Serving those who are committed to individual and organizational transformation
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Our mission is to support individuals, practitioners, and organizations who live and lead at the intersection of worlds — bridging the worlds of spirit and work, the material and the meaningful, the established and the emerging.
Through research, learning experiences, certification pathways, and organizational partnerships, we cultivate leaders who can navigate complexity, build bridges across worlds, and guide meaningful change.
We walk between worlds...
Bridging spirituality and leadership to support meaningful change in individuals and organizations worldwide.
We envision a world where leaders move fluidly between paradigms, cultures, and disciplines — bringing wisdom, moral courage, and relational intelligence into the institutions that shape our collective future.
A world where leadership is both effective and reflective, grounded in human depth while responsive to organizational reality.
Our Vision
WHAT WE STAND FOR
At Edgewalkers International, we believe leadership begins from within and shows up in how we act in the world.
COURAGEOUS EXPERIMENTATION: supporting leaders who are willing to question assumptions, take thoughtful risks, and learn in real time.
COMMUNITY AS PRACTICE: knowing that sustainable change happens through relationship, shared learning, and mutual accountability
BRIDGE BUILDING: honoring both human depth & organizational reality across disciplines, cultures, and ways of knowing
INTEGRITY IN ACTIONS: aligning values, decisions, and behavior, especially when the path forward is complex or unclear
INNER AUTHORITY: the capacity to lead from self-awareness, reflection, and lived experience rather than borrowed certainty
Judi was the founding director of the Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas. She is recognized as an expert on spirituality in the workplace and speaks and consults internationally. She received her Ph.D. from Yale in Organizational Behavior.
In 1988 Judi began teaching management at the University of New Haven. She focused her research on business leaders who have a strong commitment to their faith and spirituality, and began studying how they bridged the spiritual world and the material world of business. That led to her research on people she calls “Edgewalkers.” Judi was a co-founder of the Management, Spirituality and Religion Interest Group at the Academy of Management, as well as co-founder of the Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, and the International Association of Management, Spirituality and Religion.
She has published widely in the field, and is a popular and inspiring international speaker. She has consulted with major organizations such as Pfizer and General Electric as well as with small entrepreneurial companies and with non-profits.
The term “Edgewalker” emerged from Dr. Judi Neal’s research into leaders who live and work between worlds —
between cultures, paradigms, disciplines, and dimensions of experience.
Inspired by storytelling traditions, contemplative practice, and decades of inquiry into spirituality in the workplace, Judi began exploring the qualities of people who operate at the leading edge of social and organizational change.
In 2001, a group of business leaders gathered to explore how deeply held values and contemplative practices could inform their work in meaningful ways. They began referring to themselves as “Edgewalkers” — leaders who navigate the space where worlds meet.
From those dialogues grew a body of research, books, assessments, workshops, certification programs, and a global learning community dedicated to cultivating bridge-building leadership for a complex world.
Get to know our Founder
Dr. Judi Neal
OUR FOUNDING STORY
Advisor
Amy Lynn
Durham
Advisor
Sal
Celley
Advisor
Samantha
Johnstone
Meet the
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Sandra
Bargman
Deborah
Rundlett
Kristin
Joy Ekkens
Aimee
Bernstein
Work with the
Certified Edgewalker Facilitators
Peggy
O'Neal
Payal
Kumar
Monica
Ross
Brian
Gorman
Corinne
Young
Jeannel King
Bill
Kirst
Shawn
Comboy
