The Team Sprint™
One Team. One Goal. Collective Transformation.
For Senior Leadership Teams Ready To Model the Transformation the Organization Requires
What the Team Sprint™ Is and When To Use It
Adding Collective Transformation
The Developmental Edge® designed the Team Sprint™ to run alongside a Developmental Sprint® when an executive team needs to transform not just as individuals, but as a collective. It applies Immunity to Change® (ITC), developed by Harvard faculty Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, two of TDE’s co-founders, not only to individuals, but also to the leadership team itself.
Going Deeper Than Typical Team Development
Most executive team development focuses on alignment exercises, communication workshops, or clarifying roles and priorities. The Team Sprint™ goes deeper. The team commits to a shared improvement goal rooted in a core capability the team must strengthen to execute its strategy. Together, the team builds an ITC map, surfacing the collective commitments and assumptions that are quietly working against the team’s set goal.
This is work no leader can do alone. It requires the team to examine itself as a system and test new ways of thinking, relating, and acting in real time. This disciplined experimentation results in visible shifts in meetings, decisions, and how leaders support one another under pressure.
Who It’s For
The Team Sprint™ is for executive teams facing strategic inflection points or pursuing bold ambitions, who recognize that individual growth alone won’t be enough.The question is not simply “What needs to change?” but, “Who do we need to become together?”
Team Sprint in Action
After a merger, the global tax team at a major financial services organization needed to become one team, fast. The synergies that justified the deal depended on it. But leaders from each legacy company were still operating in separate camps. Through the Team Sprint™, the team surfaced what was keeping them divided, experimented with new ways of working together, and emerged as the unified leadership team the organization required.
Setting the Standard
When a senior leadership team does this work visibly, it doesn’t just improve the team; it also improves the organization. It sets the standard for the entire organization. Others see that growth is expected, that struggle is acceptable, and that change is possible. The team serves as a concrete model of how development actually happens here.
As a director in a Fortune 250 organization put it: “Seeing the vulnerability of senior executives lets us know that we don’t have to pretend that we have all the answers now. We can acknowledge what we don’t know and ask for help.”
The Team Sprint™ Process
Step 1
Launch Workshop
Each leader builds an individual ITC map; the team builds a collective one around a shared improvement goal. Both generate experiments to test in real work.
Step 2
Experiments in Real Work
Team members run experiments at multiple levels throughout the Sprint: individual experiments in their own work, shared experiments across areas, and team-level experiments when they meet together. Insights at one level inform the others.
Step 3
Peer Coaching
Team members meet in peer-coaching groups to share experiments and reflections. This process builds trust and mutual understanding, strengthening the team as a whole.
Step 4
Closing Workshop
The team integrates individual and collective learning, consolidates insights, and designs how the work continues, so development remains embedded in how the team leads.
Through this process, the team stops being a collection of leaders who do developmental work. It becomes a developmental leadership team.
Ready to Transform
How Your Leadership Team Works?
The best executive teams don’t just manage change; they embody it. Visibly. In times of continuous transformation, how the top team works becomes the signal everyone follows. The Team Sprint™ helps your leadership team model the mindsets and behaviors your organization now requires.
Let’s explore what’s possible.