Developed for leaders who are ready to move beyond managing pressure - to sharpen their leadership edge, elevate their performance and THRIVE™ within complexity.
Join us in intentionally selected locations around the world that inspire deep reflection, meaningful connection and lasting transformation. Choose the city and dates that work for you, and immerse yourself in an intimate leadership experience with peers, guided by four internationally recognised faculty and a proven developmental methodology informed by decades of Harvard-based research, with practical application to your own leadership, organisation and context.
You are capable. You are committed. And right now, you are carrying more than any single leader should have to carry - decisions, teams, politics, boards, budgets, and a world that keeps changing faster than your plans can keep up with.
Most leadership development gives you more to carry. More frameworks. More models. More to implement on top of everything you are already managing.
Leadership Edge is different. Rather than adding more of the same, it develops the person behind every decision, every relationship and every choice you make. Not your strategy - YOU.
It expands your capacity to broaden your perspective, see more clearly, understand more deeply and respond more wisely to an increasingly complex and rapidly changing world. As your perspective evolves, so too does your ability to navigate uncertainty with greater confidence, unlock your own potential and the potential of others, and create meaningful, lasting impact in the people, organisations and systems you lead.
Decades of Harvard-based developmental research point to a simple but profound insight: when leaders grow, everything they influence has the potential to grow with them. The quality of their decisions. The strength of their relationships. The resilience of their organisations. The future of the cities they serve.
And it starts with three questions most leaders are rarely asked to explore.
Why do different leaders see different possibilities, challenges and opportunities in the same situation?
How does the way I make meaning shape the decisions I make, the relationships I build and the way I lead?
What becomes possible when I expand my perspective and grow into my next stage of leadership development?
The way you see the world is the product of your history, your experiences, your relationships, your biology, and the developmental stage you are currently living and leading from. Together, these shape the lens through which you make sense of the world, the choices you make, and the future you are able to imagine.
The most important thing is that this lens is not fixed. It didn't appear by accident. It has been shaped over lifetimes - and because it has been shaped, it can continue to evolve - if you attend to it with intention.
Leadership Edge is designed to support that evolution. Grounded in Dr Susanne Cook-Greuter's Leadership Maturity Framework, developed through decades of research at Harvard, and brought into the context of the real life demands of leaders through Dr Paddy Pampallis' Integral U© framework, the program helps leaders develop the expanding capacities needed to navigate complexity, engage diverse perspectives and lead with greater wisdom and impact.
This is the essence of vertical development: not simply learning new skills, but expanding the capacity from which those skills are used.
“What does the world look like from where I am standing -
and what becomes visible when I move?”
This question opens the Leadership Edge experience and returns at the close of each day, becoming the guiding thread that connects the entire two-day journey.
A carefully designed two-day developmental experience, with each day building naturally on the one before.
A Personal Lens That Makes the Experience Uniquely Yours.
The Maturity Profile is a personalised developmental assessment that provides a unique lens into your current centre of gravity - how you make meaning of the world, where you are most fluent, and where your next opportunities for growth are emerging. Conducted in English, it becomes an integral part of your Leadership Edge experience.
Completed before the program begins, your Maturity Profile becomes your personal compass throughout the two-day Leadership Edge journey. It helps you locate where you are within the developmental landscape, providing a clear point of orientation from which to explore every conversation, reflection and practice.
Rather than engaging with leadership as a collection of concepts, you'll continually return to your own profile to better understand how you make decisions, build relationships, respond to complexity and lead others. As your perspective expands, so too does your capacity to navigate yourself, your family, your organisation and the wider systems you've been entrusted to lead.
Throughout the experience, your profile serves as both a mirror and a map - helping you recognise where you are today, appreciate the strengths you've already developed, and identify the developmental pathways that can enable you to lead with greater wisdom, clarity and impact.
Your Maturity Profile forms the foundation of your Leadership Edge experience. For this reason, it is sent to you as soon as you register, allowing you time to complete it before arriving so that every conversation, reflection and learning experience is grounded in your own leadership journey.
For many participants, Leadership Edge marks the beginning of an ongoing developmental journey.
If, at the conclusion of the program, you'd like to explore your profile and leadership more deeply, you're warmly invited to book a one-to-one coaching session with one of our lead facilitators. Together, you'll build on the insights from your Maturity Profile and your experience during the program, translating them into meaningful actions and sustained growth within your own leadership context.
Your Maturity Profile is included in the £1499 program fee and a link to complete it will be sent to you as soon as you complete your registration and pay for the program.
“The city is not out there. The city is us.”
Dr Paddy Pampallis · Co-Founder, Global Mayors Academy
Alongside you: city leaders and leaders of change - participants from the Living Cities Earth community, which brings together more than 125 co-founders from 30 countries, many of them working at the same depth and scale of challenge.
Each facilitator brings a distinct and complementary depth. Their collaboration across the two days is itself a live demonstration of what mature, multi-perspectival leadership looks like in practice.
“How consciousness shapes the decisions that shape our cities.”
Paddy is a qualified psychologist and psychotherapist who also holds one of the world's first three doctorates in executive coaching and is the co-architect of the Global Mayors Academy's City Leaders Program. She has worked alongside Dr Susanne Cook-Greuter - Harvard-based pioneer of the Leadership Maturity Framework - for over two decades, bringing that depth into the city leadership context through her unique Integral U© approach. She serves as faculty at Meridian University, the University of Cape Town, and the Da Vinci Institute, and is co-founder of the Ubuntu Coaching Foundation. Her work rests on a conviction at the heart of GMA: that the quality of our cities emerges from the maturity of the consciousness shaping them.
“Cultivating the response-ability to lead in service of life.”
With 25 years of experience at the intersection of regenerative city transformation, leadership development, and whole-system change, Ferial co-architects the Global Mayors Academy's City Leaders Program alongside Dr Paddy Pampallis. A Harvard Business School alumna with a foundational background in architecture and design, her deep investment in her own personal development has woven these disciplines into a multidimensional intelligence that serves to cultivate the conditions in which individuals - and the cities they serve - can truly thrive. She co-founded Living Cities Earth as an action-research ecosystem, now convening 130+ co-founders across systems thinking, city building, policy, and transformational leadership.
“Inspiring leaders to co-create cities where life truly thrives.”
Lev brings over 30 years of global experience across more than 35 countries in business, leadership development, and city transformation. He holds an Executive MBA from Columbia Business School and has completed executive education at Harvard Business School and London Business School. After shaping multi-billion-dollar platforms at ING, he dedicated the last decade to supporting city leaders through executive coaching and integral development - bridging every developmental concept with the lived realities of urban complexity.
“The inner life of leaders shapes the outer reality of cities.”
Trained as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Robert brings decades of clinical and developmental experience to his work with city leaders. His practice explores how individuals relate to the fundamental dimensions of human existence - identity, meaning, love, responsibility, and mortality - and how these deeper layers shape the way people perceive, relate, and lead. He supports leaders to become more conscious of the emotional patterns and personal narratives that quietly drive their decisions, turning the friction of worldview encounters into developmental insight.
Inspired by the work of Dr Susanne Cook-Greuter, pioneer of Ego Development Theory and creator of the Leadership Maturity Framework at Harvard University; Integral Theory (Wilber); Existential Psychology; African and indigenous philosophy woven into Integral U© by Dr Paddy Pampallis; and Integral Cities by Dr Marilyn Hamilton.
People who are already doing significant work in the world - and who sense and want to activate a higher level of performance and impact in their person and work.
From the first Leadership Edge program in Lichtensteig, Switzerland, 11-12 July 2026, with participants from four continents and ten cities.
“I love my town and the people who call it home. As Mayor, my role is to create the conditions for their dreams and aspirations to flourish. I’m proud that our city is home to the Global Mayors Academy, because it strengthens my own capacity to serve our community and support others in creating a thriving future together.”
“I spent two days with the amazing Global Mayors Academy Team, immersed in the Integral U approach focussing on the leadership edge. The methodology shows how critical the humanness that you bring into your leadership, your organisation, your city catalyses real change to build this capacity one city at a time.”
“I had a truly wonderful experience working with the Global Mayors Academy team in Lichtensteig. What stood out most was the openness, generosity and depth of wisdom they shared throughout the experience. I left feeling inspired, enriched and excited to continue learning with and from this remarkable community.”
The Swiss Leadership Edge certificate is a document you can present to citizens, councils, and partners. It makes visible your commitment to cultivate your learning, capacity and capability to lead well in complexity.
Your investment for the complete two-day Leadership Edge program is £1499 per participant, regardless of which location you choose to attend around the world.
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Your Maturity Profile Assessment
Once your registration and payment have been confirmed, you will receive your personal Maturity Profile Assessment link by email. We encourage you to complete your assessment before arriving, as it forms an important part of your Leadership Edge experience and helps personalise your learning throughout the two-day program.
Registration & Payment
Registration takes just a few minutes. Payment is made securely through Stripe directly from the registration page.
If you are unable to make payment through Stripe because of restrictions in your country or region, please contact us. We will gladly arrange an alternative payment method wherever possible.
Languages
Leadership Edge is delivered primarily in English. Where there is sufficient demand from participants attending a particular program, we will arrange professional translation wherever possible. We currently have the capability to provide translation in Dutch, Afrikaans and Russian, with additional languages considered as demand grows.
Group Size
Each Leadership Edge cohort is intentionally kept small to create a high-quality learning experience. The opportunity to reflect deeply, build meaningful relationships and learn alongside fellow leaders is an essential part of the program.
The two-day Leadership Edge program runs identically in each location. Pick the city and dates that suit you - each location page carries its setting and atmosphere, its detailed schedule, and its optional experiences.
