MANAGER EDGE
You were great at the job. But now the job has changed...
Give your managers the edge to lead with clarity, confidence, and consistency.
ManagerEDGE is Saber’s manager-level coaching offering. It helps new, emerging, and mid-level managers build the practical skills, mindset, and confidence to lead themselves, the work, the people, and the organization more effectively.
Success at one level does not automatically prepare people for the next.
Why ManagerEDGE?
Success at one level does not automatically prepare people for the next. High-performing individual contributors may be promoted before they’ve learned how to lead through others. Mid-level managers can become squeezed between senior leadership and the people they lead. And organizations may discover that their future leaders aren’t ready when the next opportunity arrives.
Strong Doers → New Managers. The habits that made someone successful as an individual contributor do not automatically translate into leading others.
The Squeezed Middle. Managers are often caught between senior strategy and day-to-day team reality.
The Leadership Bench. Organizations need promising managers ready for greater responsibility before succession becomes a crisis.
ManagerEDGE helps organizations strengthen the manager layer before development gaps become performance problems through structured 1:1 coaching, practical tools, and real-world application.
Applied Coaching for Managers
ManagerEDGE combines structured 1:1 coaching, practical tools, and real-world application. Managers bring the conversations, decisions, projects, people challenges, and moments of pressure they are facing now, and use coaching to think differently, practice new approaches, take action, and learn from what happens.
What We Work On
Each engagement is tailored to the manager’s role, goals, strengths, and organizational context.
Managing Self
Leadership Identity • Confidence • Self-Awareness • Organization • Steadiness • Mindset • Strengths
Managing Work
Prioritization • Delegation • Ownership • Decision-Making • Execution • Projects
Leading People
Feedback • Coaching • Accountability • Difficult Conversations • Developing Others
Leading Within the Organization
Team Effectiveness • Managing Up and Across • Stakeholder Influence • Cross-Functional Collaboration • Leading Change
These are just some possibilities. ManagerEDGE is tailored to the most pressing skills YOU want to hone.
Each engagement is tailored to the manager’s role, goals, strengths, and organizational context.
These are just some possibilities. ManagerEDGE is tailored to the most pressing skills YOU want to hone.
Who ManagerEDGE Is For
First-time managers and new people leaders
Mid-level managers and team leads
High-potential individual contributors stepping into leadership
Managers navigating expanded scope, pressure, ambiguity, or change
Managers strengthening delegation, accountability, feedback, coaching, prioritization, or team effectiveness
Leaders preparing for greater responsibility or advancement
Good Fit: Managers who are motivated to grow, open to candid feedback, and willing to practice new approaches at work.
Not a Fit: Punitive or remedial coaching, passive content, one-time inspiration, or people unwilling to reflect, practice, and experiment.
Bring the Real Work
Bring the conversation, decision, team dynamic, or leadership challenge you’re facing now. Use coaching to explore it, practice a new approach, make a plan, apply it at work, and learn from what happens
Fit. Explore the manager’s role, pressures, goals, and development needs to confirm coaching is the right fit.
Align. At the 90-minute kickoff, clarify goals, success measures, confidentiality, and how coach, manager, and sponsor will work together.
Coach. Meet biweekly to explore real challenges, build insight, strengthen judgment, and practice new skills.
Apply. Use new approaches in real conversations, decisions, relationships, and projects, with support between sessions.
Review. Assess progress, learn from practice, and adjust priorities at midpoint and other key moments.
Celebrate. Recognize growth, reinforce effective habits, and plan how progress will continue after coaching.
Included: 90-minute kickoff • Biweekly 55-minute coaching • Relevant tools and practice • Between-session support • Action planning and accountability • Midpoint review • Closing reflection and next steps
Optional AccountabilityEDGE support helps managers turn insight into action through clear goals, check-ins, reflection, progress tracking, and coach support between sessions.
How Engagements Work
ManagerEDGE typically runs for six months, with shorter and extended options available.
ManagerEDGE typically runs for six months, with shorter and extended options available.
Your Coaches
ManagerEDGE engagements are led by Saber associate coaches Patrick J. Healy and Sydney Cannon.
Patrick J. Healy, ICF ACC, CPTD
Pat coaches current and aspiring managers on the habits, skills, and mindsets it takes to lead well. His approach draws on learning science, behavior change, cognitive behavioral coaching, and applied practice.
Sydney Cannon, CAP
Sydney helps leaders navigate complexity and change with greater self-awareness, clarity, and adaptability. Her approach draws on whole-person coaching, change management, leadership, and teaming.
Every ManagerEDGE engagement runs on the Saber coaching model and accountability structure.
What Clients Say
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Since starting with coach Pat, I have successfully secured and switched roles at my current company, seen my team grow, and received a promotion that I had been working to get for years... Pat does a phenomenal job guiding me to reach my own conclusions.
Michael Sanchez
Labor Analytics Director, Capital One
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Patrick possesses the natural ability to explore challenging issues in a meaningful and respectful manner that is thought-provoking with an emphasis on accountability.
Todd Gerspach, PhD(c), MBA, PCC
Executive Coach
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Ready to give your managers the edge?
Tell us about your managers, what is changing, and what you want them to do more effectively. We’ll explore fit, priorities, and the right level of support.