DeEdge Next Inc. promotes and develops the practice of sustainable strategic change where the uniqueness of our approach is routed in the belief that the traditional education system and management learning processes expose our current leadership, which very often proves to be invalid. It is based on assumptions of cost efficiency, production effectiveness, and consistency in performance are sustainable.
Rawlinson Agard, the founder of DeEdge Next, postulates that the company’s consulting approach seeks to support people in discovering new ways of learning and the application of these to various aspects of their life. He theorizes that ‘DeEdge Next’ symbolizes the point where education stops, and learning begins. “Learning can only be the result of action”. Most organizations have generally lost the art of learning and even more, learning collectively.
By drawing from its faculty of consultants, DeEdge Next enjoys access to a world-class team that comprises a unique set of individuals with unrivaled knowledge. The faculty can partner with organizations/individuals in the delivery of outstanding business performance. They possess ‘process consulting’ experience with in-depth organizational learning and enduring insightful change skills in the specific principles and practices that allow people to create new possibilities and effectively generate breakthrough results.
Our Faculty
Valarie Granger is a Faculty Consultant with De Edge specializing in Human Resource Management and Development, Customer Relationship Management, and Career Coaching. She is a Certified Coach. She has over twenty-five years’ extensive experience in Human Resource Management, having worked in management positions in Canada and Trinidad & Tobago, and fifteen years of consulting experience in both the Public and Private Sectors within the Caribbean Region.
Ms. Granger served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the North-West Regional Health Authority, Trinidad and Tobago with prime responsibility for human resources at the board level. She headed the Human Resource Sub-Committee of the Board. Val is an excellent instructor and has conducted programs in Toronto, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, and the Caribbean.
Dexter Les Pierre-Luke is a Faculty Consultant member of De Edge Consulting. His professional life includes twenty-seven (27) years combined experience in Project Planning, Government ICT Policy Design, Policy Drafting and Preparation, Information Systems (computer, management and geographic), Management, Advisory Services, and the facilitation of Adult Education.
Dexter’s experience has covered many years with organizations such as: The Water & Sewerage Authority (WASA), The Ministry of Public Administration and Information. For the past thirteen (13) years he has been a lecturer at the University of the West Indies’ Open Campus and the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAATT).
He is the holder of a Master of Education Degree (Education Studies) from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. He also holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Information Systems and an Associate of Science Degree from the Andrews University of the United States.