EdgeGov - Strategic Clarity for Strategic Clarity for Boards and Governing Bodies
Enhancing Governance & Risk Oversight through Advanced Decision Awareness
📍 The Reality of Boardroom Decision-Making
You already ask tough questions.
You review risks. You uphold governance standards.
And yet… you’ve likely seen this:
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Strategic plans that look solid but lose traction between approval and execution.
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Forecasts that miss the mark despite everyone’s best judgment.
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Decisions made under pressure — without full buy-in from those who must deliver them.
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Discussions that circle around opinions instead of uncovering assumptions.
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Tension between caution and boldness.
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Strategic plans that look solid — but break down between approval and execution
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Delays from over-analysis, unclear priorities, or unspoken fears
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Decisions that seem flawed only in hindsight, once outcomes unfold
This program s is designed for that exact reality.
💡 Governance Isn’t Just What You Decide, It’s How You Decide
At this level, better frameworks won’t move the needle — better thinking will.
EdgeGov helps your board see beyond reports and data into the mental filters, risk perceptions, and cognitive defaults that shape collective judgment.
You’ll move from reacting to complexity to architecting clarity, ensuring that every decision holds up not only in discussion, but also in execution and impact.
Because when the board governs with cognitive precision, the entire organization benefits.
Most governance programs teach frameworks. EdgeGov trains perception.
It’s the only governance development program that:
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Maps the subconscious patterns driving how your board interprets risk, ambiguity, and alignment.
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Equips you with decision frameworks that flex under pressure.
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Turns cognitive diversity into strategic advantage, so every voice sharpens oversight instead of slowing it down.
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Bridges the gap between logic and impact, from risk review to real-world execution.
👉 Ready to sharpen your board’s most critical asset — its thinking?
Let’s discuss more and see if EdgeAdvise is right for You
👉 You’ll uncover the subconscious filters that silently shape how risks are judged, priorities are framed and alignment is reached. Through this shift, you’ll transform how your board navigates complexity, challenges assumptions and delivers oversight that truly adds value. The result? Stronger strategic clarity, sharper risk governance, fewer blind spots and decisions that not only look good on paper — but hold up in execution and impact
Here is how:
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Understand your board’s internal decision dynamics
You’ll learn to spot the subconscious filters and thinking styles that shape how board members interpret risk, pressure, alignment, and ambiguity. When you address how people think — not just what they think — discussions go deeper and decisions land stronger.
2. Reframe risk perception in real time
You’ll gain tools to recognize when risk signals are being distorted — by framing, bias, or urgency — and how to recalibrate conversations to bring decisions back in line with the board’s true objectives and the organization’s risk appetite.
3. Reduce friction and cognitive dissonance
From overanalysis to sudden consensus, friction often stems from how problems are mentally framed. You’ll learn how to reframe complexity, uncertainty, and conflicting views to foster productive dialogue — not polarization.
4. Leveraging diversity
Boards include big-picture strategists, detail-driven challengers, cautious protectors and innovation seekers. You’ll learn how to shape conversations and framing so that every voice contributes with its unique strength.
5. Elevate your board’s role from reviewers to strategic decision architects
This program helps you go beyond reviewing reports by equipping you with models of questioning that enrich perspective.
With this training, your board evolves from a collection of individual experts to a cohesive, thinking system.
You’ll learn how to uncover what shapes decisions before they’re even made — and become a board that leads with clarity, confidence and depth.
🎯 When you master the hidden side of decision-making, you don’t just improve governance —
you protect strategy, reduce risk and make oversight future-fit.
👉 Ready to elevate the board’s most strategic asset — its thinking?
How this training helps you
👤 Who It’s For
Supervisory and executive board members, non-executive directors, and audit/risk committee members who want to:
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Make higher-quality decisions under pressure
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Reduce blind spots in governance and risk oversight
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Build alignment without groupthink
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Stay fit for purpose in a fast-changing risk landscape
This is what you will gain:
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✅ Tools to recognize how bias, stress and cognitive shortcuts shape board decisions
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✅ Better alignment in risk oversight and strategic direction
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✅ Clearer framing of decisions — especially under ambiguity
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✅ Reduced execution gaps between boardroom intent and real-world outcomes
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✅ A board culture where challenge becomes productive, not political
Let’s see if EdgeGov is right for You
📍 Program Format: Built for Real-World Mastery
📚 What’s Inside the Program
Four live online sessions (2.5h each) + one private follow-up session
Module 1: Governance in Action – The Hidden Levers of Board Effectiveness
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What high-performing boards do differently in uncertain times
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How invisible decision patterns affect decisions and alignment
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a Model for enriching perception, problem solving and surfacing hidden assumptions
Module 2: The Decision Conversation – Clarity Over Consensus
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How to ask better questions as a board
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Decision hygiene to avoid group think
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A simple protocol for framing decisions to avoid noise and blind spots
Module 3: Risk Isn’t Rational – How We (Mis)Read Signals
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Risk perception vs. actual risk: why even seasoned leaders misjudge
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Why some board members push for bold moves while others delay
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Explore dominant mental filters that shape risk aversion
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Managing framing effects, availability bias and loss aversion in board decisions
- Improve communication dynamics by decoding internal styles
Module 4: Decision making under uncertainty
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Learn to recognize how uncertainty distorts perception, amplifies bias and narrows the decision space.
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Explore a practical model to make timely decisions
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Understand what drives the internal response to uncertainty and create scope for conscious choise
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Master state and emotional control
Module 5: Reducing Execution Risk
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The gap between board-level intention and operational reality
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Awareness of mental filters that can lead to overoptimism or insufficient planning
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Decision briefings: how to communicate decisions so they are understood, supported, and executed
🛠 Format & Details
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📅 5 live weekly online sessions (2.5h each) or adapted for in-house delivery
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🎯 1 private 1:1 coaching call (90 mins) to tackle your personal beliefs and filters so that the transformation is complete and new skills turn into new behaviors
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🧩 Templates, cheat sheets & practical support materials included
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👥 Group size capped for interactive practice and real-time feedback
🗓️ Starts Feb-2025
👩🏫 Meet Your Trainer
I’m Raluca Filip — CFA Charterholder, former Portfolio Manager and Risk Officer and now a Decision-Making Coach specialized in financial judgment under pressure.
Throughout my 17-year career in finance, I prided myself on being fast, structured, and decisive. I managed €50M+ fixed income portfolios, oversaw group-level risk for over €1B in assets, and worked closely with investment committees and boards. I built my success on logic, performance and sound judgment.
For most of my career, I wore decisiveness like a badge of honor. I was proud of being the person who moved fast, made the call, and took ownership. I trusted my logic, my preparation, and my instinct. And from the outside, that looked like strength. It was strength — but it wasn’t the whole picture.
What I didn’t see for a long time was how that same decisiveness sometimes made me overlook something critical: how my decisions impacted others. I rarely slowed down to invite input from those who would carry out the plans I helped shape. I grew frustrated with people I labeled as “too slow” or “too emotional.” I found it hard to collaborate with those I saw as unrealistic or hesitant — when in truth, they were processing risk and uncertainty differently.
That shift came after a six-year journey of research and training in the psychology of decision-making — from behavioral finance and emotional intelligence to deep work in subconscious patterns and hypnosis.
The turning point came when I understood this wasn’t a competence issue — it was a perception issue.
We all operate with different mental filters. What seems “clear” or “urgent” to one person can feel risky or misaligned to another. Once I saw that, I started shifting — not just in how I made decisions, but in how I showed up in group dynamics. I trained myself to hold up the mirror, to catch my defaults, and to truly collaborate.
🔑 That’s the foundation of EdgeGov — a program designed to help boards surface what stays hidden, upgrade how they think together, and strengthen their role as strategic architects of organizational clarity and direction.
👉 If your board is ready to lead not just with expertise, but with cognitive precision — this is where it starts.
A risk-less Investment
💶 Investment: €1249 for a lifetime of mastery
👉 Early Bird (before end-2025): €999
💼 In-House & Custom Delivery Available. strengthen governance, or future-proof your board’s strategic thinking — this program is your edge 📞 Let’s elevate your board’s decision-making capacity contact me.
Not satisfied?
🛡 Get all your money back. Guaranteed.
If you join this training and you don’t feel like it truly helped you, I will give you the full sum of money back.
No questions asked.
You’re not taking any risks.
🔐 Aligned with ESMA Guidelines (MiFID II)
✅ Aligned with European Governance Standards
This training supports your board’s compliance with:
CRD V (Art. 91) – Board competence, independence, and oversight
EBA/GL/2021/06 – Effective governance, role clarity, and collective suitability
EBA/ESMA Guidelines – Risk perception, cognitive diversity, and fitness assessments
ECB Fit & Proper Guide – Independent judgment, challenge culture, and continued fitness
This isn’t just about regulatory alignment.
It’s about strategic governance that works in real life — under ambiguity, complexity, and pressure.
🎯 Ready to transform the way your board thinks and decides?
Enroll now to future-proof your governance — by mastering the psychology behind high-stakes decisions