OPTIMALEDGE
power your progress to excellence
OPTIMAL
EDGE
POWER YOUR PROGRESS TO EXCELLENCE
A New Way Of
THINKING
A New Way Of
BEHAVING
A New Level Of
PERFORMANCE
A New Way Of
THINKING
A New Way Of
BEHAVING
A New Level Of
PERFORMANCE
Unlock your Potential, Transform your Life
Limiting beliefs, blind spots, and biases. These invisible barriers exist within all of us, holding us back. But unless someone helps you uncover them, theyâll remain hidden, quietly sabotaging your progress, and stopping you from reaching the Big Life you desire.
Whether itâs your personal growth, your teamâs effectiveness, or your businessâs success, these unseen challenges can slow you down, or even bring you to a crushing halt.
Without a high level of self-awareness across every area of your business, youâll find yourself battling an onslaught of obstacles such as:
Leadership Blindspots
An inability to recognise toxic behaviours or management flaws that erode overall team performance.
Feedback Resistance
Rejecting constructive criticism and feedback hinders growth, innovation, and adaptation.
Low EQ
Letting unchecked emotions damage professional relationships and team dynamics.
Decision Paralysis
Stuck in the analysis loop, afraid of making the wrong choice, leading to stagnation.
The Perfectionism Trap
Fear of failure creates procrastination, burnout, or missed opportunities.
Visibility Resistance
A team where people are unwilling to promote their ideas, celebrate their achievements or make their value visible.
Change Resistance
Teams and individuals may become too comfortable and trapped in limiting patterns.
Relationship Blindspots
Blocking professional success by not fully understanding or effectively navigating relationship dynamics.
Purpose Disconnect
Disconnection from the wider vision creates a lack of meaning, motivation, and fulfilment.
Decision Bias
Cognitive biases affect judgment and perspective leading to repeated strategic errors.
Communication Barriers
Different communication styles impact others, causing misunderstandings and friction.
Cultural Insensitivity
Lack of awareness of differences limits market reach and damages stakeholder relationships.
Designed for Change
Optimal Edge combines cutting-edge psychometric tools, one-on-one coaching, tailored exercises, and on-demand support to reveal the potential within you and remove the barriers holding you back.
This programme raises self-awareness to unexplored heights, empowering you and your team to achieve results you never thought possible.
The results? High-performing individuals and a business operating at its full potential, so that every member of the team is encouraged to live a Big Life. This is the success you have always dreamed of.
Increased Efficiency
Self-aware teams collaborate seamlessly. They think and act cohesively rather than divisively, and play to their own and each other's strengths and preferences.
Profit Growth
Adaptable, self-aware, authentic teams that work efficiently and cohesively are productive and successful. Productive, cohesive teams drive measurable success and profitability.
Strategic Agility
Gain a true competitive edge as you develop the ability to pivot quickly and effectively in response to the ebbs and flows of life, dodging pitfalls, seizing opportunities, and driving innovation.
Clearer Communication
Become more aware of how your communication style affects the people around you and learn to adapt your approach to achieve meaningful, productive conversations.
Improved Collaboration
Work together better as you tune into your own and others' emotions, reducing conflict nurturing harmony, and fuelling creativity.
Increased Resilience
Tuning into your physical, mental, and emotional responses to situations is vital for building emotional and mental resilience to thrive in challenging situations.
Enhanced Decision-Making
Understanding core strengths and weaknesses will make you confident, so you can make informed choices grounded in self-awareness.
No More Revolving Door
High levels of self-awareness foster high levels of engagement, so you can create an engaged, loyal, and fulfilled workforce thatâs motivated to stay.
Designed for Change
Optimal Edge combines cutting-edge psychometric tools, one-on-one coaching, tailored exercises, and on-demand support to reveal the potential within you and remove the barriers holding you back.
This programme raises self-awareness to unexplored heights, empowering you and your team to achieve results you never thought possible.
The results? High-performing individuals and a business operating at its full potential, so that every member of the team is encouraged to live a Big Life. This is the success you have always dreamed of.
Increased Efficiency
Self-aware teams collaborate seamlessly. They think and act cohesively rather than divisively, and play to their own and each other's strengths and preferences.
Profit Growth
Adaptable, self-aware, authentic teams that work efficiently and cohesively are productive and successful. Productive, cohesive teams drive measurable success and profitability.
Strategic Agility
Gain a true competitive edge as you develop the ability to pivot quickly and effectively in response to the ebbs and flows of life, dodging pitfalls, seizing opportunities, and driving innovation.
Clearer Communication
Become more aware of how your communication style affects the people around you and learn to adapt your approach to achieve meaningful, productive conversations.
Improved Collaboration
Work together better as you tune into your own and others' emotions, reducing conflict, nurturing harmony, and fuelling creativity.
Increased Resilience
Tuning into your physical, mental, and emotional responses to situations is vital for building emotional and mental resilience to thrive in challenging situations.
Enhanced Decision-Making
Understanding core strengths and weaknesses will make you confident, so you can make informed choices grounded in self-awareness.
No More Revolving Door
High levels of self-awareness foster high levels of engagement, so you can create an engaged, loyal, and fulfilled workforce thatâs motivated to stay.
The Programme Breakdown
Optimal Edge is a coaching programme that blends vital research and insights rooted in neuroscience and psychology with a human-centred exploration and reflection process designed to help your team adapt to change, thrive under pressure, and achieve sustained success. While the content is always tailored to you, we follow a tried and trusted process to deliver the results you want.
Step 1: Introductory Call
I donât offer a "buy now" option for one simple reason: coaching is about connection. Itâs not just about what you want to change. Itâs about making sure weâre the right team to create that change together.
So, the first thing we need to do is establish (a) if I am right for you and your business as your coach, and (b) if Optimal Edge is actually what you need to achieve the outcomes that you want. So, it all begins with a call and a conversation to discover:
- If I am a good fit for you and your business (and vice-versa)
- What you are looking to achieve through coaching and/or training both personally and across your organisation
- Your timescales and delivery requirements
- Whether Optimal Edge will deliver what you are looking for and need
- The level of Optimal Edge that will suit you best (psychometrics and debriefs or a combination of psychometrics, debrief, coaching, and training)
- How you want to move forward
30 - 60Â minutes
You may want a notepad to capture important points
We'll connect over either Zoom video call or WhatsApp voice call
Step 2: Assessment
I donât dive straight into solutions for one simple reason: insight comes first. To create real change, we need to understand where you are and what you need and that starts with psychometric assessments.
The first step on this journey is all about uncovering those essential insights that will guide everything we do together. Your business is busy, and your team is juggling a million priorities. Thatâs why Iâve made this process flexible and easy to fit into any schedule:
- First, Iâll send you links to create accounts with Mindflick, Openmind, and VIAâthe platforms we use for the assessments
- Assessments can be taken at your own pace, whenever and wherever it suits. Thereâs no rush, and no need to complete them all at once
- Finally, once the assessments are done, youâll get an email inviting you to book your debrief. Weâll sit down together, review the reports, and explore the insights they reveal about you and your team
This isnât about adding more to your plate, itâs about giving you the tools and clarity to make smarter decisions. Everything is tailored to fit seamlessly into your workflow, while delivering the powerful insights you need to move forward with confidence.
15 - 30 minutes per assessment
You will need a quiet, distraction-free space
Ideally completed on a desktop PC or laptop. Requires good internet connection
Step 3: Debrief
This is where things get exciting, where we reflect on the insights from your assessments and start turning them into opportunities for growth and development. In this step, weâll sit down and Iâll guide you through your assessment report.
I said âguideâ instead of the usual âcoachâ. Thatâs because this debrief isnât a standard coaching session. Despite using coaching principles, itâs more focused on explaining your results and helping you dig into what is important.
Hereâs how it works:
- Book Your Debrief: Log into your Big Life Solutions account (donât worry, Iâll send you the details in advance) and pick a time that works for you
- Bring an Open Mind: Come ready to discover new insights about yourself and your potential
- Engage Fully: This is your chance to explore what stands out to you in the report. Iâll explain the key elements and open up opportunities for you to dive deeper into the areas that resonate most
- Wrap Up with Action: By the end of the session, weâll create a focused list of goals and actions. Whether youâre continuing with coaching or working independently, this roadmap will be your springboard to real progress
This session is where insights transform into clarity, focus, and actionable steps. Itâs all about equipping you to move forward with confidence and purpose.
120 - 150 minutes per debrief
You will need your debrief workbook and a pen to record any notes you want to make
Requires Zoom and a device suitable for screensharing (e.g. laptop or desktop PC)
Step 4: Coaching
This is where we focus on turning your assessment insights into actionable steps that will allow you to live a big life. These sessions are all about youâyour goals, your challenges, and your growth.
Unlike the guided debrief, this is coaching in its purest form:
- You set the agenda: The focus is entirely on what matters most to you and your journey
- You drive the process: From goals to actions to accountability, youâre in the driverâs seat while I guide and support you
- You set the tone: Reflective or practical, itâs all about what works best for you to achieve your goals
How it works:
- Log into your Big Life Solutions account to book a session at a time that suits you
- Arrive with an open mind
- Spend a little time beforehand reflecting on what you want to bring to the session. Even if it evolves as we talk, it gives us a solid starting point
- Commit to taking action between sessionsâthis is where the real progress happens
60 minutes per session
You will need a private, quiet, and distraction-free space, and maybe a notebook to capture insights and actions
Requires access to Zoom and a good internet connection
Step 5: Team Days
Optimal Edge includes an option to run team days. These provide a fantastic opportunity for you to combine and embed the individual learning that each team member achieves across your whole organisation.
From team maps for Spotlight and VIA and insights into where unconscious bias exists within your team to practical, fun, and interactive team exercises, team days generate a level of understanding, collaboration, and cohesion across your team that elevates performance and effectiveness to whole new levels.
Ahead of time, we sit down together and review the team-wide information, using it to set an overall direction of travel and agenda to ensure that your team:
- Review the principles of each psychometric assessment tool and reveal team-wide mindset and behaviour preferences, character strengths, unconscious biases, and areas of cognitive dissonance.
- Learn how to use team preferences and character strengths to enhance collaboration and decision-making, increase motivation and commitment, and drive up performance across the whole business.
- Identify and address blindspots created by those biases and areas of cognitive dissonance, removing the blockages they create and opening up opportunities for growth.
Full or half-day sessions at a venue of your choosing
Audio-visual equipment, a physical space large enough to accommodate interactive activities, and flipcharts/whiteboards will be neededÂ
Team days are held as in-person events
Step 6: Implementation
The journey doesnât stop when the sessions end. Optimal Edge is designed to ensure you and your team continue to grow and thrive long after this programme ends.
Hereâs how weâll keep the momentum going:
- Lifetime access to resources: Tap into our ever-growing library of tools and materials covering wellbeing, resilience, mindset, and more
- Join the Optimal Edge Community: Connect with other alumni to share ideas, gain new insights, and grow together. Think of it as networking with purpose
- Direct access to me: Need clarity, advice, or extra support? Whether itâs via phone, WhatsApp, or email, Iâm here to help
The time commitment is dependant upon the goals and actions that come out of your debrief and/or coaching sessions
You will have access to a library of resources to help you implement your goals and actions
Equipment requirements will be dependant upon the goals and actions that come out of your debrief and/or coaching sessions
The Programme Breakdown
Optimal Edge is a coaching program that blends vital research and insights rooted in neuroscience and psychology with a human-centred exploration and reflection process designed to help your team adapt to change, thrive under pressure, and achieve sustained success. While the content is always tailored to you, we follow a tried and trusted process to deliver the results you want.
Step 1:
Introductory Call
I donât offer a "buy now" option for one simple reason: coaching is about connection. Itâs not just about what you want to change. Itâs about making sure weâre the right team to create that change together.
So, the first thing we need to do is establish (a) if I am right for you and your business as your coach, and (b) if Optimal Edge is actually what you need to achieve the outcomes that you want. So, it all begins with a call and a conversation to discover:
- If I am a good fit for you and your business (and vice-versa)
- What you are looking to achieve through coaching and/or training both personally and across your organisation
- Your timescales and delivery requirements
- Whether Optimal Edge will deliver what you are looking for and need
- The level of Optimal Edge that will suit you best (psychometrics and debriefs or a combination of psychometrics, debrief, coaching, and training)
- How you want to move forward
30 - 60Â minutes
You may want a notepad to capture important points
We'll connect over either Zoom video call or WhatsApp voice call
Step 2:
Assessment
I donât dive straight into solutions for one simple reason: insight comes first. To create real change, we need to understand where you are and what you need and that starts with psychometric assessments.
The first step on this journey is all about uncovering those essential insights that will guide everything we do together. Your business is busy, and your team is juggling a million priorities. Thatâs why Iâve made this process flexible and easy to fit into any schedule.
- First, Iâll send you links to create accounts with Mindflick, Openmind, and VIAâthe platforms we use for the assessments
- Assessments can be taken at your own pace, whenever and wherever it suits. Thereâs no rush, and no need to complete them all at once
- Finally, once the assessments are done, youâll get an email inviting you to book your debrief. Weâll sit down together, review the reports, and explore the insights they reveal about you and your team
This isnât about adding more to your plate, itâs about giving you the tools and clarity to make smarter decisions. Everything is tailored to fit seamlessly into your workflow, while delivering the powerful insights you need to move forward with confidence.
15 - 30 minutes per assessment
You will need a quiet, distraction-free space
Ideally completed on a desktop PC or laptop. Requires good internet connection
Step 3:
Debrief
This is where things get exciting, where we reflect on the insights from your assessments and start them into opportunities for growth and development. In this step, weâll sit down and Iâll guide you through your assessment report.
I said âguideâ instead of the usual âcoachâ. Thatâs because this debrief isnât a standard coaching session. Despite using coaching principles, itâs more focused on explaining your results and helping you dig into what is important.
Hereâs how it works:
- Book Your Debrief: Log into your Big Life Solutions account (donât worry, Iâll send you the details in advance) and pick a time that works for you
- Bring an Open Mind: Come ready to discover new insights about yourself and your potential
- Engage fully in the process to get the most out of it, capturing your insights and identifying aspects to work on.
- Engage Fully: This is your chance to explore what stands out to you in the report. Iâll explain the key elements and open up opportunities for you to dive deeper into the areas that resonate most
- Wrap Up with Action: By the end of the session, weâll create a focused list of goals and actions. Whether youâre continuing with coaching or working independently, this roadmap will be your springboard to real progress
This session is where insights transform into clarity, focus, and actionable steps. Itâs all about equipping you to move forward with confidence and purpose.
120 - 150 minutes per debrief
You will need your debrief workbook and a pen to record any notes you want to make
Requires Zoom and a device suitable for screensharing (e.g. laptop or desktop PC)
Step 4:
Coaching
This is where we focus on turning your assessment insights into actionable steps that will allow you to live a big life. These sessions are all about youâyour goals, your challenges, and your growth.
Unlike the guided debrief, this is coaching in its purest form:
- You set the agenda: The focus is entirely on what matters most to you and your journey
- You drive the process: From goals to actions to accountability, youâre in the driverâs seat while I guide and support you
- You set the tone: Reflective or practical, itâs all about what works best for you to achieve your goals
How it works:
- Log into your Big Life Solutions account to book a session at a time that suits you
- Spend a little time beforehand reflecting on what you want to bring to the session. Even if it evolves as we talk, it gives us a solid starting point
- Arrive with an open mind
- Commit to taking action between sessionsâthis is where the real progress happens
60 minutes per session
You will need a private, quiet, and distraction-free space, and maybe a notebook to capture insights and actions
Requires access to Zoom and a good internet connection
Step 5:
Team Days
Optimal Edge includes an option to run team days. These provide a fantastic opportunity for you to combine and embed the individual learning that each team member achieves across your whole organisation.
From team maps for Spotlight and VIA and insights into where unconscious bias exists within your team to practical, fun, and interactive team exercises, team days generate a level of understanding, collaboration, and cohesion across your team that elevates performance and effectiveness to whole new levels.
Ahead of time, we sit down together and review the team-wide information, using it to set an overall direction of travel and agenda to ensure that your team:
- Review the principles of each psychometric assessment tool and reveal team-wide mindset and behaviour preferences, character strengths, unconscious biases, and areas of cognitive dissonance.
- Learn how to use team preferences and character strengths to enhance collaboration and decision-making, increase motivation and commitment, and drive up performance across the whole business.
- Identify and address blindspots created by those biases and areas of cognitive dissonance, removing the blockages they create and opening up opportunities for growth.
Your time commitment is completely up to you, but 30-60 minutes per week is the recommended minimum to maximise benefits of engaging in the community
You will have access to community events and resources (e.g. tools library, meet-ups, webinars)
The community is online and hosted on Big Life Solutions, so you will need an internet connection and a suitable device
Step 6:
Implement
The journey doesnât stop when the sessions end. Optimal Edge is designed to ensure you and your team continue to grow and thrive long after this programme ends.
Hereâs how weâll keep the momentum going:
- Lifetime access to resources: Tap into our ever-growing library of tools and materials covering wellbeing, resilience, mindset, and more
- Join the Optimal Edge Community: Connect with other alumni to share ideas, gain new insights, and grow together. Think of it as networking with purpose
- Direct access to me: Need clarity, advice, or extra support? Whether itâs via phone, WhatsApp, or email, Iâm here to help
The time commitment is dependant upon the goals and actions that come out of your debrief and/or coaching sessions
You will have access to a library of resources to help you implement your goals and actions
Equipment requirements will be dependant upon the goals and actions that come out of your debrief and/or coaching sessions
Read the Brochure and Get the Full Picture...
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Click on the brochure to find out even more about what Optimal Edge can do for you, your team, and your business.
- Find out more about me, what sits behind Big Life Solutions, and why I do what I do
- Dig deeper into the principles of E3, and why they are so integral to the results Optimal Edge delivers
- Unpack the essential aspects of the Spotlight Personality Profile, VIA Character Inventory, and Openmind Personality Blueprint tools
- Examine each of the main outcomes you can expect to enjoy from your investment in Optimal Edge
- Dissect the Optimal Edge process in more detail, and explore the different options available to you
Don't Just Take My Word For It
There's no better advertisement for a programme than people who have been there and done it. Take a moment to see what some Optimal Edge alumni are saying.Â
Don't Just Take My Word For It
There's no better advertisement for a programme than people who have been there and done it. Take a moment to see what some Optimal Edge alumni are saying.Â
Joe Raby
(Assistant Director)
The insights were truly surprising, helping me focus on my development goals by understanding my strengths and areas for improvement. I recommend Optimal Edge to anyone who is keen to develop personally and professionally
Tom Stanhope
(Co-Founder & Director, Podforge Ltd)
The ability to identify my strengths and weaknesses in relation to both my business partners and my clients in such a clear way has been transformative. The combination of insightful analysis and personal coaching is a winning combination.
Victoria Pratt
(Principal Consultant, Leviathan Consulting Ltd)
The changes I have been able to make have improved my efficiency and reduced the effect of anxiety and doubt in situations where I would previously have felt uncomfortable.
Sarah Stephenson-Hunter
(Founder & Director, Simply Equality Ltd)
The sessions gave me deeper insight into the narrative I tell myself on how I interact with the people and world around me, and revealed areas where things may not be as clearcut as I tell myself.
Ready to Explore Your Options?
Providing your team with a chance to elevate their levels of self-awareness, adaptability, and wellbeing in general through a transformative coaching programme starts with a conversation.
Just use the WhatsApp chat option at the bottom of the page to drop me a message and I'll get right back to you.
Or, you can start the process by completing the online enquiry form, which helps me understand what you are looking for before we have a chat. To do that, just click the button and you'll be taken right to it.
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Ask your question
FAQs are great, but chances are you've got more questions than I've covered here, so feel free to use the form here to drop me a line and ask away.
FAQs
How do I book and access sessions?
Once you are enrolled you'll receive an account on the Big Life Solutions website, which is your private area for all of your Big Life programmes and resources.
Everything is run through your Big Life account - session bookings, sharing session notes and reflections, session resources, and so on. It's essentially your one-stop-shop for everything Big Life.
The only exception is the sessions themselves, which are all accessed through Zoom. So, if you don't already have one, you will need a free Zoom account.
Are the sessions online or offline?
To make it as easy as possible for you to find the time and energy to show up fully present and fully engaged at each of your sessions - whether that's a debrief, or coaching - all sessions are held online.
We do the session over Zoom, and not only is this easy and convenient, it has a number of extra advantages too.
For example, if you like to have a permanent record of your session to reflect on, you can have it recorded. If you are out of town, or experiencing device issues, you have multiple options to still make your session. And, if you need to shift things around and rearrange your session, the logistics of using Zoom rather than going in-person makes it super-easy to do.
How long are the coaching sessions?
OK, there are two parts to this answer.
Each of your coached debrief sessions are around two-hours long, give or take a few minutes either way. This allows us to go into detail, and gives you a chance to really explore the aspects of your assessment report that resonate as well as those that maybe have you scratching your head a little.
If you add coaching to your programme, those sessions last for an hour each. That said, I make myself available via WhatsApp if you need to check in for any reason between sessions.
What happens if I can't make a session?
Ideally, you need to be 100% committed to your coaching and attending your sessions needs to be your number one priority, if you are to get maximum value from them.
But, I totally understand that life can throw curveballs that derail even the best laid plans, and schedules have to change. So, if you can't make a session, rearranging it is fine.
However, there is a caveat to that: other than in exceptional circumstances, I need you to give me 24 hours notice that you want to reschedule. As long as you do that, you keep your session and can book it for another day.
If you simply don't show up to your session without letting me know you can't make it, however, that session will be classed as having been held and you will forfeit it. In other words, you miss out on that session.
What are the personality profiling tools you use?
I use two tools in this programme: Spotlight and OpenMind.
Spotlight deals with mindset and behaviour preferences and is focused on developing adaptability and resilience.
OpenMind looks at intrinsic (subconscious) and extrinsic (conscious) thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs. It highlights discrepancies and alignment between how you really feel and how you present yourself to the world. Understanding where there is discrepancy and where there is alignment helps you to develop strategies to live with authenticity, which is key to wellbeing and, in particular, effective leadership.
Both tools involve an online assessment which takes around 20 minutes at most, and both produce a detailed report based on your responses. It is those reports that form the basis of your coached debriefs and, generally, inform the direction you want your coaching to take.
There's more information in the programme brochure, which you can read online or download for later by clicking on it higher up this page.
Are there any resources with this programme?
Absolutely! There are a variety of resources available.
First, you get your Assessment Report for the assessments you took. And, for your debrief, you get a detailed workbook.
After your debrief, you get a recording of the session, detailed session notes, and a set of guides to help you understand more about each of the elements in the reports. You will also get any tools that we agree are relevant as we move through each debrief process.
If you have added coaching to your programme, you'll get tools that align with your coaching goals to help you gain and maintain momentum.Â
You will also have access to both the Big Life and MindMastery communities, hosted on biglifesolutions.com, where you can connect with other people taking coaching and training programmes, so that you can expand your network, your knowledge, and your horizons even further.
Ask your question
FAQ's are great, but chances are you've got more questions than I've covered here, so feel free to use the form here to drop me a line and ask away.
