Signature Roundtable
For Your Executive Leadership Team
Align Around What’s Next
The Challenge
The Alignment Gap
“The challenge isn’t simply developing better individual leaders. It’s building an executive team that can think, decide, and lead together.“
Your executive team is made up of accomplished leaders. Each brings expertise, experience, and responsibility for an important part of the business. But even strong individual leaders don’t automatically function as a strong executive team.
When leaders focus primarily on the responsibilities of their own functions, different priorities and perspectives can make it difficult to establish shared direction. The result can be a leadership team that works hard but doesn’t always work together as effectively as the organization needs.
Leading at the executive level requires both strong functional leadership and an enterprise perspective. Executives must weigh decisions across the business, navigate competing interests, build trust, and take shared responsibility for organizational performance.
A Bell Leadership Signature Roundtable creates sustained time and space for the executive team to do that work together.
Built for Your Executive Leadership Team
Your Team. Your Challenges. One Shared Direction.
The Executive Leadership Team Signature Roundtable is a customized experience built around the people, priorities, and challenges of your executive team.
Through discovery conversations and a tailored sequence of leadership topics, Bell Leadership creates an environment where executives can step beyond their day-to-day responsibilities, examine how they work together, and address the issues that matter most to the organization.
Beginning with Achievers™ as a shared foundation, the experience combines proven leadership frameworks with candid discussion, practical application, and focused work on your organization’s real opportunities and challenges.
Over time, executives strengthen working relationships, develop shared perspective, and build greater alignment around the direction of the business.
At a Glance
What to Expect
4-6 Two-Day Sessions
A series of focused sessions creates dedicated time for meaningful discussion, team development, and application to the organization’s most important priorities.
12-18 Months
Sessions are spaced across approximately one year, depending on your schedule, allowing executives to apply what they learn, work through challenges, and return with new perspectives and experience.
6-12 Executive Leaders
A Shared Foundation
The experience begins with Achievers™, establishing a common leadership language and a foundation of self-awareness for the work ahead.
Shaped Around Your Team
Real Business Application
Discussions and application connect Bell Leadership’s frameworks specifically to the decisions, relationships, and challenges facing your executive team.
A Location of Choice
We meet your group where you choose to learn, whether that’s on location at your office or an off-site facility that meets the needs of your planned experience.
What Your Leaders Will Build
Shared Direction. Build greater alignment around organizational priorities, strategic direction, and the decisions that shape the business.
Executive Team Effectiveness. Strengthen the trust, communication, and working relationships that allow executives to operate as a cohesive team.
Enterprise Perspective. Look beyond individual functions to understand how decisions, priorities, and outcomes connect across the organization.
Judgement in Complexity. Navigate competing priorities and differing perspectives while keeping the broader health and performance of the organization in view.
Collective Ownership. Take shared responsibility for enterprise-wide challenges and outcomes, not only those within individual functions.
Sustained Performance. Develop the leadership practices and team dynamics needed to maintain effectiveness through growth, change, and competing demands.
The Learning Journey
A Shared Foundation. A Sequence Shaped Around Your Team.
Every executive team has its own priorities, opportunities, and challenges. The Executive Leadership Team Signature Roundtable, therefore, does not follow a single fixed sequence.
Each experience begins with Achievers, establishing a shared leadership language and foundation of self-awareness. Through discovery conversations with executive sponsors and team members, Bell Leadership then identifies the issues most important for the team to address together.
From there, the topics, sequence, and emphasis are shaped around the executive team’s needs and the organization’s priorities.
Possible Focus Areas
Leading and Working as an Executive Team
Building the Next Generation of Leaders
Creating a Change-Ready Culture
Thriving in a Complex Executive Role
Leading Through Change
Your Table
Who It’s For
The Executive Leadership Team Signature Roundtable is designed for an intact team of C-suite leaders who share responsibility for setting direction and leading the organization as a whole. The experience can be particularly valuable for organizations seeking to:
Build greater alignment among executives leading different functions or business units.
Strengthen the team's ability to think, make decisions, and lead across the enterprise.
Navigate growth, succession, transformation, or other significant organizational change.
Improve trust, communication, and effectiveness at the top.
Establish shared priorities and a more unified approach to organizational leadership.
Connect executive-team development directly to the organization's most important opportunities and challenges.
From strong executives to a high-performing executive team.
BEYOND THE INDIVIDUAL
Build the Collective Leadership the Organization Needs at the Top
An executive leadership team is more than a group of accomplished leaders responsible for different parts of the business. Its members must also operate as a collective—sharing perspective, working through competing priorities, and taking responsibility for the performance of the organization as a whole.
A Signature Roundtable creates sustained time for that work. Executives strengthen how they communicate, make decisions, address difficult issues, and lead across functional boundaries—all while working on the real priorities and challenges facing the organization.
Your Leadership Guides
Bell Leadership’s trainers combine proven leadership frameworks with deep leadership and business expertise. Drawing on diverse professional backgrounds, they bring practical perspective to each discussion and create the conditions for meaningful learning, candid conversation, and application.
Bill Sanford, MS
Senior Executive Leadership Trainer
Expert in trust, teamwork, and organizational performance, drawing on an early career in conflict resolution and decades of experience developing leaders and teams.
Jon Player, JD, MSPH
Leadership Trainer, Speaker & Coach
Trusted leadership advisor, drawing on backgrounds in law, science, and research to help leaders navigate complexity, think strategically, and take effective action.
Susan Gisler, PT, DPT, MHA
Leadership Trainer, Speaker & Coach
A seasoned healthcare leader and executive coach known for helping leaders foster engagement, lead through change, and achieve meaningful growth.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Bell Leadership Executive Leadership Team Signature Roundtable?
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Where are the Executive Leadership Team Signature Roundtable sessions held?
They are held at a location of your choice. We meet your group where you choose to learn, whether that’s on location at your office or an off-site facility that meets the needs of your planned experience.
Want to Strengthen Alignment in Your Executive Leadership Team?
The Right Table Can Change How You Lead Together.
A Bell Leadership Signature Roundtable brings your executive team together to strengthen relationships, broaden perspective, and work on the challenges that matter most to your organization.