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Leadership Team Alignment

Your Leadership Team Is Not Underperforming. It Is Misaligned.

Leadership team alignment is the operating system that determines whether your executive team executes together or works against itself. Michael King has built a five-dimension framework that diagnoses and fixes misalignment in 90 days.

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What Misalignment Looks Like

Six Signs Your Leadership Team Has an Alignment Problem

01

Your leadership team agrees in the room and executes differently outside it

02

Decisions made at the top take weeks to reach the front line intact

03

Department heads protect their turf instead of solving the company's problems

04

The same strategic priorities get redefined every quarter

05

You cannot tell whether your team is aligned or just being polite

06

Culture varies so much by department it feels like three different companies

The Framework

The TEAMS Alignment Method

Five dimensions. One operating system. Built to diagnose exactly where your leadership team is breaking down and fix it in the right order.

T

Targets

Every leader on your team can state the same 90-day priorities without hesitation. Targets create the shared north star that alignment requires.

E

Execution

Weekly one-on-one coaching and monthly group strategy sessions turn agreed priorities into delivered work, so alignment does not erode between meetings.

A

Action Steps

Every commitment is tracked inside the TEAMS OS. Accountability is not a conversation. It is a system.

M

Momentum

A culture of consistent wins compounds over time. Momentum is the evidence that alignment is working.

S

Synergy

Full organizational alignment where every person moves in the same direction at the same time. This is the outcome. Everything else is the path.

What You Get

What Leadership Team Alignment Produces in 90 Days

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Leadership team operating from one shared set of priorities

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Cross-functional decisions made at the team level without escalation to the CEO

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Strategy that survives contact with execution

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Culture that retains high performers and repels misalignment

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Measurable improvement across all five TEAMS dimensions in 90 days

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A leadership team that functions the same whether or not you are in the room

How The Work Runs

Inside the 90-Day Transformation

Alignment is not an event. The engagement is built as three 30-day phases, in order, because fixing structure before identity is why most leadership work does not hold.

Days 1 to 30

Identity and Targets

  • Every leader completes the Team Alignment Diagnostic, so the work starts from measured gaps instead of opinions.
  • The team defines one shared set of 90-day targets that each leader can state without hesitation.
  • Values are written as observable behavior, not posters. If it cannot be seen in a meeting, it does not count.

Days 31 to 60

Execution and Action Steps

  • Weekly one-on-one coaching for every seat, plus group strategy sessions for the leadership team.
  • Commitments move into TEAMS OS, where owners, dates, and follow through are tracked instead of remembered.
  • Decision rights get named, so cross functional calls stop escalating to the CEO by default.

Days 61 to 90

Momentum and Synergy

  • The operating rhythm runs without the coach in the room. That is the test.
  • The diagnostic is re-run so movement across all five dimensions is visible, not just felt.
  • The team leaves with a documented operating standard it can sustain and hand to new leaders.

Transparent Pricing

What It Costs, Before You Get on a Call

Pricing is monthly with a three-month minimum, then month to month. No long term contracts. Every fully deployed one-on-one seat also activates guided coaching and full assessments for up to 30 people on your team.

1 seat

$3,000 / month

$3,000 per seat. Activates up to 30 people.

2 seats

$5,000 / month

$2,500 per seat. Activates up to 60 people.

3 seats

$6,000 / month

$2,000 per seat. Activates up to 90 people.

4+ seats

Custom

Built around the size and shape of your leadership team.

Full breakdown on the packages page.

Fit

Who This Is For, and Who It Is Not For

A strong fit

  • CEOs, founders, and presidents whose leadership team agrees in the room and executes differently outside it
  • Companies between roughly 50 and 500 people where every senior decision still routes through one person
  • Leadership teams heading into growth, a merger, or a leadership change and unwilling to gamble on goodwill
  • Small businesses that want one fully coached seat now and room to activate the rest of the team behind it

Not a fit

  • Teams looking for a one-day morale boost with no follow through
  • Organizations unwilling to name decision rights or hold leaders to written commitments
  • Individual leaders seeking personal career coaching with no team component

Common Questions

Leadership Team Alignment: What Leaders Ask

What is leadership team alignment?

Leadership team alignment is the state in which every member of your executive team shares the same understanding of priorities, values, and operating standards and acts on that understanding consistently. It is not consensus on every decision. It is shared clarity on what matters most and how the team operates together to pursue it.

Why is leadership team alignment so hard to achieve?

Most leadership teams were built from individual high performers who were promoted for their functional expertise, not their ability to operate as a collective. The skills that made each person excellent in their domain are not the same skills required to lead as a unified team. Alignment requires deliberate structural work, not just goodwill and off-sites.

How do you know if your leadership team is misaligned?

The most reliable signal is the gap between what leaders say in meetings and what they do outside them. Other indicators include: the same conflicts resurfacing every quarter, decisions that require CEO involvement to resolve, departments operating with competing priorities, and high performers leaving without a clear explanation. The free Team Alignment Diagnostic at teams.coach/diagnostic measures your team across five dimensions and identifies the specific gap.

How long does it take to align a leadership team?

Meaningful alignment can be achieved in 90 days when the right dimensions are addressed in the right order. The Teams.Coach engagement is structured as a 90-day transformation: the first 30 days establish identity and values clarity, the second 30 days build structural systems, and the final 30 days activate the new standard across the organization.

What is the difference between leadership team alignment and team building?

Team building is an activity. Leadership team alignment is a state. Team building exercises create temporary connection. Alignment work addresses the structural, values, and accountability gaps that cause leadership teams to pull in different directions. Aligned leadership teams do not need regular team building because the foundation is already in place.

Can leadership team alignment be measured?

Yes. Teams.Coach measures alignment across five dimensions: Targets, Execution, Action Steps, Momentum, and Synergy. The free Team Alignment Diagnostic produces a radar chart showing exactly where the team is strong and where the gaps are. Progress is tracked across the 90-day engagement so leaders can see the change, not just feel it.

How much does it cost?

Pricing is monthly with a three-month minimum, then month to month, with no long term contract. One fully deployed one-on-one seat is $3,000 per month, two seats are $5,000 per month, and three seats are $6,000 per month. Four or more seats are custom. Every seat also activates guided coaching and full assessments for up to 30 people on your team, so a single seat covers up to 30 and three seats cover up to 90.

Find Out Where Your Leadership Team's Alignment Is Breaking Down

The free Team Alignment Diagnostic measures your leadership team across all five dimensions and tells you exactly which one to address first. Five minutes. Instant results.

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