LeaderShip Edge Management Consultants started in 1991 in Atlanta, working with clients in the areas of leadership and management effectiveness, strategic diversity management and individual efficacy and alignment.
Our services focus on developing the knowledge, perceptual acuity, skills and practical technology necessary to affect behavioral change and support clients in achieving and sustaining measurable results.
We meet our clients' needs through customized consulting, training and coaching.
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LeaderShip Edge Management Consultants brings your vision to life. We ensure that your company is prepared to pursue its agenda with renewed vigor and proficiency. Our consultants have diverse experience utilizing proven
theoretical-based practices,
At LeaderShip Edge we leverage your knowledge of your business because, in many cases, it is not typically the planning or vision that falls short, it is the execution.
Our strength is listening, asking the right questions.
As a consortium of seasoned professionals with organization development, corporate management and human resource experience, we provide a construct to align your agenda and insure congruency throughout your business.
Are you struggling to define and sustain your organizations ultimate vision and core values as driving forces for your work environment? Do you find it difficult to blend new ideas and practices with traditional approaches when confronted with progress and change? Let's discuss your needs.
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Motivations...
"Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information." Peter Drucker
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." Andrew Carnegie
"Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people." Stephen Covey
"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people." Mary Kay Ash
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. " Alfred North Whitehead
"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests." John Stuart Mill
"It's never crowded along the extra mile." Dr. Wayne Dyer
"Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives." Brian Tracy
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. Zig Ziglar
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PROUDLY SERVING CLIENTS SINCE 1991
We pride ourselves on working strategically with clients to create excellence through continuous learning, unrestricted thinking and practical application. Our purpose is to truly stimulate and accelerate individual and organizational effectiveness.
Leadership Edge, as a consulting partner, has experience providing solutions requiring multi-year delivery to fortune 500 companies, medium size organizations, government and non-profit agencies. Our focus on results has us work at all levels - from CEO to frontline associates. We enhance our approach and vision of diversity not only through the training and experience of our consultants, but also through our work with clients from different countries and cultures. In addition to the USA our exposure includes Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Scotland, England, Africa and others.
Consulting Services
LeaderShip Edge consultations provide comprehensive approaches to address short-range tactical challenges; long-term strategic issues or clarification of direction and options.
Our consulting services increase the
Training Services
LeaderShip Edge customized learning experiences include interactive workshops, practical skill development, strategic and just-in-time learning modules as well as on-the-job skill application, tracking and follow-up.
Executive Coaching
In a competitive, changing environment, your employees know what to do and have the innate intellectual capacity to accomplish their tasks. However, the opportunity to excel and lead given changing demands requires the ability to engage ones peers and all
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Six Phases to Excellence
Phase One: Assessing Your Need
We believe that an organizations culture is the foundation of top performance. Through a combination of one-on-one consulting, group discussions, surveys and observation, we facilitate the re-articulation of your organizations cultural vision, values and goals to pinpoint your overall objectives and explore you needs for change.
Phase Two: Defining and Understanding Your Issues and Opportunities
Using the broad base of perspectives that exists throughout your organization, we work with you to define obstacles and identify ways to overcome them.
Phase Three: Formulating Vision and Strategy
By comparing your set of core values and business initiatives to the defined issues and obstacles, we can recognize the gaps between where you are and where you want to be. This allows us to form a plan to bridge those gaps through training, seminars, and services all of which can be tailored to match your organizations specific needs.
Phase Four: Launching Communications Campaigns
It is essential those in leadership clearly communicate the formulated vision and plan to the entire workplace. We give you the tools to spread the word of positive change and infuse your workforce with enthusiasm for the creation of an unconsciously proficient organizational culture.
Phase Five: Imprinting Your Vision and Aligning Your Culture
Implementation of the fine-tuned plan of action will equip your employees with the awareness, knowledge and skills to bring about positive change and establish a vibrant, intentional cultural atmosphere that will nurture excellence.
Phase Six: Evaluating and Monitoring the Process and Progress
Institution of defined methods for on-going feedback and the enhancement and modification of practices will help to ensure the success of your organizations cultural transformation.
Deborah Williams is the Principal of LeaderShip Edge Management Consultants, Inc. who specializes in working with individuals and organizations in redirecting practices to reach desired results and effectiveness. She has over 30 years of corporate and consulting experience and over 20 years working with clients in leadership and organization effectiveness, diversity management and executive coaching. Deborah designs the context for individuals and organizations to change behaviors so that they align with their vision, mission and core values to enhance overall performance and results. Deborah's client's performance is enhanced by increasing the individuals knowledge-base, acuity, skills and intentional behavioral choices.
Deborah has worked with large and small companies, public and private sector firms and a number of federal, state and city agencies. She has worked with clients in countries such as Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Scotland, England, Germany and Africa.
She combines practical understanding from her leadership experience inside of organizations with general principles and theory. Ms Williams engaging style makes her a successful consultant, coach, seminar leader, and much sought after conference and keynote speaker. Her clients have said she has an uncanny ability to get you to see what you haven't been able to see, and take action. She enables her clients to lead with their strengths, while working on developmental needs. In her own words she makes the unpalatable palatable and helps clients in seeing and using their gifts to get the results they want.
Deborah has a BSBA and MBA from Ohio State University. She is active in a number of professional and community organizations. She resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
Deborah can be reached directly by writing her at debwms_leadershipedge.com
Morene Seldes Marcus is a seasoned professional who has over twenty-five years experience in internal and external consulting, coaching and facilitating. Her focus is on a systems approach to individual, team and organization development. Ms. Marcus is the Principal of MSM Consulting, a Leadership & Organization Development consulting firm in Atlanta, GA.
Morene consults, coaches, designs and implements processes that enhance work relationships, performance and leadership behaviors. She facilitates experiential training in Diversity, speaks on issues of inclusion, leadership challenges, developing respect in the workplace and addresses Diversity as a critical business issue. Morene's consulting work calls upon her Organization Development experience and expertise in defining effective performance standards and core competencies, designing performance management systems, enhancing leadership skills, facilitating strategic planning sessions, offering executive coaching, career management coaching and addresses managing change issues.
Morene's consulting, coaching and facilitating experiences include: Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Abbott Labs, Shell Oil, Proctor & Gamble, Monsanto, Yale New Haven Hospital, Corning, Eastman Kodak, Georgia Department of Defense, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coca Cola, Cox Enterprises, Delta Airlines, Southern Company, BP Oil, The Rouse Co., Darden Restaurant Group, Georgia Power Company, and The UPS Stores. Prior to forming MSM Consulting in 1991, Morene held positions of leadership in several organizations responsible for Human Resources, Training and Development, Executive Development, Recruiting, Career Transition Coaching, Executive Coaching and Sales.
Ms. Marcus held senior management positions with North Central Community College, Emory University, Richway, Uptons, EnterChange, Conceptual Systems, Inc., and HiFiBuys, Inc. Morene has served several community and professional organizations in leadership positions and has been recognized and awarded for her vision, achievements and leadership skills. She speaks extensively on the challenges of leadership, workplace issues and developing human potential.
Morene received her BA degree in Education and English from Michigan State University and has graduate studies in Adult Learning. Morene is certified as a Registered Corporate Coach®/WABC; certified in Zenger Folkman 360° Feedback and Coaching instrument; Center for Creative Leadership Assessment Suite;The Birkman Method® and holds a current GA Insurance License in Life/Health. Morene is a member of Human Resource Leadership Forum, The Organization Change Alliance, Society for Human Resources Management, ASTD, Georgia Coaches Association and Atlanta Womens Network.
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Robert (Bob) L. Davis has served as a senior consultant for the past 20 years strengthening organization's understanding of their culture and facilitating the effectiveness of their leadership teams. He also has conducted many workshops on Cultural Competence and Diversity Management. Mr. Davis has delivered presentations on the concepts and implementation process of Managing Diversity to professional and trade associations, and employee groups. The organizations he has worked with include, but are not limited to: Johnson & Johnson, GM, IBM, Union Pacific Railroad, Junior Achievement, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Georgia Division of Public Health, Salomon Bros., AT&T, H. B. Zachary, Georgia Power, Alabama Power, Coca-Cola Enterprises and Harley-Davidson.
He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Cum Laude, from NJIT and a S.M. in Management from MIT, where he was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.
Contact Mr. Davis at bobdavis_leadershipedge.com
Ann Woodly is a management consultant specializing in leadership development, organizational culture change and alignment of human performance. She brings more than twenty years of organizational development and human resources experience, equipping her clients with the tools, competencies and strategies to successfully meet complex business challenges.
Woodly is a certified mediator, experienced in conflict intervention with expertise in competency modeling and the application of behavioral science principles. Ann has served as a senior OD consultant with Lockheed Martin Corporation and has held HR management positions with Allied Signal and the Nordson Corporation in various private sector environments.
She is well versed in executive coaching/development, large-scale organizational transition, instructional design and career development. Ann has designed and led OD initiatives and conducted coaching and training for a diverse client roster including, the Federal Aviation Administration, The Coca-Cola Company, United Family Life Insurance Company, The Atlanta Housing Authority, The International House of Pancakes, the Atlanta Olympic Organizing Committee and the National Black MBA Association.
Ann has developed and implemented an innovative metrics based approach to support culture change initiatives, leadership development/alignment, performance management and team building. She has designed and/or conducted a wide array of workshop offerings including, Beyond the Mission/Vision Statement: Creating a High Performance Culture, Developing Diversity Competence In Your Organization, Performance Management Skills, Maximizing Your Value & Potential In Your Organization, Behavioral Interviewing Techniques, Managing Conflict Successfully and Skills For Empowering Leaders.
Ann holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Fordham University and a Master of Science in Human Resources Development from Georgia State University. She is an accomplished public speaker, bringing clarity and insight to the complexities of human performance systems.
Ann is a member of the Organizational Development Network, The American Society for Training and Development, The Organization Change Institute, and the Organizational Change Alliance.
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At LeaderShip Edge, we know that an investment in organizational culture is an investment in people. When leadership intent is consciously communicated and permeated through the atmosphere, employees are supported by a common vision that facilitates effective collaboration which leads to success.
Improve your bottom line. Learn to mitigate and resolve employee issues in a constructive, supportive manner. Avoid lawsuits, reduce turnover, and enhance your image with clients, shareholders, prospective employees and the public. Most importantly, make an investment in your people, in the soundness of your organizations culture and the achievement of excellence. Make an investment in a best future.
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performance capacity of the individuals that lead your establishment by positioning them for increased effectiveness and profitability within their division; aligning them on a shared direction; focusing their efforts on preferred sets of behaviors; and building a context that supports the development and success of all employees.
Because the most talented individuals in your organization need to consistently deliver at the highest level, the effectiveness of our training process is measured by behavioral change and results.
Our training programs always integrate the following essentials:
Our core training programs use discovery and assessment techniques to make learning relevant to work situations incorporating the following modules:
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Performance capacity of the individuals that lead your establishment by positioning them for increased effectiveness and profitability within their division; aligning them on a shared direction; focusing their efforts on preferred sets of behaviors; and building a context that supports the development and success of all employees.
LeaderShip Edge Management Consultants accelerate results by providing comprehensive and strategic approaches customized to address the culture and requirements of each client.
With expertise to address short-range tactical challenges; long-term strategic issues or clarification of direction and options, LeaderShip Edge values the time and resources invested in management teams and optimizes their performance.
Our consultation will assist your business in clarifying your business challenges; defining specific outcomes; assessing the current environment and requirements; Identifying the business incentives and performance implications; establishing a plan to effectively reach and accelerate movement; implementing a results-oriented, value-driven plan.
LeaderShip Edge Management Consultants has worked with a many corporations and government institutions.
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stakeholders in a manner that compels and motivates.
LeaderShip Edge provides individual and group coaching to build the emotional intelligence and behavioral repertoire necessary to prioritize, build chemistry and initiate the individual strategies and tactics necessary for individual, group and organization success. Our executive coaching is one of the most expedient means of closing the gap between current and desired behavior.
Partial List of Coaching topics:
• Fortune 500 Energy Company
VP given the challenge of moving the organization through a company-wide change initiative required accelerated learning to develop strategy, coalesce a strong team and launch multiple initiatives. He improved his understanding and leadership capabilities to become a strategic and tactical director.
• Fortune 50 Consumer Products Company
Senior Executive struggled as effective coach and motivator with internal team. Used a 360-degree feedback process to get perspective of all direct reports. Through increased awareness, knowledge and skill development, a consistent redirection of practices enhanced individual and group performance. Team accelerated alignment with organization objectives.
•Non-profit Service Agency
Mid-level Manager derailed because of an abrasive, combative communication style. Used confidential interviews to develop a comparative inventory of current behaviors and desired behaviors to direct the manager in redirecting practices for better more effective results. Individual member coaching strengthened overall team performance and opened the culture to direct, effective feedback.
•Small Health Services Organization
Organization operating on tactical initiatives without a strategic direction wanted to change leadership practices and culture to function more efficiently. Guided team through strategic planning process and coached senior members for a year to support implementation.
•Financial Services Organization
Coached first level supervisor in enhancing leadership, delegation and communication skills. Developed plan and 6 month coaching process.
•Fortune 100 High-Tech Manufacturing Company
Needed to enhance communication, alignment and collaboration to accelerate project implementation. Guided team and individuals in identifying wasteful behaviors and practices to enhance results.
AT&T
BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD
BP OIL
CARAUSTAR INDUSTRIES
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
THE COCA COLA COMPANY
COX ENTERPRISES, INC
DUKE UNIVERSITY CORPORATE EDUCATION
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
EMORY UNIVERSITY CORPORATE EDUCATION
FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK OF ATLANTA
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY
IEC ENTERPRISES
JDA & ASSOCIATES
KPMG
MANHEIM
MARSH & MCCLENNAN COMPANIES
SOUTHERN COMPANY
STATE FARM INSURANCE
TA CONSULTING
UCLA SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
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