building dream teams
EXECUTIVE TEAM COACHING
Custom advisory for executive teams that need to move faster, align on what matters, and work better together.
When Teams Call Us In
Teams reach out when the drift has started, or the crisis has hit yet. Decisions take longer. Meetings feel heavier. The same conversations happen twice. Roles have blurred as the company scaled. Someone's frustrated but no one's naming it.
The CEO sees it but can't always name what's wrong. The exec team works hard but not quite together. Trust feels fragile. Expectations aren't explicit. The team needs to reset.
How We Work Together
DIAGNOSE
We assess the team's structure, roles, expectations, norms, and decision paths. We look for friction points, avoided conversations, and unclear agreements.
This ensures that anything we do is tailored to YOUR team, not boilerplate.
Design
We design interventions that are high ROI, depending on what your team needs.
This might include (re) building trust, clarifying goals, resetting roles, expectations, decision rights, and norms. We train on skills that the team needs to work together, like feedback and difficult conversations.
Deliver
We facilitate the conversations the team hasn't been able to have. We bring them into the open through offsites, coaching, peer circles and meeting observation.
We design sustainable structures so the team can sustain the work after we leave.
Ready to reset how your team works together?
How Engagements Work
We start with individual interviews to understand what's happening beneath the surface. That way, when we're in the room, we're working on the real and highest ROI issues.
Next is a team meeting or offsite: anywhere from two hours to two days where we step back, talk about what's working and what's not, and set the foundation for how you'll work going forward.
From there, we might do ongoing sessions, peer circles, meeting observations and 1:1 coaching to keep the team aligned as you scale, or we might wrap after the offsite if that's all you need.
Sample Starting Points
Team coaching often emerges from CEO work. Here are examples of where we've started.
Executive Meetings That Weren't Working
Context
A large, multi-billion dollar global organization with a distributed executive team.
Complications
Executive meetings had devolved into long report-outs. Conflict surfaced through poor behavior.
Course of Action
Rebuilt trust and connection, clarified what the team wanted from executive meetings, moved reporting to dashboards.
Consequences
More strategic meetings, faster decision-making, and reduced conflict.
Strategy Constantly Being Derailed by 'Surprises'
Context
An executive team responsible for delivering against an ambitious strategic plan.
Complications
Unexpected issues surfaced late, forcing repeated course corrections.
Course of Action
Ran pre-mortems to surface hidden risks and tacit knowledge across the team.
Consequences
Fewer surprises, more realistic planning, and greater confidence in execution.
No Shared Purpose or North Star
Context
An executive team with an expansive, multi-faceted mandate.
Complications
No one could clearly articulate the organization's purpose. Every function was working in silos.
Course of Action
Facilitated a full-day working session to define a compelling shared North Star.
Consequences
Clearer alignment, accelerated focus on key initiatives, and intentional deprioritization of functional pet projects.
Why This Works
Combines rigor with judgment, and systems thinking with real-time practice.
Teams don't just gain insight—they change how they work together.
The work happens where it matters, including in the middle of real executive meetings.
Interventions are tailored, so leaders invest only in what their team actually needs.
We address the whole system, not individuals in isolation. This isn’t just 1-1 coaching rolled out to everyone.
Where This Has Worked
We've worked with executive teams at growth-stage companies (Series B through public), helping them move from reactive to deliberate, from polite to candid, and from slow to momentum-driven.
Teams I've worked with report clearer decisions, faster execution, fewer repeated conversations, and better relationships; not because people suddenly like each other more, but because the system is working better.