The North Star Alignment Sprint helps founder-led leadership teams align around what they are building, why it matters, what deserves focus now — and how they will move together.
Two weeks to prepare.
Two days to align.
Ninety days to make it live.
The problem is often not a lack of intelligence or ambition.
It is that growth has outpaced alignment.
Founder-led B2B companies, typically 30–150 employees, with a leadership team of up to eight entering a consequential next chapter.
Probably not the right intervention if the challenge is purely operational, or if the organisation wants someone else to write its strategy for it.
Your North Star starts with the humans making the choices.
Before leaders are asked to align on company direction, each person has already reflected on what they value, what they see, what they are trying to protect and what future they are trying to create.
That changes the quality of the room.
The offsite is not used to begin reflection from zero. It is used to surface meaningful differences, build trust and shared understanding, and make consequential choices together.
Align the humans.
Clarify the direction.
Make the choices.
Each participant receives:
Private reflection remains private. Participants consciously choose what enters the team conversation. Relevant existing strategy, purpose or direction documents are reviewed so the company does not unnecessarily start again.
Day one moves from the humans behind the organisation toward shared purpose, Human Advantage, identity and future direction. Day two moves from direction toward strategic choices, explicit trade-offs, ownership and the 90-day path.
The offsite is the centre of the process — not the whole of it.
Your North Star synthesises the work into usable strategic assets. The leadership team then begins living the choices.
Are we moving in the direction we chose?
What has changed?
Where are we drifting?
What deserves our attention now?
Strategic Alignment combines facilitated human work with the Your North Star platform. Leaders prepare privately before coming together, while the digital layer helps keep direction accessible as priorities and circumstances change.
Technology supports the process. It does not replace the conversation.
Private reflection and North Star preparation before the team comes together.
Use your North Star to navigate consequential decisions as circumstances change.
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A shared articulation of what the organisation is trying to build, why it matters and where it intends to go.
A small number of explicit priorities, including clarity about what the organisation will not pursue now.
Shared principles that help leaders make coherent decisions without repeatedly reopening the same underlying questions.
Concrete priorities, ownership and near-term movement.
A richer understanding of the humans making the decisions, including important differences in perspective, motivation and working style.
A practical way to notice drift, learn from reality and adjust without losing the underlying direction.
Strategic alignment is not only about agreeing on strategy.
It is about creating the clarity, trust and shared direction that allow people to do better work together.
€15,000excl. VAT
Includes the complete North Star Alignment Sprint for up to 8 participants plus the 90-day navigation and recalibration support.
Travel, accommodation, venue and catering are excluded.
€25,000 excl. VAT
The first-three pricing is genuine founding pricing while the first case studies and proof base are being built.
Strategic Alignment is founder-led and Your North Star works with a limited number of leadership teams at any one time.
If the full leadership team completes the agreed preparation and participates in the complete two-day process, and you genuinely believe afterwards that the engagement did not create meaningful value in clarity, alignment and strategic direction, tell us within seven days.
We will refund the professional fee.
External expenses such as travel, accommodation, venue and catering are excluded.
If the agreed process is completed but the Company North Star, strategic choices, decision principles and 90-Day Navigation Plan are not sufficiently resolved, Your North Star will continue the work required to complete them at no additional professional fee.
The question is not whether a company can move faster.
It is whether the leadership team is sufficiently aligned on where faster should lead.
Founder of Your North Star and creator of its method, with more than sixteen years of international leadership across Europe and the US.
International business development and scale-up experience, Core100 certified through the Robbins-Madanes Training Institute, with a particular strength in creating the conditions for honest reflection and meaningful group conversation.
Teams that want continued support after the initial Sprint can move into a North Star Navigation Partnership.
The purpose is to keep strategic direction alive as priorities, people and circumstances change. It may include periodic strategic recalibration, review of 90-day priorities and deeper annual North Star work.
Available following a Strategic Alignment engagement.
No. Existing strategy is integrated where useful, but the process does not require starting from scratch or discarding work already done.
Not in the traditional sense.
Your North Star does not disappear, write a strategy for the company and return with a report.
The leadership team creates the direction and makes the choices. Your North Star structures, challenges, facilitates and synthesises the process.
No.
The two-day offsite is the centre of the engagement, but the process begins with individual clarity and continues through synthesis and 90-day recalibration.
Each participant completes a 45-minute intake plus selected Your North Star reflection during a two-week preparation window.
The reflection may be completed intensively or spread across the two weeks.
They remain private.
Participants choose which relevant insights they want to bring into the shared conversation.
No.
AI is one important strategic context, not the purpose of the engagement.
The core questions are what matters, what the organisation is building and what deserves attention.
During the founding phase, the Founding Client Value Guarantee applies as described above.
You can continue independently, or with the optional Navigation Partnership described above.
The next step is a fit conversation — to determine whether Strategic Alignment is the right intervention for this moment.
Apply for a Founding Engagement