Certified Facilitator · The Table Group

Elevate your team's health and performance.

Team sessions and leadership coaching grounded in Patrick Lencioni's Working Genius and Five Dysfunctions frameworks. Fast-paced, practical, and built to unlock real change in your organization.

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Proven Frameworks

The tools behind the work

Battle-tested models from Patrick Lencioni and The Table Group, applied to your team's reality.

The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni: a framework for organizational health covering leadership team cohesion, clarity, communication, and reinforcement
Organizational Health

The Advantage

Lencioni's complete model for organizational health: a cohesive leadership team, crystal-clear direction, consistent communication, and reinforcement through human systems.

The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team pyramid showing Trust at the base, then Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results at the top
Team Health Model

The 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team

Build the trust, productive conflict, commitment, accountability, and results that separate cohesive teams from the rest.

The 6 Types of Working Genius diagram: six gears labeled W, I, D, G, E, T representing Wonder, Invention, Discernment, Galvanizing, Enablement, and Tenacity
Productivity Model

The 6 Types of Working Genius

Discover the work that energizes each member of your team, and the work that drains them. The result: better meetings, smarter hiring, and clearer execution.

What I Do

How we walk the journey together

Building a healthy, high‑performing team is the result of a journey, not a one‑time event.

1:1 Coaching

Executive Coaching

A confidential 1:1 partnership for executives and senior leaders who want to lead with greater clarity, courage, and self‑awareness. Grounded in Patrick Lencioni's organizational health methodology.

Team Workshops

Team Sessions

Facilitated workshops and offsites that move teams from cordial to candid. Custom‑built around the specific challenges your team is facing, from one‑hour sessions to multi‑day immersions.

Not sure where to start?

Schedule a free 30-minute call. We'll talk through what your team is facing and figure out the right path. No pressure, no pitch.

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What Changes

Before and after

The shifts leaders and teams commonly describe before and during our work together.

Before working with Justin

Common thoughts leaders and teams have voiced:

  • "The most important conversations on my team never actually happen."
  • "We have smart people who can't seem to get aligned on what matters."
  • "I'm carrying too much alone. I don't fully trust my team with the hard things."
  • "Our meetings are polite, but they don't move work forward."
  • "I know my team has more potential, but I can't pinpoint what's blocking us."
  • "We talk about strategy and never seem to execute on it."
  • "Accountability conversations feel personal, so we avoid them."
  • "As a leader, I feel isolated. There's no one I can think out loud with."

After (and during) our work

Common thoughts those same leaders and teams now voice:

  • "My team can have hard conversations without it becoming personal."
  • "We know what each person is genius at, and we're playing to those strengths."
  • "I trust my leadership team to handle complexity I used to carry alone."
  • "Our meetings are focused, candid, and productive."
  • "We share a common language for what's working and what isn't."
  • "I'm clearer on my own gifts as a leader, and where I need to grow."
  • "Accountability isn't personal; it's how we get great results together."
  • "I have a trusted thought partner I can be honest with."
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Proof of Work

Trusted by leading organizations

A selection of teams and companies we've had the privilege to work with.

  • The Table Group
  • AllCampus
  • Fast Forward
  • McGuire and Hester
  • Meristem
  • Repair OnDemand
  • Sakata Seed America
  • Schwing America
  • Wheelan Advisory Group

Industries served include agriculture, construction, education, financial advisory, professional services, and SaaS.

What clients say

I met Justin through the Sacramento Region Community Foundation and quickly realized what an asset to the community he is. Justin has shared his passion for working with companies and organizations to make them stronger, to help their leadership grow, and to show them sustainable ways to enhance and further their work. Both professionally and personally, Justin has helped me be better at what I am passionate about.
Kenn Altine
CEO, Sacramento SPCA
Justin led a full day program for my whole division and did a terrific job! He was thoughtful and responsive in his preparation with me and generous with his time. It resulted in a meaningful program that my whole team benefited from.
Mary Nemerov
Director of Development, Climate and Land Use Alliance
Justin provided a valuable training session for our team at the California Academy of Sciences. I was impressed by the time and effort that Justin dedicated to preparing for the session with our team leaders. The interactive training was highly engaging, thoughtful, well-organized, and accessible to both junior and senior staff. It was definitely time well spent and I'm grateful for his ongoing partnership as we implement the new tools he gave us.
Rachel Cusick
Chief Advancement Officer, Discovery Place Museums
Justin came highly recommended to me by someone at the Table Group and I quickly learned why. He's a down to earth and thoughtful guy who really cares about his work, his clients, and making a difference. He helped us navigate through some complexity regarding organizational health and we are in a much better position today because of his investment. I'm very grateful.
Lorenzo Smith
Lead Pastor · Collective Church
Justin Self, founder of Happy Llama LLC
Certified Working Genius Facilitator

About Justin

Practical tools for healthier teams.

Justin Self is an Executive Coach whose passion is helping high-performing, purpose-driven teams become more cohesive and strategically aligned by identifying practical, relevant solutions to the deep-rooted challenges holding them back.

Along with more than a decade of his own leadership experience, Justin brings to his work extensive training and credentials from Patrick Lencioni's acclaimed suite of organizational health tools, including The Advantage and The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.

In 2020, he was a founding member of The Table Group's CAPA Pro consultants and practitioners alliance, trained directly under Patrick Lencioni. He is designated as just one of 10 Master Facilitators in North America qualified to deliver the acclaimed Working Genius Model.

Master Facilitator
1 of 10 in North America
CAPA Pro
Founding member · 2020
Trained Under
Patrick Lencioni
El Dorado Hills
California
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Get in Touch

Let's talk about your team.

Whether you have a specific challenge in mind, a tough offsite coming up, a leadership team that's stuck, or a 1:1 coaching need, I'd love to have a straight conversation. No pitch, no pressure.

Phone
530-680-5846
Email
justin.self37@gmail.com
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/justinself
Location
El Dorado Hills, California

Typically responds within 24 hours. Currently accepting new clients in Sacramento, El Dorado Hills, Folsom, Roseville, and the greater Northern California region.