Social
Impact
Coaching
Empowering leaders, teams, organisations and communities to thrive through personal growth & professional development
Changemaker Growth
Supporting non-profit and public sector leaders and teams, social entrepreneurs, and leaders in for good corporates.
Building resilient, confident, collaborative, strategic leaders with effective, motivated teams who deliver.
- Leadership coaching
- Systemic Team Coaching – licenced in Team Connect 360 diagnostic
- Personal mastery and relationship building
- Coaching through organisational change
- Project Management coaching
- New manager coaching & mentoring
Championing Women in Business
Breaking though systemic barriers
Working with women in business to navigate systemic forces and succeed. Every woman’s context is different. However, over the years, some themes have emerged:
- Start-up coaching
- Leading change
- Scaling your business
- Managing workload and increasing delegation
- Improving EQ and working relationships
- Stress mitigation
- Career development
- Navigating bias with confidence
Accessible coaching for community
Bringing the proven benefits of coaching and mentoring to community groups who would not typically have the budget to access these development processes. With particular focus on youth, health and education related groups.
Meet your people development partner
AJ Edge – Values driven coach, mentor and facilitator I am an ICF credentialled Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with a robust 30 year+ track record spanning corporate communication, non-profit leadership, and multi-sector leadership, team and group coaching.
Leadership expertise
I’ve spent 25 years working in and with the non-profit and public sectors, from a VSO volunteer manager in South Africa, to leading diverse teams managing multi-donor capacity building programmes, being a hands-on non-profit board member, and now a consultant coach. Through my expertise in team development, stakeholder management and change leadership, I understand the resilience, resourcefulness and emotional intelligence required by leaders across sectors to manage teams through ambiguity and change.
Drawing on corporate experience
My early career in corporate UK public relations and growing my own business over the last decade, further supports my strength in leadership presence, communication, influence, trust-building and stakeholder alignment. I am experienced in coaching both entrepreneurs and leaders within organisations. This includes women navigating historically male dominated sectors such as construction, engineering and IT, and female leaders in retail, real estate, manufacturing, marketing & communications, and media. I draw from my business acumen to understand perspectives and provide meaningful coaching.
Moving you forward
I am strengths-based and action orientated. Whether you are a leader in need of a thinking partner during times of change, a team struggling to fulfil your potential and unsure why, a community group wanting to build confidence, an organisation in need of an experienced change coach or process facilitator, I work with you to get to the heart of the matter, create new insights, develop new ways of being and doing, and move you forward.
International Coaching Federation member - Global and UK
As an ICF professional, with over 13 years of coaching experience, I bring a high level of proficiency and ethical rigour to my work, providing you with a safe, transformational space.
Certified Organisational Development Coach (Symbiosis USA ACTH, ICF Accredited) and Certified ProSci Change Practitioner
I coach organisations, departments or sites and assist them with their Organizational Development and Change Management goals. Leveraging my expertise in OD interventions, people engagement and internal marketing of change projects, I support you to pick up resistance early, deepen staff engagement, and boost the likelihood of change projects being championed and sustained.
Time
To
Think
“The quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first.
The quality of our thinking depends on the way we treat each other while we are thinking.” Nancy Kline.
Time To Think has identified ten behaviours that generate the finest independent thinking. I completed training in the Thinking Environment and Thinking Partnerships based on Nancy Kline’s Time to Think framework and have over 5 years’experience of integrating the ten behaviours—such as attention, equality, ease, and appreciation—into my work. I support people to generate robust, independent ideas. This includes mentoring on how to transform meetings into truly thinking environments that yield positive results.
Systemic Team Coaching
I hold the certificate in Systemic Team Coaching from the Association of Executive Coaching and am a licensed user of Team Connect 360. AoEC’s unique 360 feedback tool quickly and efficiently generates insights into how a team is perceived, by its stakeholders and by members of the team itself.
The tool’s questions and report are designed around Professor Peter Hawkins’ Five Disciplines Model of High Performing Teams.
Strengths-based coaching
Driven by the principals of positive psychology. I support you to appreciate and maximise your character strengths. I use the evidence-based, cost-effective VIA character strengths for individual awareness and growth, and team building.
L&D know-how
My years of experience in learning & development is backed by my City&Guilds Certificate in Further and Adult Education Teaching, and a Masters in Education (adult). As an experienced capacity building programme designer and facilitator, supporting participants to swiftly and sustainably apply new learning into their complex working spaces is at the heart of my work.