The 60–90 Day Executive Alignment Sprint
Where the Friction Scan diagnoses the problem, the Alignment Sprint fixes it. A hands-on, multi-partner intervention that rebuilds how your executive team actually makes decisions together.
Why 60 to 90 days, and not an open-ended engagement
Friction that's gone on for a year doesn't get resolved by another year of conversation. The Sprint is built to be finite on purpose: co-founder mediation, executive team restructuring, and decision-governance redesign, run in parallel with cross-functional facilitation, so the team leaves with new operating habits, not just a better mood. We embed as operators for the length of the Sprint, then step back to the Strategic Retainer or step out entirely.
Three phases
Diagnose
We validate and deepen the Friction Scan findings (or run an accelerated version of it if you're starting here), pinpointing exactly which decisions are stuck, which relationships are carrying the friction, and what the board is exposed to.
Align
Direct, facilitated mediation between founders and C-suite peers. We name what's been avoided, rebuild the working agreements between the people who have to decide together, and redesign the decision-governance model so authority is actually clear.
Embed
New operating cadences, escalation paths, and behavioral contracts are installed and stress-tested against a live decision, not a hypothetical one, so the team is running the new model before we leave the room.
Multi-practitioner, not one coach
The Sprint is delivered by more than one Kuma partner, matched to what's actually driving the friction: a commercial and deal-side operator for execution and board-facing issues, a diagnostic lead for the underlying patterns, and a strategic advisor for the founder or CEO relationship itself. You get the combination your situation needs, not whichever single coach happens to be available.
What changes by day 90
- Decision cadence with named owners and deadlines
- Signed behavioral agreements between founders or C-suite peers
- A resolved governance model for the decisions that used to stall
- A board-ready account of what changed and why
- Restored execution speed on the initiatives that were stuck
- A clear read on whether a Strategic Retainer is needed next
Scoped to team size and the number of partners required. Most engagements start with a Friction Scan; existing Scan clients get a defined path into the Sprint.
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