The Shift®Accelerator
Build the internal capacity your organization needs to lead, learn, and grow together.
The only experience that integrates leadership coaching, team development, and talent systems design together into one coherent journey that leads to sustained change.
What keeps your culture work from sticking
Most organizations want to transform their culture and they’ve tried.
An all-staff training here. A coaching program for managers there. A new talent system that launches but never quite takes hold.
The problem isn’t effort; it’s that culture, leadership, and learning are rarely built as one system.
That’s why we built The Shift® Accelerator: to bring leadership, team practices, and talent systems into one experience that transforms how your organization works every day.
The transformation that touches every level
The Accelerator strengthens every level of your organization — from CEO to staff — so the way you lead, collaborate, and perform shifts together through shared ownership.
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People Systems/HR
Design systems that make values visible.
People systems and measurement reinforce effective people management, shared ownership, and the culture you want to sustain over time.
Staff
Know what matters and feel part of it.
People understand their role in shaping how the organization works, take shared ownership for outcomes, and contribute within systems that support accountability, growth, and belonging.
CEO
Lead with space and clarity.
You are leading with clearer judgment, stronger leverage, and confidence that leadership, culture, and systems are carrying the work — not just you.
Executive Team
Lead as one.
Leaders are aligned around shared expectations, decision-making, and how they lead together, allowing the organization to move with greater coherence and momentum.
Managers
Coach, develop, and drive performance.
Managers learn to coach, strategize, hold clear expectations, and build trust and belonging that strengthens results instead of straining their teams.
How the Shift® Accelerator Works
The Shift® Accelerator builds that connection through four stages designed to strengthen leadership, expand team capacity, and make culture operational:
CEO+Senior Leadership Partnership
We work directly with you to clarify leadership priorities, decision-making, and how the organization is stewarded as it grows and evolves.
People Manager Development
We strengthen how leaders think, decide, and lead together, building shared expectations and capability across the leadership team.
Culture in Action
We support teams in learning how to work more effectively together through clearer knowns, stronger communication, and consistent ways of operating.
Talent Systems+Metrics
We help ensure people systems and measurement practices reinforce the leadership, culture, and ways of working you want to sustain.
How The Shift® Accelerator Unfolds
Each Shift® Accelerator engagement follows a consistent structure, with emphasis tailored to your organization’s context, priorities, and stage of growth.
Organizational Assessment & Discovery
Every Shift® Accelerator engagement begins with a focused organizational assessment and discovery phase, typically over the first 4–6 weeks.
A Custom Roadmap That Fits Your Flow of Work
From the assessment, we partner with the CEO and a small core project team to build a clear, customized 12-month roadmap.
This roadmap outlines:
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The leadership, learning, and culture focus areas for the year
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When leadership sessions, team learning, and system work will occur
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How the work fits into your existing rhythms and priorities
You’ll know what’s coming, when — and why.
A Steady, Sustainable Monthly Cadence
Once underway, the Accelerator runs on a simple, predictable monthly rhythm.
Most organizations experience:
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One primary engagement point per month (often a leadership or team session)
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Ongoing CEO and executive support as needed
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Light coordination with a small core project team to track progress
On average, leaders and teams spend approximately 2–4 hours per month engaged in Accelerator-related work.
Over time, this work becomes part of how the organization operates rather than something leaders have to keep building manually.
Focus Areas We Commonly Work On
Each Shift® experience is custom-built for where your organization is in its journey, often focused on a combination of the following areas:
Clarity and decision-making
Clarifying roles, authority, expectations, and how decisions are made and carried across the organization.
team effectiveness
Strengthening trust, accountability, and the ability of leaders to function as a team.
Inclusive Communication
Building shared language and expectations so leadership is consistent beyond the top.
Feedback and collaboration
Improving how teams communicate, give feedback, and work through tension.
learning rhythms
Designing learning rhythms that build real capability over time.
Culture and Belonging
Embedding clarity, care, and belonging into daily norms and systems, not just values statements.
Inside the Accelerator Teams Discover:
85%
Stronger leadership alignment
Strategic decisions move faster because the team operates as a unified front.
30%
Higher retention (Year over Year)
Turnover drops when expectations are clear, roles feel stable, and growth paths are visible.
85%
Increase in team engagement
Teams feel connected to purpose and to one another.
90%
Improved strategy execution
Each team moves with clear priorities, shared accountability, and real follow-through.
Organizations Making the Shift®
“Tayden’s guidance created a measurable shift in our culture, policies, and practices – aligned with who we say we are.”
The Accelerator gave us a framework to grow without losing our values. It’s had a lasting impact on our team, culture, and results.”
What the Work Makes Possible
The Shift® Accelerator is designed for leaders and organizations ready to move from effort-driven culture to capacity-driven systems.
This work tends to be a strong fit if you:
- Believe culture is shaped by daily decisions and systems — not just values statements
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Are ready to invest in durable change, not one-off initiatives
Are leading an organization through growth, complexity, or change
Believe culture is shaped by daily decisions and systems — not just values statements
Are navigating complexity that requires clearer people systems and shared ownership
Are leading a team that has grown beyond informal ways of working
Want to strengthen how leaders manage people and how teams take responsibility for outcomes
Are ready to invest in durable change, not one-off initiatives
This is not a program to “roll out.”
It’s a partnership designed to build capacity over time.
Your Tayden Partner Team
Every Accelerator client works with the same core team from start to finish — so the people guiding your strategy are the same ones helping you bring it to life.
Lead Strategic Consulting Partner
Your primary thought partner throughout the Accelerator — guiding strategy, coaching your CEO and senior leaders, and keeping culture and performance work connected across every level.
Facilitators and Coaches
Seasoned practitioners who lead labs and team sessions — translating the work into habits your people can actually use day to day.
Associate Consultant
Your behind-the-scenes partner — managing logistics, materials, and communication so your team can stay focused on the work that matters.
We take on a limited number of Accelerator clients each year to give each organization the focus and partnership it deserves.
Investment+ Engagement
The Shift® Accelerator is designed for organizations building long-term leadership and people system capacity.
Investment is determined based on organizational size, complexity, and the scope of partnership required, and typically reflects a multi-month commitment rather than a one-time engagement.
Questions Leaders Ask Before Joining the Accelerator
What is the Accelerator, exactly?
It’s a partnership that connects leadership, culture, and systems into one working structure. Instead of a workshop or consulting sprint, it’s a guided process that builds the habits, tools, and decisions your team uses every week — until they hold on their own.
What do you actually focus on inside the Accelerator?
Every Accelerator strengthens the five essentials of a healthy, high-performing culture — the systems and habits that make culture stick long after we’re gone:
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Clarity & Communication: Everyone knows what matters most and how their work connects.
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Trust & Safety: Teams can speak up and problem-solve together.
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Feedback & Growth: Coaching and reflection become daily practices.
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Recognition & Accountability: Wins are visible, expectations are clear.
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Leadership Consistency: Leaders model the culture they want to see.
These essentials are built and reinforced across every phase of the Accelerator — through leadership coaching, team development, and people systems design.
How does it work - and how much time does it take?
Each organization starts with a short assessment phase, followed by four structured phases across the year.
Most of the work happens within your existing meetings and systems. We design it to strengthen what’s already in motion, not add more to your plate.
Who is it for?
The Accelerator is designed for mission-driven organizations — mission driven for-profits, nonprofits, foundations, and associations – where success depends on people working in sync.
It engages every level: the CEO, executive team, managers, and staff. Everyone learns how their part connects to the whole.
What’s included?
Everything most organizations try to fix separately: executive coaching, manager development, team facilitation, and people-system redesign.
It’s all built into one plan, one calendar, and one shared language — so change happens together, not in pieces.
What makes it different from a smaller engagement?
Smaller projects improve one area – leadership, management, or systems – but the gains rarely last when the others stay the same.
The Accelerator unites them, creating momentum that holds when we step back.
What results can we expect?
Leaders share responsibility instead of carrying it alone.
Managers coach with consistency.
Staff understand what matters most.
Systems make trust and accountability visible.
Within 90 days, clients see stronger alignment, steadier leadership, and measurable retention gains.
What happens after year one?
The first year builds structure. The second year builds independence.
By year two, your leadership team runs the same rhythms we built together – planning, reviews, and feedback loops that don’t rely on us to hold.
We stay close through quarterly check-ins, executive coaching, and system reviews to help you refine what’s working as you grow.
Most clients use year two to deepen leadership development, strengthen team consistency, or expand people systems to new departments – without starting over.
The foundation you built keeps scaling with you.
Ready To Begin the Shift?
If you’re still reading, you already know the gap isn’t in your mission – it’s in the way your organization has to keep holding it together.
The Shift® Accelerator gives you what most leaders don’t get: space to lead, systems that back you up, and a team that moves with you instead of waiting on you.
This isn’t another initiative to manage.
It’s the year your organization learns how to run differently – steady, clear, and together.
When that happens, growth stops feeling fragile. It starts to feel built in.