John Berkley

President

John has been sharpening people’s Competitive Edge in the business field as a consultant, facilitator, and coach since 1984. He is dedicated to coaching individuals, teams, and organizations to set and achieve their highest goals. Through his work with over 100 groups each year, John has collected and developed hundreds of simple, effective, and easy to use tools and models to help people with leadership, communication, decision making, problem solving, team dynamics, and personal development.

John’s style is dynamic and engaging, focused mainly on teaching through his own blend of experiential activities and lecture. Clients comment on John’s knowledge and passion for his work.  He truly loves what he does and cares for the people he works with.  The special part of working with John is in the way he empowers people with his simple yet powerful tools which clients can begin applying to see results right away.

John has planned and facilitated customized trainings with organizations including: Bank of America, Wachovia, BB&T, Bell South, AT&T, Sara Lee, GMAC, Ingersoll-Rand, and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. John is a graduate of Rice University, with a BS in mechanical engineering and has recently completed a coaching certificate program through Duke University. 

Charles Page

Partner

A dynamic facilitator and trainer, Charles has committed himself to inspiring the highest personal achievement in those he teaches. His extensive coaching assignments with corporate leaders, volunteers, boards of directors, and community organizations give him a broad spectrum of people skills. Charles has provided strategic planning facilitation for many businesses and organizations, and serves on a variety of regional boards and committees.

Kelly MagLaughlin

Partner - Atlanta

While completing her PhD in Information Science at UNC, Kelly discovered the power of experiential education to support effective communication and collaboration. She immediately started using what she was learning as a challenge course facilitator in the classes she was teaching at UNC and was amazed at how much more engaged her students were. Hooked on experiential education and wanting to push her own limits, she spent the next 5 years at North Carolina Outward Bound School as an instructor of teens and business teams (including: Cox Enterprises, Charlotte Pipe, Leadership Asheville and Atlanta). At Outward Bound, she also helped to create and managed the Educator Initiative, which was designed to support teachers in bringing more experiential education into their classrooms. Since July 2008, Kelly has continued waving the experiential flag in new ways. She now spends the school year as a teacher and the Assistant Principal of Middle Learning at The Galloway School and her holidays volunteering by teaching teachers at schools in Haiti.

Ron Price

Partner

Ron has over 20 years of experience in experiential education, consulting, corporate training and development, coaching and relational ministry. During this time he has noticed a common thread running through all the organizations that he has worked with - the importance of authentic relationships. Regardless of the organization, the quality of the individual relationships are key to its success. Ron's passion is in helping individuals and teams develop relationships that serve them.

Collaborative Partnerships:                back to the top

Connection is tremendously valuable to our work.  The network of professionals with which we have the privilege to partner are some of the best in the field. When you contract with Competitive Edge to support your organization, you are connecting to a wide and deep pool of resources that will better serve you and guarantee the best possible outcomes for you and your organization.

Atlanta Competitive Edge! We are expanding in the Southeast and are excited about or Atlanta branch. Check out their website at www.atlantacedge.com.

Cool Spring Center is located outside of Statesville, NC. Owned and operated by Charles Page and Kristie Darling, Cool Spring works with companies and organizations that want to develop and implement sustained improvement in the workplace. Cool Spring offers a beautiful meeting facility and a one-of-kind "High Ops Challenge Course"  

We are excited to partner with IAM Learning Community's Karen Tax (KT&A) and

Diane Craver (Spring Forward Group), career coaches who offer online learning that can be used along with our in-person experiential activities to easily and affordably continue the learning process, long after a training event is complete. The IAM Learning Community provides resources that shift your workforce from obedient, literal, TGIF laborers to sustainably engaged, entrepreneurial, and strategic super stars! John has been personally working with the IAM concepts for several years now. Check IAM out!

Leadership Launching Pad, a UNCG student led leadership blog, is a great resource for sharp thinking needed for today's leadership opportunities and challenges.

Chidsey Center for Leadership Development is Davidson College's clearinghouse for leadership resources and activities. Leadership can be a vague concept, one fraught with many interpretations. Founded on the relational model of leadership, they define leadership as the ability to empower and inspire others to work together for the common good. The capacity to lead in this way is not simply inborn, but rather, can be learned by combining an understanding of leadership theory with real-life experience.