The Power of Exceptional Women
You’ve achieved excellence and grown into the inspiring leader you are through courage, application and sheer, dogged hard work.
You operate in a world where the ground is uneven, the pace and scrutiny relentless. It’s taken a toll - but it still excites you.
Now you’re ready to develop in a new way, unlocking all the rest of the potential that still lies inside.
You are The Leading Edge.
You know the price of high performance.
You see the invisible challenges you face as a woman, and what it’s taken to rise to your level. You’ve got the strategy, mastered the skills, the behaviours and developed the mindset and now you want the next step.
What if you could take your Leadership development to a level where your capability met your strength, certainty, playfulness, courage, flexiblity and invincibility so that nothing that came at you could ever take you off balance again?
The Leading Edge is the next evolution of leadership growth for senior women, where we go beyond where your development has taken you so far.
To elevate your leadership, we work at the physiological, cognitive and identity levels that underpin real, sustainable peak performance. This enables you to build the internal reserves, both professional and personal, to meet the challenge and uncertainty of your role and taking your leadership exactly where you want it to go.
The integrative approach of The Leading Edge enables a deep reset of your inner system and its processes. It builds on your existing development, enabling you to operate in both everyday and high-pressure contexts with calm precision and natural authority. Instead of tightening under strain, you find yourself thinking bravely, clearly and creatively, responding fluidly and performing to the full extent of your capacity, right when it matters most.
The Leading Edge is is a fresh approach integrating executive coaching with personal and professional development. It’s been specifically developed for senior female leaders and business owners navigating hostile contexts, volatility and fatigue, and for women who have outgrown conventional development models and want to make a different kind of progress.
It has been designed for women whose standards remain high, who have learned to adapt and achieve, and who are now ready to move beyond endurance into a state of elegant, sustainable excellence.
This is how exceptional women sustain and grow their edge, not by pushing harder but by operating from a state of alignment where intelligence and competence converge.
Your Context Matters
As a senior female leader you’ve had years of navigating the intersection between your gender and the organisational cultures you work within, and you may well have had to navigate more than just that. This is a known landscape but the extra relational and operational mileage women do requires more of you than meets the eye. This is different for each person and the path they are on but there are some experiences common to most.
It is these which put your system on high alert.
Like it or not, women at senior levels are still a minority and an often undervalued and subtly menaced population within organisational systems whose cultures and codes did not evolve with them in mind. For a thousand different reasons this places them under a chronic adaptive stress as they fight to belong at the big table and execute their roles in alignment with their values and the demands of the job in hand.
We are all built to survive and to respond immediately and at a physical, mental and emotional level to anything our nervous system interprets as threatening and it can’t tell the difference between life threat and systemic disruption, the response is the same. It kicks in without us being able to control it and changes our physiology to keep us safe.
Every time it happens, and it might be anything from a major boardroom crisis to being interrupted at a team meeting, a little bit of information gets stored away and a pattern begins to be formed and will influence how we respond to similar situations in the future. These are the automatic response patterns that then derail us when we’re battling to be creative and articulate in a crisis or desperately trying to formulate a brave argument in a tense negotiation where every twitch is noticed.
Layer onto this the experience of women operating in contexts where the baseline is already challenging: ‘Am I accepted/good enough/loud enough/soft enough/too much/too little etc.’, and it’s clear that women’s systems deal with a lot of extra ‘stuff’. It’s this ‘stuff’ and the responses to it, that make pulling out your best performance quickly and smoothly in a crisis so difficult
You’re trying to operate on one level but your brain has other ideas.
You are the Reason we Created The Leading Edge.
The Leading Edge is both simple and complex. Simply put, it’s a reset, an upgrade of your software, your operating system. Under the hood is another thing entirely. The Leading Edge synthesises executive coaching frameworks with clinically proven modalities and focuses these within in a performance enhancement and leadership context. In other words, we work with all of the systems and processes that govern your responses in moments of operational stress.
First, we work with the nervous system processes to reset responses to incoming stressors.
Next, we are able to work cognitively, looking at beliefs and behaviours which are informed by those nervous system responses.
Lastly, we move to the realm of identity, where all of this comes together.
This unfolds in context of the direction you want to take your leadership in and is informed by your individual experience of leading as a woman.
It’s not coaching and it’s not therapy. It’s also not leadership development. It’s all three focused tightly on enabling you to develop all aspects of your leadership as you feel you need to.
The Leading Edge is a process to create the conditions within your system for all of your talents, learning, skills and capabilities to work at their highest level.
The Leading Edge unlocks resources you already hold so that you can perform with full access to all of your natural leadership brilliance .