The Executive Edge
Clarity before commitment.
A board-level diagnostic for CEOs, founders, and senior executives navigating critical decisions, capital strategy, and leadership under pressure.
Confidential • Structured • Designed to reduce avoidable error
What this is
A structured assessment that reveals how you lead when it matters most — judgement, decision-making, influence, and clarity under real constraint.
What this is not
Not a personality test. Not “leadership feedback”. Not a generic culture survey. It’s a professional mirror.
Why most leadership interventions fail
Most leadership work begins with action: new strategies, new frameworks, new programmes. Very little begins with an honest assessment of how decisions are actually being made — under pressure, with consequence, and inside real constraints.
Executive Edge exists to close that gap — and to give leaders a clean basis for what happens next, whether that’s nothing, a targeted intervention, or deeper work.
What it surfaces
- decision habits you can’t see from inside the role
- blind spots, tensions, and avoidance patterns
- where pressure is distorting clarity
- how influence and authority are being exercised
The goal is not insight. The goal is clearer judgement.
What it prevents
- expensive action taken on the wrong diagnosis
- repeated “initiatives” with no behavioural shift
- drift disguised as activity
- avoidable errors under scrutiny
Bad thinking is expensive — often invisibly so.
What the diagnostic examines
Executive Edge examines leadership as lived behaviour — not theory. It looks at how judgement forms, how pressure distorts clarity, and how influence is exercised across a system.
Four domains
- Strategic Judgement
- Decision-Making Under Pressure
- Influence, Power & Authority
- Personal Mastery & Leadership Sustainability
This is designed for senior context — where decisions are never purely technical.
What it’s measuring
- how you decide when information is incomplete
- how you hold trade-offs without false certainty
- how pressure changes your leadership signals
- how authority lands in the system around you
- what becomes unsustainable if nothing changes
Leadership is revealed by constraint.
How the diagnostic works
Three stages. Clean output.
Complete the assessment
A confidential, structured diagnostic completed online. Designed to be reflective, not performative.
Receive your Executive Edge Brief
A concise, board-level report outlining strengths, tensions, and the leadership focus that matters now.
Executive debrief
A facilitated session to interpret results, test assumptions, and decide next steps — if any.
The diagnostic can stand alone, or become the entry point to advisory or coaching when appropriate.
Who Executive Edge is for
Designed for leaders operating with complexity and consequence — where the cost of a poor decision is paid in people, reputation, capital, or time.
- CEOs and founders at strategic inflection points
- senior executives stepping into expanded scope
- leaders carrying sustained pressure and consequence
- boards or Chairs seeking clarity before intervention
What leaders leave with
The point is not information. The point is clearer judgement — and a sharper basis for action.
- clear articulation of decision patterns
- visibility of pressure points and constraints
- a prioritised leadership focus for the next 90 days
- language to engage boards, investors, or executive teams
Investment
Executive Edge is priced as a senior diagnostic — designed to support high-stakes judgement, not general development.
Per leader
Includes full diagnostic assessment, Executive Edge Brief (PDF), and an executive debrief session. The diagnostic may stand alone, or form the entry point to coaching or advisory work.
This is a considered engagement. If you’re looking for a quick assessment or general feedback, this is not it.
What to include in your application
- Your role and organisation
- The decision context you’re carrying
- What is at stake (capital, people, reputation, time)
- Your time horizon for the decision
The clearer the stakes, the sharper the diagnostic.
How this fits the wider work
Clarity, then commitment.
Executive Edge exists to clarify whether deeper work is warranted. If it is, the next step is usually advisory (for decision support) or coaching (for sustained behavioural holding). If it isn’t, you leave with clarity — and no obligation.