Diagnose
We validate and deepen the Friction Scan findings (or run an accelerated version if you start here), pinpointing which decisions are stuck, which relationships carry the friction and what the board is exposed to.
The Alignment Sprint 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 makes decisions together.
Why finite
Why 60 to 90 days, not open-ended.
Friction that has gone on for a year does not get resolved by another year of conversation.
The Sprint is 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. Align. Embed.
One engagement, three phases.
Align
Direct, facilitated mediation between founders and C-suite peers. We name what has been avoided, rebuild the working agreements between the people who have to decide together and redesign the decision-governance model so authority is clear.
Embed
New operating cadences, escalation paths and behavioural contracts are installed and stress-tested against a live decision, not a hypothetical one, so the team runs the new model before we leave the room.
The team
Multi-practitioner, not one coach.
You get the combination your situation needs, not whichever single coach happens to be available.
The Sprint is delivered by more than one Kuma partner, matched to what is 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.
Outcomes
What changes by day 90.
Scoped to team size and the number of partners required. Most engagements start with a Friction Scan, and existing Scan clients get a defined path into the Sprint.
Decision cadence with named owners and deadlines
Signed behavioural 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