Even the most capable leaders can struggle to function as a high-performing team. The result? Strategic drag, cultural disconnects, and missed opportunities at the top that cascade through the entire organization. Research shows that while leadership teams hold disproportionate influence over organizational health, only 1 in 5 senior executives believe their team is operating at its full potential.
This session is for nonprofit CEOs, COOs, and executive leaders ready to change that. It offers a direct, practical look at what separates functional leadership teams from truly transformational ones, and how to close the gap. You’ll explore the often-invisible forces that shape how your team works, makes decisions, and sets the tone for your culture. And you’ll learn how to deliberately strengthen your team’s cohesion, clarity, and operating rhythm, not through more meetings, but through smarter systems.
Session Takeaways
● Understand the Characteristics of a High Performing Leadership Team: Walk away with a clear picture of what high performance looks like, and begin to understand where your team stands.
● Diagnose What’s Holding You Back: Uncover the most common dysfunctions of senior leadership teams — even high-capacity ones — and why they persist.
● Elevate Team Impact Through Systems, Not Personality: Learn how to shape culture and performance through deliberate structure, shared discipline, and aligned priorities.
Join us to reimagine what your leadership team can be and leave with clear, actionable strategies to unlock its full potential. This is a great session to bring more than 1 member of the leadership team to.
About Your Presenter
Shaun Lee currently serves as the managing partner and co-founder of 6 Levers. At 6 Levers, he trains teams and coaches leaders to build healthy systems that empower them to build organizational health that lasts.
Before founding 6 Levers he was the CEO of Farmhouse Delivery in Austin, TX, where they focused on making local food more accessible throughout TX. Before that, he served as COO at Haven for Hope in San Antonio, TX. Haven for Hope is the largest homeless services campus in the US.
He has led close to 100 consulting engagements guiding teams through projects that result in better ways of working, deeper engagement and more cohesive teams. He graduated with his MSW focusing on Community Organization and Nonprofit Management and Leadership in 2003 and received his MBA from UTSA in May of 2013. He lives in Austin, TX with his wife and three children.
He is the co-author of the best-selling book, At the Heart of Work: Rethinking what it takes to build organizational health with the 6 Levers framework.
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