Subject: Are your people aligned to a shared vision—or just really good at looking busy?

Good CEOs work toward closing out the year strong. Great CEOs also focus on aligning their executive teams on a strong team vision for 2026. 


Which type of leader are you?


In this week’s Aligned, Audacious, and Agile briefing, I explore the necessity for a facilitated team vision before the close out of 2025 to enter the new year with a strong, aligned team with momentum built in. 

If you lead a team, board, or company that’s growing fast but feeling the strain, this perspective will resonate. And if you know another CEO or founder who’s facing that same pressure, please share it with them.


🎥 If you missed it, our companion video, The Cost of a Vision Vacuum, dropped yesterday at:

Let’s stop mistaking motion for momentum.

As AI investment ramps up, many executive teams are discovering that technology adoption is easy to fund — but hard to humanize.


Mid-market leaders are under pressure to deliver real AI impact before Q1 2026 — yet few are addressing the human and behavioral risks that quietly derail adoption.


Check out this recent article from Tech Monitor citing 63% of leaders feel unprepared and running into readiness gaps - https://www.techmonitor.ai/digital-economy/ai-and-automation/91-middle-market-firms-embrace-ai-readiness-gaps-persist?utm_source=chatgpt.com  


We’re inviting senior-level executives to a peer-to-peer dicussion on Thursday, December 11th at 11 AM ET. This is an invitation-only Executive Forum designed exclusively for CEOs, CFOs, and CISOs preparing their 2026 strategy season.


We’ll explore how to align human behavior, trust, and conative instincts with AI strategy — so adoption drives measurable business results.


Featuring:

  • Clyde Calhoun, CEO, Root Idea

  • Alicia Couri, Founder/CEO, Audacious Concepts Inc. 

➡️ Apply for your seat now or share with an exec you believe should be in this conversation — limited to 12 executives.

I am so excited after having done an incredible spotlight for my online course on The Great Discovery a few months ago to have been chosen as one of the few speakers for the upcoming “The Great Discovery Live Experience” — an interactive event where you’ll gain the insights and strategies to transform your life and results in just 6 hours.


Learn. Connect. Transform.


Because real change can’t wait.

Register on the link below to join us on November 15th for this incredible life life-changing virtual event. 

And as always if you miss the episode, you can catch it our YouTube Channel so make sure you’re subscribed - Youtube.com/@aliciacouri