When MIT and London Business School set out to study how strategy plays out in 400 companies, they got a surprise. The research team started by asking 11,000 leaders what should be an easy question: “What are your company’s top three to five priorities?”

The results were “shockingly bad”. Only 1/3 could name their company’s top three goals and given five tries, only 50% could agree on the same top priority.

Imagine a team of ten executives with an average total comp of $200,000 annually. That’s $2 million in payroll cost alone all sitting in meetings arguing vs deciding. Then walking out of meetings saying they are on the same page, but not leading their departments in the same direction.

Now, imagine the total cost to the organization in terms of the opportunity cost of revenue, employee satisfaction, late projects, failed initiatives, and customer satisfaction.

When the Executive Leadership Team cannot align, focus, and execute, this has a ripple effect throughout the entire company. The misalignment at the top gets more distorted the farther it moves from the center of leadership.

This has massive implications for every employee in the company. They become frustrated, disillusioned and are unsure where the company is heading. Employee satisfaction can plummet and attrition can skyrocket.

People learn and align through experiences and self-discovery of new ideas. Not when being told what to do or what to think.

The Executive Alignment Process is designed around group experiences, games, and simulations so that the team can learn, discover and align by thinking about the situation in unique and different ways. Not just arguing or talking in circles. Not being told by a “consultant” what they believe the answer is.

By leaning in, creating space for everyone to engage, share what is on their mind and think differently. Together. If you want to change what you get, you have to change what you do. And if you’re going to change what you do, you have to change how you think. It’s only by thinking differently that you can arrive at a breakthrough.

We use a proven & repeatable system of tools, approaches and techniques honed over a combined fifty years of focusing on the challenge of executive team alignment.

These active and focused approaches require the team to think about their situation and wrestle with problems and insights in entirely new ways.

Our system uses “Logical Thinking Tools” to provide a framework for the group to examine the situation using a scientific “cause & effect” relationship in a systematic, structured and focused way to break down the problem.

As Albert Einstein says: “You can’t solve problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

This isn’t all “pie-in-the sky” case study thinking. It’s not some ethereal story told by a “consultant” or “trainer” of how others have solved their problems.

We carefully craft and purpose-build an Executive Alignment Workshop for you. For your team. For your situation. For your business.

Everything feels custom-built for your team because it is. We do our homework.

Through this, we’ll help you and your team thoroughly examine your specific situation in a new way to have a breakthrough in thinking. This results in ridiculous alignment and “never seen before” levels of focus on what matters most so the team can drive the business forward to deliver overall company results.

We have been in your shoes. We’ve navigated your problems. We speak the language of leadership and deeply understand the difficulties and challenges of leading executive teams and delivering results to a Board and Investors.

We have real-world executive experience leading small, medium and large companies ($5 million to $450+ million) ourselves and have worked with companies of all sizes (up to $1 billion).

Yet, our value is not in what we have done, but in how we have learned to do it.

We are neutral, unbiased, experienced experts who will come alongside you to help you get everyone on the same page and focus everyone’s energy, time and attention on the things that matter most in delivering results. Our only agenda is to help you and your team get it right.