LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
WHEN LEADERS CAN SEE THEMSELVES CLEARLY, EVERYTHING CHANGES
Self-awareness is the single greatest predictor of leadership effectiveness. Yet it’s the skill most leaders never deliberately develop. At Leading Edge, we change that.
Our approach is unlike anything else. We deliver immersive learning experiences that combine equine enhanced learning with proven leadership frameworks, guided by expert facilitators.
Since 2015, our programs have helped hundreds of leaders and their teams unlock the self-awareness that drives real performance, stronger cultures, and lasting results.
Our Leadership in Action programs equip leaders with a clear framework and shared language for guiding their teams through uncertainty that is simple, repeatable, and practical.
Our approach is directly modelled on how horses lead their herds in their natural environment, operating under a highly effective system of shared leadership, adopting roles that create collective responsibility and accountability for the safety and success of the entire group.
Each equine experience is designed to develop individual and team capabilities, fostering shared leadership through greater awareness, clarity of direction, focused energy, and authentic alignment.
The result: Immediate insight that lasts.
Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, we partner with organisations and leadership consultants to deliver tailored leadership development programs for executive and emerging leaders in Sydney, as well as select training venues worldwide.
“Incredibly grateful to have spent the day at LEPD with colleagues from Salesforce! It was a wonderfully insightful opportunity to explore what horses have to teach us about leadership, including attention, direction, energy, and congruence.”
VP, Salesforce
If we are willing to take onboard their leadership lessons, horses are a leveller that no human can match. Quite simply, they make the invisible, visible.
Through our innovative approach:
Experience closes the gap between new insight and action.
Debrief and application conversations facilitate transfer and impact of learning to the workplace.
Abstract concepts of authenticity, engagement, presence, trust, and shared leadership move into concrete practice.
Leaders will be supported to:
Build self-awareness, authenticity and presence
Develop collective and collaborative leadership skills
Develop a strategic, innovative, action focused approach
Build confidence in their leadership capabilities
Navigate volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity
The Diamond Model of Shared Leadership™
As of 2022, we are the only equine experiential professional development practitioners certified in this modality in Australia. We offer Leadership programs in-person with the horses, online, or a combination of the two.
Equine Connection™
The Academy of Equine Assisted Learning
As the market leader in Australia, Leading Edge is owned by the only Senior Facilitator and Certified Instructor here in the Southern Hemisphere. Alongside working with clients, we provide certification and CPD programs for fellow practitioners.
MiRo Psychometric Assessment Workshops
MiRo is a well recognised psychometric assessment tool specifically designed for use in the workplace to help individuals and teams perform better and feel happier. MiRo provides valuable insights into behaviours, motivations, relationships, communication and leadership styles.
MiRo workshops can be incorporated into any of our Leadership Programs, or run as a stand-alone program, in-person or virtually.
Additional Models and Tools
We partner effectively with our clients incorporating and complementing their existing training models and internal tools.
Working collaboratively in this way ensures the effectiveness of our programs and creates a seamless experience for participants that draws on the familiarity of prior training.
BrainSmart® People Development Workshops
We are delighted to be partnering with Clare Edwards of BrainSmart® People Development to offer Leadership Development workshops that further build on the learnings from our Equine sessions. Experts in the Neuroscience of Leadership, Clare and team work with leaders to develop their emotional intelligence, facilitate sustainable change, build exceptional self-leadership and inspire others to perform at their best. Complementing the equine programs, these workshops engage, inspire and effect positive, lasting behavioural change.
Research & Media
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Contact Us
Jane +61 417 499 693
Alice +61 416 616 300
info@leadingedgelifeskills.com.au
Address:
35 Laitoki Road, Terrey Hills NSW 2084