Team Leadership Engagement

Some leadership challenges can’t be solved with a single conversation.

When communication breaks down, accountability slips, or team performance stalls, leaders need more than general advice.

They need a deeper understanding of what’s influencing performance, clarity around what needs to change, and practical support to implement an approach that gets results.

The Team Leadership Engagement is a six-month consulting, coaching, and advisory partnership designed to help you build a high-performing team.

Rather than following a predetermined curriculum, every engagement is customized around the specific leadership challenges, team dynamics, and organizational realities identified during your Leadership Advisory Session.

Together, we’ll address the challenges you’re facing while developing the practices, strategies, and approaches needed to build and sustain a high-performing team.

Who This Is For

This engagement is designed for leaders who:

• Lead teams of 5–10 people.
• Want to improve their team’s performance.
• Recognize that stronger leadership creates stronger teams.
• Want practical support that addresses real challenges, not generic leadership concepts.
• Value an evidence-based approach that’s grounded in organizational effectiveness and behavioral science.

When This Engagement May Be Appropriate

The Team Leadership Engagement may be the right fit if:

• Your team is not performing at the level you know they’re capable of.
• Communication challenges are impacting collaboration and execution.
• Accountability is inconsistent.
• Team members are misaligned around priorities or expectations.
• Conflict, misunderstandings, or unclear roles are limiting performance.
• You’re spending too much time solving recurring issues instead of leading strategically.
• You want to build a stronger team while developing your own leadership effectiveness.

How We Work Together

Every Team Leadership Engagement begins with a Leadership Advisory Session.

During this session, we’ll clarify the challenges you’re experiencing, explore the factors influencing performance, and determine whether this engagement is the right solution for your situation.

If it is, we create a customized approach based on your goals, your team, and the specific challenges you’re working to address.

Depending on your needs, our work may include:

• Organizational effectiveness consulting
• Leadership coaching
• Strategic guidance and decision support
• Team Behavioral Assessments for you and your team
• Communication and working-style analysis
• Team norms and operating practices
• Accountability and performance strategies
• Leadership development tailored to your specific challenges
• Practical applied implementation support as you lead your team

Throughout our work together, we’ll focus on the real situations you’re navigating as a leader.

You’ll apply new insights, strategies, and approaches with your team in real time while receiving ongoing guidance, feedback, and support.

The goal is to resolve today’s challenges and to help you develop the capability to continue building and leading high-performing teams throughout your career.

What You’ll Develop

Throughout the engagement, you will strengthen your ability to:

• Lead with greater confidence and clarity
• Improve communication across your team
• Build trust and stronger working relationships
• Establish meaningful accountability
• Navigate difficult team leadership conversations
• Align people around shared priorities
• Address performance challenges more effectively
• Create the conditions for a high-performing team

As we work together to address your current leadership and team challenges, you’ll gain practical experience with applying what you learn directly with your team.

This results in stronger leadership capability that continues to serve you long after our work together ends.

Team Leadership Engagement Investment:

$25,000 USD

Your engagement begins with a Leadership Advisory Session to determine whether this is the right solution for your situation.

FAQs

Is this coaching, advisory, or consulting?

It’s a blend. 

The Team Leadership Engagement combines organizational effectiveness consulting, strategic guidance, and leadership advisory plus coaching.

The approach is determined by your goals, your challenges, and what will create the greatest impact for you and your team.

What does the engagement include and how often do we meet?

Most leaders meet with me 1:1 three times per month during the six-month engagement. This design provides consistent support as you apply new leadership approaches, navigate real-time challenges, and build stronger team performance.

Because every team leadership situation is different, the specific structure of the engagement is customized based on the challenges identified during your Leadership Advisory Session, your goals, and the level of support needed to create meaningful progress.

Your engagement includes 1:1 leadership sessions, strategic guidance, email access for consultation between sessions, assessments, and customized resources designed to support your specific leadership and team goals.

Details are submitted in written form after your Leadership Advisory Session is complete.

Will you work directly with my team?

The primary focus of this engagement is 1:1 working with you as the leader.

Together, we’ll address the leadership and team challenges identified during your Leadership Advisory Session and develop strategies you’ll apply during your day-to-day leadership.

As you implement these approaches with your team, we’ll review what’s happening, refine your approach, and identify strategies that support stronger team performance.

Depending on the needs of the engagement, team assessments, input, feedback, or participation may be incorporated when it supports the goals of the work.

Any team involvement is determined based on the specific situation and the recommendations developed during the Leadership Advisory Session.

Is every Team Leadership Engagement the same?

Not at all. Every Team Leadership Engagement is customized based on your Leadership Advisory Session, your team development goals, and the specific organizational factors influencing performance.

Why six months?

Meaningful changes in leadership effectiveness and team performance require time, practice, and adjustment.

Six months allows us to address current challenges, implement approaches, evaluate what’s working, and support you as these practices and structure become part of how you lead.

Is the work confidential?

Yes. Leadership challenges often involve sensitive business, team, and organizational issues. Every engagement is conducted with the highest level of professional confidentiality so that you can openly discuss your situation and receive the guidance you need.

What Leaders Say

“I was looking for a systemic approach to define everyone’s roles, form a new team culture, transform my department into a high-performance team and stay sane and balanced while doing so. In working with Diana for 6 months, these goals were accomplished and measurable results were achieved.

My experience in working with Diana has been incredible. She was very supportive during the most stressful times of this transition. I have learned a lot and become a more effective leader through this experience. The results were documented in a follow-up survey of the team commenting on both their experience during the process as well as my leadership capabilities. The outcome was very positive.”

-Angela Saulino
Director of Product Marketing, Biomet 3i