edge

Welcome to edge:

Through co-creation, we support you respond strategically to exciting and challenging human capital questions along your organization’s growth journey

Which of these talent questions is your current priority?

• How might we strategically design a winning senior leadership team as our work & impact grows?
• How might we align our team to our organization's vision?
• How might we build a culture and the internal collaboration that enables us to evolve and succeed?
• How might we plan and implement our leadership succession planning strategically?
• How might we effectively build the capacity of our management to lead a performing team?
• How might we creatively support our staff in their professional and career development?
• How might we create diverse, equitable and inclusive teams?
• How might we create more innovative and impactful programs/models that create the change we want to see?
• How might we create a bolder, more ambitious strategy for bigger impact?

How we work with you:

We bring in diverse approaches and tools customized to the unique context of your organization and often combine them as needed:

• Co-Creation and Thought Partnership: We dance together to find the deepest roots of challenges and craft solutionsand processesthat objectively work.
• Coaching: Powerful conversations where you step into your leadership potential
• Facilitation: Supporting you reach an agreement or solution without getting directly involved in the process, discussion, etc. ourselves
• Expertise Sharing: Tap our understanding, knowledge and skills about human capital in the grassroot, social transformation and philanthropy spaces
• Sounding Board: Pick our brain!
• Radical Authenticity: Seeing what no one else is seeing and calling it out. Let’s avoid building superficial solutions that cover up complex issues.

About our Team:

Martha leads our Senior Leadership Transition, Coaching and Recruiting departments. She is a passionate innovator, with a keen interest in enabling individuals to unleash their true potential to live their best lives and helping leaders build high-performing & healthy organizations. Martha brings to edge vast experience in talent management and organization development from diverse sectors and realities: From Fortune 500 firms and midsized companies to non-profits. Having worked and lived in India, Tanzania and Kenya with colleagues from over 30 countries, she’s a multi-cultural leader. Her spontaneity, never stop questioning attitude and no box disruptive thinking is her secret sauce for guiding business leaders and high achievers to navigate chaos bravely, overcome limitations, gain clarity and move with laser focus action.

Manuela has supported impact-driven entrepreneurs and leaders in accelerating their teams and vision for over 12 years. She has been involved in countless community initiatives since her youth and curious how to build truly impactful and innovative organizations that last, she ventured into the HR and Talent Management world while obtaining a computer science and business double degree in Germany. Based in London, she co-ran a global social impact talent development program, and her work with social entrepreneurs and impact funders took her to over a dozen countries, supporting over 80 growth-stage ventures. In 2014 Manuela returned to Nairobi to co-found edge. Leading edge’s Organization Development work, she builds on her experience in the consulting, corporate and academic fields. Her core drivers are improvement, fairness and participation.

Interested?

Email us on getstarted@edgeperformance.co.ke and let us know what talent questions you’d love to explore with us!