August: Leadership Team Integration Coaching

Leadership Team Integration Coaching

Coaching leadership teams
through transition

Our offering, and the data showing it works.

August · June 2026

Teams don’t form themselves.

August’s Team Integration Coaching helps newly formed leadership groups become actual teams — through deliberate discovery, co-creation, candid communication, and sustained coaching through change.

What good looks like

How we build a high-performance culture

The shifts we coach a leadership team to make. From where most teams start, to how high-performing teams actually work.

Defending ourselves and our functions

→

Owning our results as one leadership team

Accepting the status quo

→

Improving 1% every time we take action

Avoiding conflict and backchanneling

→

Leaders openly engage in healthy conflict

Failures are hidden

→

Failures are shared in service of learning

Learning is slow and episodic

→

Challenges and opportunities are surfaced and addressed fast

Our approach

A coaching engagement in six moves

01

Assessment

Understand the team’s current state and identify the critical from→to shifts.

Custom survey
One-on-one interviews
Insights report

02

Team Offsite

A custom offsite applying new mindsets and behaviors to real business decisions.

Custom agenda
Shared practices
Team agreements
Eight-week learning plan

03

Team Coaching

Real-time coaching integrated into the team’s regular cadence and real work.

Live coaching
Real-time feedback
Agenda co-design

04

Individual Coaching

Structured reflection and 1:1 ad hoc coaching for individual leaders.

Reflection assignments
One-on-one sessions

05

Workshops

Custom workshops to address ongoing tensions and skill gaps, for example:

Navigating ambiguity
Healthy conflict
Making trade-offs
Enterprise mindset

06

Playbook Creation

Codify the practices and references that define the team’s new ways of working.

Core behaviors
Custom acronym
Scaling road map

How we’re different

Embedded Partners

We work side by side with the team, leading change through coaching and daily practice. Not slideware.

Iterative Change

No one-size-fits-all model. We find each team’s levers, run small experiments, and scale what works.

Trusted by

Case Study + ResultsGlobal Consumer Health Company · Anonymized

August was brought in as a trusted partner.

August was brought in as a trusted partner to coach the North America leadership team of a $16 billion consumer health company through a period of significant change, as they let go of leaders, integrated new ones, and worked to return the business to growth to prepare for private equity acquisition.

12

Leaders plagued by low trust and internal factions

1,200

Employees impacted by their lack of teamwork

-5%

Business performance YoY

The proof

Results after 16 weeks of support

Measured by a pre/post team effectiveness survey of the leadership team, January to April.

18 of 23

survey questions showed measurable improvement in the team's dynamics from January to April.

5 most improved

Where the team grew most

Average score % change, January → April.

+30

It feels safe to take risks on this team.

+29

This team has clear agreements about how members are expected to behave.

+28

Members of this team are open to constructive feedback.

+23

I feel like I belong on this team.

+21

People communicate information clearly and with credible expertise.

Key Milestones

What the team walked away with

New leaders fully onboarded

Explicit team agreements

Evolved meeting cadence with standard agendas

A fully integrated annual plan across all functions

A set of co-owned strategic bets that closed the performance gap

What this could look like for you

Let's coach your leadership team
through its moment.

A focused engagement: assess where the team is, accelerate the shifts that matter, and measure the change, in weeks, not years.