Alignment - not strategy - is the strongest driver of leadership success.
When senior leaders move in different directions, even brilliant strategies stall. When they align and move with shared intent, organisations execute faster, cultures strengthen, and results accelerate.
Your 2026 strategy can only go as far as your leadership team’s clarity, unity, communication, and trust.
With planning season approaching, this is a critical time – to align your leadership team deeply, honestly, and intentionally.
The reality of leadership today
Today, the pace of change, the ambiguity of the future of work, and the sheer scale
of AI-driven disruption demand leadership teams that are aligned, fast, and deeply
connected. Converting strategic goals into reality is a struggle – even with competent
and committed leaders – because leaders often don’t move in the same direction, at
the same pace, with the same voice.
How this manifests
- Mixed messages from the top
- Clear strategy, unclear execution
- Silos slowing decisions and trust
- Defensive communication, unclear intent
- Conflict avoided or escalated
- Busy meetings, no synchronisation
- Cultures where people don’t thrive, but survive
Misalignment at the top creates friction, redundancy, disengagement, and loss of execution speed–costs that organisations today simply cannot afford.
The Leadership Cohesion Workshop is designed to address these gaps.
26%
of senior global leaders cite lack of team cohesion as impeding team effectiveness.
– Views from the C-Suite, 2025
The leadership cohesion workshop
A 1-day, immersive, neuroscience-based workshop that aligns senior leadership teams around:
Clarity. Communication. Collaboration. Cohesion.
Powered by the Emergenetics® profiling tool, this experience will help leaders:
- Understand themselves and each other deeply
- Communicate for clarity, not assumption
- Reduce friction and accelerate decisions
- Build trust and psychological safety
- Create leadership operating norms
- Align around the organisation’s most important priorities for 2026
- Lead as one team – not parallel power centres
Workshop Outcomes
By the end of this experience, leaders will walk away with:
- Clear communication agreements
- A unified way of making decisions
- Shared leadership operating principles for 2025
- Reduced friction + improved trust
- A deeper understanding of each other
- A shift from individual excellence → collective excellence
The way we do business is changing rapidly.
We’re in unchartered territory, and the stakes are higher than ever.
Organisations are facing an unprecedented level of change today—at a speed that’s
both exciting and daunting in equal measure. At MARG, we know how much is at
stake. That’s why we’ve launched this space for leaders like you. Here, you’ll find
curated perspectives, emerging ideas, and practical insights—all focused on
leveraging people and culture for success in the workplace of the future.
“Companies that value tech skills at the expense of human skills risk the ability to continue to be innovative and harness the market."
Anthony Stephan
Deloitte Chief Learning Officer
Fresh take
Corporate learning programs
often fail to deliver measurable
business impact.
Why? These programs tend to focus on technical skills in isolation, paying little attention to other vital skill categories like essential human skills.
The Future of Jobs report, however, paints
a different picture. It turns out that human
skills are a crucial part of a results-driven
learning programme.
Build future-readiness into your organisation
At MARG, we believe people and culture are the linchpins of every organisation’s success. Through thoughtfully designed programmes and insightful consulting, we help leaders and workforces consistently deliver so businesses can thrive – both today and tomorrow.
Let us develop a programme for you that creates real impact.