Development · Leadership team
The team that sets every other team’s weather.
The executive team is a team too — usually the least examined, and the most consequential. Whatever is true of it becomes true of the organization beneath it.
Fix the top, and the rest follows.
If the leadership team does not trust each other, their departments will not either. If it reopens every decision, so will every level below. The top team’s trust, alignment and decision-making cascade downward — which makes it the highest-leverage team in the company to work on, and the hardest, because power makes honesty costly.
We work with executive teams the way we work with any team, but with the discretion and skill senior people need to be genuinely exposed without it being used against them.
What we work on.
Trust at the top
The safety for senior people to be honest with each other.
Real alignment
Not alignment in the room and contradiction outside it.
Decision rights
Who decides what, so the top team stops relitigating.
The example they set
Naming the behavior the rest of the company copies.
When this matters most.
Leadership team work is our highest-leverage engagement.
A newly-formed leadership team
A merger, a reshuffle, or new members joining.
Cascading dysfunction
When patterns at the top are showing up everywhere below.
Before a big year
Getting the top team right before it sets the tone.
About Leadership team training
Is this a strategy offsite?
It can sit alongside one, but the focus here is the health of the team itself — trust, alignment, decisions — not the business plan.
How do you handle seniority and ego?
With discretion and a skilled facilitator. The work only happens if senior people feel safe, and creating that safety is the craft.
Want Leadership team training for your team?
Tell us the goal, and we will shape it around your team — and measure what changed.