THE SUMMIT

Strengthen your ability to lead in complexity and volatility

The Summit is a year-long EdgePoint cohort program composed of senior leaders from different companies, designed to ACCELERATE the leader’s readiness for their next role in their company.

The purpose of The Summit program is to optimize the executive’s ability to lead in complexity and disruption.

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Thinking about leading in complexity and volatility

Deepen

Learning through peer consulting & coaching

Master

Contemporary leadership practices

Optimize

Leader’s own team’s performance and resilience

Drive

Achievement of critical business objectives

Ben Fried CIO, GOOGLE, 2008 - 2022

“I found EdgePoint’s year-long Summit program to be one of the most sophisticated and enriching leadership programs I’ve had the opportunity to participate in.”

The Summit Program Framework

Leadership Assessments

Each participant undergoes a best-in-class leadership assessment and creates a personalized Leadership Development Plan.

Immersive Base Camp

Participants attend 2-day immersive Base Camp in NYC to meet 10-person cohort. Monthly virtual meetings follow.

Peer Learning Circles

Participants apply learnings to their work context supported by monthly micro-trainings, Peer Learning Circles and impactful peer coaching.

Measure Outcomes

Leaders impact on their own team is assessed every six months to measure leader’s effectiveness and the efficacy of the program.

The Summit Program By The Numbers

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Three-day NYC base camp experience

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Team assessments

5

Peer learning circles

05

Cohort Offsites

10

Cohort members

5

Executive Coaching Sessions

09

Micro training sessions

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Peer coaching sessions

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Executive Coaching Sessions

09

Micro training sessions

10

Peer coaching sessions

Rehana Farrell Executive Director, Youth INC

“My year long cohort program in EdgePoint provided me with a unique level of hive intelligence that accelerated my development as a senior leader.”

Development Assessments
  • Leaders each complete a 360-Feedback Assessment, Hogan Assessment Battery, and DiSC Workstyle Indicator
  • Provides increased awareness of their strengths and development opportunities
  • Improves insight into their preferred work style and how they can best engage and influence others
Debrief and Action Planning
  • Participants debrief their assessments one-on-one with a certified development coach
  • Coach and participant co-design development goals for the program
Team Assessment
  • Each participant's own team completes the Resilient Team Survey at start, middle, and end of program to measure their team's engagement and impact and to track progress

The Summit Program Roadmap

  • Month 01

    Start your journey with empirically validated team and individual assessment and a consultation session where you’ll create your personalized development plan

  • Month 03

    Learn the foundations of coaching during Leader as Coach. Practice and apply skills with Peer Coaching and Peer Consultation sessions.

  • Month 05

    Master your use of self with Mindful Leadership. Explore your learnings with support and feedback from your cohort with Peer Coaching and Peer Consultation sessions.

  • Month 07

    Learn what it takes to foster belonging during Inclusive Leadership. Practice and apply skills with Peer Coaching and Peer Consultation sessions.

  • Month 09

    Experience the power and generativity of Embracing Conflict. Practice and apply skills with Peer Coaching and Peer Consultation Sessions.

  • Month 11

    Appreciate how far you’ve come with your third and final team assessment, then prepare for what comes next with Seeing Around Corners. Practice and apply skills with Peer Coaching and Peer Consultation sessions.

  • Month 02

    Meet your fellow travelers in an immersive two-day experience in New York City, and learn the foundations of leading organizations in the 21st century in the Contemporary Leadership Practices micro-learning.

  • Month 04

    Identify the factors that create the conditions for greatness with High Performing Teams. Practice and apply skills with Peer Coaching and Peer Consultation sessions.

  • Month 06

    Gauge your impact with your second team assessment, then identify strategies and tactics for Creating Connection in a Hybrid World. Practice and apply skills with Peer Coaching and Peer Consultation sessions.

  • Month 08

    Learn to manage churn and leverage data to power better Decision-Making. Practice and apply skills with Peer Coaching and Peer Consultation sessions.

  • Month 10

    Reach hearts and minds with Executive Storytelling. Practice and apply skills with Peer Coaching and Peer Consultation Sessions

  • Month 12

    Finish the journey strong and close out with our graduation gathering. Congratulations!

Base Camp

3-Day immersive experience in New York City designed to disrupt executive’s thinking about how to lead.  Leaders working together in person builds a supportive and  cohesive cohort.

Angela Dorn Global Head of Ops and Legal, Teach For All

“My year long journey in EdgePoint’s Summit Program opened up a new understanding of what leading in complexity can be and how I can support my people.”

The Summit Program Reading List

Cohort members will read selected portions of cutting edge books on leadership and related fields

Meet Your Facilitators

Cohorts are facilitated by expert executive coaches

Dan Fisher, PhD

Dan is a consulting psychologist and Managing Partner at CLA, where he serves as trusted advisor to C-Suite executives,

Dan Fisher, PhD

Dan is a consulting psychologist and Managing Partner at CLA, where he serves as trusted advisor to C-Suite executives, boards, and investors. Dan has extensive experience assessing executives for both selection and development. In addition, he works with senior leadership teams to optimize team performance and align companies around vision, mission, and strategy. Prior to co-founding CLA, Dan was a founding member of AlixPartners’ Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness practice, where he served on the Senior Leadership Team and led the team development practice.

Dan completed postdoctoral studies and was a faculty member at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. An active contributor to industry conferences, he previously served as board president of the Metropolitan New York Association for Applied Psychology,

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Jennifer Paylor

Jennifer is the Head of Learning and Development, Talent, and Culture for Capgemini in North Americans.

Jennifer Paylor

Jennifer is the Head of Learning & Development, Talent, and Culture for Capgemini in North America. She is a highly accomplished member of Marshall Goldsmith’s exclusive group of MG100 coaches, scholar, and patented inventor of a coaching system for guiding interactions.
She uses art and science to help leaders – from aspiring leaders to senior executives – create the best work environments for their teams, create an innovative culture, and achieve exponential growth for their companies. Jennifer left a coaching legacy at IBM after her 20-year tenure with the firm where she is known worldwide for creating and operationalizing the largest internal coaching practice. Under her leadership of the IBM Coaching Community of Practice, she designed the famous IBM Blue Core Coaching (BCC) skills training program.

Jennifer holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University.

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Mazher Ahmad

Mazher Ahmad is Senior Advisor at CLA and has over twenty-five years experience as a seasoned business executive

Mazher Ahmad

Mazher Ahmad is Senior Advisor at CLA and has over twenty-five years experience as a seasoned business executive and management consultant. Mazher has served in several leadership roles, most recently as the Chief Talent Officer for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, where he led the company’s global talent acquisition, talent management, leadership and organizational development, learning, culture, workforce planning and DE&I functions. In addition, Mazher has extensive management consulting experience, as he was a Principal at Philosophy IB. Mazher is also a seasoned team & executive coach to senior leaders across a variety of functions, industries, and regions including North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific, and has spoken at conferences around the world.

Mazher holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Dan Flowers

Dan Flowers is an Engagement Manager at CLA, where he brings his expertise in organizational effectiveness and talent

Dan Flowers

Dan Flowers is an Engagement Manager at CLA, where he brings his expertise in organizational effectiveness and talent development to bear to help leaders, teams, and organizations maximize their people power. Dan applies a consultative approach and systems thinking to help design large-scale interventions focusing on leadership development, talent management, and culture and engagement. Prior to joining CLA, Dan wore a number of different hats at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc, with a majority of his time embedded in the Organizational Effectiveness team.

Dan holds a Masters of Science in Social Work from Columbia University.

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Selected Workshop Offerings for The Summit

EdgePoint Cohort programs follow a curriculum designed to help participants build the most critical capabilities for leading their teams and organizations, and participants have access to additional elective workshops to support their unique development needs.

Our VUCA and BANI World

The advent of the 21st century proved our world to be Volatile, Complex, Uncertain, and Ambiguous, and the Covid-19 pandemic revealed it to be Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, and Incomprehensible—understand what this means for your organization.

Systems Thinking: Complex, Adaptive Systems

Today’s organizations are best thought of not as static but as complex and adaptive systems; learning think in terms of systems and harness the full potential of your organization.

Strategic Decision-making

Strategy is too often confused with a long-term plan. Learn the difference, and align your thinking to outperform your competitors.

Practicing Mindful Leadership

Mindful leadership is an approach in which you consciously cultivate your ability to be present, open-minded, and compassionate when interacting with team members – and you show the same consideration to yourself.

Understanding Self and Others

Emotional Intelligence is a key differentiator of successful leaders. Learn to manage your own tendencies and appreciate your team’s unique styles.

Leader as Coach

Coaching enables today’s leaders to reveal their people‘s untapped potential. Learning to ask the right question at the right moment.

Leading High-performing and Resilient Teams

Providing teams with the right structure and purpose not only drives performance, but helps teams remain resilient and adaptive through churn. Learn what you can do to cultivate an environment of innovation and growth.

Owning Your Authenticity: Finding your Voice as a Leader

Leadership principles are universal, but leadership style is personal. Learn to identify and embody what you, in particular, have to offer as a leader.

Exploration of Contemporary Leadership Practices

While the foundations of organizational behavior haven’t changed in the last two decades, the context in which organizations operate is radically different. Learn the implications, and how to manage them.

Leading Under Pressure

Resilience comes from within. Be prepared to show up as your best self when things get heated.

Leading with AI and Analytics

Utilize a decision-making process based on data, facts and/or assumptions rather than on opinions and intuitions, and leveragen/- the latest AI tools like ChaptGp4 to aid in your analysis.

Media 101

Learn the tips and techniques that will help you to develop clear and memorable messages, as well as convey them effectively to the audiences that matter most.

Assessing Executive Talent

The decision to hire an executive is one of the most important—and potentially costly—business decision facing leaders today. Learn how to collect the data that matters most.

Executive Storytelling

Data and statistics may inform decisions, but stories have the power to reach hearts and minds. Learn how to use narrative structure to change minds and ignite action.

Building a Network of your (Executive) Peers

Leaders with more developed professional networks are vastly more successful, but it can be lonely at the top. Connect with a network of executive peers to propel your organization forward.

Managing Boards and other Executive Stakeholders

Senior executives are often called upon to manage a very particular type of stakeholder most leaders rarely have to: boards. Learn how to effectively work with Boards of Directors, Boards of Governance, and other critical stakeholders.

Adaptive Habit Stacking

Our habits are the building blocks of our actions. Make your habits work for you.

Courageous Conversations

Every leader will face conflict, but disagreements have the potential to be constructive or destructive. Learn to use conflict to bring new information into the discussion.

Leading Change

The pace of change has increased rapidly, but the percentage of organizational changes that succeed remains low. Learn what you can do to drive sustainable change.

Making DE&I a Strategic Advantage

With employee engagement at a record low, organizations need to reach their workforce in a different way. Learn how to make Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging your organization’s strategic advantages.

Preparing Your Successor

When the time comes for a leader to step down, few things matter more than succession and sustainability. Ensure your legacy is in good hands.

Seeing Around Corners

Today’s rapid pace of change makes it impossible to predict the future, but fortune favors the prepared. Learn to forecast the range of possibilities to position your organization to capitalize on them.

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