There's a kind of leader who's too far along to train and too early to leave alone.
Maybe someone on your team. Maybe someone you're raising up to run something for you. They're past the point where a class or a book or a one-day workshop is going to move them forward. They've proven they can do the work. You're handing them more of it every quarter.
But something is still missing. And you've noticed it, even if you haven't put words to it yet.
It isn't a skill. It's the kind of formation that only happens in the company of peers — other leaders at their stage, holding the same weight, wrestling with the same questions about identity and calling and competence and fear. That work happens between people who are in it together. You can't give it to them from the chair above them. You're not in that seat anymore.
I've been facilitating peer teams for Christian leaders for a long time, and one pattern shows up again and again. A business owner sponsors an emerging leader into a peer team. Within a year, that leader shows up to work differently. Not because of what I taught them. Because of the room they were in. The conversations. The being known and pressed by people who weren't their boss, weren't their employee, and weren't grading them.
That's what the C-Suite and Emerging Leader teams I facilitate through Convene are built for. Part of the broader work at Eden Business Concepts — walking with leaders across the whole arc of their formation. Twice a month, virtual, two hours, faith-integrated, peer-based.
If you've got someone on your team you can see into the future of — someone you want ready for the seat you're preparing them for — sponsoring them into a peer team is one of the clearest investments you can make in your succession, your culture, and in them.
I'd be glad to talk about whether it's a fit. Message me.