Most men know how to win.Not many know how to be known.
When men stop performing for each other, something shifts. In how they lead. In how they show up at home. In how they live.
Verge is a new leadership and coaching company launching its first program for men in Toronto, Canada. This first cohort begins in Toronto this May: eight weeks, ten men, two certified coaches. With seven virtual sessions and one in-person threshold experience, it's designed to surface what's missing and help change how men lead, work and live.
Armour feels protective.
The costs are high.
Most high-functioning men are good at producing results. They have learned the rules of the rooms they operate in, and they have played those rules well. Career, status, responsibility — the outer life is assembled. On paper it looks exactly as it should.
And yet. There is more distance in your closest relationships than there used to be. An emotional flatness that is hard to name. Momentum at work, but less meaning in it. A persistent, low-grade awareness that you are operating below your actual capacity — not failing, just not fully there.
You feel it. You just haven't had a room where it was safe to say so.
Until now.Read
The Quiet Crisis Among Toronto's High-Performing Men
What the research shows about the leadership class that quietly lost the thread.
Why Verge exists inside humanKIND
humanKIND has always worked with leaders across gender, industry, and background. But the particular shape of how high-functioning men perform, armour, and disconnect — and the particular difficulty of finding a space where it is safe to be honest about that — is distinct enough to deserve its own container.
Verge is that container. Built on the same human-centred foundation as everything at humanKIND — the belief that the gap between who you perform and who you actually are is the central human problem in leadership — but designed specifically for men who are ready to close it, together.
Co-developed and co-facilitated by
Jason Levine & James Powell, CPCCs
Verge is co-developed and co-facilitated by Jason Levine and James Powell — both Certified Professional Co-Active Coaches with deep experience in leadership development and men's work. Both facilitators are shaped by the same cultural expectations the group is built to examine. They are not observers. They are in the room.
Jason Levine
CPCC · Co-founder, VergeA Senior Creative Leader and Certified Professional Co-Active Coach with deep experience guiding high-performing, high-EQ teams, creative professionals, and entrepreneurs. Jason works at the intersection of transformational change, leadership, and emotional depth.
jasonlevinecoaching.com
James Powell
Founder, humanKIND · Co-founder, VergeJames is the founder of humanKIND, a leadership coaching and advisory practice based in Toronto. He co-founded Verge because he kept meeting men in coaching who needed something coaching alone couldn't give them: other men willing to be honest.
Meet JamesWHO VERGE IS FOR
Verge might be for you if...
Four lies. Four shifts.
“I have to handle this alone.”
Connection builds strength.
“Control is what keeps me safe.”
Steadiness beats control.
“My worth equals my output.”
Worth is inherent.
“Emotion makes me weak.”
Emotional range sharpens leadership.
Ten men. Eight weeks. One threshold.
The Verge men's group is a closed cohort — ten men moving through eight weeks of structured, facilitated work together. Seven virtual 90-minute sessions, plus one live in-person threshold experience in Toronto. Capped at ten men — closed cohort, curated for values alignment. Application and a 20-minute conversation required.
Closed cohort
Structured work
Threshold experience
Want to know more about Verge?
Verge runs in closed cohorts of ten. If you're ready to explore it, visit the Verge site or start with a conversation with James.