Vital Teams Ashley Munday & Dr. Yotam Heineberg
Vital Teams book cover: A 90 Day Formula to Transform Your Team with Strategy, Safety, and Maximized Value, by Ashley Munday and Dr. Yotam Heineberg
Free companion to the book

The Vital Teams Formula Workbook

Your 90-day roadmap for putting Vital Teams into practice, with every activity from the book in one place.

What's inside

Four phases. One practice at a time.

The workbook gathers the book's activities and sequences them into the 90-Day Integration Roadmap. Each activity includes its purpose, how long it takes, how often to practice it, and step-by-step instructions, with space to write. It's designed to support integration, not compliance: you don't need to complete every activity to move forward.

Phase 1
Weeks 1–4

Foundation

Safety

Regulate threat and stabilize the team nervous system.

Phase 2
Weeks 5–8

Team Foundation

Significance

Meaning, belonging, and visible contribution.

Phase 3
Weeks 9–12

Communication Under Pressure

Safety + Significance

Honest communication without threat escalation.

Phase 4
Weeks 13–14

Leadership When It Matters Most

Strategy

Challenge, clarity, and coordinated action under pressure.

Every activity from the book

From the Vital Mission Alignment Worksheet to the Culture Canvas and Notice and Switch, ready to use alone, in pairs, or with your whole team.

Easy to lead

Team activities include preparation notes, so anyone on the team can lead them. No title required, just intention.

Made to print

Fill-in pages that print cleanly in color or grayscale, plus editable templates for your Culture Canvas and decision records.

Praise for Vital Teams
“If you're asking your organization to move faster, start here.”
Charlene Li, New York Times bestselling author of The Disruption Mindset and co-author of Winning with AI
“This is Conscious Capitalism in action: creating workplaces where people flourish and businesses thrive.”
Raj SisodiaCo-founder, Conscious Capitalism, NYTimes Bestselling Author, Conscious Capitalism and The Healing Organization
“It's a powerful reminder that when people feel safe enough to bring their full energy to work, organizations truly come alive.”
Chip ConleyNew York Times bestselling author and founder of MEA
“Too many organizations talk about culture in one room and strategy in another. Ashley Munday and Dr. Yotam Heineberg bring those conversations together and show why the human side of work determines whether a strategy actually lands. It's a practical book for leaders who are tired of initiatives that don't stick.”
Ebony BeckwithFounder, Framework; former Chief Business Officer, Salesforce
“Every founder learns the hard way that strategy doesn't fail on paper. It fails in the room, when smart people stop saying what they think.”
Steve GlennFounder & CEO, Plant Prefab, Founding Partner, idealab
“I know it takes more than just assembling talented people to get great outputs. This book goes right to the heart of how to set those people up to thrive.”
Scot SafonFormer CMO, CNN
“In thirty years of coaching executives and teams, I've rarely found ambition to be the problem. The harder part is getting people to drop the defensive plays that lead to attrition and burnout. Vital Teams doesn't ask leaders to give up drive. It shows them how to stop running it on fear.”
Erin LimanStrategic Advisor and Executive Coach, Former Stanford d.school Lecturer
The book

Vital Teams

A 90 Day Formula to Transform Your Team with Strategy, Safety, and Maximized Value

Talented teams get stuck for understandable reasons. Vital Teams connects the human dynamics of work with the strategic demands of business, giving leaders and team members a practical way to address the friction, fatigue, and disengagement that undermine performance. Whether you are an executive, team leader, or a contributor, this book is for you.

Available November 17, 2026
The authors

Ashley Munday

Ashley is founder of Sentido Partners, a strategic consulting firm that helps senior leaders and executive teams turn strategy into coordinated action. For more than 25 years, she has worked with Fortune 100 companies, global financial institutions, and high-growth organizations at moments when execution mattered most.

She has coached senior executives, led multi-year cultural transformations across six continents, and facilitated national culture initiatives. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

Dr. Yotam Heineberg

Yotam is a Stanford-trained psychologist and consultant specializing in resilience, culture transformation, and compassion-based leadership. His expertise in Compassion Focused Therapy provides the scientific foundation for much of the book.

As a Research Fellow at Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), he developed pioneering programs for collective resilience. He lives and practices in San Francisco.

Start wherever you are

One practice, done consistently, can change how a team works together.

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