01 / PERSPECTIVE
Think with experienced peers.
Hear different viewpoints, challenge your assumptions, and learn from leaders across noncompeting businesses.
Executive Edge 2027
Sharpening Leaders.
Advancing Organizations.
A confidential, year-long leadership experience where business owners and organizational leaders sharpen their thinking, grow alongside peers, and turn insight into action.
A small cohort · One leader per business classification · Guided by Don Keller and Tom Martin
The challenge
When leaders stop sharpening, organizations feel it.
Important decisions do not wait for a clear calendar. Without time to step back, test ideas with trusted peers, and examine how you lead, it is easy to keep responding to what is urgent while larger opportunities go unexplored. Your next strategic move, a stronger team, or a more confident way of leading may require a perspective you cannot develop alone.
“What opportunities remain unexplored when leaders have no place to test ideas and sharpen their thinking?”
The Executive Edge advantage
Growth that reaches beyond the leader.
Executive Edge combines three forms of support so stronger thinking can become stronger leadership inside your organization.
02 / COACHING
Work through what’s yours to lead.
Individual executive coaching creates room to examine decisions, goals, and the pressures of your role.
03 / APPLICATION
Carry insight into action.
Use what you learn to shape strategy, strengthen teams, and address real challenges in your organization.
The experience
A place to step back—and move forward with purpose.
The 12-month program brings a consistent, intentionally small group together for facilitated leadership conversations, individual coaching, and practical workplace application.
See if it’s a fit01
Facilitated monthly sessions
Make space for meaningful discussion and diverse leadership perspectives.
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Individual executive coaching
Work through your own decisions and development with Don or Tom.
03
Real-world application
Translate new insight into how you lead people and organizations.
In their words · 2026 cohort
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The peer discussions and one-to-one coaching have been the most valuable parts of Executive Edge for me. It’s easier to learn when you can sit with other leaders, talk through ideas, and have a coach to help you think things through.Chief operating officer · 2026 participant
“One of the most meaningful things I’ve gained from Executive Edge is greater confidence in myself as a leader.”Managing partner and business owner · 2026 participant
“Every session challenges me to think differently and leaves me with practical ideas I can apply in both my work and personal growth.”Architect and business owner · 2026 participant
Your guides
Led by people who know the weight of leadership.
Don and Tom bring decades of business leadership and professional coaching experience to the conversations that make Executive Edge work.
Don Keller
Co-founder · Executive coach
A company founder and former owner with more than 35 years in the trade show industry, Don is an ICF-credentialed coach who works with executives and business leaders.