Get Out To Get Ahead
You can't get perspective
when you’re standing in the middle of the problem
WildEdge Worx - A totally unique approach in which we take overwhelmed Accidental CEOs from being trapped inside their business to becoming the leader of a business that can thrive without consuming them.
You started a business because you were good at what you do, not to become the CEO of a growing company.
Yet somewhere along the way you became responsible for revenue, clients, employees, systems, cash flow and decisions…
You became the Accidental CEO…
Sound Familiar?
You’re firefighting constantly
Someone or something is ALWAYS demanding your attention
You’re completely in the weeds
You know you should be working ON the business, but you’re stuck working IN it - making hundreds of micro-decisions; solving problems, checking numbers, responding to messages… You’re spending time on things that SHOULDN’T be your job anymore, and you haven’t had proper time to think about the future.
You struggle to delegate
because people don’t do things the way you’d do them - you know you’re micromanaging but don’t know how to stop.
You can’t switch off
You go home and ruminate about work, replaying conversations and mentally planning the next day. You wake up in the night panicking about something that needs sorting. You may be physically at home, but your mind never left work.
Your business was supposed to give you flexibility and freedom to do things YOUR way.
But somehow all you’ve done is create a job where everyone else gets to leave work, but you don’t.
You may have tried #allthethings to break out of this:
New ways of working
Stricter processes
Growth ‘accelerators’
Business Coaching
KPIs
Dumping everything into AI (including your agency)
A shiny new tech solution
But none of these solutions worked for very long.
And some didn’t work at all.
Why?
Because they fail to address three fundamental issues:
You can’t GET PERSPECTIVE when you’re standing in the middle of the problem.
They either attempt to ‘fix’ the business or ‘fix’ the owner. But the reality is that you need to transform both. AT THE SAME TIME.
They fire all the information you need at you, without embedding it.
You don’t need more information. You need self-trust.
You’ve already got all the information you could possibly need at your fingertips. You can read the books, listen to the podcasts, use AI, hire consultants and build plans.
Most founders we work with are intelligent, capable and already successful by most people’s standards. What they lack isn’t knowledge. What they lack is the space, perspective and courage to hear themselves properly beneath all the noise.
And it’s not their fault - the way they were taught to run a business and be successful inevitably results in feeling disconnected from themselves and their power.
Modern business culture rewards constant availability, performance and control while ignoring the emotional and psychological cost of carrying responsibility for a growing business.
This means that over time founders stop trusting their instincts. They start looking externally for answers instead of reconnecting to their own judgement, values and vision.
That is where leadership starts to suffer.
The WildEdge Method
The WildEdge Method is a leadership transformation process designed to help founders reconnect to themselves - so they can evolve alongside the businesses they are building.
Traditional coaching often stops at awareness. It creates insight, reflection and accountability, but this alone rarely creates lasting transformation.
Most founders already know what they should be doing.
The problem is that fear, pressure, responsibility and years of conditioning have disconnected them from the version of themselves capable of leading at the next level.
That is why our work here combines strategic thinking, deep coaching, embodied challenge and experiential transformation.
We work with founders in mountains, lakes, boardrooms, retreat spaces and one-to-one conversations - because transformation does not happen through information alone. It happens when people experience themselves differently.
Sometimes that looks like a founder finally making the difficult decision they have been avoiding for months. Sometimes it looks like stepping into a wild waterfall and realising they are capable of far more than they believed. Sometimes it looks like uncovering the pattern that has kept them playing small for years.
The format itself isn’t the point. What matters is the transformation that occurs as a result.
Why nature matters
We blend nature into our coaching because human beings were never designed to live permanently disconnected from challenge, perspective, awe and discomfort.
The way we’re ‘supposed to’ run businesses keeps leaders trapped indoors, inside meetings and inside their own heads. Little by little, founders become consumed by pressure, performance and constant decision-making and fire-fighting. Their thinking narrows. Their nervous systems become overloaded. They lose perspective and stop trusting themselves properly.
Nature interrupts that incredibly quickly - it’s an instant reset.
Mountains don’t care about your job title or revenue targets. Cold water doesn’t care how successful you appear online. Challenge strips away performance and exposes what is really happening underneath.
And then meaningful transformation can begin.
At WildEdge, challenge is never about bravado or proving something to other people. It is about helping founders rebuild trust in themselves. Every difficult conversation, every mountain climbed and every moment where somebody chooses courage over fear becomes evidence that they are more capable than they thought they were.
That evidence changes people more fundamentally and profoundly than another workshop or strategy document ever will.
The hidden cost of leading
Founders are some of the bravest people in the world. They build businesses from nothing, create jobs, carry enormous responsibility and make impossible decisions every single day.
What very few people talk about is the emotional cost of doing that over time.
Growing a business requires founders to evolve alongside it.
The version of somebody who starts the business is rarely the same version capable of leading it years later.
That evolution can feel deeply uncomfortable.
Many founders become trapped in operational detail because it feels safer than confronting the bigger questions about leadership, identity and direction. Others start outsourcing their power entirely by relying on gurus, consultants, trends or AI instead of trusting their own judgement.
Eventually, founders become disconnected from the business they once loved building.
At WildEdge, we believe the solution is not becoming louder, harder or more performative. We believe the solution is reconnecting to yourself properly.
The strongest leaders are not the ones pretending to have all the answers. They are the ones who know who they are, what they stand for and how to lead from that place consistently.
Ways to work with WildEdge Worx
Beacon Sessions
A short, sharp & incredibly impactful nature-led recalibration coaching session.
Intentionally designed to create space, perspective and strategic clarity for founders who feel trapped in the noise of day-to-day leadership.
One-to-One Leadership Transformation
Transformational founder work for leaders who know the business is no longer being held back by strategy alone.
Through The WildEdge Method, we help founders reconnect to themselves, rebuild self-trust and evolve into the leader their business now requires through deep coaching, strategic challenge and embodied transformation.
Rewilding Retreats
Immersive leadership experiences designed to help founders & leaders step out of the noise of day-to-day life, reconnect to themselves and experience the kind of breakthrough that only happens through challenge, perspective and deep human connection.
Our retreats are the perfect blend of luxury, business and adventure.
Corporate and Leadership Teams
Experiential leadership development for organisations that want to build more courageous, self-aware and connected leadership cultures.
Through The WildEdge Method, we help leadership teams step out of operational noise, challenge entrenched patterns and create the trust, clarity and alignment needed to lead and grow together more effectively.
Most founders are not lacking capability. They have simply become disconnected from themselves while carrying the weight of building something significant.
WildEdge exists to help founders reconnect to their instincts, courage, clarity and self-trust so they can build extraordinary businesses without losing themselves in the process.
Why WildEdge Worx
Hey, we’re Ant & Claire Ackers.
Between us, we’ve spent decades working with founders, leadership teams and growing businesses. We know what it feels like to carry responsibility, navigate uncertainty and make decisions that affect other people’s lives, because we have lived it too.
WildEdge Worx exists because we believe leadership transformation has become far too disconnected from being human. Most leadership work focuses on strategy, productivity or mindset in isolation.
We believe lasting change happens when people reconnect to themselves properly, rebuild self-trust and evolve alongside the businesses they are leading.
That is why our work blends deep coaching, challenge, nature, behavioural insight and real-world business experience. We are not interested in surface-level motivation or performative leadership.
We help people become more courageous, self-aware and capable from the inside out, so they can lead and grow without losing themselves in the process.