The Growth Navigator Role
A Growth Navigator is a trusted thinking partner and coach, with an external vantage point and decades of experience in leadership roles. The work focuses on reducing decision-blind spots created by change, complexity, and competing demands.

With HerEDGE℠, leaders gain a clearer view of the decision landscape, pressure-test assumptions, sharpen judgment, and make tradeoffs explicit. The result is faster, higher-quality decisions, fewer reversals, wider acceptance, and stronger execution. The outcomes influence revenue and cost control, and assert organizational confidence.

Why This Matters Now
In highly complex, shifting environments, leaders operate under intense decision load and velocity. As complexity increases, organizations expect leaders to demonstrate decision efficacy and effectiveness to improve business performance. This is accomplished by an underlying decision-making discipline and framework, the foundations of HerEDGE℠.

Leaders who engage a HerEDGE℠ Growth Navigator gain:

• Faster, clearer decisions with fewer reversals
• Stronger judgment under pressure, even with incomplete information
• Cleaner tradeoffswhen everything feels important
• Decisions that hold across stakeholders and over time
• Momentumfrom clarity, not urgency
• How and when to use AI to augment and improve the decision process

How HerEDGE^SM Navigation Works
Building Decision Clarity and Discipline Under Pressure of Complexity
Through structured navigation sessions, leaders strengthen their decision discipline by surfacing and evaluating the forces that distort decision quality and judgment. Using decision filters and scenario maps, the HerEDGE℠ working framework clarifies priorities, signals assumptions, and aligns a roadmap for faster decisions and stronger execution.

The Navigation Framework

• Orientation – Separate signal from noise to understand the forces shaping decisions.
• Context Mapping – Reveal dynamics and hidden pressures that pull decisions off-course.
• Re-Alignment – Clarify priorities, test assumptions, and make effective tradeoffs.
• NorthStar Anchoring – Use your “North Star” to filter decisions, choices, and priorities.
• Decision Architecture – Design repeatable decision filters and scenario maps.
• Advantage – Establish navigation discipline, improve judgment and execution.

HerEDGE℠ PRIMARY PROGRAMS

HerEDGE℠ Decision Compass
A three-session engagement that examines conditions shaping decisions, surfaces assumptions that undermine clarity, and examines constraints and tradeoffs. The engagement establishes clear decision filters that also serve as the baseline for those who move on to the Navigation Journey.

HerEDGE℠ Navigation Journey
A six-session immersive engagement designed to expand decision filters and create scenario maps to pressure test assumptions and establish priorities. The program strengthens how leaders align and communicate their decisions, and accelerates and improves execution to improve outcomes. 

Why Leslie Laredo?
Leslie Laredo is an experienced, successful, multidisciplinary thinker who specializes in helping leaders navigate complexity and improve decision quality under pressure. With more than three decades of experience advising executives and training teams to adapt to disruption and transformation, Leslie brings a rare ability to synthesize competing signals, anticipate how complexity surfaces risks and tradeoffs, and impact how decisions are made. She created HerEDGE℠ to support leaders with substantial experience who need decision discipline to multiply their impact in high-visibility leadership roles.

Next Steps

Schedule a brief conversation to determine if HerEDGE℠ is the right fit for you or your company, and which program(s) would be most effective for you.

For Individuals, HerEDGE℠ strengthens your decision-making discipline and improves organizational and personal results.

For Organizations, HerEDGE℠ delivers distinct leadership benefits by reducing decision risk, improving employee retention, limiting costly delays and reversals, and improving execution amid complexity and pressure.