Aligned Team Execution™

Transform Your Strategy Into Team Habits That Guarantee Results.

In two days, leaders align on critical business outcomes and establish agreed-upon team habits and team agreements that support optimal execution. In addition, leaders establish how they will communicate, resolve conflict, and share ownership for organizational priorities across functions.

The B STATE meeting structure keeps leaders focused on execution by addressing obstacles that stand in the way of agreed outcomes rather than just sharing information and reviewing status updates. Results are tracked and measured, with guaranteed measurable results, or you don’t pay.

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You already know this

You set the direction, then watch it dissolve in the handoffs between the people you trust most.

On paper the plan is sound. In practice it slips at every handoff between functions.

You've hired the talent. The operating system keeps turning capable people into rivals.

Your roadmap needs three functions to move as one. They rarely do, and it lands back on your desk.

You can measure the cost of misalignment every quarter. You just can't

line-item the cause.

The Mechanism

Most execution work ends when the engagement ends. This one installs the operating system.

A workshop teaches your skills. A retreat improves how they feel. 90 days later, the same gaps are back, because nothing changed in how teams actually operate. Aligned Team Execution is different. Your team builds shared ownership for the outcomes no single function controls, the customer experience, the results, and the culture, and builds it into the way they work, so it stays after we leave.

What your team builds in the room

You leave with real team agreements.

Most sessions end with a slide deck and good intentions. This one ends with the actual operating agreements your team will run on, built by them, specific to your business.

Shared execution criteria

The standards for what good cross-functional execution looks like in your organization, agreed on together.

Up to 12 Team Habits

The specific behaviors that produce execution, each one tied to business outcomes that are tracked and improved.

3 to 6 shared priorities

The cross-functional initiatives that can't succeed without joint ownership now jointly owned.

Proactive Recovery Plans

A way to surface and solve breakdowns early and solve problems collectively.

Baseline measurements

Tracked every 90 days, so progress is visible and defensible.

This isn't soft-skills work. These are operational agreements with accountability attached and they change how your team functions.

The Engagement

Two days in the room. One reinforcement session. Measured throughout.

The working session

Virtual or on-site, 16 hours. Your team builds its own operating agreements, in the room, together.

Embed & execute

The team goes back to work, with new habits tracked at every meeting and shared priorities jointly owned.

6-month reinforcement

We return to measure, adjust, and continue to embed the change. Results in four to six months.

The Proof

Documented outcomes, not estimates.

Implemented with more than 1,400 leadership teams across 20 countries. The outcomes are tracked, verified, and guaranteed.

60–80%

improvement in team habits of execution

15–35%

improvement in cross-functional coordination

25%

faster project completion, on average

Takeda

Bio-Pharma Manufacturing

Implemented with more than 1,400 leadership teams across 20 countries. The outcomes are tracked, verified, and guaranteed.

Michelin IT

Global Centralization Initiative

An initiative leadership had declared impossible. Brought in with 18 months left, finished in 9.

Municipal Government

Cross-Functional Restructure

Entrenched silos across departments. Millions saved, engagement up, silos broken. Six months.

Medical Center & Industrial Division

Turnaround & Restructuring

A medical center in the red became profitable in nine months. A 3,000-person division delivered higher morale and $2M in cost reduction, also in nine months.

“We learned about each other's needs for success. We are committed to each other's success in addition to our own. This is true ownership.”

Utility Executive · after implementation

The guarantee

Every other firm asks you to trust their process. We ask you to hold us to the result.

If your leadership team doesn't achieve measurable results, we refund our fee in full. No caveats, no conditions. We can put that in writing because 97.5% of the teams we work with succeed, a commitment almost no one else in this space will make.