Your Alignment Advantage: Lead a Team That Owns Its Work
Anique Coffee
Growth Strategist for founders & leaders
Leah Zalinski
Change management for founders & leaders
Build the alignment your team needs to move without you in every room
You’ve heard the word alignment a hundred times. Align the team. Get aligned on priorities. Most of the time it means people nodded in a meeting, so you call it aligned. Then three weeks later every part of the team is pulling a different direction.
That gap, between agreement and real alignment, is where a lot of leadership frustration lives. As a VP or director, you feel it as duplicated work, decisions that stall out, and the slow drift that turns a small frustration into a real fracture.
This self-driven, on demand course is about building alignment on purpose, even when the ground keeps shifting. It comes down to three things you’ll work through in order: the trust that lets people be honest, the empowerment that lets them act without waiting for you, and the clarity that makes expectations real instead of assumed.
It’s self-paced and built for how you actually work. Short videos, a workbook to think in, and a small experiment to run between sessions. Plus, we host a LIVE, virtual coaching cohort for you to meet your leadership peers, deepen your learnings, and strengthen your leadership. You bring honesty about where you’re starting. We’ll give you the tools.
What you’ll learn
Build trust, empowerment, and clarity so your team owns its work, and growth stops depending on you to hold it together.
Name what’s eroding trust before it turns into disengagement.
Recognize your own default under pressure, and what it signals to the team.
Turn tension into honesty that your team can act on.
Replace the reactive dynamic with three roles that hand ownership back.
Map situations from your own team onto the model to see where ownership breaks down.
Practice the language and the pause that hand ownership back to your team in the moment.
Set expectations that hold, so work doesn’t come back half-done.
Turn high-stakes conversations into clear commitments and faster decisions.
Repair broken expectations before they become missed deadlines or lost trust.
Learn directly from expert instructors
Anique Coffee
Growth strategist for founders & leaders. Brave conversations, clearer ownership
Leah Zalinski
Change management for founders and leaders. Building sustainable growth
Gather and Grow
Supported teams and organisations including Samsung, Pinterest, UNESCO, Go Ape
Who this course is for
VPs and directors who want a team that owns its work and moves without every decision routing back through them.
People-first leaders who want to hold a real standard without feeling like they're trading away trust to do it.
Leaders watching good people drift or check out, who sense misalignment underneath but can't yet name what's driving it.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from your instructors in a real-time, interactive format.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Leadership workbook + application tools
Work through prompts and exercises that help you apply the learning directly to your team, conversations, and priorities.
Weekly cohort coaching + bookable 1:1s
Join weekly coaching sessions to reflect on the material, ask questions, and apply it to what you’re navigating right now. You’ll also have the option to book 1:1 coaching for more personalized support.
WhatsApp group
Stay connected between sessions through a private WhatsApp space for reflection, accountability, and shared learning.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.
Course syllabus
5 live sessions • 22 lessons
Week 1
Kickoff
Oct
15
Cohort Coaching: Kickoff
Week 2
Session 1: Creating the Conditions for Change
Oct
22
Cohort Coaching: Session 1
Schedule
Live sessions
1 hr / week
Watch the week’s lesson in your own time, then join us live each Thursday to explore the learnings together, ask questions, and apply them to your own leadership context.
Thu, Oct 15
3:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, Oct 22
3:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, Oct 29
3:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
Workbook Reflections and Deeper Learning
1 hr / week
Make space between sessions to complete each week’s guided workbook exercises to the real decisions, dynamics, and conversations you’re navigating as a leader.
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