Life Masters, the Johannesburg-based high performance team development company led by founder Tony Dovale, has launched the Revolutionary Workplace Leadership Alignment Accelerator, a programme and diagnostic process aimed at repairing and aligning fractured executive, exco, management and board teams. The launch addresses a common yet often unmeasured issue in South African organisations: misaligned leadership that creates strain throughout the company. When leadership teams are out of step, decision-making slows, strategies falter in execution, and board-level tension affects company culture and performance.
According to Tony Dovale, CEO of Life Masters, the problem often goes undiagnosed. "When an executive team is pulling in different directions, everything below it feels the strain," he said. "We built the Leadership Alignment Accelerator so management, executive and board teams can see clearly where they are out of step and work through it together. Starting with talks and board interview meetings lets us meet each team where it actually is." The programme integrates leadership team diagnostics with guided sessions. These diagnostics reveal fractures within the team and highlight misalignments among members concerning priorities, decision rights, trust, and communication. Facilitated sessions then work through those gaps with the whole team together, rather than with leaders individually. The result is a shared, tested understanding of what the team is there to achieve and how it will make decisions, resolve conflict and hold each other to account.
The Accelerator is designed for management teams, executive teams and boards, particularly where decisions are slow or repeatedly reopened, strategy execution has stalled, there is tension or distrust at board or exco level, leaders are pulling in different directions or working to competing priorities, or a new CEO, merger or restructure has left the leadership team unaligned. Each engagement is tailored to the client's desired outcomes, ranging from a two-day leadership retreat to multi-month alignment and optimisation projects, depending on the organisation's structure, locations, number of participants and the depth of process needed to resolve the fracture. Entry-level interventions start from R35,000.
The Accelerator forms part of the Revolutionary Workplace® HPO Labs System and High Performance Teams experience. It extends Life Masters' work on psychological safety, trust, collaboration and communication to the top of the organisation, where leadership teams are divided and need a structured way to work through the issues. Teams can move from the Accelerator into deeper work, including the High Performance Team Sprint, Execution Accelerator, Culture Reset or Executive Strategy Facilitation. Business leadership keynote talks and board or exco interview meetings are available immediately, ahead of programme bookings opening in January 2027 in Gauteng, South Africa. The interview meeting is the first step: a focused conversation to understand the team's challenges and recommend the right format. Bookings can be made via revwork.lifemasters.co.
