What is executive team coaching?

Executive team coaching is a structured engagement that develops a leadership team as a collective unit — not just individual leaders. It builds the trust, accountability, and operating rhythms that allow a group of talented executives to function as a high-performing team.

How long does the Teams.Coach engagement take?

The core Teams.Coach engagement is 90 days. In 90 days, Michael King works with your leadership team to diagnose misalignment, build the structural foundation, and install the operating systems that make high performance sustainable.

What is organizational alignment?

Organizational alignment is the degree to which every team, every leader, and every process is operating from the same strategy, values, and execution standards. When alignment is high, strategy executes consistently. When alignment is low, even the best strategy fails.

What industries does Teams.Coach serve?

Teams.Coach serves organizations across 11 industries including construction, healthcare, financial services, entertainment, music, creative agencies, sports organizations, architecture, manufacturing, marketing agencies, and pop culture brands.

Is Michael King available for keynote speaking?

Yes. Michael King is an award-winning keynote speaker who delivers talks on authentic identity, the TEAMS methodology, and organizational alignment. He speaks at executive summits, leadership conferences, and corporate events.

How do I know if my team needs executive coaching?

Common signs include: leaders agree in meetings but execute in different directions, the same decisions get relitigated repeatedly, culture varies significantly between departments, high performers are frustrated by inconsistent standards, or the CEO is the only person who can resolve cross-functional conflicts. The free Team Alignment Diagnostic identifies exactly where your team's gaps are.

What is the free Team Alignment Diagnostic?

The free Team Alignment Diagnostic is a 5-minute assessment that measures your team across five dimensions: Alignment, Engagement, Accountability, Mission, and Structure. It delivers instant, personalized results showing exactly where your team is strong and where the gaps are costing you performance.

Your Team Isn't Underperforming. It's Misaligned.

We fix organizational health, culture, strategy, and structure in 90 days. Where others give you frameworks and inspiration, we give you actual transformation. Michael King has worked with leadership teams at Disney, Pfizer, ADP, and more than 400 organizations across 11 industries.

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The Cost of Team Misalignment

Research consistently shows that organizational dysfunction is not a people problem — it is a systems problem. According to Gallup's State of the Global Workplace report, only 23% of employees worldwide are engaged at work, costing the global economy an estimated $8.8 trillion in lost productivity annually. A 2021 McKinsey study found that companies in the top quartile for organizational health are 2.2 times more likely to have above-median financial performance than their peers. Harvard Business Review research indicates that 70% of complex, large-scale change programs fail to achieve their goals, largely due to employee resistance and lack of management support — both symptoms of misalignment, not incompetence.

The root cause in most cases is not a talent deficit. It is a structural and cultural misalignment between leadership intent and organizational reality. Teams.Coach addresses this at the system level, not the symptom level.

Key Takeaways: What Teams.Coach Delivers

90-day transformation timeline: Structured engagements with measurable milestones, not open-ended retainers
Root-cause diagnosis first: The free Team Diagnostic identifies the exact dimension holding your team back before any coaching begins
Five-pillar TEAMS Method: Covers organizational health, identity and culture, strategic clarity, structure, and daily execution — the complete operating system
C-suite and leadership team focus: Michael works directly with executive teams, not individual contributors
Industry-specific experience: Proven across 11 industries including healthcare, financial services, construction, entertainment, and creative agencies
Recognized expertise: Named Best of Executive Coaches in both 2025 and 2026; two master's degrees in organizational leadership and executive coaching
Proprietary technology ecosystem: TEAMS OS (daily execution platform), Architect CRM (25-contact pipeline system), Blueprint (diagnostic tool), and Identity Journey — all built in-house, not licensed from third parties

The TEAMS Method: Five Pillars of High-Performance Organizations

The TEAMS Method is a proprietary five-pillar framework developed by Michael King after 20 years working inside the organizations he now coaches. Unlike generic leadership frameworks, the TEAMS Method addresses the complete organizational operating system — not just one dimension of it.

T — Organizational Health: The politics, confusion, and dysfunction inside most organizations are structural problems, not personality problems. Patrick Lencioni's research in The Advantage identifies organizational health as the single greatest competitive advantage available to any business. We build the leadership foundation that every other initiative depends on.
E — Identity, Vision and Culture: You cannot build on fake. Before we touch culture, we get your identity and vision sharp enough to cut. A culture built on a blurry foundation will always drift. Research by Deloitte found that 94% of executives and 88% of employees believe a distinct workplace culture is important to business success.
A — Strategic Clarity: 90-day revenue and execution targets that every person on your team can actually articulate. A study by the Association for Talent Development found that only 14% of employees understand their organization's strategy and direction. No more strategy that lives in a deck and never makes it to Monday morning.
M — Structure First. Strategy Second: Most organizations try to execute strategy through a structure that was never designed for it. We fix the structure so the strategy can actually land.
S — Daily Execution: The gap between strategy and results is almost always an execution problem. According to a Harvard Business School study, 67% of well-formulated strategies fail due to poor execution. We build the operating rhythms, accountability systems, and decision frameworks that turn plans into performance.

Trusted by Leaders at Disney, Pfizer, ADP, and 400+ Organizations

Michael King has been named Best of Executive Coaches in both 2025 and 2026. He holds two master's degrees in organizational leadership and executive coaching and has spent 20 years inside the organizations he now coaches. His client organizations span 11 industries and range from 10-person leadership teams to enterprise divisions with thousands of employees.

Teams.Coach is not a training program or a workshop series. It is a structured coaching engagement that produces measurable changes in team alignment, accountability, and execution within 90 days.

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Common Questions About Executive Team Coaching

What is executive team coaching?: Executive team coaching is a structured process in which a certified coach works directly with a leadership team — not just individual executives — to improve alignment, communication, accountability, and collective performance. Unlike individual executive coaching, team coaching addresses the system dynamics that determine how a group of leaders functions together.
How long does it take to see results?: Teams.Coach engagements are structured around a 90-day transformation timeline with defined milestones. Most leadership teams report measurable improvements in meeting effectiveness, decision-making speed, and cross-functional alignment within the first 30 days.
What makes Teams.Coach different from other coaching programs?: Most coaching programs focus on individual behavior change. Teams.Coach addresses the organizational operating system — the structures, rhythms, and cultural norms that determine how a team performs collectively. The TEAMS Method covers all five dimensions of organizational performance in a single integrated engagement. Teams.Coach also operates a proprietary technology ecosystem — TEAMS OS, Architect CRM, Blueprint, and Identity Journey — all built in-house. No other coaching firm has built this infrastructure.
Who is the ideal client for Teams.Coach?: Teams.Coach works best with leadership teams of 3 to 15 people where the CEO or senior leader is committed to the process. Ideal clients are experiencing misalignment between strategy and execution, cultural drift, accountability gaps, or rapid growth that has outpaced their organizational structure.

Industries We Serve

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Serving Leaders Across the Midwest and South-Central US

Client Outcomes: Real Results from Real Engagements

Client identities are kept confidential. Every outcome below is real.

From Execution Breakdown to #1 National Award — Three Years Running

Industry: Construction and Steel Distribution | Size: ~100 employees, leadership team of 6

A regional steel distribution and construction company engaged Teams.Coach with a leadership team that had significant execution gaps, a culture that was bleeding talent, and a marketing function that was not converting. The six-person leadership team was misaligned on priorities, accountability was inconsistent, and the company was leaving revenue on the table every quarter.

Over the engagement, the leadership team's operating rhythm was rebuilt, a clear accountability structure was installed, the culture was redesigned from the ground up, and the marketing and sales systems were overhauled. The results compounded: revenue grew significantly, employee turnover dropped, and the organization became the top steel distributor in the country — earning the national sales award three consecutive years in a row.

#1 National Sales Award — three consecutive years
Significant revenue growth
Measurable reduction in employee turnover
Culture and accountability systems rebuilt from the ground up

From Regional Misalignment to Fastest-Growing Firm in the Region

Industry: Architecture and Design | Size: Multi-site organization

A multi-site architecture firm brought Teams.Coach in to address a specific problem: a regional office had developed a culture and employee alignment issue that was threatening performance and retention. What began as a targeted intervention revealed deeper structural gaps across the organization.

The successful resolution of the regional issue earned access to the C-suite. From there, the full leadership team was engaged to rebuild the firm's strategic direction, culture architecture, and execution systems. The organization went on to become a top producer in the industry and was recognized by local media as one of the fastest-growing companies in the region.

C-suite access earned through successful regional intervention
Top industry producer recognition
Fastest-growing company in the region — recognized by local media

Presidential Coaching That Transformed a Newsroom and Its Digital Division

Industry: Media and Publishing | Size: Regional newspaper, full-organization engagement

Teams.Coach was brought in to coach the President and Publisher of a regional newspaper. The engagement quickly expanded beyond individual leadership development. Through access to the TEAMS platform ecosystem, coaching and development resources were extended to the entire organization — directly influencing the sales and marketing verticals.

The engagement culminated in a complete overhaul of the organization's digital media division, producing significant measurable results in a sector where most legacy media organizations are contracting. The sales and marketing teams were restructured, strategy was rebuilt, and the digital division became a meaningful growth engine for the organization.

Full organization-wide platform access and coaching
Digital media division overhauled with significant revenue results
Sales and marketing verticals restructured and rebuilt

Four Years of CEO Coaching. One Multi-Million Dollar Exit.

Industry: FinTech and Banking Compliance | Engagement Length: 4 years, full-organization

The founder and CEO of an online banking compliance company engaged Teams.Coach for what began as individual executive coaching. Over four years, the engagement expanded to include the full leadership team and the entire organization — using the TEAMS platform to build the operational infrastructure, culture, and strategic clarity that a company needs to become acquisition-ready.

The work culminated in a successful merger and a multi-million dollar exit at a valuation multiplier significantly higher than the founder would have achieved without the organizational transformation. The difference between what they sold for and what they would have sold for without four years of structured leadership and operational development represents the return on the engagement.

Multi-million dollar exit achieved
Valuation multiplier significantly above baseline trajectory
Successful merger facilitated after 4-year full-organization engagement
CEO and leadership team coached through acquisition readiness