MTP#30 -Edgework Consulting: Go Where We Want To Grow

This week’s chat will show us how to go where people want to grow, with boundary-pushing ideas, behaviors, strategies, and programs. My guest will be Lou Bergholz, Founder of Edgework Consulting, who also co-authored the book “Re-Designing Youth Sport – Change The Game” (featured in Episode 14).Edgework specializes in helping individuals, teams and organizations to achieve next-level performance and impact. They do this through research, training, facilitation and coaching. They listen first to understand their clients’ context and desired outcomes, to learn about how things work "inside" each organization. They then leverage their "outside" expertise, to create solutions based on each client’s unique reality.Edgework works with a wide range of organizations, from corporte to non-profit. Edgework’s clients include: MIT Sloan, Tuck School of Business, Cornerstone Research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Acadian Asset Management, Indigo AG, Good Sports, the International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps, Grassroot Soccer, Play Rugby USA, Up2Us Sports and the Serioius Fun Network. As part of Lou’s responsiblities for Edgework, he is in charge of its “Knowledge Lab,” which is dedicated to aggregating the most cutting edge research across a wide range of topics related to human development and performance. Lou’s areas of interest include: resilience, trauma-informed practices, and high performing teams. In this episode, you’ll hear…•How to find that line between learning and panic, and move past the doubt•The importance of high-impact shifts to mindset, knowledge, skills, and organizational structure and what the research says about how significant behaviour change happens•The importance of strong relationships to transform organizations and communities