Empowering
Impactful
Empathic
Neil Francis founder, and the Managing Partner, at The Leadership Edge Partnership, empower leaders across Enterprises, SME’s and Third Sector sectors to unlock their potential and accelerate impact through expert coaching and consultancy grounded in decades of leadership experience
The Leadership Edge Partnership blends unique leadership advisor and coaching skills to help and leaders thrive. We combine extensive leadership knowledge with a passion for developing leaders at all levels
We base all our work around Positive Psychology which empowers leaders to cultivate workplaces where people truly flourish. Leveraging strengths, fostering positive emotions, and encouraging meaningful engagement, leaders help create vibrant environments that enhance well-being and elevate organisational performance.
Supporting all of this is underpinned by the 5 books Neil has written and shapes the work which The Leadership Edge Partnership offer.
‘The world is starving for new ideas and great leaders who will champion those ideas."
Lisa Su
‘‘I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Maya Angelou‘
The Why - Problems and Challenges we Solve
Coaching, supporting and advising leaders to
Achieve an Empathetic Edge where qualities like individuality, openness, self-awareness, authenticity and trustworthiness take centre stage, leading to significant positive outcomes.
Ignite and Boost Creativity by identifying and removing barriers such as rigid routines or outdated habits and promoting smart risk taking.
Create an Environment Full of Possibilities using a new mindset to explore which possibilities could open up new opportunities providing powerful impact.
Install Entrepreneurial Values through identifying and answering the crucial ‘why’ questions that provides belief and purpose.
Change Course where current practices are no longer providing tangible results leading to a new direction and pathway to success.
Embrace Setbacks and Failure to celebrate failure as an essential component of success, resilience, growth and innovation by encouraging honest reflection to go forward confidently.

The How - Delivering Results For Maximum Impact
Utilising deep sector knowledge combined with hands-on unique leadership experience.
Using established and international recognised evidence-based postive psychology approaches.
Working in a true partnership with leaders based on openness, trust, value and empathy.
Creating an environment where there is no wrong answers, just helping to break free from assumptions and pushing past invisible barriers
‘‘Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing."
Tom Peters
Discover how The Leadership Edge Partnership can support your leadership growth, team development, and organisational success through bespoke coaching and consultancy, designed to meet your unique challenges. To find out more either call or e-mail Neil on
Latest from The Leadership Edge blog
Neil Francis, Managing Partner of The Leadership Edge Partnership book, ‘The Entrepreneur’s Book’ is now in Paperback!
The critical ‘why’ questions for success’
It is a given that if you want success as an entrepreneur you need passion, creativity, spontaneity and bags of energy. Sure, you need to know how to run a business, but it is identifying and answering for yourself the crucial why questions that will lead to successful entrepreneurship. The Entrepreneur’s Book explains what these ‘why’ questions are and why they are so important? i
“The Entrepreneur’s Book is refreshing, stimulating, thought-provoking and enjoyable guide to the changing face of entrepreneurship in the 21st century.”
Professor Richard T Harrison
Chair of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Director of the Compassionate Leadership Initiative, University of Edinburgh Business School.
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