Swimming in the Same Direction: Leading Teams Through Strategic Alignment
Transform your team from rowing in different directions to swimming together—building the trust, clarity, and shared purpose that drives real results.
About This Workshop
When your team isn't aligned, it shows. Meetings go in circles. Decisions get revisited.
Energy is wasted on internal friction rather than external impact. You're all working hard—just not necessarily together.
This interactive workshop cuts through the noise to help you create genuine alignment: the kind where your team doesn't just nod in agreement, but actually pulls in the same direction when the pressure's on.
Facilitated by leaders who’ve guided 1,000+ companies through exactly these growing pains, ensuring you gain not just best practices, but the lived wisdom of the world’s boldest founders and operators
Co-Facilitators:
Led by Meg Wolf (Co-founder, Hazel Group) and Erik Schreter (Co-founder, Hazel; Founder & CEO, Venwise), these sessions blend transformative executive coaching with high-level advising and peer-driven insights. Erik’s experience building Venwise (the premier peer network for C-suite leaders in high-growth companies) adds a layer of real-world founder perspective and group facilitation mastery.
What You'll Walk Away With
● Practical frameworks: three essential elements of team alignment (and which one you're probably missing)
● A repeatable process for turning conflicting priorities into shared direction
● Communication tools for high-stakes, high-emotion conversations
Real Skills, Practiced
● How to surface hidden disagreements before they derail progress
● Techniques for building trust across functional silos
● Methods for creating accountability that doesn’t feel like micromanagement
Personal Clarity
● Where your team is actually out of sync (versus where you think they are)
● Your role in creating or hindering alignment
● A concrete next step you can take Monday morning
Who Should Attend
Senior leaders managing cross-functional teams, founders frustrated by execution bottlenecks, and team leads facing organizational change or rapid growth. Especially valuable for anyone tasked with alignment across different goals, incentives, or perspectives.
Workshop Format
Duration: 90 Minutes
Structure:
● Opening: Diagnosing misalignment—where teams typically get stuck
● Framework: Three pillars of strategic alignment
● Skill Building: Live practice on navigating conflict and building shared understanding
● Group Application: Coaching on live participant scenarios
● Integration: Action commitments and next steps
● Small group setting for personal coaching and action on real alignment challenges.
Your Facilitators
● Meg Wolf, Co-founder, Hazel; executive coach with 15+ years in alignment for scaling startups and Fortune 100s.
● Erik Schreter, Co-founder, Hazel; Founder & CEO, Venwise. Expert in founder peer networks and business intimacy for high-growth leaders.
Why This Workshop Works
Based on the proven Stakeholder Centered Coaching™ methodology and rich peer experience:
● 50% improved leader confidence
● 43% enhanced communication
● 36% stronger decision-making
● 29% better navigation of change
Participant Feedback
"It's a great mix of philosophy and tactical next steps to help deal with daily and big picture challenges."
Space is limited to 30 participants.
Questions? Contact meg@hzlgrp.com or +1-917-570-7798. Learn more: hlzgrp.com.