Stakeholder Alignment Sessions with Ben Newbolt

Bring cross-functional teams together to build shared understanding and commitment to UX goals. These sessions clarify direction, surface risks or blockers, and ensure stakeholder buy-in before key milestones.

Stakeholder Alignment Sessions

Use when kicking off projects, resetting direction, or driving consensus around UX priorities, value, or roadmap trade-offs.

When to Employ This Service

Alignment sessions help teams surface assumptions, priorities, and concerns. They prevent later blockers and improve delivery cohesion.

  • Clearer shared objectives and expectations

  • Early identification of conflicts or misalignment

  • Better collaboration across roles and silos

  • Stronger stakeholder confidence and clarity

Outcomes & Benefits

Stakeholder Alignment with Ben Newbolt

I facilitate alignment workshops that clarify goals, concerns, and ownership across business, tech, and design leads. The focus is on surfacing divergence and building consensus.

  • Discovery: Interview key participants and prepare framing

  • Workshop Design: Tailor exercises to support discussion and decisions

  • Facilitation: Mediate priorities and build shared understanding

  • Playback: Share outputs and final alignment agreements

Approach

People attending a presentation or workshop in a modern, spacious room with large glass windows, wooden floors, and casual seating arrangements.

Discover

  • Stakeholder map and contact matrix

Define

  • Session plans and facilitation assets

Deliver

  • Alignment summaries and action trackers

  • Visual artefacts showing convergence/divergence

Typical Deliverables