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Built for Leaders
Flexible, high-impact leadership training grounded in emotional intelligence.
Made for leaders anywhere in the world.
The right kind of training in leadership will make you a better leader.
That may seem obvious and yet so few leaders actually receive any kind of formal training in the discipline of leading people.
Even fewer get the training needed to move into senior roles, manage larger teams, and confidently lead with emotional intelligence under pressure.
As AI and automation rapidly transform the workplace, emotional intelligence is becoming one of the most critical differentiators in leadership.
Technology can handle information. AI can process complexity. But only leaders with strong emotional capability can build trust, navigate uncertainty, inspire teams and create cultures where people thrive.
The leaders who will excel in the next decade are those who strengthen the human skills that AI cannot replace.
So for all your drive, experience and ambition, there’s often a gap where the essential theoretical foundations should be and these foundations are precisely what give us the clarity and confidence to take our leadership to a new level.
That’s why EdgeEQ exists.
We adapt insights from the world’s top leadership research, coaching practice and behavioural science, and make them more flexible, more accessible and more affordable – for every leader who wants to reach the top of their game.More than 1,000 leaders have already discovered how EdgeEQ can transform them into more effective, grounded and inspired leaders. The majority describe what they learn as "life-changing".
Trusted by leaders in global organisations.
Delivered to senior teams across sectors from pharmaceuticals and finance to energy and technology, this work consistently creates lasting shifts in how people think, relate, and perform.
We had the conversation we’d been avoiding for years, and it changed everything.
— Senior Leader, Sage
The quality of dialogue in our leadership meetings transformed overnight.
— SVP, Salesforce
Bring the conversation that technology can’t.
If your leadership team is ready to bring the unspoken to the surface and strengthen how it performs, both internally and in a changing world, EdgeEQ can help.
Enquire about the ProgramMeet James Rees
James holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Executive Coaching and is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation. He has completed over 20,000 hours of one-to-one coaching, working with leaders across industries, cultures and levels of seniority.
He coaches at both London Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business, working in Executive Education and on the Executive MBA programme.
James has coached and consulted globally with organisations including Meta, Google, Amazon, Salesforce, Accenture, Novartis, USAF, Mubadala, GSK, EY, Lego, Hugging Face and American Express.
Through this experience, James consistently saw the same pattern: the single biggest factor influencing an individual’s performance and leadership impact was the strength of their emotional intelligence.
He created EdgeEQ to make this capability accessible, practical and transformative for leaders everywhere.
