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Our Services
Coaching & Mentoring
The foundation of all our services is providing the specific support you need to lead confidently and successfully in technical environments. Whether you require coaching, mentoring, education about a specific leadership skill, or some combination of these, you may count on us to support you with practical solutions to your leadership challenges.
All leaders periodically run into problems they’ve never encountered, or find they need to develop a skill to enhance their effectiveness. We provide a variety of educational and enrichment opportunities delivered via live seminars, online webinars, self-paced tutorials, Yvonne’s blog, and downloadable materials about topics of interest to technical leaders.
Facilitation & Mediation
Issues sometimes arise at a team, group, department, or company level. When objectivity is essential (e.g., for conflict mediation, team building, or moderating a meeting), Leader’s Edge CA can provide an experienced facilitator or mediator as needed.
Speakers
Leader’s Edge CA offers a variety of thought-provoking and intriguing topics suitable for keynote, meal-time, and meeting presentations. If you’re looking for a dynamic speaker, a little humor and fun, and a lot of insight for your next event, we can accommodate you.
What People Are Saying
Yvonne is articulate, professional, and experienced. She has vast experience and has “traveled the path” [of technical leadership] many times. Yvonne engenders trust and is very approachable. Her objectivity helped me identify specific things I could do to address some of the challenges I was facing – to stay the course and be open to results. She can identify the skills required by an engineer to become a good and successful manager. I recommend Yvonne to people like me, who are transitioning from a technical role to a managerial role.
Sarveta Jadhav, Software Manager
Yvonne has helped me more than any other resource I have utilized in the past, including career counselors and career coaches, to get a job, to get back into the main stream, and to get me thinking about my long-term career goals.
Gabriele Yockver, Biotech Business Analyst
Who We Are
Our Vision
Elite quality leadership in technical organizations at all levels.
Our Mission
Our Solution
Leader's Edge CA (California) is a consortium of experienced coaches/mentors led by our founder Yvonne T. Ryan. We collectively provide leadership and career coaching/mentoring, as well as education to both new and experienced executives and middle managers who want to evolve their careers to the next level. Our primary goal is to aid leaders of technical professionals and their organizations to increase job satisfaction and probability of success in this fast-paced, ever-changing world.
We promote practical approaches for resolving high-tech challenges from technical, organizational, and human perspectives. Through integrated coaching, mentoring, and education, we help you clarify the kind of assistance you require, devise a plan for on-the-job development and application, and provide support to ensure your success along the way as you move forward on the path to leadership mastery.