When I established my consulting practice and subsequently joined Edge International I found I had both the time and inclination (no longer plagued by normal large-office issues) to read and think about leadership, strategy and related issues in more depth. As a result I have gained some insights I wish I had when I was running firms!
Edge International is comprised of a number of specialists in different fields of legal industry management and leadership and related skills. However we work as a very closely knit team and regularly collaborate on assignments. Where warranted we team up to service clients. We share learnings and update one another on key assignments weekly and meet a couple of times a year where we spend most of the time upskilling and improving our knowledge base and expertise levels.
Our culture is what I would term collegial-businesslike; we have very few ‘rules & regulations’ but are disciplined in relation to accessibility, responsiveness and reliability. Our Edge guiding principles internally—we:
- are a virtual firm with outstanding, diversely talented partners operating as One Firm
- exercise absolute commitment to the success of Edge colleagues, Edge clients and strengthening the Edge Brand
- are accessible, responsive and reliable to Edge colleagues and Edge clients
- Edge Partners:
- are comfortable operating in a virtual environment
- are independent, somewhat irreverent but actively collaborative and collegial
- have top technical ability, high EQ, and enthusiasm and passion for the legal industry
- will, without exception, both personally and professionally, be the ‘right people on the bus’
- deliver the capability to undertake highly sophisticated, strategically significant work
- exercise absolute integrity in all dealings with clients and colleagues
- have strategically relevant skill-sets in key markets
- develop and share expertise, systems, IP, IT & communications skill-sets, processes and precedents with one another
- obtain feedback from clients after every significant engagement and share any learnings
- provide a weekly e-mail report to fellow partners on the past week’s and the next week’s activities plus any learnings
- provide an unconditional guarantee to clients in relation to our individual assignments
- the Edge Partnership:
- is a global, collaborative partnership that puts its combined expertise and energy to work for every Edge client
- focuses on sophisticated, strategically significant work
- is driven to ensure implementation
- unconditionally guarantees service delivery
- exercises absolute confidentiality in relation to clients and assignments
- has a policy that fixed price fees are the general rule
- is driven to ensure clients realise untapped potential
- has a passion to build client strength, confidence and well-being
- is determined to ensure consistency of Edge brand experiences all over the world
Specific Services I can offer:
Organisational, Vision, Strategy & Culture
- Organisational reviews and re-structuring for transformation & growth execution
- Strategic planning development, implementation, review & monitoring/measuring
- Strategy & growth planning utilising author Jim Collins’ research outcomes and methodologies
- Commercialising services
- Strategies to build and grow an organisation’s Capital Fabric™
- Vision, core ideology and culture review and development
- OCI Culture Reviews, Debriefing and Change Management*
- GSI Development Reviews, Debriefing and Coaching*
- Amalgamations, strategic alliances
- Risk reviews
- Asia expansion Strategy Development and Implementation
- Developing key success factors and KPIs for organisational & divisional performance
Marketing & Brand
- Marketing Strategy development and implementation
- Building charismatic brands implementing Brand Fusion™ which ensures organisation-wide understanding/support and ensures what you offer is what is experienced
- Trusted Advisor status development
- Strategies to achieve growth during macro-economic crises e.g. GFC
- Key Client/Customer Management Programs using CReMP™
- Innovation strategy and framework implementation
- Client/Customer Development Reviews, Debriefing and Coaching
- Knowledge-based client/customer relationship implementation
Governance
- Various aspects of organisational governance
- Leadership and Management Role and KPI development
Leadership
- Mentoring & coaching CEOs, Managing Partners and Divisional or Group leadership
- Leadership reviews and re-structures
- Leader and Leadership team optimisation
- Thought leadership development
- Leadership Performance Management Systems that work
- Leadership key performance indicators to achieve balanced performance
- Manager Progression and Leadership succession
- LI Leadership Development Reviews, Debriefing and Coaching*
- LSI Individual Development Reviews, Debriefing and Coaching*
- Mindset coaching for leaders and managers
People
- Leader/Team performance enhancement implementing the Responsible Partner® program
- Human Resources Strategy development & implementation
- Strategies to understand & build people engagement
- Training and Education (Learning and Development) strategy
Financial
- Financial Strategy development
- Equity and organisation capital re-structuring
- Lockup (WIP and Debtor Days) optimisation strategies
- Comprehensive financial practices and procedures manual
- Financial ‘Snapshot’ (Dashboard) Development