What conversation is your team avoiding?

Until that truth is spoken, strategy will keep stalling — and you’ll keep holding it all together.
I help senior leaders master the uncomfortable conversations and install a simple, proven operating system so execution isn’t all on you.
Start here:
Diagnose the Friction → Take the Friction Index™ and see where misalignment and confusion are costing you.
Face the Uncomfortable Conversations → We surface the truths your team keeps avoiding.
Install a Simple, Operating System → Embed rhythms and structures that make execution unstoppable.

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We Get It

Leading an organization is tough. We know what it feels like to sit at the top and wonder if you’re the only one holding it all together.

Everyone looks to you for clarity.

You’re expected to have every answer.

And when the team avoids the hard conversations, it feels like you’re carrying the entire organization by yourself

If you’ve ever thought…

"Why can’t my team step up and own this?

“Do I have the wrong people… or am I the problem?”

“Why do our meetings feel like we’re circling, not deciding?”

“Who can I trust to carry out the vision?”

“How long can I keep driving execution before I burn out?”

…you’re not alone.

Every leader feels this at some point. The difference is, some stay stuck in the weight of it, while others instill the behaviors, and install the clarity to move forward together.

The Team’s Reality

When the uncomfortable conversations don’t happen, dysfunction takes over.

It looks like:

Nods of agreement in the room, side-conversations in the hallway.

Brilliant people going quiet because honesty feels too risky.

A strategy that looks strong on slides but disappears in execution.

If your team can’t state the strategy simply, it doesn’t exist. And until it does, you’ll keep being the translator.

The Cascade Downward

It doesn’t stop at the executive table.

Every avoided conversation at the top multiplies downward:

Managers get mixed signals

Teams lose focus.

Priorities get rewritten in whispers.

And the further it cascades, the more you feel like the bottleneck holding the entire system together.

The Good News

The very conversations you’re avoiding are also the doorway to trust, energy, and speed.

Paired with a simple, proven method, those conversations remove friction, cascade clarity, and accelerate execution — so your team carries the load together, and you no longer have to.

The Organizational Health Process

Here’s the simple plan:

Diagnose the Friction → Start by taking the Friction Index™.

Face the Uncomfortable Conversations → Clear the hidden obstacles.

Install the Proven System → Hardwire clarity, trust, and accountability into daily operations.

Grounded in

What Works

This isn’t theory. It builds on more than 25 years of proven organizational health principles pioneered by Patrick Lencioni, founder of The Table Group.

I’m proud to be a Principal Consultant with The Table Group, helping extend Pat’s model by making it executable in daily leadership practice.

At the Table Group, we help leaders master the 4 Disciplines that build a healthy organization:

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Clarity

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Where trust, conflict, and clarity are the norm—not the exception.

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Cohesion

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So everyone knows what matters—and how to act on it

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Communication

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So alignment spreads and confusion disappears.

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Reinforcement

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So culture doesn’t rely on memory or personality—it becomes predictable.

These disciplines remain essential — but too often, they stop at theory. They inspire leaders but don’t always translate into daily execution

That’s where my work comes in

I help leadership teams master the uncomfortable conversations that make clarity stick, and install a simple, proven operating model that makes execution unstoppable.

Think of it as organizational health, operationalized — so you’re no longer the one holding it all together.

Work Process

How We Work

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Onboarding Strategy

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Optimization Tracking

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Strategy Adjustments

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About

What I Actually Do

I’m a Principal Consultant with The Table Group, working directly with founders and executive teams to install a leadership operating system rooted in clarity, trust, and behavioral integrity.

Together, we’ll build:

A leadership team that’s aligned and cohesive

A strategy that actually lives in daily decisions

Rhythms that keep execution and culture strong across the org

A system that doesn’t depend on your heroic effort to function

This isn’t a bandage.

It’s transformation — from the inside out.

About The Transformation

When your team masters the hard conversations and installs the system:

Decisions speed up.

Managers stop guessing.

Energy returns and morale scales.

Strategy finally lives in your people, not just on paper.

This is organizational health. Not perks. Not words that live on websites.

Courage + clarity = unstoppable execution that no longer depends on you holding it all.

What Founders Are Saying

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After a short period of working together, I thanked Al for his unique approach and his ability to move mountains within our organization with wisdom, patience, and grace. Thanks to Mr. Abdulla, our company no longer suffers from the Organizational ADHD we initially met him with! Thank you, Al, from the bottom line of our Organization (and our Hearts).”
-Ryan Prahm, CEO/Partner | DD Ford
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Al used his considerable talents to help me identify the root causes of somelong-standing and difficult challenges in my organization. His continued support and insightsenabled me to lead a process of change that resulted in new and much healthier team.
-Robert Pacifici, CSO | CHDI
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Al Abdulla and The Table Group were instrumental in helping our leadership team regain its health after a period of team changes that had resulted in unhealthy dynamics. Despite my efforts to resolve these issues, it wasn’t until Al and his team stepped in that we saw real progress. I highly recommend Al and The Table Group for anyone seeking to restore or enhance team dynamics.
-Albert Oriol, CTO | Rady Children’s Hospital
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Somehow Al and his team were able to pull a rabbit out of the hat again to align our team and move forward faster than ever. This work of alignment is usually seen as important but non-urgent. Let me tell you, this is both!
Dave Gandy, CEO | Font Awesome
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After a short period of working together, I thanked Al for his unique approach and his ability to move mountains within our organization with wisdom, patience, and grace. Thanks to Mr. Abdulla, our company no longer suffers from the Organizational ADHD we initially met him with! Thank you, Al, from the bottom line of our Organization (and our Hearts).”
-Ryan Prahm, CEO/Partner | DD Ford
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Al used his considerable talents to help me identify the root causes of somelong-standing and difficult challenges in my organization. His continued support and insightsenabled me to lead a process of change that resulted in new and much healthier team.
-Robert Pacifici, CSO | CHDI
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Al Abdulla and The Table Group were instrumental in helping our leadership team regain its health after a period of team changes that had resulted in unhealthy dynamics. Despite my efforts to resolve these issues, it wasn’t until Al and his team stepped in that we saw real progress. I highly recommend Al and The Table Group for anyone seeking to restore or enhance team dynamics.
-Albert Oriol, CTO | Rady Children’s Hospital
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Somehow Al and his team were able to pull a rabbit out of the hat again to align our team and move forward faster than ever. This work of alignment is usually seen as important but non-urgent. Let me tell you, this is both!
Dave Gandy, CEO | Font Awesome
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After a short period of working together, I thanked Al for his unique approach and his ability to move mountains within our organization with wisdom, patience, and grace. Thanks to Mr. Abdulla, our company no longer suffers from the Organizational ADHD we initially met him with! Thank you, Al, from the bottom line of our Organization (and our Hearts).”
-Ryan Prahm, CEO/Partner | DD Ford
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Al used his considerable talents to help me identify the root causes of somelong-standing and difficult challenges in my organization. His continued support and insightsenabled me to lead a process of change that resulted in new and much healthier team.
-Robert Pacifici, CSO | CHDI
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Al Abdulla and The Table Group were instrumental in helping our leadership team regain its health after a period of team changes that had resulted in unhealthy dynamics. Despite my efforts to resolve these issues, it wasn’t until Al and his team stepped in that we saw real progress. I highly recommend Al and The Table Group for anyone seeking to restore or enhance team dynamics.
-Albert Oriol, CTO | Rady Children’s Hospital
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Somehow Al and his team were able to pull a rabbit out of the hat again to align our team and move forward faster than ever. This work of alignment is usually seen as important but non-urgent. Let me tell you, this is both!
Dave Gandy, CEO | Font Awesome