About Ed Ley
March 12 2017 I was on Hellerup beach with my family and I turned to my wife and said, shall we move here?
100 days later we had taken a flat, enrolled our girls in schools, sold our gym and health care business, sold our house and moved to Denmark from the Uk.
We took 6 months to relax, travel, ski, play, learn, explore and create our dream life.
Rather than work hard for 20 years accumulating stuff and hope that one day we could afford the life we dream of and hope that stress, pain, illness or responsibility didn’t prevent us from doing that we decided to build our dream life now.
In January 2019 I decided to meet a new person for coffee every working day for the year as a way to integrate into Denmark.
Through the process of meeting 500 people for coffee over the course of a year and a half I had some amazing, interesting and inspiring conversations and some incredible things happened:
I started a podcast alongside one of my coffee mates interviewing some of Denmark’s greatest influencers. 50 interviews and counting with some fascinating people.
Enough CXO’s and founders found they benefitted from our coffee and asked to continue coaching with me in order to optimise their physical and mental performance so I opened a small private studio in Hellerup on Strandvejen as a cool place for us to hang out.
Some of those clients invited me into their companies to support them in creating a strong culture and a more fulfilled work force.
A number of athletes and coaches decide that they would love to apply my neuroscience principles to their practise to upgrade their performance.
Some companies retained me to coach their senior staff internationally
2021 Update. Its been a weird year hey. I’m about 700 plus coffee in now and I’ve started recording some of them, talking all things start up, leadership and performance which I’m calling The Ed Ley Show which is a podcast of course.
I continue coaching leaders in the Uk, US, Sweden and of course Denmark.
Christina and I also realised the next step in our dream as we moved to a beach front home in Svanemøllen, Copenhagen which also contains our studio.
Thanks for reading, and if you are a leader who thinks they could benefit from a performance upgrade please don’t hesitate to reach out.
2004 I graduate UWE with a BSc Sports, conditioning, coaching and rehabilitation
That was a lot of fun.
2004-2010 I worked with some of the Uk’s top coaches, trainers, physio’s, Osteopaths and more
I learned so much about pain, performance, health, diet, sleep and behavioural change
In 2011 I opened absolute health; a gym, personal training and health care studio
We used neuroscience principles to help our clients to optimise their performance.
During that time I was given the chance to speak at Tedx. I wrote two books and had a serious amount of fun.
I enjoy reading, learning, chess, nature, writing, football, cooking, eating, drinking and mostly inspiring conversations.
I couldn’t be happier with own move to Denmark and I am excited to see what the new decade brings.
“I would highly recommend Ed to anyone who is serious about wanting results”
Everything you need to have a fun, fulfilling and successful life is already within you, you just have to integrate all of the fear, stress, failure and unskillful perceptions you have accumulated along the way.
