Practice

What This Is

Edgeless Strategies is a judgment-led advisory and leadership practice. It exists to help senior leaders and leadership teams make better decisions under uncertainty, clarify direction when there is no obvious right answer, and align people, priorities, and attention around what truly matters.

The work operates at the intersection of executive leadership, organizational health, and decision-making in complex systems.

What Makes This Different

This practice operates at a different altitude—engaged selectively, at moments of consequence. It draws on coaching, facilitation, and strategic counsel, but integrates them in service of something more fundamental: the quality of judgment at the top of organizations.

How Value Is Created

Value is created by slowing leaders down at the right moments. By helping them see what they are missing. By reframing problems so the real decisions become visible. By creating shared clarity across leadership groups.

The practice creates conditions for better decisions—working alongside leaders rather than prescribing to them.

The Core

Everything the practice does is organized around a single core:

• Strategic judgment that cuts through noise
• Agenda shaping that focuses leadership attention
• Sense-making that enables action under uncertainty
• Alignment that turns leadership groups into leadership teams

James Linnett

Thirty years in global financial services. Senior leadership roles at Citi, Bank of America, and JP Morgan — leading organizations of up to 15,000 people, managing multi-billion-dollar portfolios, and driving enterprise-wide change across complex regulated environments.

Born in England, raised in Botswana and South Africa. This background shapes a distinctive approach: the pattern recognition and environmental awareness learned in the African bush, applied to the complexity of global organizations.

The conviction behind this work: organizations are living systems, and their health depends on the quality of decisions made by those who lead them. Cultures are built from within, not imposed from outside.

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