Leadership Circles
What Is a Leadership Circle?
A Leadership Circle is a confidential, facilitated, virtual community that integrates group coaching, leadership development, and peer learning to support academic leaders navigating current and ongoing challenges.
Circles are solution-oriented, address real situations, and recognize the challenges facing leaders and teams in a fast-moving, tech-saturated environment where demands rarely slow down.
Leadership Circles sit within The ServantEDGE’s broader leadership development work, complementing coaching, immersive experiences, and organizational engagements.
What Makes a ServantEDGE Leadership Circle Different?
- Facilitated, not taught. Guided by experienced facilitators who structure meaningful dialogue and keep the work grounded in participants’ real leadership contexts.
- Leadership development as practice. Leadership Circles support leadership as an ongoing practice, embedded in lived experience, peer reflection, and real decision-making.
- Peer wisdom and shared inquiry. Learning emerges through collective sense-making, inquiry, and reflection, drawing on the diverse experiences of the participants.
Results You Can Expect
While each Leadership Circle is shaped by the people who gather, participants can expect:
- Greater clarity and confidence in navigating immediate challenges
- Leadership and management skills that can be applied immediately
- Practical insight grounded in real solutions, not abstractions
- A trusted peer network with continued connection beyond the Circle
- Expanded marketing opportunities, tangible resources, and assessments
“This time is when my most significant leadership breakthroughs show up – having others to bounce ideas, think through challenges, and frankly connect outside of my office has been invaluable.”
Academic Leadership Circle
Leading in academia means navigating layers of complexity that few outside the institution fully understand: shifting priorities, limited resources, competing stakeholders, and the pressure to do more with less. Whether you’re a department chair, dean, program director, or staff leader, the demands on your leadership rarely slow down long enough for you to think clearly about them.
The Academic Leadership Circle is a confidential, facilitated space where leaders in education come together biweekly to work through real challenges, strengthen their leadership practice, and learn alongside peers who understand the landscape. Walk away with greater clarity, practical skills you can apply immediately, and a trusted peer network grounded in shared experience.
Academic Leadership Circle
Next cohort starts: April 20
Schedule: Biweekly on Mondays at 12:00 Noon PST
Duration: Four-month cohort
Designed for: Educators and academic professionals
Pricing: First session $17 (no obligation) | Full cohort: $876 ($219/month)
Women’s Leadership Circle
Whether you’re leading a team, running a department, or building something of your own, the weight of leadership lands differently for women. You navigate expectations, visibility, and decisions that shape others’ lives, often without a space that’s truly yours to think out loud.
The Women’s Leadership Circle is a confidential, facilitated community where women leaders come together biweekly to work through real challenges, sharpen their leadership, and find clarity alongside peers who get it. Walk away with stronger presence, sharper instincts, and a trusted network of women who have your back.
Women’s Leadership Circle
Next cohort starts: April 10
Schedule: Biweekly on Fridays at 12:00 Noon PST
Duration: Four-month cohort
Pricing: First session $17 (no obligation) | Full cohort: $1,436 ($359/month)
Leaders Circle
You’re in your leadership journey, and everything feels like it matters – and it does. Whether you’re a new, middle, or seasoned leader, the practice of leadership is ongoing. Challenges that arise may be managing up, speaking with authority, navigating office dynamics, grappling with building human capacity in the midst of AI, dealing with multiple generations, and figuring out the kind of leader you want to be.
The Leaders Circle is a confidential, facilitated space where leaders come together biweekly to build real skills, work through the challenges no one warned you about, and expand your confidence to lead with intention. Walk away with practical tools, a clearer sense of your leadership identity, and a peer community invested in your growth.
Leaders Circle
Next cohort starts: May 1
Schedule: Biweekly on Fridays at 12:00 Noon PST
Duration: Four-month cohort
Pricing: First session $17 (no obligation) | Full cohort: $1,436 ($359/month)
CEO Leadership Circle
Leading a company means holding all of it – the vision, the risk, the sleepless nights, and the decision-making that never stops. Whether you’re a solopreneur or running a multi-million-dollar business, the weight of the CEO role is uniquely yours.
The CEO Leadership Circle is a confidential, facilitated space where company leaders come together biweekly to work through real challenges, sharpen their strategy, and find solutions alongside peers who understand what it means to build something from nothing. Walk away with greater clarity, practical tools you can apply immediately, and a trusted CEO network – including real marketing connections and referral opportunities.
CEO Leadership Circle
Next cohort starts: April 15
Schedule: Biweekly on Wednesdays at 12:00 Noon PST
Duration: Four-month cohort
Pricing: First session $17 (no obligation) | Full cohort: $1,996 ($499/month)