High-Stakes alignment

Your team moves from competing priorities to shared direction.

When teams require a bit of a reset or face project kickoffs, retrospectives, change transitions, new leader integrations, or solution sprints, I design and facilitate collaborative sessions that rebuild trust, create clarity, and align everyone on what’s next.

These are working sessions where alignment happens, decisions get made, and forward movement begins. Using my P.A.T.H. Framework, we pause to understand where you are, align on what matters, target where you're headed, and honor that direction with clear next steps.

Man giving presentation in a meeting room with seated attendees, a table with glasses of water, a pitcher, and some office supplies, with a whiteboard on the wall.

    • Leadership teams navigating pivotal moments

    • Cross-functional teams that need to align before executing

    • Teams in transition: post-reorg, post-departure, mid-change

    • Founders and executives who know their team needs more than a pep talk

    • Team culture reset - Rebuild after upheaval

    • Strategic planning offsites - New fiscal year, new goals

    • Change transitions - Bring teams along

    • New leader integration - Build trust & clarity

    • Project kickoffs - Align before you start

    • Retrospectives - Learn from what happened

    • Vision / solution / design sprints - Rally stakeholders to ideate and build.

    • Discovery - We talk about your moment: what’s happening, what success looks like, who needs to be in the room.

    • Design - I design the session structure tailored to your team’s dynamics, culture and goals.

    • Facilitation - I facilitate with clarity and energy, creating space for hard conversations while keeping things moving.

    • Follow-Up - We debrief and I share key takeaways and a path forward.

    • Real decisions made in the room

    • Clarity on what’s next

    • Rebuilt trust

    • Forward momentum

    • A stronger culture

    • Half-Day (4 hours), Full-Day (6-8 hours), or Multiple Days (2-3 days).

    • Customizable for team size and goals. Can integrate into existing offsites or stand alone.

    • Virtual or In-Person - Format depends on your needs, though high-stakes work is often most effective in person when possible.

  • I can design Team Reset experiences for your team to deliver. I’ll make sure it’s structured, clear, and ready to land well.

    Optional coaching available to walk through the flow together.

“Dwayne organized a workshop for my team, which spanned three different hierarchy levels. Dwayne has an exceptional ability to read the room, guide discussions effectively and lead us toward actionable solutions. The workshop has sustainably improved collaboration within our team.”

Jan Schmitz
Head of Marketing Operations
Zalando Marketing Services, Zalando

“Whether the goal is fostering leadership cohesion or building trust within a team, Dwayne strikes the perfect balance between professionalism and creating a fun, engaging environment. I highly recommend Dwayne for any leadership workshop or intervention.”

Nisha Bangia
Lead People Business Partner
Talent Management, Zalando

“Dwayne brings professionalism, energy, and humor, inspiring teams and fostering open discussions. His workshops are engaging, structured and people-focused. None compare to Dwayne and DAY|WON. His ability to deliver precisely what’s needed, when it’s needed, is remarkable.”

Elliot McFarlane
Vice President Global Retail Design& In-Store Consumer Experience
Adidas

Tech Startup Case Study:

For team leaders navigating trust breakdowns, policy missteps or fractured dynamics.

The Challenge:
A 30-person startup began 2025 with broken trust. A perceived lack of leadership accountability, transparency + an inconsistently applied return-to-office mandate hurt morale, with 65% of the team reporting a negative outlook for the year ahead.

The Process:
We designed a full-day session that shifted blame to ownership — everyone could step up to own something. Leadership explained & owned past decisions, made public commitments with timelines, and the entire team co-created solutions.

Real-time sentiment tracking measured how perspectives shifted throughout the day.

Sentiment Going Into Next Year

Measured responses at the beginning and end of an all-day Team Culture Reset

The Results:

  • Team outlook flipped from 65% negative to 79% positive for 2026.

  • The workshop produced 10 leadership commitments with specific owners & dates

  • 2 CEO-sponsored cross-functional projects (each with team members, not just leaders, owning project manager & deputy roles)

  • 20 individual team solutions.

One concentrated day saved months of meetings & inaction. The engagement led to exploring both ongoing consulting and embedded partnership work in 2026.

The Impact:

  • Leaders demonstrated accountability and made public commitments.

  • Team members stepped up to own projects, not just observe them.

  • Everyone submitted ideas, voted on solutions, and contributed in small groups where all voices came through (human).

  • We paired teams strategically and designed materials with their branding tied to their 5 core values (strategic + on-brand).

Most people walked in skeptical. By the end, they left feeling heard, valued, and genuinely optimistic about 2026.

What could your team accomplish with renewed momentum + cultural cohesion?