For teams and leadership

Before the agenda, read the room.

For leadership teams navigating a pivotal decision, a strategic pivot, a new leader, or two co-founders who need to want the same company. The Third Field shows you the gap between what the team says in the room and what each person believes alone, and turns what surfaces into commitments people can actually carry.

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The problem

Before strategy hardens around what no one has named.

Sometimes what matters is already present. What is missing is the room to say it.

A question held back. A responsibility carried unevenly. A difference mistaken for agreement. An ordinary offsite fills the agenda, brings in a generic facilitator, and sends everyone home with a slide deck and no commitments. We begin with what each person privately believes, and end with what the team has actually agreed, in writing.

Read the essay: The Rooms Where Strategy Can Tell the Truth

Choose how much of a Director you want

Three ways in.

The Team Map

Self-serve

Every member reflects privately; the team receives a shared synthesis and one working agreement to try. Add a 60-minute Director debrief. For onboarding, a new leader, a quarterly rhythm.

$95 a seat, four to ten · Director debrief $450

The Team Map

A Director workshop, virtual

Half-day on video

A facilitated session prepared from private reflections, ending in written agreements. For strategic shifts, post-reorg resets, co-founder alignment and distributed teams.

from $3,500

Talk to a Director

A Director workshop, in person

About eight hours, at your site

The full day: private reflections, facilitated conversation, written documentation. For pivotal decisions, post-merger integration, and teams that need to be in one room. Through Terroir Trails, the day adds the setting, chauffeured transportation and a long-table lunch.

from $6,500 · in wine country from $8,400

Terroir Trails Leadership Councils

The fee adjusts with team size, depth of preparation and synthesis scope. Your proposal confirms scope before the work begins.

Three formats, in any setting

Alignment: When you need a clear, shared direction. Move past surface consensus to where you actually align, where differences sit, and who owns what. You leave with the Alignment Charter: a concise written record of decisions and commitments.
Team Reset: When how you work together needs attention. Surface unspoken friction in a constructive, neutral container; clarify what each leader needs to operate at their best; agree on tangible Working Agreements to practice over the coming quarter.
Generative: When entering uncharted territory. Hear what each person sees on the horizon and align on a single, well-defined experiment with direct ownership, recorded in the Experiment Brief.

Your Experience Director

Director-led gatherings are facilitated by an experienced practitioner from The Third Field.

Before you gather: Each person shares brief, private reflections. Your Director reads the room before anyone arrives.
On the day: Your Director guides the conversation naturally, opening space for unhurried, honest dialogue without it feeling staged or clinical.
Afterward: You receive the Relational Map and the written record the format produces.

Meet the Director

Use cases

When teams call us.

Co-founder alignment: Workshop, virtual or in person. See the dedicated page.
A new leader taking over a team: Team Map with debrief; workshop if the inheritance is contested.
Post-merger or reorg integration: In-person workshop, Team Reset.
A strategic pivot: Workshop, Alignment or Generative.
The quarterly reset: Team Map, repeated.
Onboarding: Team Map.

Co-founder alignment

Clear boundaries

Not a performance assessment.

Private reflections are never a tool for employee surveillance; an employer or organizer cannot consent for others; we do not arrange an ambush or facilitate a predetermined verdict. A workshop is not a substitute for legal, HR, clinical, crisis or formal mediation support, and we will say so if that is what a team needs.

How this is different