Welcome To Edge Consulting
How I Got Started
I am a business consultant, technologist, an entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in the software and high-tech industries. I have spent the past 20 years solving complicated issues for Fortune 500 companies and in the past eight years, I have used this expertise to solve some of our most complex social problems.
My belief is we must treat the whole person not just the addiction, homelessness, or mental illness. We must get to the root cause; we must dig deeper to find the cause. Trauma, abuse, or neglect? Here’s what I have always said that needs to happen, get them warm and dry into a drug and alcohol-free shelter along with treatment. Give them Hope by providing training, and not just job training but socializing, being on the street they have lost those skills. Then they need Meaning, a job, with responsibilities where they have to pay bills, follow the rules, etc. Now comes Purpose, this is where they get their own place and because of the work they put in they now have pride, this takes 18-24 months. Show me a government-paid homeless program that does this.
My expertise is only outweighed by my passion, which drives me to enrich the lives of those around me and leave people better than I found them.
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Edge Consulting Services
Here’s What We Provide
Now he consults for the Substance Abuse Treatment industry, sharing his expertise, experience, along with his personal and professional successes. Ed shares his passion, compassion, and empathy with corporations, organizations, and industry professionals, helping them understand substance abuse from a new perspective. His purpose is to increase the awareness of the Substance Abuse issues we face in the United States. Because he has seen the devastation of addiction firsthand, Ed brings a fresh perspective on the epidemic we are facing; he lost a brother at 37 and a nephew at 39, both from drug overdoses. For the past several years he has led several addiction support groups, where he became a certified Life Recovery leader, a Celebrate Recovery leader, and a certified Christian counselor, which is where he gained his insight for Edge Consulting. He has dedicated his life to those struggling with Substance Use Disorder and has worked with hundreds of addicts over the years and has saved many by creating an accountability process. Ed is recognized as a substance abuse industry expert and created and hosted two conferences on Substance Abuse and has spoken at many large organizations on addiction and homelessness. You can find many of his talks on the website or youtube, including his Ted Talk titled “Seeing Drug and Alcohol Addiction in a New Light” https://youtu.be/KYrJ1VV6CWI