The Team Blueprint
Your team isn't difficult. It's checked out, and it's costing you.
Layoffs, burnout, turnover, or plain chaos. The Team Blueprint shows exactly why your team keeps hitting the same wall, and what to do about it before you lose your best people.
More process won't fix what you don't understand about your people.
When a team isn't working, the instinct is often to add another meeting, another system, or another layer of accountability.
But sometimes the problem isn't the process. It's how the people inside it are working together.
Decisions get stuck
Everyone is waiting for clarity, or for someone else to make the call. What should take minutes turns into another meeting.
The same people carry the load
Your most dependable people keep stepping in, taking on more, and holding everything together, until they can't.
Good people stop showing up before they leave
They're still in the meetings. Still getting the work done. But the ideas, initiative, and energy start disappearing long before the resignation arrives.
You don't always need more from your people. You may need a better way for your people to work together.
How it works
1
Tell us what's happening
Choose your Team Blueprint package and complete a short intake so we understand your team, what's working, and where things are getting stuck.
2
Your team completes their profiles
Each person privately submits the information used to create their BG5 profile: birth date, birth time (if known), and birthplace.
Don't know your exact birth time? That doesn't automatically stop you from participating. We'll determine the best way to move forward.
3
We build your Team Blueprint
We bring the individual profiles together to identify patterns across the team (strengths, communication, decision-making, energy, collaboration, and potential friction points), then develop your draft 90-day plan.
4
We put it to work
We meet for a live 2-hour working session to turn what we've uncovered into practical changes your team can use immediately.
You'll leave with your Team Blueprint, 90-day action plan, and clear next steps for moving forward together.
Pricing and what's included
Virtual by default. In person available in the Baltimore–Washington area for a travel fee.
Core Team
For teams of 3–5
Built for leadership teams, founders and early hires, or small departments that want to understand how their people work, and work better together.
$1,750
Here's what's included:
Individual Profiles
A personalized profile for every team member exploring how they naturally work, make decisions, communicate, contribute, and recharge.
Your Team Blueprint
Your individual profiles mapped together to reveal the team's collective strengths, gaps, working patterns, and potential friction points.
Relationship Dynamics
A closer look at how team members interact one-on-one, where collaboration comes naturally and where misunderstandings or tension may show up.
2-Hour Live Working Session
A guided, practical session where we unpack your Team Blueprint and turn the insights into changes your team can actually use. Recording included.
Written Team Report
A customized reference your team can return to long after the session ends.
90-Day Action Plan
Clear, realistic practices for improving communication, decision-making, workload, collaboration, and team effectiveness.
Private Leader Debrief
A dedicated follow-up conversation with the team lead to discuss what surfaced, leadership considerations, and next steps.
30 Days of Support
Direct email access for questions and support as your team begins putting the Blueprint into practice.
You won't leave with another assessment to file away. You'll leave with a clearer understanding of your people, and a plan for working better together.
Build Your Team Blueprint →BEST FOR MOST TEAMS
Full Team
For teams of 6–12
Designed for full departments, school-based teams, and growing organizations that need more than insight. They want time and support to put the work into practice.
$3,500
Everything in the Core Team experience, expanded for up to 12 people, plus:
Complete Team Mapping
Individual profiles brought together to reveal how your full team communicates, makes decisions, contributes, manages energy, and works together.
Working Relationship Dynamics
A deeper look at the relationships across your team: where people naturally work well together, where friction may surface, and what can help them collaborate more effectively.
2-Hour Team Blueprint Session
We unpack what the Blueprint reveals and turn the insights into practical changes your team can begin using immediately.
45-Day Progress Session
We come back together to see what's working, address what isn't, and adjust your 90-day plan based on what your team is experiencing in real life.
Two Private Leader Debriefs
Dedicated conversations with the team lead to process what's emerging, think through leadership decisions, and determine next steps.
60 Days of Direct Support
Email access for questions, implementation support, and guidance as your team puts the Blueprint into practice.
This isn't a one-day team-building exercise. It's 60 days of understanding your people, changing how you work together, and building practices that can last.
Build Your Team Blueprint →Larger than 12, or more than one team?
For whole schools, multiple teams, keynotes, workshops, and ERG experiences, I partner through LaFew & Associates on custom engagements.
NEW · LIMITED SPOTS AT AN INTRODUCTORY RATE
Grief at Work
Grief doesn't stay home. When someone on your team is grieving a death, a divorce, a diagnosis, or even a layoff, it shows up as missed deadlines, quiet withdrawal, and a team that doesn't know what to say.
Grief at Work is a 90-minute session for leaders and teams on how different people are built to process loss and what each person actually needs from the people around them.
Included
[INTRO PRICE]
Book Grief at WorkQuestions leaders ask
Why birth data? Is this astrology?
[Your answer: what BG5 is, why you use it, and that it's a tool for conversation, never a label or a hiring test.]
What if someone on the team is skeptical?
[Your answer.]
What if someone doesn't know their birth time?
That doesn't automatically stop them from participating. We'll determine the best way to move forward. [Add your approach here.]
What's the difference between this and LaFew's Aligned by Design?
The Team Blueprint is a fixed-price package for one team of 3 to 12. Aligned by Design is a custom culture and climate engagement for whole schools and organizations. Many clients start with a Team Blueprint and grow from there.
Can we pay by invoice or purchase order?
[Your answer.]
"[Team lead testimonial: the problem before, and what changed after.]"
[Name, role, organization]