘macro’ social awareness; the ability to sense the emotional climate and power dynamics of a group. You will learn to gauge the collective mood in a team meeting, sense a shift in energy during a presentation, or identify the unspoken undercurrents in a boardroom. Mastering this skill will enable you to facilitate more effectively, build consensus, pre-empt group-level resistance, and guide the collective conversation with greater confidence and strategic insight.
Face and Emotion - Understanding What Isn't Said
This unit zooms in from the group to the individual. It’s a ‘micro’ skill focused on high-stakes, one-on-one interactions where absolute clarity is crucial. You will learn to spot the fleeting micro-expressions and other subtle emotional cues that can betray a person’s true feelings, often unconsciously. The goal isn’t to catch people out, but to build profound trust by noticing what isn’t being said. This skill is vital for spotting a team member’s hesitation in a crucial coaching moment, assessing a partner’s true position in a negotiation, or simply knowing when you need to ask a more thoughtful question to get to the heart of the matter.
Investigative Interviewing - Coaching, Feedback & Conflict
Transform your most crucial conversations from challenging duties into opportunities for growth. This unit reframes the “interview” as a powerful leadership tool, giving you frameworks for effective coaching, motivational performance reviews, and constructive conflict resolution. You will learn psychological principles to foster open dialogue, build profound trust, and guide your team members toward their own solutions. This unit provides the skills to navigate any conversation with confidence, empathy, and strategic purpose.
Attention & Mindfulness - Mindful Leadership & Executive Presence
Discover why mindfulness isn’t just a wellness tool, but a critical leadership asset. This unit empowers you to cultivate the executive presence needed to lead with clarity, calm, and compassion, even under intense pressure. You’ll learn practical techniques to challenge cognitive bias and make your strategic decisions more objective. By mastering mindfulness, you will enhance your core emotional intelligence, enabling you to regulate your own emotional state and create the conditions for psychological safety and open dialogue within your team.
Psychophysiology - The Physiology of Workplace Performance & Wellbeing
Go beyond theory to explore the fascinating link between our minds and bodies in a professional setting. This unit delves into how stress, engagement, and motivation manifest physically. You will learn to recognise the physiological signs of pressure and burnout in yourself and your team, enabling you to build a more resilient and genuinely high-performing culture. We will evaluate cutting-edge biofeedback methods used not to detect lies, but to foster authentic engagement and create an environment where people can truly thrive.
Linguistics Applied - Inspiring & Influencing Through Words
Discover how your language shapes your reality as a leader. This unit explores how the words you choose, your tone, and your style directly impact your organisation’s culture, motivation, and levels of trust. You will learn to analyse language for its emotional and influential power, crafting messages that truly inspire action and align teams. This isn’t just about public speaking; it’s about understanding the subtle power of language in every email, meeting, and conversation you have.
Behaviour Analysis Masterclass
Acting as the capstone for your first year, the Masterclass is an intensive, live virtual workshop where you will integrate everything you have learned. This isn’t a lecture; it’s a high-impact training ground. Through a series of challenging drills, immersive role-play scenarios, and practical exercises, you will put your skills to the test in real-time. The Masterclass is designed to bridge the crucial gap between knowing and doing, moving your skills from conscious thought to intuitive action. You will leave this session not just with notes, but with the proven confidence and ability to apply your emotional intelligence under pressure, delivering immediate impact at work and in life.
Research Methods - Applied Research for Organisational Impact
Become a leader who doesn’t just rely on gut feeling, but who makes data-driven, people-centric decisions. This unit demystifies the research process, equipping you to be a practitioner-researcher inside your own organisation. You will learn how to design a study to measure the ROI of a new wellbeing initiative, diagnose the root cause of team disengagement, or evaluate the impact of a culture change programme. This is a practical, hands-on unit designed to give you the confidence to solve your organisation’s most pressing challenges.
Individual Differences & Personality
Ever wondered why a particular leadership style inspires one person yet demotivates another? Or why a star performer on one team struggles to fit into a new one? This unit delves into the fascinating world of individual differences, moving far beyond simple stereotypes to give you a practical toolkit for understanding what makes people tick. You will explore robust models of personality and cognitive style, not as academic exercises, but as powerful frameworks for building truly complementary teams, tailoring your motivation strategies, and resolving conflict more effectively. The result is a more precise and empathetic leadership style, enabling you to unlock the unique potential within every member of your team.
Psycho-Social Aspects of Emotional Intelligence
The most powerful forces in any organisation are often the ones you can’t see. This unit demystifies the “unwritten rules” and invisible dynamics that shape your team’s culture and performance. We explore the powerful interplay between individual psychology and group behaviour, examining real-world phenomena like groupthink, social influence, and organisational politics. You will learn to diagnose why some teams collaborate effortlessly while others are plagued by friction. This module equips you to move beyond managing individuals and instead architect a healthier, more resilient, and high-performing culture from the ground up.
Advanced Project (Dissertation)
This capstone module of the MSc in Applied Emotional Intelligence empowers
students to translate emotional intelligence theory into impactful, real-world solutions.
You will undertake an applied research project focused on using core EI
competencies, such as self-awareness, empathy, and relationship management, to
address a complex challenge within a chosen professional or social context.
The focus is on practical application and tangible outcomes. For instance, your project
could involve:
● Developing a new framework to enhance psychological safety in teams.
● Designing a leadership programme to cultivate more empathic and effective
management.
● Creating an evidence-based intervention to improve workplace wellbeing.
● Formulating a set of strategic recommendations to resolve conflict and
improve interpersonal dynamics.
This project demands a synthesis of rigorous academic theory with hands-on
application, culminating in a dissertation that not only demonstrates scholarly depth
but also offers actionable value for professional audiences, suitable for publication in
an applied journal.
Tutors and Team
Dr Cliff Lansley
A pioneer in behaviour analysis, Dr. Lansley brings over thirty years of experience applying his research across significant governmental, military, and commercial organisations worldwide. As the developer of the groundbreaking multi-channel analysis system (SCAnS), he’s at the forefront of lie and truth detection techniques. Dr. Lansley’s ongoing research aims to revolutionise the understanding of emotional intelligence, making it a framework parallel to IQ.
Aaron Garner
As Co‑Founder of EmotionIntell, Aaron brings deep expertise in emotional intelligence, behavioural analysis, and credibility assessment. His Master’s degree in Emotions, Credibility & Deception and co-development of the beahvioural analysis tool – Six Channel Analysis System (SCAnS), position him among a handful of global experts skilled in real-time behavioural analysis in high-stakes environments
Aaron leads and supervises both EmotionIntell’s flagship MSc programmes, including the MSc in Applied Emotional Intelligence, and the MSc in Communication, Behaviour & Credibility Analysis. Both in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University.
He trains a diverse range of professionals, from Military/Special Forces and European intelligence services to VCs, negotiators, senior managers, and airport security teams across Europe and the Middle East.
Beyond adults, Aaron is passionate about nurturing emotional intelligence in children, developing programmes and workshops that help young people build awareness, empathy, and communication skills from an early age.
His engaging delivery style, practical strategies, and global experience make him an inspiring guide for MSc students learning to apply emotional intelligence and behavioural insight in their leadership roles.
Prof. Dawn Archer
A leading expert in understanding how humans use language in context, Dawn Archer ensures her research directly supports practical, real-world applications, especially in organisations and legal or high-stakes environments. With over 25 years of experience, her work spans across forensic linguistics, pragmatic analysis, and corpus linguistics, focusing on patterns in human communication across cultures, scenarios, and time.
She is internationally known for her extensive research into courtroom discourse (1640‑present), analysing how language practices and power dynamics emerge and shift over centuries. Her work informs how professionals interpret nuance, context, and intent—skills essential in emotionally intelligent leadership and communication.
Dawn also consults for frontline professionals, including airport officers and police negotiators, applying her pragmatics insights to improve communication, reduce misunderstandings, and foster trust.
In the MSc in Applied Emotional Intelligence, Dawn guides students to decode the deeper structures of conversation, teaching you to recognise subtle linguistic cues, cultural nuances, and communication patterns that influence trust, credibility, and psychological safety.
Prof. Boris Altemeyer
Dr Altemeyer brings cutting-edge expertise in statistical analysis, machine learning, and emotional expression measurement to the MSc in Applied Emotional Intelligence. As Lead Psychologist at ihp Analytics, he specialises in integrating advanced analytics with emotional intelligence, using AI and wearable tech to decode micro‑expressions and affective behaviour patterns in real-world settings
Boris designs metrics that bridge data and human behaviour — crafting systems that analyse how emotions influence decision-making, leadership effectiveness, and cultural fit. Working closely with C‑level executives, he develops tools that quantify and optimise emotional competencies, ensuring strategies are aligned with company values and performance goals .
He has extensive experience teaching psychological research methods, advanced statistics, and EI analytics—supporting professionals across sectors like hospitality, security, and corporate leadership. Boris transforms complex data into accessible, actionable insight, helping students harness technology to measure emotional intelligence with precision.
Deidre Scott
As one of the first graduates of EmotionIntell’s MSc in Communication, Behaviour & Credibility Analysis, Deidre earned a distinction for her dissertation on the subjectivity of trust. Her rare blend of expertise spans neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and epigenetics, placing her at the cutting edge of credibility research and emotional expression analysis.
Deidre develops advanced frameworks that explore how trust emerges biologically and psychologically, leveraging AI and behavioural insight to inform real-world professional practices. She supports organisations—especially in high-stakes environments—by integrating rigorous science into assessments and training that strengthen emotional awareness and decision-making.
Deidre brings this meticulous, interdisciplinary approach to the MSc in Applied Emotional Intelligence. She guides students in conducting nuanced credibility assessments, understanding how emotion influences behaviour on biological and cognitive levels, and applying evidence-based tools to enhance emotional intelligence with precision and confidence.
Professor David Keatley
Prof. Keatley is a globally esteemed criminologist and forensic psychologist, serving as Chair of Crime Science at Murdoch University. As Director of ReBSA (Researchers in Behavioural Sequence Analysis) and FLAG (Forensic Linguistics Analysis Group), he leads a network of experts who decode complex behavioural sequences in real-world contexts.
A full member of the Vidocq Society, Prof. Keatley consults on high-stakes inquiries worldwide, including cold cases, missing-person investigations, interrogation reviews, sexual assault, and homicide cases. His expertise in Behaviour Sequence Analysis (BSA) offers MSc students a powerful methodology for dissecting the steps of decision-making and emotional expression over time. His award-winning research—such as “Keatley’s Winthropping” and innovations in timeline forensic tools—enhances the programme’s scientific rigor and equips students with forensic-level analytical methods
Jordan Lansley
Jordan Lansley is the Programme Manager for the MSc in Applied Emotional Intelligence, overseeing the day to day delivery and student experience across the programme. He works closely with students throughout their academic journey, providing guidance, support, and coordination to help ensure a smooth and engaging learning experience.
Jordan plays a central role in programme operations, student communications, onboarding, and pastoral support, helping create a professional yet approachable environment for a global student community. His focus is on ensuring students feel supported, connected, and able to get the most from both the academic content and wider learning experience.
Matt Lynham
Matt leads the technical team responsible for designing, implementing, and optimising the online learning environment for the MSc in Applied Emotional Intelligence. With a BSc (Hons) and substantial experience in educational technology, he ensures every aspect of the Learning Management System operates smoothly, securely, and intuitively, minimising disruptions so you can focus on your studies.
He is dedicated to enhancing the student experience, consistently integrating new digital features—such as interactive media, real-time analytics, and collaborative tools—that boost engagement and make learning more immersive. Under his leadership, the platform is continually maintained and improved, ensuring that lectures, assignments, discussions, and resources are always accessible and up to date.
Matt also oversees the responsive technical support infrastructure. Should any student encounter issues or need guidance with the platform, Matt’s team delivers prompt, effective assistance, ensuring a reliable and efficient learning journey from enrolment to graduation.
Harry Lansley
Harry Lansley supports the delivery and wider student experience across the MSc in Applied Emotional Intelligence. With a background in behaviour analysis and emotional intelligence, he has been involved in the development of the Six Channel Analysis System (SCAnS™), a behavioural analysis model focused on understanding communication and emotional patterns across multiple channels.
A certified practitioner in the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), Harry also contributes to projects exploring the integration of emotional intelligence and behavioural insight within technology and AI driven systems.
Within the programme, Harry supports operational delivery, student engagement, and the coordination of learning resources and activities. His work helps ensure students have a smooth, well supported, and professionally relevant experience throughout their studies.
How to Apply – A 4-Step Simple Process
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- Programme overview and module breakdown
- Real-world learning outcomes
- Success stories and industry relevance
- Upcoming induction/enrolment dates
- Answer your specific questions
- Discuss alignment with your career goals
- Walk you through the next steps—only if you choose to proceed.
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Apply NowIntakes
- Intake: 6th September 2022 to 6th September 2024
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Launch Event:
3 day virtual workshop, 6th September 2022 to 8th September 2022
3 day virtual workshop, 6th September 2022 to 8th September 2022
- Module Release: Monthly following virtual workshop
- Live Support Sessions: Scheduled monthly (recordings available)
- Graduation: September 2024
Your Investment
A globally recognised Master’s degree, designed to work around your career and your life.
Your Learning Journey
The MSc builds progressively across two years, with built-in qualifications at each stage so you never lose credit for the work you've done.
Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert)
Build your foundation in the science and practice of emotional intelligence through seven intensive modules. If life circumstances change, you can exit with a PgCert qualification from Manchester Metropolitan University.
Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip)
Deepen your expertise with advanced modules in research methods, criminology, and individual differences. Your PgDip demonstrates substantial postgraduate achievement if you choose to exit here.
Master of Science (MSc)
Complete your original research dissertation and graduate with the full Master of Science from Manchester Metropolitan University, a globally recognised Level 7 qualification that distinguishes you professionally.
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Yes, if you’re an experienced leader or entrepreneur committed to advancing your personal and professional skills to build a thriving work environment.
Professional experience matters most. While a bachelor’s degree is preferred, it’s not mandatory.
As a private institution, we offer flexible payment options rather than traditional student loans.
Expect approximately 8-12 hours weekly, designed flexibly to fit around your busy professional schedule. Its 100% online, with live group sessions and 1:1 personal support.
