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Friction Map
A visual heatmap of where the organization is healthy and where it isn’t, across the five Atlas Compass waypoints. Plus the specific seams where two waypoints are pulling against each other.
Engagements / Compass Calibration
Leadership Alignment Workshop
Leadership Alignment Workshop
For $10M to $100M companies feeling drag across departments.
When growth feels harder than it should, the problem usually isn’t in one department. It lives in the seams between them. The Atlas Leadership Alignment Workshop is a one-day onsite working session with your leadership team that surfaces where revenue, operations, technology, and leadership are out of sync. You leave with a 90-day action plan owned by named people on your team. We call it the Compass Calibration.
$8,000 + travel · One day onsite · Backed by the Atlas Guarantee
Why we run it
When the friction is in the seams.
Most growth-stage companies don’t stall because of one bad department. They stall because the gaps between departments compound. Sales is selling something operations can’t scale. Operations is delivering on a margin finance can’t defend. Technology is funding tools nobody adopted. Leadership knows something is off and can’t pin it down.
A one-day onsite session with your leadership team, run by an operator who’s held the seats your team holds, surfaces those gaps fast. By the end of the day, the team is aligned on what’s actually wrong, what to fix first, and who owns each fix.
What happens in the room
One day. Five lenses. Real conclusions.
A structured working session, not a presentation. Your leadership team scores the business across the five Atlas Compass waypoints. Then we walk through where the team agrees and where it doesn’t, and we work the disagreements until we’ve got a real plan.
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Score the business, independently
Each leader scores the organization across Vision, Revenue, Operations, Technology, and Leadership. No discussion yet. We collect the scores live.
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Surface the gaps
We walk through the heatmap together. The places the team’s aligned show up fast. The places it isn’t show up faster. The disagreements are usually where the friction is hiding.
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Work the friction
For the highest-impact disagreements, we run a structured working session. Operator-led, time-boxed, designed to produce a decision and an owner, not another meeting.
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Build the 90-day plan
We close the day with a prioritized action plan. Each item has an owner, a due date, and a definition of done. The team leaves the room with the same plan in their head.
What you take with you
What every Leadership Alignment Workshop produces.
No 200-page deck. No theoretical framework. Four concrete deliverables your team owns the next morning.
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Priority Matrix
The friction items, plotted by relative impact and effort. So the team can see what to fix first, what to schedule, and what to consciously ignore.
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Leadership Alignment Findings
Where the leadership team is aligned, where it isn’t, and the specific decisions that need to be made to close the gap. Often the most valuable output of the day.
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90-Day Action Plan
A prioritized action plan for the next ninety days. Each item has an owner from your team, a due date, and a definition of done. Built in the room. Not in a follow-up email.
What makes this work
Built for founder-led and mid-market organizations.
The workshop works best for organizations where the leadership team has the authority to act on what they find. If you can’t make decisions in the room, you may not be ready for this workshop yet. Book a call with us anyway and we’ll talk through what would help you move the needle.
$10M to $100M annual revenue or operating budgetBig enough that the seams matter. Small enough that the leadership team fits in one room.
Decision-makers in the roomThe workshop produces real outcomes when the people who can act on them are present.
Growth feels harder than it shouldThe numbers look fine. Something still feels off, and you can’t put your finger on it.
Your full leadership team, all dayWhoever holds Executive, Operations, Finance, Revenue, and Technology in your org. In the room. No drop-ins.
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If the workshop doesn’t surface at least one material opportunity that exceeds the cost of the engagement, we’ll refund the project fee.
— The Atlas Guarantee
Ready to find the friction?
Set up a call to talk through your situation and confirm the workshop is the right fit. We’ll send a short pre-work questionnaire ahead of any scheduled session. Or get to know the operators behind the workshop on LinkedIn.
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