IQF began as an initiative towards the advancement of education on Quality Management in schools, based on the know-how of Quality Improvement, researched and developed by Philip Crosby, the deceased Quality Guru.
An inside-out approach to Quality was introduced so Spiritual Empowerment became the core of IQF intervention model. In December 1999, IQF formed an alliance with Ramakrishna Mission, Mysore to develop an organic approach to Personality Development. As a result, a Computer-Based-Training film on Personality Development was produced by IQF and RIMSE, Mysore.

Quality acquires a deeper meaning when along with efficiency in action we want lasting peace and happiness. Strength to cope with the stresses of life, greatness and perfection and meaning in life—can come only with increasing knowledge of oneself. By the year 2000, a substantial number of students of these schools were starting to voice issues of Quality, which are closely related to introspection and personality development. An inside-out approach to Quality was becoming crucial to IQF.

As Invitations for workshops and interventions started pouring in, IQF conducted a series of trailblazing workshops in UP, Punjab, and Kashmir. IQF started a new chapter in Dehradun, in collaboration with the local Ramakrishna Mission centre. Weekly modules on Values-oriented Personality Development were rolled out for the students of classes 4 to 9 in a phased manner. In 2009, IQF commenced the first rural intervention in Chamoli District of Uttarakhand and also adopted villages in Khetri district of Rajasthan for sustained rural development.

In partnership with Ramakrishna Mission, New Delhi, IQF started working with the slum children of Delhi by offering them academic coaching, nutritional supplements, and inputs on Value-based personality development. IQF adopted Akilpur Jagir, a remote underdeveloped village in the Dadri region of Western UP. The village children are provided free computer-based tutoring, balanced nutrition and holistic health-care services.

In 2016, IQF commissioned a Branch in Guwahati to cater to the student community of the North-East. Efforts are on to identify a village in remote Assam and work in the areas of education, health, and sanitation. In 2017, the First IQF Club was instituted in Delhi. Furthermore, our first Outbound Mind Power Training programme was organised in Punjab and rural Uttarakhand, where the participants were trained for Peak Performance. In 2019, the first IQF Residential Programme was organised in Dehradun.

By March 2024, IQF has reached out to more than seven lakh students, teachers and parents through interventions in Quality Improvement and values-oriented Personality Development. Anchored to these intervention philosophies and in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, real-time online workshops and online inter-school events were launched for our beneficiary schools in Delhi NCR, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, and Uttarakhand from June 2020. Since 2017, the number of active IQF Clubs in pan India has increased to 80+ and more than 3000 students have got benefitted so far. This year, IQF is planning to expand to other states such as Jammu, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh etc.