Developing High-Impact Senior Teams

About This Webinar

Senior leadership teams have a major effect on organizational performance, but they often lack the cohesion, alignment, and synergy to deliver the positive impact that’s needed. And unfortunately, for a senior team, simply pursuing “better teamwork” is never enough.

In this session, we’ll explore key ways a senior team can become more of a collective force propelling the organization forward to its vision.

Through the lens of the Leadership Circle framework and the perspective of “collective leadership,” we’ll examine the dynamics of collective senior team effectiveness, including ways of deepening strategic coherence and alignment, as well as ways of building shared identity and strengthening relationships.

You’ll leave with some practical angles and questions to pursue with your own senior team, or teams you work with closely, and a reframing of leadership as a “We” practice—not just an individual pursuit.

Throughout This Session, We Will Explore:

Ways to establish a foundation for senior team effectiveness through the lens of collective leadership
How individual executive leadership development contributes to—and is limited without—a productive senior team context
A structured framework and reflective questions for assessing and growing the impact of a senior team
The difference between achieving senior team cooperation and consciously co-creating as a senior team
Considerations for deepening alignment and strategic coherence, shared identity, and productive relationship dynamics

Additional Key Takeaways:

Senior leadership teams are often underdeveloped as teams, yet their collective effectiveness is a powerful driver of system-wide impact
Conscious collective leadership requires intentional development—not just of each individual but of the team as a unit
The “We” version of leadership development demands more sense-making, vulnerability, and shared purpose than most teams are used to
Senior leadership teams must learn to see themselves as teams—and recognize how they are perceived collectively across the organization
Questions such as “Who are we becoming as a leadership team?” and “Who are we sponsoring to act with our blessing?” are central to evolving a senior teams' identity and effectiveness.
Development practices grounded in the Leadership Circle framework can help senior teams anchor their evolution in purpose, alignment, and relationship.

This session is ideal for:

Executives who lead or participate in senior-level management teams
Leadership coaches and consultants working with executive teams
HR and OD professionals focused on developing leadership capacity at the top
Practitioners certified in Leadership Circle tools seeking to deepen their systemic impact

Whether you lead a senior team or coach one, this session offers essential insight into how collective leadership accelerates organizational transformation.

Can’t join us live? Register anyway—we’ll send you the full replay, so you can watch when it works for you.

David Spach

Principal

David Spach is a founding partner at The Full Circle Group and Leadership Circle.

He coaches and advises senior executives and leadership teams in global enterprises, especially in companies with market-leading or industry-changing business models, or who are leading organizational transformations.

Over the years, David has been a principal creator for a number of Leadership Circle’s signature methods and tools.

Selected clients include Stryker, Southern California Edison, Honda, Syngenta, Kaiser Permanente, Roche, DTE Energy, and Yale University,

David began his career as a professional evaluator with the Worldwide Institute for Research and Evaluation (WIRE), assessing the effectiveness of large-scale interventions and programs. He holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Utah State University.

David grew up in Yosemite National Park in California, and met his wife Julie among the locals in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. They now live in Utah, where they enjoy hiking, biking, running, tennis, and all sorts of family activities.

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