Leadership Team Development · Huntsville, Alabama

Brilliant people solve difficult problems.Relationship intelligence helps them solve those problems together.

Wayfinder helps technically exceptional leadership teams understand what drives one another, navigate disagreement productively, and turn individual expertise into coordinated execution.

Huntsville basedSDI 2.0Full-day team experienceOnsite across the region
Aerospace + DefenseMission-driven teams
EngineeringTechnical leaders
HealthcareClinical leadership
Technology + ManufacturingComplex execution
The challenge usually isn’t intelligence

It’s alignment.

Huntsville is filled with accomplished engineers, scientists, program leaders, clinicians, technical specialists, and mission-focused executives. Their organizations rarely struggle because people lack expertise.

The friction begins when capable people interpret priorities differently, misread one another’s motives, or enter leadership roles without a practical framework for managing relationships under pressure.

When relationship intelligence matters most

Smart teams can still lose time, trust, and momentum.

01 · TECHNICAL EXPERT TO LEADER

Your best engineer becomes a manager

Technical credibility earned the promotion. Leading people now requires a different set of insights, choices, and conversations.

02 · CROSS-FUNCTIONAL FRICTION

Disciplines see the same problem differently

Engineering, operations, quality, program management, and HR may all be right—and still struggle to move forward together.

03 · PRESSURE + CONSEQUENCE

The mission raises the stakes

When deadlines, customers, funding, safety, or delivery are on the line, strengths can become overdone and disagreement can become personal.

04 · GROWTH + CHANGE

Complexity outgrows informal relationships

Rapid growth, new leadership, reorganizations, and ownership changes expose assumptions that the team never had to discuss before.

Built for Huntsville’s working environment

Technical excellence starts the mission. Relationship intelligence keeps the team aligned.

Complex work crosses programs, functions, customers, primes, subcontractors, professional disciplines, and leadership levels. Wayfinder gives teams a shared language for navigating those relationships without reducing people to labels.

AerospaceDefense contractingEngineering servicesRocketry + spaceHealthcareAdvanced manufacturingTechnologyProfessional services
The SDI 2.0 framework

Understand what drives people—and what changes under pressure.

The Wayfinder Team Alignment Experience connects four practical views of workplace relationships.

MOTIVES

What matters beneath behavior

Understand why capable colleagues can approach the same situation with different priorities and positive intentions.

CONFLICT

What changes under pressure

Recognize how communication and priorities shift as conflict increases—and respond before the relationship deteriorates.

STRENGTHS

What each person contributes

Value the different strengths available to the team and recognize when a useful strength is being overdone.

The operational return

The value appears in how the team works after the session.

Faster alignment

Spend less time misreading intent and more time reaching clear, executable decisions.

Productive disagreement

Surface competing views without turning the issue into a damaged relationship.

Stronger execution

Use different motives and strengths as an advantage rather than a source of friction.

The Wayfinder Team Alignment Experience

A full day of insight, interaction, and practical application.

People enjoy the day because they understand themselves and one another better. Leaders value it because the team leaves with a framework it can continue using in meetings, decisions, and difficult conversations.

The experience is designed for intact leadership teams, functional teams, and cross-functional groups—whether you are addressing friction now or strengthening the team before pressure rises.

FORMATFull-day, facilitated team experience
GROUP SIZEDesigned for up to 25 participants
FRAMEWORKSDI 2.0 assessment and materials
PROFESSIONAL FEEStarting at $8,000
PARTICIPANTS$250 per participant for assessment and materials
TRAVELBilled separately when required
DELIVERYHuntsville based; available onsite throughout the region and nationwide
Brad RenfroeMBA · SDI 2.0 AND CORE STRENGTHS MASTER FACILITATOR
Your facilitator

Business experience behind the facilitation.

Brad is a senior HR executive, advisor, coach, and facilitator with more than 20 years of experience supporting leaders from startups through global enterprises. He brings the perspective of someone who has worked alongside executives on performance, growth, organizational change, selection, compensation, culture, and leadership—not simply someone who administers an assessment.

Start with the situation in front of you

Would this help your team work better together?

Let’s spend 30 minutes discussing what is happening on your team, what better would look like, and whether the Wayfinder experience is the right fit.

Let’s Talk About Your Team