A long table set for a Council in a stone room, an archway open to the vineyard

LEADERSHIP & TEAMS · DIRECTOR-LED

Make room for
the conversation
the work needs.

A private, Director-led gathering in wine country for leadership teams, founding partners and professional pairs facing a meaningful decision or transition.

Prepare individually, examine the choices together, and leave with a written account of what comes next. Your Director shapes the conversation around your team; the relevant workbook stays with you afterward.

Discuss your team

Illustrative setting. Your venue and experience are agreed individually.

THE BUSINESS COST OF APPARENT AGREEMENT

The decision is recorded.
The differences travel into the work.

A launch is approved. Yet people leave with different understandings of what was agreed, what their support depends on and what they can carry. The cost can appear later: rework, delayed delivery, revised customer promises and people absorbing recovery work.

The personal cost of raising a concern may be immediate, while the organizational cost of ignoring it is delayed and distributed.

A Leadership Council offers prepared time together, away from routine, to examine those differences before more depends on them. Your private questionnaire helps the Director choose the day’s focus and exercises from the included workbook.

Together, you decide what each concern needs: a change, an investigation, an explicit acceptance of risk or a reasoned decision to proceed. The record keeps both the choices made and the questions still open.

The workbook supports continued practice afterward, alongside the next steps people have actually chosen.

Explore the fictional launch and supporting evidence
Two founders talking at a table overlooking the vineyards at sunset

CHOOSE THE WORK IN FRONT OF YOU

Not sure which fits? See every option for teams on one page, with a PDF to share.

Leadership Councils · in wine country

Alignment Council

For leaders who need a shared direction and clearer commitments. Private preparation informs a Director Field Map and Council Dossier for the facilitated day. A written Alignment Covenant records the decisions, responsibilities and next steps.

$8,400–$18,000 Accommodation included.* Scope and final commission agreed in advance.

*One invoice for the event, accommodation included. Final arrangements depend on group size, scope and how you prefer to pay, and are confirmed in your proposal.

Explore Alignment

Team Reset

For a group whose working rhythms need attention. Surface the conditions that support candor, reliability and better coordination.

With the Director, examine the working habits behind recurring friction and choose a practical change the team is willing to try.

By scope

Generative Council

For a team entering new territory. Create the conditions for new possibilities, honest questions and a useful next direction.

Bring forward possibilities that have not yet found a place in the conversation. Explore alternatives, identify what needs evidence, and shape a small experiment together.

By scope

The team programme · with The Third Field

The team programme

Map the field, work a decision through together in Sikizana—The Third Field’s Decision Workspace software—and return at ninety days. This programme runs where your team works; a Leadership Council can be its wine-country setting.

From $4,500 Founding-cohort rate

See the team programme

WHAT SHAPES THE COMMISSION

A working session.
Prepared for your team.

The Alignment range reflects the number of principals, preparation depth, decision complexity and scope of the written follow-through. Your Director brings these together in a gathering built around the work your team needs to do.

Agree the work before it begins.

The Team Alignment Charter workbook, or The Co-Founder Covenant for founding partners, is included. Your proposal also identifies where additional preparation, interviews, specialist support or follow-up would change the scope.

Booking and amendment terms

FROM PREPARATION TO PRACTICE

Hear the differences.
Choose the next move.

Each person prepares privately before the group gathers. The Director uses that preparation to bring the important questions into focus and make room for perspectives that might otherwise be missed.

Clear participation and sharing choices are part of the preparation. How we care for your input.

What you leave with

A written account of decisions made or deferred, responsibilities people have accepted, and next steps agreed in the room. The included workbook gives your team a way to return to the practice afterward.

Start with Field Discovery

INCLUDED WITH LEADERSHIP COUNCILS

Two books for
the work between you.

Cover of The Team Alignment Charter

FOR LEADERSHIP TEAMS · PUBLICATION · OCTOBER 27, 2026

The Team Alignment Charter

The meeting ends. The same friction returns. See the decisions, handoffs and working arrangements that shape an ordinary week, and choose a small change to return to.

Included with Leadership Councils for teams.

About the book
Cover of The Co-Founder Covenant

FOR FOUNDING PARTNERS · PUBLICATION · OCTOBER 27, 2026

The Co-Founder Covenant

Your company will change. Build a partnership that can. Make purpose, contributions, risk and decision rights explicit as the venture grows.

Included with Leadership Councils for founding partners.

About the book

When a Council is Director-led, the book becomes part of the practice: your private questionnaire helps the Director choose the exercises for your day, and the book stays with you for the seasons after.

Personal Councils preserve what love has carried. Leadership Councils clarify what responsibility now requires.