Common Ground
A Team Formation & Leadership Development Experience
You selected them for what they can do.
Have you prepared them for who they need to become together?
High-stakes assignments, stretch roles, and transformational initiatives move capable people into unfamiliar territory. Common Ground helps leaders and teams build the trust, shared language, decision frameworks, and relational infrastructure they need to hold together when the work gets hard.
Why Common Ground exists
People grow from the inside out, and they grow further together.
Organizations are skilled at identifying people for what they need to do. They are far less skilled at preparing them for who they need to become in order to do it. The gap between selection and preparation is where teams fracture, people disengage, and potential goes unrealized.
The Human Operating System
Common Ground develops three interconnected domains of leadership:
Common Ground is built for teams navigating:
High-stakes assignments
Stretch roles
Organizational transformation
New or newly formed leadership teams
Work requiring rapid team formation under pressure
What happens in Common Ground
Create the conditions for honest connection and shared work.
Explore identity, transition, pressure, and patterns under stress.
Build trust, brave space, and stronger relational practices.
Create decision rights, communication agreements, and ways of navigating conflict.
Turn insight into individual commitments and a team charter that travels back to the work.
Program snapshot
3.5 Days
Immersive experience
12-18 Participants
Ideal cohort size
Facilitated Cohort Format
Built for the whole team
Shared Experience
More than just content delivery
Participants leave with:
A personal leadership profile that names patterns under pressure and growth edges
A co-created team charter defining how the group will operate, decide, communicate, and navigate conflict
Shared language and decision frameworks the team can keep using
Individual commitments grounded in post-program intention
A stronger cohort bond built through intentional experience, not just proximity
Led by Kimberly Sharp
Kimberly Sharp is a former Chief People Officer and executive advisor with 25+ years of corporate leadership and consulting experience. Through OakRoot Human Experience, she brings together executive leadership, enterprise transformation, and human-centered development to help leaders and teams navigate pressure, change, and uncertainty. As a mentor-coach, facilitator, and fractional C-suite leader, she draws on her enterprise date and technology background to strengthen the human system running underneath the work.
Lead from in the inside out.
If your team is stepping into high-stakes work, significant change, or a new chapter together, Common Ground creates the foundation to do it with greater clarity, trust, and steadiness.