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What Our Clients Say About Aligning Senior Leadership Teams

“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

How to Align and Lead Senior Teams That Deliver Results

Why Even Talented Executive Teams Fail to Deliver
A company cannot outperform the collective effectiveness of its senior leadership team indefinitely. When executives pursue competing priorities, protect functional silos, or avoid difficult decisions, even the best business strategies struggle to gain traction.

The problem is rarely a lack of executive talent. It is a lack of leadership alignment, shared accountability, and collective execution.

What Does It Mean to Align and Lead Senior Teams?
Senior team alignment means executives operate as one enterprise leadership team — not a collection of functional leaders competing for resources, influence, and priorities.

True alignment requires more than agreement in the boardroom. It demands shared strategic clarity, productive conflict, coordinated decisions, and consistent leadership behaviors.

Our organizational alignment research found that highly aligned companies achieve 58% faster revenue growth, 72% higher profitability, and 16.8 times greater employee engagement than less aligned organizations.

The implication is clear: Leadership alignment is a business performance imperative, not a team-building exercise.

5 Research-Backed Requirements to Align and Lead Senior Teams Effectively

  • Create Unambiguous Strategic Clarity
    Establish a compelling strategic vision, meaningful mission, and critical few strategic priorities that guide difficult business decisions.
  • Put Enterprise Success Above Functional Agendas
    Eliminate competing priorities and ensure executives make decisions based on what is best for the organization — not themselves or their departments.
  • Confront the Difficult Conversations
    Build the trust and psychological team safety required to challenge assumptions, address unresolved tensions, and debate strategic tradeoffs without undermining relationships.
  • Align Leadership Behaviors and Business Practices
    Ensure organizational structures, incentives, processes, and business practices reinforce the desired strategy and culture.
  • Establish Collective Accountability for Results.
    Translate strategic priorities into measurable outcomes, clear decision rights, and shared commitments that executives actively reinforce.

Our Senior Team Alignment Process: From Executive Agreement to Measurable Results
We help executive teams move beyond superficial consensus to build the strategic clarity, organizational commitment, and execution discipline required for sustained performance.

  1. Build Strategic Alignment Before Execution
    Effective strategy execution begins with honest conversations about where the organization is going, what matters most, and what leaders must stop doing.

    Our facilitated process challenges assumptions, surfaces competing agendas, clarifies strategic tradeoffs, and creates genuine executive alignment, commitment, and ownership of the business strategy.
  2. Turn Alignment into Action Through Real Business Challenges
    Our Action Learning Leadership Development Programs engage cross-functional leaders in solving strategically important business problems.

    Rather than relying on theoretical exercises, participants confront actual execution barriers, strengthen collaboration, and deliver tangible business outcomes.
  3. Sustain Alignment Through Leadership Accountability
    Alignment deteriorates when executives return to business as usual. We help leadership teams establish operating agreements, performance measures, decision-making disciplines, and reinforcement mechanisms that keep strategic priorities moving forward.

The Bottom Line
If your senior leaders are not aligned, neither is your organization. Executive talent, strategic ambition, and functional excellence cannot compensate for competing agendas and inconsistent execution. To align and lead senior teams effectively, leaders must confront difficult tradeoffs, commit to shared priorities, and hold one another accountable for enterprise results. The goal is not a happier executive team — it is a higher-performing organization.

Partner With LSA Global
Is your senior leadership team accelerating your strategy — or unintentionally standing in its way?

Contact LSA Global to discover how to align and lead senior teams, eliminate costly execution barriers, and build the collective leadership effectiveness required for measurable business results.

Ask about our Pay-for-Performance options — where we link program success to the leadership and business outcomes that matter most.

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This was an extremely effective executive strategy session that helped our executive leadership team efficiently navigate through our core strategic objectives. It was exactly what we needed.  The approach was practical and valuable for our specific business and market.

I recommend LSA to anyone looking to push their strategic planning, thinking, and growth to the next level.

Blake Krikorian
CEO

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’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

Ovid

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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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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LSA Global really shifted our perspective about strategic clarity and organizational culture.

The 3 C’s approach to workplace culture is very practical and really helps executive teams — even skeptical ones — ensure that your culture is healthy, high performing, and aligned.

Amy Cappellanti-Wolf
Chief Human Resources Officer

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LSA was very thorough during all phases of our customer service strategy process.  Their time spent with management and our employees went very well.

LSA’s insights were very powerful, and their suggestions for the future were very valuable.

I can’t think of any phase of the process that wasn’t first class.

John Lynch
CEO & President

ESCI

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

LSA worked with our Executive Leadership Team to help create strategic clarity and alignment as we look to increase our growth rate and unlock innovation.  They masterfully handled very complex, challenging, and high stakes leaders, decisions, and cultural nuances to help us identify what matters most and move toward one unified direction.

Their practical, straightforward, and client-centric approach to strategy was refreshing.  I highly recommend them to any executive team looking to get aligned to create even higher performance.  They are lights out awesome!

Patrick Resk
Chief Financial Officer, Partner

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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

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

We selected LSA Global over 5 other companies to help our key executives improve their overall communication and executive presentation capabilities. LSA exceeded our expectations.

I highly recommend LSA to any executive team looking to better organize and more effectively deliver key executive-level messages — especially when the stakes are high.

Todd Power
Office of the CEO

The strategy and alignment work with our leadership team was absolutely transformational.  The decisions we made combined with the transparency, communication, and accountability were exactly what we needed.  Thank you!

Dr. Raphael B. Merriman M.D
Medical Director, Liver Transplantation

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We recently hired LSA to help us take our client delivery methodology to the next level as we continue to grow and help our clients succeed.

The custom strategy and design session exceeded our expectations. They really understood our business and delivered within tight time frames. They were the best I have seen for this type of complex, visible, and strategic work.

LSA’s ability to get a group of 20+ executives from around the globe on the same page, push their thinking to new heights, and ensure an executable plan was excellent.

I would recommend LSA to anyone looking to take their strategy and strategic execution to the next level.

Rob Sturgeon
EVP Client Delivery

Service Source

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

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