Forget the dream;
it’s all about the seam

Through his CFO and CHRO, the CEO was familiar with two Deloitte Greenhouse^® Experience offerings: The Executive Transition Lab and Team Alchemy. The Executive Transition Lab is a single-day experience designed to help recently appointed executives make a successful and efficient transition into their new executive role—and, by its nature, is focused on the individual. Team Alchemy, on the other hand, is very much focused on the team, with Deloitte bringing a reliable framework for helping to uncover the mystery behind high-performing teams. In collaboration with Deloitte, the team built a novel approach: 17 individual Transition Labs combined with three Team Alchemy sessions and additional full-team labs. Together, these experiences would form a sort of crucible in which these executives would build trust, gain clarity and alignment on multiple priorities shared across leadership team members, and come together as a unified team built for success. For example, this novel approach allowed the team to align their individual Executive agendas with the broader Enterprise agenda and priorities. In many cases, the pressure inherent in standing up a new company, combined with the need to move quickly to establish credibility with investors, can create friction between these agendas; the lab series design minimized that friction by enabling each executive to look at what they needed to accomplish from the lenses of both the Enterprise and their own functional teams.