About us.
We exist to help unleash potential and maximise performance. Our coaches bring real world experience which they apply to the exceptional challenge of leading and delivering in a world being disrupted by the age of AI.
Atholl is the leader of The Edge Coaching and Consultancy. He blends his wisdom of having “been there and done it” in a range of board roles with his experience from a decade of coaching CEOs, CFOs, and high potential leaders. He currently Chairs three boards – leadership development and technology business Black Isle Group, UK Coaching and Salmon Scotland, which represents a one-billion-pound sector of the UK economy. He is also a former interim Chair and non-executive director of the British Horseracing Authority – which runs the UK’s second largest spectator sport.
Atholl was a senior executive at the BBC for many years. He holds the Insead Coaching Certificate and studied leadership and strategy at Harvard and Cranfield. He also specialises in personal brand building, individual impact and presentation skills. He’s the author of “Leaders in Lockdown”.
Victoria brings her experience from a 30-year career spanning senior executive and Chief People Officer roles at The Very Group, Weir Group, SAB Miller and P&G. She works at the intersection of human capability, complex systems, and organisational performance. Her work with Professor Ruth Crick on applying learning power and human resilience research to AI-leadership is game changing in the world of AI transformation. She is a highly experienced coach working with individuals and teams to change the way they see the business world.
Sanjay worked for 37 years in global banking leadership—including eight years as MD & CEO across multiple international markets. In that time he saw that success is rarely limited by capability; it is often limited by clarity, confidence, or perspective. That insight led him to executive coaching & mentoring. He works with leaders navigating pivotal moments of transition in their careers and lives. Grounded in integrity, trust, curiosity, and resilience, his purpose is simple: to help people turn ambition into action and dreams into meaningful sustainable outcomes.
Paul is an executive coach, facilitator, leadership consultant and coach supervisor with more than a decade of high level coaching experience. He specialises in executive team coaching, individual exec leadership coaching, and developmental succession planning for C-Suite executives and aspiring CEOs with clients across the UK, Continental Europe, Singapore and the USA.
Over the course of his career Paul has worked in the C suite of many major financial services and blue-chip organisations, including NatWest’s Personal, Commercial, NatWest Markets Investment Banking, and Coutts Bank. He has broad multi sector experience with Home Retail Group (Argos/Homebase), Orange telecom, the NHS, BT, the AA, Norton Rose, Shell UK, Southern Electric and National Air Traffic Control.
His coaching practice is grounded in care, compassion, challenge, trust and deep embodied listening. Foundational principals that inform design of team interventions include Gestalt psychology, systemic team coaching, constellations and experiential learning. He is PCC accredited by International Coach Federation with additional training in systemic team coaching and accredited in a raft of psychometric tools including Hogan, Leadership Circle Profile 360, Korn Ferry Leadership Climate and Styles.
Taimi is an Edinburgh-based AI adoption consultant, working with SME owners and leaders to move from AI enthusiasm to everyday use. Her background is in operations and organisational change, including several years managing a legal firm’s operations, and she starts every engagement from how the business already runs, not from picking a tool. Taimi is designing and delivering an AI masterclass for The Edge, giving business leaders the skills and confidence to put AI to work in their operations.
