How to Align and Lead Senior Teams That Deliver Results

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.

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.
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.
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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LSA has a very unique and powerful methodology regarding learning. Their ability to overcome skepticism, obtain executive support, and create an aligned learning strategy that provides measurable business impact is second to none.

They understand your goals, flex to your needs, and solve problems. They certainly help make my job easier and are a pleasure to work with.

I highly recommend LSA to anyone trying to connect the dots between strategy, skills, knowledge, and results.

Noelle Van Vlierbergen
Human Resources Director

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

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

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