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Peer Advisory
Vistage Worldwide
A confidential peer-advisory group of CEOs through the world’s largest CEO coaching organisation.
Explore Vistage →The thinking that builds capacity, and the library behind it.
For two decades Ed Robinson has coached CEOs and business owners. Distilled here: a library of frameworks, and Ask Ed, a digital version of his coaching brain.
Executive Coach
· Vistage Chair
· Business Advisor
· Frederick, MD
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Don’t Let Life Just Happen to You
Ed RobinsonIn session
Almost 30 years advising business owners and coaching the leaders who run them — hundreds of CEOs and senior executives, and thousands of the people they lead.
26 yrs
Coaching leaders
23+ yrs
Vistage Chair
$3B+
Client revenue
Top 2%
Vistage, globally
Vistage Chair · Selected clients Ed has helped
Daily Leadership Thought
View all thoughts →Treat energy as a resource — invest it where it has the greatest leverage and rest when you need it so your judgment stays sharp. Track where energy is spent and prune low-impact drains. Energy stewardship preserves leadership stamina and decision quality.Read this thought →
The Capacity Library
Search through thousands of resources and find your next source of inspiration.
Decades of curation. Or skip the search and ask Ed directly.
Reading SummaryBooks, distilled
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Reading ExcerptPassages worth keeping
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Leadership InterviewCEOs, candidly
36
Free DownloadTools and worksheets
116
Favorite ArticleThe signal, saved
492
AI Audio SummaryListen on the drive
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Leadership Reset & RenewalOnline Tool · 22 Jul 2026
Online Tool
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The End of Cheap CapitalFavorite Article · 24 Jun 2026
Favorite Article
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Become An Authoritative CoachRecommended Reading · 6 Jun 2026
Recommended Reading
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Theme: Getting More Referrals – What Actually WorksMeeting Summary · 6 Jun 2026
Meeting Summary
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International Coaching NewsHelpful Website · 21 May 2026
Helpful Website
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Ed’s Confessions of A Vistage Chair InterviewVideo Favorite · 2 May 2026
Video Favorite
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Ed sits down with leaders he admires. The conversations are unscripted, practical, and the lessons land fast.
A digital version of Ed
Your coaching brain, on call.
Ask Ed is a coaching companion trained on Ed’s frameworks and questions. Available now in Ed’s voice. A face-to-face video version will follow once the technology is up to the challenge.
What Ask Ed isn’t
- ×A generic chatbot.
- ×A search engine with a friendly voice.
- ×A cheerleader.
What Ask Ed is
- ✓Thinks the way Ed thinks.
- ✓Challenges with his frameworks.
- ✓Knows when to escalate.
Three ways to work with Ed
Tailored, never cookie cutter.
Ed works with individuals and groups, in peer settings and one-on-one.
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Executive Coaching
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Training Workshops
Tailored to your team, your requirements and your availability.
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Featured case study · 17 years
From a $1.2M Frederick website shop to a $13M+ national AI-first partner.
Seventeen years of coaching Nick Damoulakis, CEO of Orases. Through the 2009 survival year, the build to a real operating engine, a multi-year plateau, and an AI pivot that brought Duke Energy, Red Bull and the Baltimore Ravens to the table.
From the leaders Ed works with
What they say, after years in the room.
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