FOR LEADERS IN FOR-PURPOSE AND PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANISATIONS

Be a calm, steady, responsive leader... even under pressure. 

Centre & Edge Ground is a transformational leadership program for public and for-purpose sector leaders who are ready to shift from reactivity and overwhelm to a calmer, responsive, self-aware way of leading 

Application required · Trusted by 500+ public and for-purpose leaders

You are in the grind, doing your best to lead your team through complexity... but you sense something is not working.

You became a leader because you care — about the mission, the people, the impact.
But somewhere along the way, the role started running you.

You find yourself reacting in meetings rather than responding with intention — and replaying those moments long after they're over
You manage your team competently, but there's a persistent gap between where you are and the leader you know you could be
You're the person everyone turns to, but you're running on empty and struggling to maintain any real boundaries
High pressure situations trigger old patterns you can't seem to break
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If you can relate to these symptoms the good news is that you don't have a competence problem.
What you're experiencing stems from a lack of embodied self-awareness — and most leadership development never comes close to addressing it.

THE CENTRE & EDGE METHOD

The focus of Centre & Edge Ground is to move you from a reactive mode of leadership to a responsive mode — helping you to increase your personal resilience and performance while managing your team with greater awareness and impact.

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Centre & Edge GROUND is built on a three-step developmental process that addresses the root cause of reactive leadership — not just its symptoms.


Step 1: Context
Understand the unique complexity of the environment you're leading in and what it actually takes to lead with impact inside it


Step 2: Self-Awareness

Identify your leadership patterns, habits, triggers and behaviours — the ones that serve you and the ones that hold you back — through a practical, applied framework


Step 3: Embodiment

Develop the emotional intelligence and nervous system regulation skills to manage your physiological state under pressure, reduce burnout, and lead from a calm, centred place, rather than from reactivity

The Centre & Edge Ground model

Not another leadership skills training

Most leadership programs focus on skills, behaviours and competencies. They help leaders sound more confident, run better meetings, and deliver harder feedback. None of that is wrong.

But it doesn't address the root cause — the deep operating mode that determines how a leader shows up in the pressure, uncertainty and complexity.
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Typical leadership trainings

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Focuses on skills and behavioural checklists
Designed for generic professional contexts
Passive content consumption with no live application
Fades within weeks of leaving the training room
Ignores the nervous system, identity and inner state
Designed for a predictable, low-complexity world
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Centre & Edge Ground

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Addresses root causes, not just surface behaviours
Built for the specifically for  public and for-purpose leaders
Active learning applied to your live leadership challenges
Creates lasting change in how you think, relate and respond
Integrates embodiment, self-regulation and emotional intelligence
Focussed on leadership in an increasingly unpredictable and complex world

How it works

Centre & Edge Ground is a self-paced program with live support built in.
Here's what you'll experience:

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Self-Paced Video Learning

Insightful, engaging video lessons you can watch and revisit at a time that suits your schedule. Each lesson is designed to shift how you think, not just what you know.

Digital Workbook and Resources

Comprehensive workbooks, cheatsheets and frameworks that translate every insight into concrete, actionable steps for your specific leadership context.

Assessments

Quizzes, assessments, assignments and stretch goals to integrate and embed learnings to your leadership context
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Peer Community Access

Connect with a community of like-minded public and for-purpose sector leaders for peer support, brainstorming and continued learning.

Monthly Group Sessions

Live ask-me-anything and group coaching sessions for collective wisdom, shared problem-solving, and direct application to real workplace challenges.

1-to-1 Coaching

Confidential, personalised coaching sessions to apply your learnings directly to the specific challenges and dynamics in your organisation.
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What changes for you — and your organisation

For individual leaders

  • Deeper self-awareness and the capacity to self-regulate under pressure

  • Heightened capacity to lead with impact in complex, uncertain times

  • Ability to balance competing commitments without burning out

  • A renewed and clarified sense of purpose and meaning in your role

  • Sustainable, grounded leadership with significantly less burnout

  • Practical tools to manage your nervous system in high-stakes situations

For your organisation

  • Leaders who navigate complex, adaptive challenges with confidence

  • Reduced burnout and increased resilience across the leadership team

  • Leaders who manage their teams with greater awareness and impact

  • A more responsive, less reactive leadership culture

  • Stronger team engagement driven by grounded, present leadership

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Designed specifically for leaders in for-purpose, government, not-for-profits, social enterprises, healthcare, and purpose-driven organisations.
Meet your instructor

Manav Satija

I spent my early career working as a human rights lawyer working in some of Australia's most complex and high-stakes environments.

What I kept seeing was that the single most determinative factor in whether those efforts created lasting change wasn't the policy or the strategy. It was the quality of the leadership around them.

That observation set me on a path I didn't expect. I left law and spent years studying psychotherapy, coaching, adult development and leadership — and began working directly with leaders in government, not-for-profit and social enterprise contexts.

Over the past decade I've trained 500+ for-purpose and public sector leaders, guided purpose-driven teams to greater safety, connection and impact, and provided 1:1 coaching to scores of leaders and senior leadership teams.

Centre & Edge Ground exists because I kept seeing the same thing... talented, committed, purpose-led leaders drowning under pressure and complexity.

This program is what I wish had existed for so many well-intentioned and overwhelmed leaders I have met across my career.
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Is this program right for you?

Who this is for — and who it's not for

Who this course is for
Who this course is NOT for

This is right for you if...

  • You're a new, intermediate or senior leader in government, not-for-profit, social enterprise, healthcare or a purpose-driven organisation

  • You're navigating high-complexity, high-stakes environments and need more than confidence tips


  • You're committed to doing reflective, applied, challenging developmental work


  • You recognise that your inner state affects how you lead — and you're ready to work with that


  • You're ready to invest in transformation, not just another quick and informational skills training

  • You recognise that if you are going to lead sustainably in the long term you can't wait for things to 'settle down' in your environment - you will need to change how you lead

This is probably not for you if...

  • You're looking for quick hit of motivation or high-level leadership tips but  the deeper work of leadership transformation 

  • You're unwilling to reflect on your own patterns and their impact on others

  • You want a large passive content library rather than an immersive, guided developmental experience

  • You're not willing to spend time engaging in self-study, experimentation, coaching and development

Frequently asked questions

Is Centre & Edge Ground a standalone program or do I need to complete the others first?

Centre & Edge Ground is both a standalone course and Phase 1 of the full Centre & Edge Leadership Program.

You can enrol in this course on its own and experience a significant and meaningful transformation. If you later decide to continue with Grow (Phase 2) and Amplify (Phase 3), your Centre & Edge Ground enrolment counts toward the full program.

What does the application process involve?

The application involves an assessment form and a short 30-minute meeting to ensure this program is a genuinely good fit for where you are and what you need.

We keep cohort sizes intentionally limited to protect the depth, quality and integrity of the experience. Not every application will be accepted, and that's by design.

How much time will this require each week?

You will need to allocate approximately 2 hours per week of time to watch videos, read the workbook and other digital resources, and engage in learning integration activities (such as journalling, designing small action-learning experiments to apply learnings in your leadership). 

In some weeks you may need to spend more time to attend group sessions, and 1-on-1 coaching sessions

Can my organisation fund my enrolment or purchase places for a team?

Yes. This program is regularly funded through professional development budgets, L&D allocations and government training programs.

If you'd like to explore an organisational enrolment for a cohort of 6–15 leaders from your organisation— with additional group coaching and in-person workshop options — start your application and indicate you're enquiring on behalf of an organisation

What if I miss a group session?

All group sessions will be recorded so you can catchup if you miss a session

What is your refund or satisfaction policy?

See the below section for information on the refund and guarantee policy

Our Commitment to You

We are confident in the transformative power of Centre & Edge Ground - participating in this course will transform you into a calmer, more responsive and more effective leader.

If you complete the Centre & Edge Ground course (ie. watching all the course videos, completing all the workbooks and extra materials, attending all of the group and 1-on-1 sessions) and you still do NOT feel the investment led to you becoming more self-aware, responsive and impactful as a leader, we'll work with you to make it right or refund your investment in full. 

Centre & Edge Ground is just the beginning

Centre & Edge Ground is Phase 1 of a complete three-phase leadership transformation journey.
Each phase builds on the last.
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Enrol in the full Centre & Edge Leadership Program  and receive additional program benefits including  access to annual in-person masterminds.

Apply for a place in Centre & Edge Ground

We keep cohort sizes intentionally small to protect the depth, quality and personalised support that makes this program work. If you're ready to take the first step — or you want to explore whether this is the right fit — apply now.

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