Half-Day Transformation
The E.D.G.E. Intensive
The keynote and the workshop — a full reset for your leadership team.
A Keynote Opens the Door. This Walks Them Through It.
A great keynote creates a moment. But a moment fades if no one is handed the tools to keep it.
Most leadership development stops at inspiration. Leaders leave moved, then return to the same patterns by Monday.
The E.D.G.E. Intensive was built to make the shift stick — not with more information, but with hands-on practice in the exact skill their capacity depends on.
Keynote in the morning. Deep, applied work in the afternoon.
“I've worked with speakers for years — and that was one of the best presentations I've ever seen.”
This Keynote Is Perfect For
Executive Team Offsites
Take your leadership team from insight to applied practice in a single, focused day.
Leadership Development Programs
Give high-potential leaders a durable skill, not just a memorable session.
Multi-Day Conferences
Anchor your event with a transformation attendees carry home and actually use.
The Keynote
The E.D.G.E. Intensive
The Release to Lead keynote in the morning. A focused 2-hour E.D.G.E. Method workshop in the afternoon, built for your team.
In the workshop, Dean takes leaders off the sidelines and into the work: mapping their own Emotional Overhead, practicing the H.U.M.A.N. Bridge™, and building a personal reset practice they'll use the same week.
They don't just understand the framework. They leave having run it — with a plan in hand and a nervous-system reset already underway.
It's the difference between hearing about change and walking out changed.
Your audience will walk away with:
- ✓A personal map of the Emotional Overhead affecting their leadership
- ✓Hands-on practice with all four steps of the E.D.G.E. Method
- ✓A completed 90-day action plan, applied live to their real challenges
- ✓A daily reset practice already underway before they leave the room
The Framework
The E.D.G.E. Method™
The morning names it. The afternoon applies it — step by step.
Step One
Examine the Cost
Map the specific weight each leader is carrying, and what it's costing.
Step Two
Decide to Release
Make the deliberate decision to forgive — practiced, not just presented.
Step Three
Ground the Response
Run the H.U.M.A.N. Bridge™ live, the sequence that makes the decision durable.
Step Four
Elevate Your Capacity
Build the daily practice that turns the decision into a lasting habit.
Stop Carrying It. Start Leading From It.
“First they release. Then they lead.”
The Experience
What Happens in the Room
The morning opens them up. The afternoon puts the tools in their hands.
Leaders move from recognizing the weight they carry to actively setting it down — together, in a room built for honesty and real work.
Dean guides each person through the full E.D.G.E. Method, applied to their own leadership, with the framework running live rather than described.
They leave with a reset already begun, a plan already written, and a skill they can repeat for the rest of their careers.
That's what the Intensive leaves behind — long after the event ends.
The Speaker
Meet Dean
Dean Eric Smith is the Forgiveness Development Pioneer — creator of the first rigorous, neuroscience-backed discipline for removing the Emotional Overhead that silently erodes executive judgment, presence, and capacity.
After forgiving and reconciling with the stepfather who murdered his mother — a journey captured in the award-winning film Live to Forgive — Dean built the frameworks that turn forgiveness into a measurable leadership performance tool. Twenty years speaking on forgiveness, fourteen as a certified high-performance coach, a Master's in Organizational Leadership, and author of The Forgiveness Habit.
On stage, he's known for one rare gift: making audiences laugh out loud one minute and wipe away tears the next.