Fixing The Top Team
High-performance culture starts from the top. When leaders are aligned, they create clarity, direction, motivation and momentum. We’ll help you marry purpose and performance and embed a high-trust leadership approach to achieve this.
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Fixing The Top Team

How we can help

We typically support leadership and management teams at tricky business inflection points; rapid growth, post-merger, post-regulatory sanctions etc. Often top teams can need support to develop their capability, be challenged in their thinking and become more cohesive – which is where we come in.

Our top team work tends to focus on:

  • Building trust, cohesion and collaboration: Eliminating friction and fostering a high-performing team dynamic

  • Creating strategic clarity: Creating leadership alignment on priorities, decisions and company vision

  • Improving communication: Embedding transparency and consistency in messaging

  • Increasing accountability: Ensuring leadership behaviours and actions align with cultural and business goals

  • Role-modelling leadership excellence: Setting the standard for the rest of the organisation

  • Revitalising workplace culture and delivering exceptional performance

  • Specific upskilling around topics such as innovation, inclusion, wellbeing & AI

Our approach typically starts with a Leadership Diagnostic tool such as the Leadership Practices Inventory, Lumina Spark or 5 Dysfunctions of Teams which assesses alignment, leadership behaviours, and team dynamics. Based on this, we create a bespoke leadership development training and executive coaching programmes to fix dysfunction & misalignment, enhance decision-making, and strengthen leadership impact.

Outcomes

Based on our assessment that identifies and confirms current strengths and uncovers misalignment, challenges, and opportunities for improvement, we design a bespoke programme of intervention and support, tailored to your leadership team’s unique needs.

With our expert support, executive leadership coaching and guidance, your top team will:

  • Break down siloes: Fostering cross-functional collaboration
  • Align around priorities: Ensuring leadership clarity on strategic objectives
  • Enhance decision-making: Reducing ambiguity and improving organisational clarity and direction
  • Increase accountability and joint ownership: Driving higher performance, alignment and engagement across the business
  • Lead culture from the top: Role-modelling the mindset and behaviours needed for sustainable success
  • Become the cohesive driving force behind your organisation’s success

Top teams that lead by example inspire others, increase motivation and create lasting cultural change.

Ready to fix the top team and revitalise your workplace culture? Let’s talk.

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FAQs

At moments of strategic tension – whether it’s post-merger, navigating regulatory sanctions, or scaling at pace – leadership cohesion is often the determining factor in organisational success. In these contexts, dysfunction, ambiguity and siloed thinking can stall performance. Investing in leadership development ensures alignment around purpose, clarity in decision-making, and creates a culture of shared accountability, performance and success.
Trust and cohesion requires more than off-sites and platitudes. We use diagnostic tools to surface behavioural dynamics, highlight cultural misalignment, and identify points of friction. Our approach facilitates open dialogue and promotes cross-functional collaboration – we develop leadership behaviours that drive cultural consistency and performance, ensuring that what leaders say, do, and reinforce is consistent.
Coaching creates the psychological space needed for reflection and recalibration. Our executive coaching methodology integrates diagnostic insight with behavioural science to address misalignment, build trust and enhance the leadership impact across the system. It’s particularly powerful when aligned with culture change programmes that allow deep mindset shifts and new ways of working.
Over time, these teams can become visible champions of change – embedding culture and accelerating transformation. We embed feedback loops, peer learning structures and practical toolkits to sustain change. Additionally, we create visibility into progress through real-time metrics linked to both cultural and commercial indicators.

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