FOR LEADERS IN FOR-PURPOSE AND PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANISATIONS

Continue growing yourself and your team so you can meet the challenges of tomorrow 

Centre & Edge Grow equips public and for-purpose sector leaders with the developmental mindset and practical skills to move themselves and their teams from stagnation to continuous growth and sustainable high performance

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

Your team is capable. So why aren't they growing?

You've hired talented people. You care about their development.
But despite your best intentions, the team seems stuck — producing the same results, having the same problems, avoiding the same conversations.

Your one-on-ones feel like performance check-ins, not developmental conversations — and you're not sure how to change that
You find yourself solving problems for people rather than building their capacity to solve them independently
Feedback in your team either doesn't happen, or happens in a way that lands badly and creates defensiveness rather than growth
The team performs adequately under normal conditions, but under pressure or change, capability and confidence visibly drop
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The gap between a team that delivers and a team that grows isn't talent. It's the developmental skill of the leader — and it's completely learnable.

THE CENTRE & EDGE METHOD

The focus of Centre & Edge GROW is to help you transform everyday workplace situations into rich developmental opportunities, to coach your staff members with greater impact, and are equipped with a powerful feedback system that maximises growth and learning."

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Centre & Edge GROW is built on a three-step developmental process that  transforms how you develop yourself and the people around you.


Step 1: Lens
Learn to see every challenge, setback and difficult moment in the workplace as a rich developmental opportunity — for yourself and your team. This reframe alone changes everything about how you lead.


Step 2: Developmental Coaching

Master a powerful, practical coaching model that allows you to develop your team members in a way that builds their capacity, accountability and self-direction — rather than creating dependence on you.


Step 3: Growth-Oriented Feedback

Develop a feedback system for giving and receiving honest, safe, growth-oriented feedback that expands self-awareness and deepens learning — without the defensiveness and dysfunction that most feedback creates.


The Centre & Edge Grow 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 manage everyday challenges. 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
Thinks of leadership as just a set of skills you acquire 
Designed for a predictable, low-complexity world
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Centre & Edge Grow

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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
Develops coaching as a leadership practice, not just a skill to tick off
Focussed on leadership in an increasingly unpredictable and complex world

How it works

Centre & Edge Grow is a self-paced program with live support. It builds directly on the foundations established in Centre & Edge Ground — but can be taken as a standalone for leaders who already have strong self-awareness and regulation.

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Self-Paced Video Learning

n-depth video lessons covering the developmental lens, coaching methodology and feedback frameworks — directly applicable to your leadership context.

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 practice, feedback, and problem-solving around real development challenges you're facing with your team.

1-to-1 Coaching

Confidential, personalised coaching sessions to apply your learnings directly to the specific challenges and dynamics in your organisation.
Curious how centre & Edge GROW can help you and your organisation?

What changes for you — and your organisation

For individual leaders

  • A developmental lens that reframes challenges as growth opportunities

  • Skills, mindset and a practical model for coaching conversations that build capacity

  • A feedback system that maximises learning and expands self-awareness safely

  • The ability to identify and work with your own growth edge

  • Heightened capacity to support team members to work with theirs

For your organisation

  • Leaders who develop informal leaders and emerging talent within the organisation

  • Teams with growing capability, confidence and performance over time

  • A feedback culture that supports learning rather than avoiding it

  • Reduced reliance on external training as internal coaching capability grows

  • Leaders who develop their teams towards excellence, not just adequacy

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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.

The coaching and feedback frameworks in Centre & Edge Grow draw on my deep expertise in psychotherapy and the thousands of hours I have spent in coaching conversations with leaders across government, not-for-profit and social enterprise contexts.
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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 mid-to-senior leader wanting to develop the people around you more effectively


  • 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 lead in a for-purpose or public sector context where developing people matters as much as performance metrics


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

  • You want to move from managing performance to genuinely developing your team's capability


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 believe your team's underperformance is solely about their calibre, not your leadership practice

  • You're not yet in a role where you lead or develop other people

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

Frequently asked questions

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

Centre & Edge Grow is both a standalone course and Phase 2 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 Ground (Phase 1) and Amplify (Phase 3), your Centre & Edge Grow 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 Grow - participating in this course will transform you into a more relational, growth-driving and empowering leader for your team.

If you complete the Centre & Edge Grow 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 responsive and impactful as a leader, we'll work with you to make it right or refund your investment in full. 

Centre & Edge Grow is part of a bigger journey

Centre & Edge Grow is Phase 2 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 Grow

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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