Eric McDermott
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Team Amplifiers®

The Alignment Advantage: Move Together. Move Faster. Outcompete.

Actionable, easy-to-adopt practices for teams and leaders to align and outcompete.

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The Alignment Advantage

You can have outstanding people and talented teams and still fail to get the performance you should be getting from them.

The problem is rarely capability—it is alignment.

When people operate with different assumptions about what is coming next, what matters most, and what needs to happen first, coordination starts to break down. Priorities compete, trust and engagement suffer, teams work hard in different directions, and the organization loses speed precisely when it needs it most.

Based on his best-selling book Team Amplifiers, Eric’s highly visual and engaging keynote draws on decades of first-hand experience leading businesses, teams, and advisers in complex, fast-moving environments. He introduces a practical framework for creating a shared mindset, rule set, and action set, helping people align around simple, memorable practices that can be understood across roles, functions, and levels of an organization and put to work immediately.

Eric is not a commentator looking in from the outside — he’s a business owner with a firm of more than 60,000 clients, and continues to lead and work inside the kinds of complex organizations he speaks to.

The result is greater clarity, stronger coordination, and faster execution, so talented people stop pulling in different directions and start moving together toward the outcomes that matter most.

Three critical questions

  1. Mindset

    What should we anticipate?

  2. Rule set

    What are our priorities?

  3. Action set

    In what sequence should we act?

Best suited to & ideal market

  • Executive Leadership Teams & Senior Managers Experiencing rapid growth, structural change, or increasing operational complexity.
  • Cross-Functional Department Heads Teams that are busy but working with competing or unclear priorities.
  • Siloed Organizations Companies where different departments or levels operate from conflicting assumptions.
  • Stalled Execution Groups Leadership teams frustrated by slower-than-expected strategic execution velocity.
  • Culture Alignment Programs Organizations experiencing breakdowns in trust, employee engagement, or inter-team coordination.
  • Fast-Changing Market Environments Leaders who need their workforce to respond faster to changing market conditions.

Key audience outcomes & actionable takeaways

  • Shared Alignment Framework A practical operational model built around mindset, rule set, and action set.
  • Proactive Anticipation A clearer way to anticipate what is coming next rather than constantly reacting to crises.
  • Prioritization Discipline Practical tools for identifying what matters most and what needs to happen first.
  • Common Operational Language A unified vocabulary that improves coordination across departments and functional tiers.
  • Immediate Execution Tools Simple practices like What By When® that can be applied immediately, regardless of role or level.
  • Execution Velocity A stronger understanding of how misalignment damages trust, engagement, and market execution speed.

Move together. Move faster. Outcompete.

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