Most leadership problems are not skill problems. They are alignment problems.
Leaders and teams who lack internal clarity — about identity, calling, values, and voice — eventually run into pressure they cannot navigate. They build the wrong things. They protect the wrong things. They lead from reaction, not conviction.
The Align Intensive is a short, high-intensity engagement designed to produce real clarity. It is the entry point to Renewal Leadership’s offering stack — and it stands on its own.
The four anchors of alignment.
The engagement centers on four foundations of leadership formation. Each one is named, articulated, and held together in a working document the leader owns.
Identity
Who the leader or team actually is — underneath the role, the strategy, and the pressure. The non-negotiable core.
Calling
What the leader or team is uniquely positioned to do — and just as importantly, what they are not. The wide layer and the now layer.
Values
The commitments that shape how decisions actually get made under pressure. Stated values, audited honestly against lived ones.
Voice
How the leader or team shows up — and what they sound like when they are leading well. Anchored on the GiANT 5 Voices Assessment.
The Alignment Charter.
Every Align Intensive produces an Alignment Charter — a short, working document the leader or team owns. Identity, calling, values, voice, and operating commitments held in one place.
Leaders and teams return to it in moments of decision and pressure. It is the artifact the engagement is built to produce, and the foundation the next chapter is built on.
- Leadership convictions — what the leader actually believes about leading, named
- Decision filters — how this leader will discern yes from no under pressure
- Role clarity — what is in scope, what is not, and what is being released
- Personal values articulation — values defined operationally, not aspirationally
- Leadership risks named — the patterns most likely to undermine this leader
- Relational health assessment — accountable relationships audited honestly
- Forward priorities — what comes first, what comes second, what waits
Two cadences. Same arc.
Distributed across four to six weeks
The default. Room between sessions for the work to settle.
A structured arc of coaching sessions across a normal working calendar. Assessment, then one session per anchor (Identity, Calling, Values, Voice), then a final integration session that lands the Charter.
Four to six 1:1 coaching sessions, virtual or in-person.
Four to six team-based coaching sessions, virtual or in-person.
Condensed across two to three days
For leaders who want immersive, away-from-it-all clarity.
A more rigorous version of the arc, delivered in a single off-site window. Same four anchors at higher intensity, with reflective space and Charter drafting built into the retreat itself.
Two to three days, one-on-one. Heavier on solitude and integration time.
Two to three days, team-based, off-site. Team Charter completed within the retreat.
Built for leaders in defining moments.
The Align Intensive is most valuable at the points where clarity will compound for years — when the next decision is going to shape every decision after it.
Founders entering growth.
The organization is starting to scale. The leader who got it here is being asked to become someone new. Alignment first — before the next hire, the next product, the next round.
Leaders in mid-arc transition.
Succession, a new mandate, post-crisis. The role has changed underneath them and the playbook that brought them this far is no longer the right one. The intensive surfaces what holds and what has to evolve.
Executives at vocational crossroads.
A real fork. Stay and reshape the role, or step into the next thing. The intensive produces the clarity that makes the decision the leader’s own.
Teams that have done strategic work — and now need formational work.
The plan is built. The team that has to carry it is not yet aligned underneath the plan. Alignment work creates the durability strategic work alone cannot.
Defined scope. Disciplined work.
What this investment buys: a finished Alignment Charter, an arc of intensive coaching anchored on the four foundations, and a clarity foundation that compounds across every decision the leader makes in the years that follow.
Individual
$6,000
Assessment, four to six 1:1 coaching sessions, integration session, and Alignment Charter. Virtual or in-person.
Team
From $15,000
Individual assessments, four to six team-based coaching sessions, integration session, and Team Alignment Charter. Virtual or in-person.
Individual
$8,000
Assessment, two to three days of one-on-one facilitation, integration time, and Alignment Charter. Venue and travel additional.
Team
From $20,000
Individual assessments, two to three days of team facilitation, integration time, and Team Alignment Charter. Venue and travel additional.
Investment is scoped to engagement complexity — virtual versus in-person, team size, and any custom additions. Final scope and pricing are landed in the Discovery Conversation.
Pay in full (5% discount), two installments, or monthly across the engagement.
20% off all tiers for verified 501(c)(3) and ministry organizations.
Every engagement begins with a free Discovery Conversation. An unhurried conversation about fit. No obligation.
The Conviction Behind This Work
This is the work of Alignment — internal clarity before external effectiveness.
The first movement of the Faithful Leadership framework.
Read the frameworkThe Align Intensive can stand alone. It can also be the on-ramp to deeper work.
Clients who complete an Align Intensive often step into a longer engagement when the work it surfaces calls for it. A bundle credit is available for clients who move into Formation Engagement within sixty days of completing the Intensive.
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Discovery Conversation.
Unhurried. No obligation. A first conversation about whether this is the right next step.
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