Leadership Development for Companies That Need Stronger Managers and Clearer Accountability

We help CEOs, HR leaders, and senior teams develop leaders who can handle conflict, coach performance, build ownership, and lead through complexity.

Leadership Development for Growing Companies That Need Stronger Managers, Clearer Accountability, and Less Drag

Your business is growing. Your people are capable. But too many decisions still escalate upward, accountability conversations take too much energy, and strong technical performers are being promoted before they know how to lead people.

Sage & Summit helps CEOs, HR leaders, and senior teams build practical, people-centred leadership capacity across the business.

For companies in energy, construction, manufacturing, engineering, professional services, and other complex, people-dependent industries.

When Leadership Does Not Scale, Growth Gets Heavy

You may be seeing it already:

  • Managers avoid hard conversations.
  • Decisions keep landing back on senior leaders.
  • Strong technical people struggle with the people side of leadership.
  • Teams are busy, but ownership is unclear.
  • Conflict is handled late, sideways, or not at all.
  • Growth creates more meetings, more pressure, and more dependency.

This is not a motivation problem.

It is a leadership capacity problem.

And it can be developed.

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Choose the Path That Fits Your Leadership Challenge

For Managers and Emerging Leaders

For Leadership Teams

Executive Coaching
One-to-one coaching for leaders navigating complexity, growth, pressure, transition, or the shift from carrying the business to leading the business.

Leadership Training
Practical programs that help leaders coach performance, delegate with confidence, build trust, and lead accountability conversations without avoiding the hard stuff.

Team Coaching and Facilitation
Focused support for teams that need better alignment, healthier conflict, clearer decisions, and stronger execution rhythm.

People-Centred Leadership Is Not Soft. It Is Structural.

We help leaders build the habits that make growth sustainable:

  • Clearer decisions
  • Stronger delegation
  • Better performance conversations
  • Healthier conflict
  • Higher trust
  • More ownership at every level

Our work is grounded in coaching, behavioural change, adult learning, and real-world business pressure. We support leaders in complex environments where people, performance, safety, culture, and execution all matter.

The Sage & Summit Team

featured programs

Crew to Supervisor

The honest truth, most new supervisors in oil and gas, manufacturing, and trades were promoted for their technical skills, not their people skills. Nobody gave them a roadmap for the rest. Crew to Supervisor is that roadmap, seven practical modules, fully self-paced, built for the field.

The Rise Collective

RISE CEO Collective

You built the business by being hands-on, responsive, and willing to carry the weight. But growth requires a different kind of leadership. RISE helps business owners and senior leaders move from daily firefighting to strategic leadership, stronger business rhythm, and trusted peer accountability, so the business can work with less dependency on you.

Dynamic Leadership:

Build stronger people. Create clearer ownership. Lead with less drag. Dynamic Leadership: The Coach Approach helps senior leaders use coaching as a practical leadership discipline to sharpen thinking, strengthen accountability, and develop people who can own more of the work.

Trusted by

Trusted by organizations in energy, manufacturing, government, Indigenous leadership, professional services, and complex operations.

From executive coaching to team development and leadership training, our work supports organizations where trust, accountability, and performance matter.

Growth Without Leadership Growth Creates Risk

Challenge

Our IMPACT

Vast industry experience

100% of coaches ICF certified

Diverse professional backgrounds/unified vision

People-Centred Leadership Is Not Soft. It Is Structural.

Executive Coaching
Leadership Development
Team Coaching
Facilitation
Speaking

Our Experience Is Your Advantage

Hear what our incredible customers have to say!

Marderé has been instrumental in the development of my leadership skills and has provided great advice and mentorship through her program. After my coaching sessions, I find that I am refocused on the important tasks that I need to complete to achieve my goals.

CEO in Training
Oil and Gas Company

Thoroughly satisfied: I really enjoy how Marderé communicates with us during our meetings – she provides a calm and safe place where I can express my feelings.

Manager
Telecommunications Company

I am overwhelmed by the experience of working with Sage & Summit. To be honest, when my employer enrolled us into the course, I was less than enthusiastic, but in a very short time, found my life benefiting greatly from what I had learned. I highly recommend everyone to reach out to these amazing people.

Manager
Transport Company

Have had the good fortune to know Mardere over the last few years. Her insights into business processes, leadership, and organization have been invaluable to me.

CEO
Oil and Gas Company

I have really enjoyed my experience. The coaching has been extremely valuable to both my professional and personal growth.

Owner
Cabinet Manufacturer

She (Marderé) is a great coach and mentor and will add value to any organization she works with.

Manager
Oil & Gas Supplier

I have had the pleasure of working with SSC in a number of contexts, including executive coaching, facilitation, and performance reviews. In all aspects we found them to be professional and client focused.

CAO
Municipality

She is an outstanding coach and consultant. Mardere’ would be an asset for any organization or individual looking to “up their game! I highly recommend her.

Owner
Manufacturing Company