PIXEL LEADERSHIP GROUP
  • ABOUT US
    • The Pixel Team >
      • Jamie Lewis Smith, PhD
      • Rebecca L Behle, MLIS
      • Cassandra Vaughn
      • Adam B. Troy, PhD
      • Brett Powell
      • Jorge Perez
    • Pixel Coaches >
      • Adam J. Feiner, PsyD, MBA Coach Bio
      • Ali O'Malley, PhD Coach Bio
      • Bernardo Ferdman, PhD Coach Bio
      • Bill Frankel Coach Bio
      • Brooklyn Stabile Coach Bio
      • Cassandra Vaughn, MS Coach Bio
      • Daniel C. Lattimore, PhD Coach Bio
      • Ed Kim, MA Coach Bio
      • Ginevra Drinka, PhD Coach Bio
      • Heather McCarren, PhD Coach Bio
      • Jamie Lewis Smith, PhD Coach Bio
      • Jane M Floyd, PsyD Coach Bio
      • Jay Trambadia, PsyD, ABPP Coach Bio
      • Kate Licastro, PhD Coach Bio
      • Kathryn Esquer, PsyD, MBA Coach Bio
      • Keisha Morris, MALM Coach Bio
      • Lauren Catenacci, PhD Coach Bio
      • Lauren Frye, PhD Coach Bio
      • Liz Sweigert, PhD Coach Bio
      • Michael "Brett" Powell Coach Bio
      • Patti Weiter, PsyD Coach Bio
      • Robin Graff-Reed, PhD Coach Bio
      • Shannon Jennings, PsyD Coach Bio
      • Stacey P. Miller, PhD Coach Bio
      • Sunni Lampasso, PsyD Coach Bio
      • Thuy Boardman, PhD Coach Bio
      • Trent DeVore, PsyD Coach Bio
      • Velvet Landingham, PhD Coach Bio
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          • Leadership Foundation Session
          • Targeted Development Sessions >
            • Manage Conflict at Work
            • Delegate for Best Results
            • Manage Up More Effectively
            • Motivate & Inspire Your Team
            • Increase Communication Effectiveness
            • Coach & Develop Your Team
        • Self-Awareness through DISC
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      • Manager Masterclasses >
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        • Podcasts to Achieve Your Goals
    • Solutions for Teams & Organizations >
      • Leadership Teams
      • Developing Servant Leaders >
        • Leadership Assessments
      • Building Innovative Teams
      • Creating Healthy Organizations
  • Assessments
    • Leader Assessments >
      • Pixel Perspectives+ 360
      • Custom 360-Degree Assessments
    • Employee Experience Assessments >
      • PIXEL EMPLOYEE THRIVING+ INDEX
      • PIXEL TEAM10+ ASSESSMENT >
        • Access Our White Paper
        • Learn More about PIXEL TEAM10+ ASSESSMENT
    • Organization Assessments
    • Take an Insight Assessment
  • ANALYTICS
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      • Our Research
      • Other Great Resources
      • Participate in Our Research
    • Survey Confidentiality
  • FOR COACHES
    • CoachShift - Therapist-to-Coach Transition Program >
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      • TEAM10+ CERTIFICATION
    • Consultant Masterclasses

Leadership Team Development

​Leadership Team Development That Actually Changes How Teams Work.

Most leadership teams aren’t struggling because they lack intelligence, experience, or strategy.

​They struggle because:
  • communication breaks down
  • priorities compete
  • trust gets shaky under pressure
  • accountability gets inconsistent
  • conflict gets avoided (or handled badly)
  • silos take over
  • leaders unintentionally pull in different directions
And when the leadership team isn’t aligned, the rest of the organization feels it fast.

At Pixel Leadership Group, we help leadership teams build the clarity, trust, communication, and strategic alignment needed to lead effectively in complex, high-pressure environments.
No corporate fluff. No awkward trust falls. No generic “team building.”
​
Just practical, psychology-informed leadership team development that helps smart people work better together.

​Leadership Team Development Services

We work with executive teams, senior leadership teams, department leadership groups, and cross-functional leadership teams across healthcare, manufacturing, higher education, technology, and professional services.

​Our leadership team development services may include:

Executive Team Facilitation

Structured sessions that help leadership teams:
  • improve communication
  • navigate conflict productively
  • align around priorities
  • strengthen decision-making
  • clarify roles and expectations
  • build accountability
  • increase trust and collaboration

​Leadership Team Assessments + Diagnostics

Strong team development starts with understanding what is actually happening beneath the surface.

That’s why we often begin with the TEAM10+ Team Effectiveness Assessment, Pixel Leadership Group’s practical, research-informed tool designed to help leadership teams identify strengths, gaps, and patterns impacting performance.

The TEAM10+ assessment evaluates key dimensions of team effectiveness such as:
  • trust and psychological safety
  • communication effectiveness
  • accountability
  • clarity of goals and priorities
  • decision-making
  • collaboration
  • adaptability
  • conflict management
  • leadership alignment
  • team culture and dynamics

Rather than relying on vague assumptions or surface-level observations, the TEAM10+ assessment provides leadership teams with concrete data and actionable insights about how the team is functioning.

We use these insights to guide:
  • leadership team coaching
  • executive retreats
  • facilitation sessions
  • communication improvement strategies
  • conflict interventions
  • strategic alignment work
  • leadership development planning
The result is a far more targeted, customized, and effective development experience—not generic team-building activities that disappear the moment people return to work.

Team Coaching

Many leadership teams don’t need more information. They need better patterns.
Our coaching and facilitation process helps teams:
  • identify unproductive team dynamics
  • improve trust and candor
  • strengthen accountability
  • increase ownership and follow-through
  • reduce silo behavior
  • improve communication cascading
  • create healthier conflict norms
  • build stronger collaboration across functions
We help leadership teams move from reactive and fragmented to aligned, intentional, and strategically connected.

​Strategic Alignment Sessions

Many leadership teams are busy—but not aligned.
We help teams:
  • clarify strategic priorities
  • improve organizational communication
  • connect daily decisions to business goals
  • reduce confusion and competing agendas
  • create clearer execution plans

Conflict and Communication Workshops

Avoiding conflict doesn’t create healthy teams. It creates slow dysfunction.
We help leadership teams:
  • have harder conversations more effectively
  • give direct feedback
  • reduce defensiveness
  • navigate disagreement productively
  • strengthen communication under pressure

​Leadership Offsites and Retreats

We design engaging, highly interactive leadership retreats that combine:
  • facilitation
  • strategy
  • leadership development
  • team effectiveness
  • real organizational challenges
Our sessions are practical, energizing, and built for real-world leadership—not just theoretical discussion.

​Why Leadership Teams Struggle

Even highly successful leaders can unintentionally create unhealthy team dynamics.

Common leadership team challenges include:
  • siloed thinking
  • lack of alignment
  • unclear accountability
  • decision bottlenecks
  • poor communication cascading
  • burnout and overload
  • tension avoidance
  • inconsistent leadership styles
  • competing priorities
  • change fatigue

​The higher leaders rise, the less honest feedback they often receive. That’s why intentional leadership team development matters.

​Our Approach

Pixel Leadership Group combines:
  • psychology
  • organizational development
  • leadership science
  • executive coaching
  • team dynamics
  • practical business experience

We specialize in helping highly educated, high-performing professionals and leadership teams function more effectively together.

Our approach is:
  • science-informed
  • practical
  • engaging
  • candid
  • actionable
  • human
We believe leadership development should create real behavior change—not just a binder full of notes nobody uses afterward.

​And because every leadership team is different, we use data and diagnostics like the TEAM10+ assessment to tailor development efforts to the team’s real-world challenges, strengths, and opportunities—not generic leadership content.

​Leadership Team Development Topics

Common leadership team development topics include:
  • Executive Communication
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Psychological Safety
  • Accountability and Performance
  • Leadership Alignment
  • Building Trust
  • Productive Conflict
  • Leading Through Change
  • Delegation and Empowerment
  • Coaching Skills for Leaders
  • Burnout and Resilience
  • Decision-Making Under Pressure
  • Team Communication and Collaboration
  • Talent Development and Succession Planning

Who We Work With

We work with:
  • executive leadership teams
  • senior leadership teams
  • healthcare leadership teams
  • manufacturing leadership teams
  • university leadership teams
  • nonprofit leadership teams
  • technical and engineering leadership teams
  • HR leadership teams
  • rapidly growing organizations
  • organizations navigating change or growth

​Let’s Build a Leadership Team That Actually Functions Like a Team

A strong leadership team creates:
  • better communication
  • faster execution
  • healthier culture
  • stronger employee engagement
  • better strategic alignment
  • more consistent leadership across the organization
And honestly? Work becomes dramatically less exhausting when leaders stop pulling against each other.
If your leadership team is ready to improve alignment, communication, accountability, and effectiveness, we’d love to help.

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  • ABOUT US
    • The Pixel Team >
      • Jamie Lewis Smith, PhD
      • Rebecca L Behle, MLIS
      • Cassandra Vaughn
      • Adam B. Troy, PhD
      • Brett Powell
      • Jorge Perez
    • Pixel Coaches >
      • Adam J. Feiner, PsyD, MBA Coach Bio
      • Ali O'Malley, PhD Coach Bio
      • Bernardo Ferdman, PhD Coach Bio
      • Bill Frankel Coach Bio
      • Brooklyn Stabile Coach Bio
      • Cassandra Vaughn, MS Coach Bio
      • Daniel C. Lattimore, PhD Coach Bio
      • Ed Kim, MA Coach Bio
      • Ginevra Drinka, PhD Coach Bio
      • Heather McCarren, PhD Coach Bio
      • Jamie Lewis Smith, PhD Coach Bio
      • Jane M Floyd, PsyD Coach Bio
      • Jay Trambadia, PsyD, ABPP Coach Bio
      • Kate Licastro, PhD Coach Bio
      • Kathryn Esquer, PsyD, MBA Coach Bio
      • Keisha Morris, MALM Coach Bio
      • Lauren Catenacci, PhD Coach Bio
      • Lauren Frye, PhD Coach Bio
      • Liz Sweigert, PhD Coach Bio
      • Michael "Brett" Powell Coach Bio
      • Patti Weiter, PsyD Coach Bio
      • Robin Graff-Reed, PhD Coach Bio
      • Shannon Jennings, PsyD Coach Bio
      • Stacey P. Miller, PhD Coach Bio
      • Sunni Lampasso, PsyD Coach Bio
      • Thuy Boardman, PhD Coach Bio
      • Trent DeVore, PsyD Coach Bio
      • Velvet Landingham, PhD Coach Bio
    • PIXEL COACHING POLICIES + PRACTICES
    • Get In Touch >
      • Feedback Survey
  • SERVICES
    • Executive Coaching that Creates Real Change >
      • Pixel Coaching Programs
    • Your Leadership Toolkit >
      • Let Us Be Your Guide
      • Leadership Insight Sessions >
        • Virtual Leadership Development Programs
        • Work Strong+Successful Series >
          • Leadership Foundation Session
          • Targeted Development Sessions >
            • Manage Conflict at Work
            • Delegate for Best Results
            • Manage Up More Effectively
            • Motivate & Inspire Your Team
            • Increase Communication Effectiveness
            • Coach & Develop Your Team
        • Self-Awareness through DISC
      • The Leadership Lab
      • Manager Masterclasses >
        • Register for Manager Masterclasses
      • Resource Library
      • Dive Deeper: Books, Articles, Videos, Presentations, + Podcasts >
        • Presentations to Achieve Your Goals >
          • Develop Your Managers into Employee Engagement + Retention Maximizers
          • Anyone Can Lead - Career Coffee Chat
        • Books to Achieve Your Goals
        • Articles to Achieve Your Goals
        • Videos to Achieve Your Goals
        • Podcasts to Achieve Your Goals
    • Solutions for Teams & Organizations >
      • Leadership Teams
      • Developing Servant Leaders >
        • Leadership Assessments
      • Building Innovative Teams
      • Creating Healthy Organizations
  • Assessments
    • Leader Assessments >
      • Pixel Perspectives+ 360
      • Custom 360-Degree Assessments
    • Employee Experience Assessments >
      • PIXEL EMPLOYEE THRIVING+ INDEX
      • PIXEL TEAM10+ ASSESSMENT >
        • Access Our White Paper
        • Learn More about PIXEL TEAM10+ ASSESSMENT
    • Organization Assessments
    • Take an Insight Assessment
  • ANALYTICS
    • Science >
      • Our Research
      • Other Great Resources
      • Participate in Our Research
    • Survey Confidentiality
  • FOR COACHES
    • CoachShift - Therapist-to-Coach Transition Program >
      • The CoachShift Experience
      • CoachShift July - December 2026 Cohort Schedule
    • ASSESSMENT CERTIFICATION >
      • PIXEL PERSPECTIVES+ CERTIFICATION
      • TEAM10+ CERTIFICATION
    • Consultant Masterclasses