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Align senior teams and functions with the strategic direction

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“We got great value from the strategy session.  We would not hesitate to use LSA again to help align and lead senior teams to drive higher performance.”

Natalie McCullough | Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer | ServiceSource

“LSA is no fluff.  My experienced leadership team had worked with strategy and leadership consultants before without great success.  LSA exceeded all expectations.  People went through a metamorphosis with game changing behaviors.

LSA gave me and our leadership team the foundation we needed for high growth.  They have become my high stakes leadership Sherpa.”

Conroy Boxhill | President | Porter Novelli

“At a time of change in our marketplace, LSA Global did an exceptional job helping our executive team define a clear and compelling strategy that we all bought into.  They beautifully navigated a very difficult situation, respectfully cleared out all of the cultural elephants, and shared impactful insights and theories along the way.

They have transformed our business.  We look forward to our continued partnership to help us execute our growth strategy and continue to align and lead senior teams.”

Laurie Sewell | President & CEO | Servicon Systems

The Impact of Leadership Teams
An organization is, in many ways, the extension of its Leadership Team. When executives are misaligned, the organization cannot achieve alignment. Without alignment, performance falters, and organizational health suffers. Leadership cohesion sets the tone for culture, decision-making, and results.

Defining Leadership Team Alignment
Leadership Team Alignment occurs when every senior leader and function operates in harmony to achieve a shared set of objectives. True organizational cohesion requires leaders to adopt a systemic view — understanding how strategies, structures, processes, systems, and people interact to drive organizational integrity.

Alignment is not just agreement on goals; it’s about synchronizing behaviors, mindsets, and decisions to ensure that the organization moves forward as a unified entity. Leaders who grasp and leverage these interdependencies create an environment where strategy is understood, adopted, and executed effectively.

What Employees Expect From Leaders
Employees look to leadership for clarity, direction, and cohesion. They want leaders who are on the same page and can provide:

  • A compelling strategic vision: A clear picture of what the organization aspires to become.
  • A meaningful mission statement: Articulating the organization’s fundamental purpose.
  • Clear priorities and actionable plans: Providing a strategic “rudder” for difficult decisions and resource allocation.
  • Demonstrated commitment: Leaders whose words and actions consistently support the strategy.
  • Aligned structures and systems: Organizational tools and processes that enable, rather than obstruct, strategic execution.

Senior Team Alignment Process
Organizational effectiveness mirrors the effectiveness of its Leadership Team. Misalignment at the senior level cascades across the enterprise, undermining performance and organizational health.

Our Senior Team Alignment Process equips leadership teams to gain—and sustain—the coordination, collaboration, and clarity necessary to deliver results. Alignment strengthens operating discipline, fosters trust, encourages open communication, and improves decision-making across the organization.

  • Setting the Stage for Strategy Implementation
    Effective strategy design is not a solitary exercise. Leaders cannot draft plans in isolation and expect flawless execution. To build collective ownership and actionable strategies, leaders must socialize, test, and refine their ideas throughout the organization.

    By facilitating discussion, gathering feedback, and iterating plans, leaders produce a cohesive, compelling framework that aligns with the business. At the same time, employees become engaged stakeholders, motivated to implement strategies they helped shape.
  • Driving Strategy Execution with Action Learning Projects
    Action Learning Leadership Development Programs bridge the gap between strategy and execution. These programs engage small, cross-functional teams to tackle real organizational challenges — not case studies or simulations. The dual purpose is to generate tangible results while deepening leadership capability.

    Grounded in research-backed principles, action learning reinforces the idea that people learn best when addressing real problems with real consequences. Properly designed, these projects ensure that strategic ideas don’t remain in the boardroom but take root throughout the organization.

    Executives who sponsor these initiatives gain valuable insights into team dynamics and learn how to unlock the full potential of their leaders. Meanwhile, participants develop practical skills in strategic thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving — all while delivering outcomes that advance the organization’s critical priorities.

Partner With Us
Contact us to explore how to better align and lead senior teams at your organization.

Ask about Pay-for-Performance options — where we link program success directly to the leadership metrics that matter most to your business.

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LSA’s executive coach based his approach on understanding our business circumstances and strategy, as well as our leadership aspirations. The customized coaching covered all aspects of leadership; it was not simply a touchy-feely endeavor.

In fact, the focus on clear business outcomes and real life circumstances challenged me as a senior leader to develop my thinking and actions related to leading the business.”

Janet Pagano
Managing Director

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Working on our HR Strategy was so eye opening.  I feel so much better prepared to be successful as a leader individually and collectively.

Now the entire HR leadership team can drive our growth strategy forward in a way that makes sense.

Kristin Talastas
Director, HR Shared Services

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At a time of change in our marketplace, LSA Global did an exceptional job helping our executive team create strategic clarity by helping us to define, clarify, and prioritize our corporate vision, mission, values, differentiation, target clients, strategic priorities, success metrics and key roles.

They beautifully navigated a very difficult and fuzzy situation, respectfully cleared out all of the cultural elephants, and shared impactful insights and leadership development theories along the way. They have transformed our business.

Laurie Sewell
President & CEO

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Having recently completed an acquisition that doubled our size and geographic reach, we needed to redefine our “go forward” strategic plan to address the increasing commoditization of our marketplace.

I was very impressed with the thoughtful and practical way that LSA Global was able to bring our leadership teams together to gain focus, buy-in, and commitment to a compelling strategy that we created together.

Jon Troen
CEO

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Thanks a million for the great strategy and cultural alignment session for our global leadership team.

Your experience and patience to expertly deal with the inherent and complex challenges between business units uncovered many hidden truths that created a great roadmap for us to move forward as a unified leadership team.

I recommend LSA to any leader looking to shape and align organizational culture.

Juan Plaza
Geospatial Sales Manager, Latin America

Trimble

As a high growth agency with cutting edge talent, we hired LSA Global to help clarify our strategy and work with our executive leadership team to help implement strategic changes in a way that made sense for our unique culture.

The work was so successful that we also hired them to coach our key leaders. LSA has been instrumental in helping us transition to a new leadership team and triple revenue.  In this age of useless consultants, I highly recommend their practical and business-oriented approach to strategy, culture, and talent.

David Bentley
General Manager

AKQA

Thank you for a great leadership development session today. The facilitator was brilliant.  The team got a lot out of it (as did I).

I believe it will help us create an even higher performance culture by ensuring we have a common understanding of how to create higher performance and work toward clear and common strategic goals.

Simon Jefferson
Managing Director

AKQA

I can’t emphasize enough what a huge shift you helped to create for us as an organization. Thanks again for your change management consulting help and guidance.

The clarity, practicality, focus, and accountability are exactly what we needed to make this strategy and major transformation a success from a hearts and minds perspective.

Cris Alvarez
VP Corporate Strategy

LSA Global Cambridge Investment Research Financial Services Client

We got great value from the executive strategy session.  We would not hesitate to use LSA again with our Executive Leadership Team.

Natalie McCullough
Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer

Service Source

Having taken on a new executive leadership role, one of my first calls was to LSA Global to help my leadership team to design, implement, and cascade clear strategic plans.  First, LSA helped our leadership team identify the strategy, culture, and talent areas that mattered most to create organizational alignment.

Then they helped facilitate the design of a strategic growth plan that is clear, compelling, believable, and implementable. We now have 100% commitment from an aligned leadership team and key stakeholders going forward.

I would recommend LSA to anyone who wants to create high levels of strategic alignment, growth, and performance.

Erik Arvesen
Vice President, General Manager

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LSA has a tremendous ability to distil complex, multilayered challenges into meaningful, impactful, and clear strategies and action plans.

The time we invested as a leadership team to get aligned was well spent in gaining laser focus and identifying ways to prioritize what was meaningful individually and as a team. The facilitation and leadership style was direct, firm, and compassionate.

LSA provided the high level thinking and support for our team to co-create in a rapidly scaling business.

Bindu Garapaty, PsyD
VP, Talent and Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity

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The LSA customized Organizational Alignment Survey gave us a comprehensive view of how our employees experience our culture, talent, and strategy.

The systemic approach provided us with a great forum to discuss the strengths and opportunities in our organization, and then to quickly get focused on the key actions critical to executing our business and people strategies.

Mark Forrest
General Manager, FSM Division

Trimble

Great job in designing the Mergers and Acquisition strategy session for our global leadership team. The session was excellent.

I gained additional insight on the importance of the role of HR regarding strategy, culture, and people in Mergers and Acquisitions and would recommend LSA to anyone looking to align strategies and cultures.

Gloria Veon
Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Fujitsu

LSA helped us to create the strategic clarity and alignment we needed for our team to thrive.

The practical, no-nonsense, and outcome-oriented approach really helped us all get on the same page strategically and set us up to be a high performing leadership team to focus on what matters most.

Michael Carter
VP Human Resources

Samsung

Having tripled in size and recently merged, LSA helped our executive team to increase our level of strategic alignment, to solidify our new direction, and to push our agency forward.

As we look to rapidly scale, the clear, actionable, and critical few strategic moves combined with how we differentiate ourselves to our top accounts and target clients has really set us on a great path to success.

This is exactly what we needed to get to the next level. Thank you LSA!

Matt Britton
CEO

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