About
Why Alignment?
Alignment in an organization is like water flowing toward a waterfall — each drop distinct, carrying its own story, yet drawn by something larger: the quiet, compelling gravity of shared purpose. When leaders and colleagues across teams truly align around that purpose, they don’t need further pressure or control — they move in concert, together. This isn’t about forcing agreement, which often lasts only until those around us begin to push against it or work around it. Instead, alignment is about creating the conditions — leading in alignment — where trust, clarity, and shared intent turn individual actions into one powerful, unified flow.
And when that happens, momentum doesn’t feel manufactured. It feels inevitable.
Who We Are
We’re a professional development and executive education organization with one focus: helping leaders and teams align for meaningful impact — with momentum.
Our approach is grounded in thousands of hours of hands-on leadership experience and applied research from leading institutions around the world. Leaders in Alignment doesn’t just teach alignment — we help leaders and colleagues across teams create the conditions where it becomes second nature: Where people act with clarity, communicate with trust, collaborate with intention, and work in concert towards a shared purpose.
What We Do
We work with leadership teams, boards, and cross-functional groups to:
Surface and address misalignment before it slows progress
Build shared language and stakeholder engagement strategies
Lead high-stakes conversations with clarity and confidence
Translate intention into coordinated, decisive action
Create feedback loops that provide line of sight and refine actions going forward
→ Whether you’re navigating growth, change, or complexity, we help your people create the conditions to continuously align around shared purpose — so momentum becomes inevitable.
Meet the Founder &
Chief Alignment Officer
Rachel Richter holds a unique perspective rooted in mathematics and psychology, operating at the intersection of IQ and EQ.
In her early career, Rachel worked in innovation roles at publicly traded companies and federal agencies. She helped teams save billions of dollars by finding methods of connection where years of bureaucracy, fear, and attachment to the status quo hindered progress.
Her methods cultivated alignment within individuals, between people, and inside organizations and led to her founding of Leaders in Alignment. For more than five years, she has utilized a codified approach of her methods to consult with and train executive teams and boards of national nonprofits with international reach, national and multinational private equity-backed organizations, as well as a state chamber of commerce.
This work led to influencing major outcomes utilizing the power of connection and created sustained change within her clients’ lives and organizations.
