The New For Purpose CEO
The New For Purpose CEO
Michelle Cutler and Danielle Ballantine
Aligning your senior leadership team
29 minutes Posted Sep 16, 2026 at 5:00 pm.
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High-performing leaders don’t always make a high-performing leadership team.

In this episode of The NFP CEO, Michelle and Danielle explore how CEOs can build a more aligned, cohesive executive team. They discuss shared priorities, collective accountability, healthy disagreement, decision-making and leading beyond individual functions to achieve the best outcomes for the organisation.

This episode covers:

Top 5 Topics Discussed

  1. Building a cohesive senior leadership team – Moving from high-performing functional leaders to one aligned executive team.
  2. Shared priorities and organisational strategy – Ensuring leaders focus on what the organisation needs to achieve, not just their own functions.
  3. Healthy disagreement and decision-making – Creating space for debate while achieving alignment and collective accountability.
  4. The CEO’s role in leadership alignment – Setting clear expectations, decision-making responsibilities and leading across the organisation.
  5. Breaking down silos and strengthening culture – Improving collaboration, resource allocation and consistent communication across teams.

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