- CROSSING LEADERSHIP THRESHOLDS
Step into transformative leadership and cross your thresholds
CEOs, executive teams, entrepreneurs, social impact leaders, and government ministers find themselves repeatedly facing new thresholds, and with an ever-increasing frequency.
These thresholds are the moments when the ground beneath leadership shifts, and the familiar mindsets, behaviours, priorities, strategies and tools no longer suffice.
When you are called to shift from short-term execution, to let go of an old belief or identity, we are there to guide you to long-term vision and actualisation.
Let’s talk about your organisation’s thresholds
transcend founder and CEO Dr Andrew White combines deep research, compelling storytelling, and practical insights to help executives think differently about who they are as leaders — and who they want to become.
🌱 Meet the professionals and experts working with you to identify and cross your thresholds.
- Inner Work
- Strategic Reinvention
- Purpose & Legacy
- Leadership Thresholds
- Personal Transformation
What is a Leadership Threshold?
A Leadership Threshold is a transformational passage: the point where a leader and/or their executive team must let go of something — an identity, a role, a behaviour, a belief, a strategy, even a skill — and find a new way of leading.
It is a liminal space, and in this liminality, identity is unsettled. Moments of disorientation occur when the old order dissolves but the new has not yet formed.
Yet it is precisely here that transformation becomes possible.
The 5 personal Leadership Thresholds
The inner dimensions holding us back on an individual level.
On becoming
Stepping into new roles, letting go of old behaviours and beliefs, and focusing on the right priorities.
On people
Practicing transformational listening, bringing vision to life, and enabling human potential.
On renewal
Accepting what is no longer working, navigating liminal spaces, and creating the next platform.
On genius
Letting go of old identities and beliefs, embracing fear and stillness, and aligning love, passion, gifts, service, and abundance.
On being
From head to heart, from doing to being, from fear and judgment, to abundance and compassion.
The 5 organisational Leadership Thresholds
The outer dimensions preventing our organisations and systems from evolving.
On purpose
Finding your why, aligning with stakeholders, and realising impact.
On strategy
Making the right choices, transforming behaviours, and aligning activities and resources.
On transformation
Calling out the unsustainable status quo, formulating the future vision, and leading to the journey to the future state.
On execution
Making things happen, aligning people around a plan, and delivering critical metrics.
On systems
Finding a resonant systemic challenge, creating a theory of change, and realising impact.
What is calling you to cross your Leadership Thresholds?
Our experts have worked with countless leaders across a wide spread of industries. Yet time and time again, we see them encountering the same seven forces calling for them to meet and cross their thresholds.
Rising complexity
Global systems are increasingly interdependent and unstable, requiring leaders to move beyond control towards adaptability and systemic awareness.
Redefinition of purpose
A deep questioning of meaning and alignment is emerging — leaders are being called to orient around authenticity, contribution, and coherence rather than metrics alone.
Technological acceleration
The rise of AI and automation challenges what remains uniquely human, calling for ethical, creative, and emotionally intelligent leadership.
Planetary awakening
Ecological and social crises are awakening leaders to regenerative and interdependent ways of seeing – expanding leadership from organisational to planetary stewardship.
Shifting power dynamics
Authority is decentralising. Leadership is becoming relational, participatory, and collective — shifting from hero to host.
Evolution of human consciousness
As human awareness expands, leaders experience thresholds in identity and being — learning to lead from deeper wisdom, wholeness, and inner maturity.
Organisational & human transformation
The accelerating pace of change, promotion, and reinvention pushes leaders into new levels of responsibility and visibility faster than their inner development — demanding rapid growth, integration, and renewal.
Work with us to identify awareness and action
We create clarity, design the work ahead of you, and get you and your organisation ready to move immediately.
When you work with us to define and identify your Leadership Thresholds, we take you through a proven framework across a two-day learning and exploration workshop.
BEFORE THE WORKSHOP
Detailed preparation that sets us up for impact
DAY 1
See the threshold clearly.
Name and contextualise it.
Align on what truly matters.
DAY 2
Design the containers.
Define ownership.
Set the rhythm.
LEAVING THE WORKSHOP
A system, ready to run.
Owners and managers confident in next steps.
DIAGNOSTIC REPORT
A clear picture to support decisions and continuity.
Meet our Partners
Meet the Partners working with you to identify and cross your threshold.
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Dr Andrew White
Founder & CEODeveloper of The Leadership Thresholds Programme, supporting senior leaders at critical edges. His framework explores shifts in identity, perspective, emotional capacity, and day-to-day practice.
His experience comes from being a Senior Fellow in Management Practice at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford where he works with these leaders by directing the Advanced Management and Leadership Programme, coaching several CEOs and their senior teams and conducting research into leadership and transformation.
Andrew’s research is focused on what it means to lead successfully in today’s world, given the risks and opportunities that leaders face. This research is demonstrated in articles that he has written in publications such as Harvard Business Review, and via his podcast series and official LinkedIn Newsletter, both entitled Leadership2050. He is an accredited Professional Executive Coach with the Association of Coaching and has trained as a Business Coach with Meyler Campbell, one of the world’s most prestigious executive coach training organisations. Dr Andrew White is also a certified meditation teacher and has developed a toolkit of meditations tailored to the different situation’s leaders face.
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Nick Ross
The sound of the genuine · Executive PresenceNick is a writer, retreat facilitator, and organic farmer whose Sound of the Genuine practice reconnects people to self, nature, and creative, respectful living.
Nick is a writer, retreat facilitator, and organic farmer. His ‘Sound of the Genuine’ practice supports those seeking to reconnect with their self, body, mind, and soul, through the wisdom of the natural world. He promotes the principles of living respectfully and creatively with nature at a time of global transformation.
The sound of the genuine is for people who feel called to be changemakers and transformational leaders.
The sound of the genuine is our inner voice, the one true guide that can connect who we are, with what we do, in ways that are energising, and fulfilling, that unites us with the ultimate meaning and purpose of human existence. It is easily missed in a world full of urgency and distraction, but when we learn to hear it, our lives change forever.
Nick believes leaders who follow the sound of the genuine are trustworthy, creative, and joyful people - truly transformational! They have awakened to the gifts they bring to the world, aligning inner meaning with outer action, recognising that the sound of the genuine is something they share with everything that lives. As such, they are truly dynamic souls.
Nick has a professional a background in addictions counselling, criminal justice support and corporate and organisational development. He now uses these experiences to be a guide to those going through periods of significant personal transformation. His life’s work is rooted in his relationship with nature, its rhythms, seasons, and cycles. He lives off grid in a self-built home on his farm in Somerset with his wife of 36 years. He has two grown children and two granddaughters.
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Andy Rumbles
Strategy as Movement · Momentum DesignAndy advises CEOs and executive teams, helping them to ‘find their north star’ – often in the face of disruption and change – and realign their organisations.
Andy advises CEOs and executive teams, helping FTSE 20 and Fortune 50 company leaders to ‘find their north star’ – often in the face of disruption and change – and realign their organisations. His approach centres on helping clients shatter their beliefs about what is possible, align on a new journey, and implement a roadmap to lead them there. With an educational heritage in Psychology and Human Resources, Andy started his career working for the UK Ministry of Defence, where he supported military and civilian leaders to set operational policy, reform defence procurement and merge or transform large-scale organisations. Prior to joining Transcend Space, Andy spent 11 years working as a Director for EY, where he partnered with the world’s largest companies to solve their most complex and human-centred challenges.
Prior to joining Transcend Space, Andy spent 11 years working as a Director for EY, where he partnered with the world’s largest companies to solve their most complex and human-centred challenges.
When he isn’t working, Andy is a proud father to his two girls, Amelie and Evie, and loves to combine travel with his passion for good food and even better cocktails.
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Miranda Berkhof
Embodied leadership · Congruence and connectionMiranda works at the intersection of organisational transformation, executive leadership, and embodied intelligence. With 20 years of experience, she brings both strategic depth and lived leadership experience.
Miranda works at the intersection of organisational transformation, executive leadership, and embodied intelligence. With more than 20 years of experience spanning strategy consulting, executive leadership roles and facilitating development and change, she brings both strategic depth and lived leadership experience.
From her practice, Miranda has seen that most leaders have learned how to perform leadership. Few have learned how to fully embody it. They may know how to think strategically, drive results, and hold responsibility. Yet beneath that capability, there is often another unconscious pattern determining their impact.
Over time, leaders can become highly developed in the outer dimensions of leadership while losing connection and congruence with the deeper dimension of leadership: being. The Embodied Leader is an invitation to step into the threshold on Being.
Not by becoming someone else, but by returning to deeper congruence between what lives within and how you show up in the world. Between the unconscious and the conscious. Between what you think, what you feel, and how you lead, relate, decide, and influence.
Because leadership is felt through our presence, our nervous system, our energy, our pace, and the way we respond under pressure, uncertainty, complexity, and change. And that determines our impact.
Miranda has guided many leaders, team and organisations through moments that truly matter: scaling businesses, navigating complexity, leading cultural transformation, and steering organisations through growth and change.
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Sophie Maclaren
Human Flourishing · NeuroscienceSophie is a leadership consultant, retreat facilitator, and executive coach who specialises in ‘Human Flourishing’, strengthening the inner foundations for make outer transformation possible.
Sophie is a leadership consultant, retreat facilitator and executive coach who specialises in human and organisational flourishing. Her work strengthens the inner foundations that make outer transformation possible.Sophie believes that leaders who master their inner world gain a superpower which brings harmony to themselves, their teams and the wider world.
Sophie’s work sits at the intersection of:
- Neuroscience and neuroplasticity
- Tibetan wisdom traditions (enlightened leadership, compassion, integrity)
- Mindfulness as performance training
- Human flourishing as the driver of organizational flourishing
She focuses on rewiring cognitive patterns (e.g., negativity bias), cultivating self-compassion, emotional regulation, and building mental and emotional capacities required for modern leadership.
Sophie has worked on the UK Parliament’s Mindfulness Initiative think tank; and for the European Commission, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Formula 1, Unilever, HSBC, as well as top tier finance and law firms. Her research draws on neuroscience, psychology, leadership studies and ancient wisdom traditions. Sophie is interested in how the practice of Human Flourishing can be applied to leadership, to drive impactful behaviour change.
Sophie has enjoyed a lifetime of meditation practice. From a young age she trained intensively with Tibetan lamas. Outside of work, Sophie is happiest swimming in warm seas, making pilgrimages on ancient routes, and being an auntie to her nieces and nephews.
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Jess Northend
Leading change in complexity · The ‘Adaptation Gap’ frameworkJess is a strategic advisor, speaker and executive coach, who helps international leaders rethink how they approach complex challenges and create meaningful change.
Jess is a strategic advisor, speaker and executive coach, who helps international leaders rethink how they approach complex challenges and create meaningful change. She was recently in Harvard Kennedy School’s teaching team for leadership, ethics and negotiation.
Jess’s prior roles have included working with Sir Tony Blair’s Institute for Global Change advising on how the next generation of deep tech will impact leaders; working with His Majesty’s Government and major corporates to establish a public-private organisation to improve UK productivity; and serving as a fellow at Harvard’s Project on Workforce. She currently serves as a consultant for Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Seed Programme, an initiative for entrepreneurs in emerging economies.
Jess started her career lobbying Parliament and navigating Whitehall and Westminster, which taught her how power and institutional change actually works (or doesn't!) She now works with leaders in government, international NGOs, and leading private sector firms, and has guest lectured at institutions including the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and spoken at conferences including SXSW.
Outside of work,Jess is happiest working through her reading list, on her yoga mat, and half-way up mountains in her hiking boots. Jess helps leaders and organisations make sense of a rapidly changing world - and build the capacity to adapt.
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Roberta Ronsivalle
Navigating conflict · Dialogue and leadershipRoberta is an executive leadership coach, cultural consultant, and mediator who helps people transform conflict into constructive growth, innovation and creativity.
Roberta is an executive leadership coach, cultural consultant and conflict mediator. A central focus of her work is conflict transformation, helping people and teams to move beyond avoidance or polarisation and learn to engage with difference to transform conflict into a source of constructive growth, innovation, creativity, and inclusion.
Roberta has more than two decades of international experience helping leaders across many sectors and industries transform themselves and their organisations while maintaining a thriving working environment.
Roberta brings leadership, strategy, and business experience to her practice. She was managing partner, head of strategy, and co-owner of Mucca, an award-winning branding and design firm in New York City. There she worked with ambitious organizations around the world to create brand strategies that helped shape their futures. At the heart of her work is a belief that leadership can be both powerful and humane — strategic and soulful, ambitious and inclusive, courageous and joyful. Outside of work, Roberta loves spending time in nature, hiking around the world, with family and friends.
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Sarah Rozenthuler
Conversations that Matter · The dynamics of dialogueSarah is a chartered coaching psychologist, published author and leadership expert specialising in dialogue that transforms performance, relationships, and results.
Sarah Rozenthuler is a chartered coaching psychologist, published author and leadership expert specialising in dialogue that transforms performance, relationships, and results. Her work focuses on helping leaders and teams hold conversations that unlock collective intelligence rather than compliance. She believes “the conversations we avoid are often the ones that matter most”.
Sarah supports leaders to feel confident working skilfully with the dynamics of dialogue – from inner voice to group field. She uses four powerful interventions:Find Your Ground, Build a Bridge, Read the Room, and Hold Space to create meaningful change
With over 20 years of experience working globally at senior levels in start-ups, SMEs and large, complex, global organisations, Sarah brings extensive expertise in executive coaching, team coaching, board facilitation and leadership development.
As an accomplished author, Sarah has written several impactful books, including Now We’re Talking: How to Discuss What Really Matters (2024), Powered by Purpose: Energise Your People to do Great Work (2020) and How to have Meaningful Conversations (2012.)
Sarah is a valued member of the faculty at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford where she teaches on their flagship leadership programmes. She also delivers masterclasses for the British Psychological Society where she is an Associate Fellow.
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Mac McKenzie
Systemic Change · The ‘Spiral Breakthrough’ modelMac is the CEO of the Bridge Institute, a charity which brings leaders of government, business, and civil society together to solve today’s most pressing challenges.
Mac is the CEO of the Bridge Institute, a charity which brings leaders of government, business, and civil society together to solve today’s most pressing challenges. The institute’s ‘Spiral Breakthrough’, is based on the principle that these challenges are systemic, which means no one entity can solve them on their own.
Mac believes the world’s biggest problems, be it climate change, inequality, loss of biodiversity, or conflict, are deeply systemic, which means no government, no business, no philanthropist, or foundation can solve on their own. We need to learn to work together, over the long-haul.
To build a better future for future generations, leaders of government, business, and civil society need to become systemic leaders, rising above the boundaries of organisation, country, and faith, and lead for the whole world. The case for this is compelling – organisations who transcend the boundaries of “inside our four walls” to all of society, will succeed ever more. We have reached a time in history when it is clear we need to lead in a different and more audacious way.
Mac graduated from Oxford University with a Masters in Engineering, Economics and Management, and has developed expertise in areas such as Systems Thinking, Vertical Development, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Transactional Analysis, Myers Briggs, and Design Thinking.
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Jennie McLaughlin
Identifying and amplifying purposeJennie is a global authority on purpose-led growth strategy, who helps both corporates and social entrepreneurs to create impact by bringing their purpose to life.
Jennie is a global authority on purpose-led growth strategy and execution and a Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP). She has worked with over 100 organisations including global multinationals, start-ups and large not-for-profits. Today, she helps both corporates and social entrepreneurs to become sustainably impactful through bringing their purpose to life.
Jennie believes that finding your purpose is not enough for leaders who suspect that the gap between who they intend to be and how they actually lead is costing them — and the people around them — more than they realise.
Purpose is not a destination. It is a practice — one that most leaders have barely begun, despite believing they have already arrived. In a world of relentless urgency, quarterly targets and AI-generated options, the temptation is to mistake articulation for activation, and a purpose statement for a purposeful life. But purpose without follow-through is just wallpaper. It looks good, it signals good intent — and then it fades into the background while the real work carries on unchanged.
Jennie’s practice brings evidence that leaders who have done this work lead differently. They make decisions with clarity rather than calculation. They know what to say yes to — and, equally, what to stop. They have the courage to make visible choices that demonstrate commitment rather than performing purpose for an audience. They are not running on fumes. They are purposefully navigating. And the organisations around them feel the difference — in engagement, in trust, in results, and in the quality of the future being built.
Prior to founding her own consulting social enterprise in 2021, Jennie was a partner at EY for five years, working as a strategic advisor to many boards and CEOs across Oceania, including BHP, Westpac, Telstra, Australian Payment Plus, HESTA, KiwiBank and YMCA. She holds a degree in Applied Mathematics.In her free time Jennie loves being in nature, listening to and creating music and enjoying the company of family and friends.
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Leadership can quickly become all pace, pressure and delivery. I wanted a space to step back and rethink how I lead. And reconnect with what truly matters in the impact I’m here to make.
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I wanted to step back and reflect on where I am as a leader. To understand what season I’m in and what comes next. And get clearer on what really matters moving forward.
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