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.
Our approach is grounded in more than a decade of hands-on leadership experience and thousands of hours of 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 and strategy.
What We Do
We work with leadership teams, boards, and cross-functional groups to:
Grow the conditions supportive of working in concert towards strategic initiatives
Surface and address misalignment before it slows progress
Build shared language and stakeholder engagement strategies
Lead high-stakes conversations with clarity and confidence — connected with purpose and people
Translate intention into coordinated, decisive action
Strengthen 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
Driven by the belief that connection is key to surmounting seemingly intractable hurdles, Rachel Richter helps leaders and teams align for meaningful impact.
Earlier in her career, Rachel worked in innovation roles at publicly traded companies and federal agencies, operating at the intersection of mathematics and psychology. 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 greater alignment within individuals, between people, and inside organizations and led to her founding Leaders In Alignment. For more than six years, she has utilized a codified approach of her methods to consult with and teach 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 has led to influencing major outcomes utilizing the power of connection and creating sustained change within her clients’ organizations and lives.
