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Technology changes fast. People change differently.
AI is optimising processes, accelerating analysis, and reshaping industries.
But when the pace of change rises, human systems (our nervous systems) rely on old programming.
Under pressure, team members fall back into familiar emotional patterns like defensiveness, avoidance, control, and silence. These are the elephants in the room, the unseen dynamics that shape performance more than any strategy.
Until leaders can recognise and work with them, real transformation stays out of reach.
Emotional intelligence as a leadership technology.
EdgeEQ’s Elephant in the Room is a six-hour, virtually delivered experience that develops the inner architecture of high performance.
It begins with the individual; building self-awareness and self-understanding, which then extends to the team as a living system.
When each leader shifts, even slightly, the collective moves significantly.
This is not a workshop. It’s a guided exploration into how leaders think, feel, and influence; designed to create measurable shifts in how teams function and perform.
A six-hour experience that rewires how leaders perform together.
Details:
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Format: Virtual, interactive, insight-driven
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Ideal group size: Up to 10 participants
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Investment: £5,000 per team (up to 10 people) or £500 per participant beyond that
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Facilitator: James Rees, Founder of EdgeEQ, Executive Coach & Faculty at London Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business
Outcomes:
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Recognise the emotional 'programming' that drives behaviour
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Build awareness, empathy, and self-regulation
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Strengthen trust and dialogue across the team
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Create alignment that endures beyond the session
AI transforms systems. Emotional intelligence transforms people.
The future of leadership belongs to those who can do both.
Technology can manage the data. Leaders need to manage emotion because it is the unpredictable and relational energy behind every decision and culture.
Elephant in the Room equips leaders to integrate the two by bringing clarity, composure, and consciousness to the complex systems they lead.
Trusted by leaders in global organisations.
Delivered to senior teams across sectors from pharmaceuticals and finance to energy and technology; this work consistently creates lasting shifts in how people think, relate, and perform.
We had the conversation we’d been avoiding for years, and it changed everything.
— Senior Leader, Global Energy Company
The quality of dialogue in our leadership meetings transformed overnight.
— VP, Technology Firm
Created and facilitated by James Rees.
For more than two decades, James Rees has worked with senior leaders through London Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and many of the world’s leading organisations.
He developed Elephant in the Room after observing a consistent truth:
Performance problems are rarely strategic - they’re emotional.
James blends academic rigour with deep practical experience, creating spaces where leaders can see themselves and each other more clearly and perform more consciously.
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Bring the conversation that technology can’t.
If your leadership team is ready to bring the unspoken to the surface and strengthen how it performs, both internally and in a changing world, EdgeEQ can help.
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