Launching The Edge: Leadership and Lifestyle Consulting for Executives. A new service that helps executives cope with competitive pressure and achieve balance.

PRESS RELEASE LONDON, England(PRWEB)--September 25 2003 Giving Busy Executives 'The Edge The Edge: Leadership and Lifestyle Consulting - A new service that helps executives cope with competitive pressure and achieve balance. Executives today face new pressures from every direction: · Lay-offs and pay cuts have reached into the highest echelons of many organizations. · Companies are demanding that leaders do more with less" to enhance shareholder value-forcing businessmen and women to work inhuman hours, travel extensively and relocate when necessary. · Rapidly advancing technologies-email, cell phones, pagers, instant messaging-have blurred the boundaries between work and home. · Cash-strapped firms are slashing executive-development budgets, leaving senior leaders to manage this core function themselves.

Executives today face new pressures from every direction:

·        Lay-offs and pay cuts have reached into the highest echelons of many organizations.

·        Companies are demanding that leaders do more with less" to enhance shareholder value-forcing businessmen and women to work inhuman hours, travel extensively and relocate when necessary.

·        Rapidly advancing technologies-email, cell phones, pagers, instant messaging-have blurred the boundaries between work and home.

·        Cash-strapped firms are slashing executive-development budgets, leaving senior leaders to manage this core function themselves.

Results? Unprecedented on-the-job stress. Deteriorating family and community relationships. Mounting physical and emotional illness. And declining productivity in the workplace. Some exhausted executives have even abandoned the business world entirely-seeking relief in long sabbaticals, low-pressure careers, or early retirement.

Theres no doubt about it: In todays world of work, mere competency on the job isnt enough. Executives must constantly hone their competitive edge if they hope to stay in the game while also maintaining their sanity.

The solution? A new and exclusive service for busy executives- The Edge: Leadership and Lifestyle Consulting. As founder Samantha Collins explains, The Edge provides executives with the support they need to cope with todays unique competitive pressures and achieve success in all areas of their lives."

Why The Edge?

Out of the sea of professional-development and support resources available today, why should executives turn to The Edge? Six potent reasons:

1.     Customized service: Collins custom-designs programs specifically to serve each clients unique needs-whether personal, professional, or spiritual, and whether clients are seeking to improve their existing work lives or take a break from the corporate scene. For example, with senior leaders eager to explore new opportunities outside their established career path, Collins actively designs relocation, sabbatical, world-travel, and entrepreneurship programs.    

2.     One-on-one attention: The Edge is available to up to just 10 clients at any one time, enabling one-on-one, on call and tailored service.

3.     Focus on results: Collins understands that leaders today yearn to be defined by more than just their work. Her laser-sharp focus on results enables her clients to achieve a quality of life that few imagine, much less attain.

4.     Accommodating schedule: Collins makes a personal commitment to each client-accommodating their schedules rather than imposing her own. Collins has met with clients in the back seats of airport-bound taxis, coached clients on airplanes between business meetings in New York and London, shadowed them through important meetings, accompanied clients on charity 10K races and to lunchtime yoga sessions in London, as well as conducting coaching sessions by telephone with clients from around the globe. Her message? She will do whatever it takes to enable her clients to achieve their leadership and lifestyle goals.

5.     Complete confidentiality: The Edge pledges complete confidentiality-safeguarding clients from the mixed agendas and negative judgments that often characterize development and coaching programs offered by employers.

6.     Access to vital networks: In career and lifestyle leadership, networking is essential. Collins provides ready access to the very people her clients need to broaden their support network-from financial gurus, fitness and nutrition experts, and plastic surgeons to real estate professionals and vacation planners. She connects clients with cutting-edge volunteer and conservation opportunities, books, and courses. And through her Masterminding sessions, she provides occasions for clients to mingle with like-minded individuals.

Meet Samantha Collins

Known internationally, as a leading personal and executive-development expert, Samantha Collins combines her global leadership-development and executive-coaching experience with years of commitment to personal development. She has worked with numerous corporate clients, including executives from JP Morgan Chase, Schroders, UBS, Accenture, PA Consulting, Ernst & Young and Conran Holdings. She has traveled extensively to work with clients in parts of the world including Europe, United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Australia.

Collins summarizes the advantages of The Edge in succinct terms: This is a service for those unique individuals who have experienced first-hand the consequences of long-term stress and lack of balance in their lives. They know that working harder is not the same thing as working smarter. Theyre seeking to balance the need for increased productivity in the office with quality of life on a personal and community level. And they know that theyll need the right kind of support to achieve this essential form of success."

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Press Contact:
Darshini Joshi    
UK: 44 (0) 207 556 1018
US: (001) 212 504 8255

Email darshini@aspirecompanies.com

NOTE TO EDITORS:

·         Samantha Collins is a qualified professional Executive Consultant and Coach. She has a BA in Business, a First-Class Masters in Training and Human Resource Development. She is currently completing a doctoral study with the London Guildhall University. The study is using leading edge methodologies to obtain expert opinion on future world work scenarios for executives.

·         Collins has trained with the best coaching instructors in the world at the San Francisco-based Coach Training Institute. The Institute is one of a select few coaching schools accredited by the International Coach Federation (the leading body that sets quality and ethical standards for the field and accredits coaches).

For information on The Edge: Leadership and Lifestyle Consulting and Aspire, please browse: www.SamanthaCollins.com and www.aspirecompanies.com