In Action – Business
Leadership, Team Development and Strategy in Organizations
Interconnect International (I³) partners with leaders and organizations to strengthen leadership practice, team effectiveness, and organizational culture, while also supporting future-focused planning and alignment. Our work centers on the human systems that drive performance—clarity of purpose, shared expectations, trust, and the quality of everyday interactions.
Across technology, project, and cross-functional environments, I³ designs and facilitates leadership development, team engagements, and organizational visioning processes that create space for reflection, alignment, and practical action.
Examples from Organizational Practice
I³ has led dozens of leadership, team, and organizational sessions across a range of business contexts, including:
- leadership development experiences for groups of supervisors and people leaders
- facilitated sessions with leaders and their direct reports
- engagements that equip leaders with tools and methods to effectively engage their own teams
- team development within complex, multi-vendor initiatives
- large-group engagements within technology organizations
- appreciative inquiry–based organizational visioning processes conducted virtually across multiple locations
In one recent organizational engagement, I³ facilitated an Appreciative Inquiry process with an organizational team distributed across four locations. The work brought people together virtually to envision the future of the organization, identify strengths and opportunities, and co-create a practical plan for moving toward their shared direction. In addition to producing a forward-looking plan, the process strengthened relationships and built a greater sense of community across the team.
These sessions have taken place with small leadership groups, intact teams, and large gatherings. Participants consistently report high engagement, meaningful discussion, and renewed energy around leadership and collaboration.
In one recent organizational engagement, I³ facilitated an Appreciative Inquiry process with an organizational team distributed across four locations. The work brought people together virtually to envision the future of the organization, identify strengths and opportunities, and co-create a practical plan for moving toward their shared direction. In addition to producing a forward-looking plan, the process strengthened relationships and built a greater sense of community across the team.
These sessions have taken place with small leadership groups, intact teams, and large gatherings. Participants consistently report high engagement, meaningful discussion, and renewed energy around leadership and collaboration.
What This Work Includes
While each engagement is customized, core elements often include:
- Leadership alignment and reflection
Structured conversations that clarify how leadership is understood and enacted across roles and levels. - Team guidelines and operating principles
Executive-supported processes through which teams define shared expectations for collaboration, decision-making, and accountability. - Strengths-based capability building
Exercises that surface individual and collective strengths, reinforcing what enables teams to perform at their best. - Organizational visioning and planning
Appreciative Inquiry–informed processes that engage teams in imagining the future, aligning around purpose, and developing concrete pathways forward. - Facilitated executive and team dialogue
Purposeful forums for leaders and teams to address priorities, surface insights, and build trust.
A recent engagement brought together all supervisors on a technology team to explore leadership meaning, co-create operating guidelines, and engage in a strengths-based exercise. Leaders described the session as energizing, practical, and immediately applicable.
In another engagement, I³ worked with a core organizational team alongside two strategic vendor teams, facilitating leadership conversations and shared guidelines that supported collaboration across organizational boundaries.
More recently, a large leadership forum of approximately 60 participants opened with a centering and reflection experience designed to elevate focus, presence, and the quality of discussion—setting the foundation for continued leadership and team development work.
What This Demonstrates
These experiences demonstrate how intentional leadership, team, and visioning processes can:
- align people around future direction
- translate shared purpose into actionable plans
- elevate engagement and accountability
- strengthen trust and cross-functional collaboration
- build community even within distributed teams
- support organizations navigating complexity and change
How This Connects to I³ Programs
This organizational work integrates directly with I³’s core program areas:
Together, these offerings support leaders and organizations in aligning people, purpose, and performance.