Team Coaching
Helping teams reconnect, work better together and flourish.
The best teams do not simply perform well. They feel alive.
There is trust, energy, curiosity and a sense that people are moving in the same direction. People can speak honestly, challenge one another and bring the best of themselves to the work.
But teams can lose that.
Sometimes the signs are obvious: conflict, poor communication or competing priorities. More often, something quieter is happening underneath. Energy begins to fade. Conversations become more guarded. Decisions take longer. People work harder but feel less connected to the work and to one another.
These things rarely resolve themselves. And they can be difficult to see clearly from inside the organisation.
Team coaching creates the conditions for a different kind of conversation. A chance to slow down, step away from the everyday and understand what is really happening.
That is the space I love to create: safe enough for honesty, challenging enough for meaningful change, and with enough curiosity, warmth and playfulness for new possibilities to emerge.
How my approach shapes Team Coaching
My approach to team coaching is shaped by a simple belief: teams are living systems. They are not just collections of individuals, roles or responsibilities. They are shaped by trust, energy, relationships, habits, culture, leadership and the conditions around them.
Drawing on coaching, behavioural science, systems thinking, regenerative thinking and nature-based practice, I help teams step back from the day-to-day and see what is really happening beneath the surface. Together, we explore where energy is flowing, where it is being lost, what conversations need to happen and what conditions would help the team do its best work.
This is not about forcing performance. It is about creating the conditions where trust, accountability, creativity and shared purpose can grow — and where better performance becomes a natural result.
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Team Coaching and Group Coaching
I work with both teams and groups.
Team coaching supports people who share a common purpose and whose success depends on how well they work together.
Group coaching brings together people from different teams or organisations who want to learn together around shared challenges or aspirations.
Both approaches create space for deeper reflection, stronger relationships and meaningful change. The difference lies in who is in the room and what they are hoping to achieve.
A different approach to team development
There is no shortage of team-building programmes, away days and workshop interventions.
Sometimes what a team needs is simply a brilliant day together. A chance to step away from work, have fun and reconnect. There is real value in that.
But an away day can also do something more.
It can help people understand one another differently. Surface an important conversation. Reveal how the team responds to uncertainty. Or create a shared experience that genuinely changes how people work together afterwards.
My approach combines team coaching, behavioural change, systems thinking, experiential learning and regenerative leadership. Much of my work is inspired by Nature and takes place beyond the normal meeting room, in green and blue spaces that help people slow down, move, notice more and see familiar challenges differently.
We may walk, talk, experiment, improvise, work with photography, undertake a practical challenge or simply share the experience of doing something together.
This is not about activity for activity’s sake. The experience creates the material for deeper understanding and lasting change.
What We Work On
Every engagement is different, shaped by the specific team, its context and what it needs. Common areas of focus include:
- Rebuilding trust and psychological safety within a team that has lost its footing.
- Helping a leadership group navigate significant change, uncertainty or growth.
- Supporting newly formed or restructured teams to establish healthy ways of working.
- Exploring the individual and collective strengths already present within the team.
- Addressing cultural drift, where values and everyday behaviour have moved apart.
- Improving communication, decision-making and collective accountability.
- Understanding where time, attention and energy are being lost.
- Helping high-performing teams explore what their next stage of development could be.
- Supporting organisations that want to move from sustainability towards more regenerative ways of working.
At the heart of the work is a simple question: What would help this team truly flourish?
How I work with organisations
I do not arrive with a fixed programme and make the team fit around it.
We begin by understanding what is happening now: what is working, what is not, where energy is flowing and where it is becoming stuck. From there, we agree what the team would like to move towards and design the work around that.
Some engagements are project-based: a half-day, full-day or immersive experience with a clear purpose. This can work well for organisations looking for an away day, facing a particular challenge or wanting to create fresh energy and connection within a team.
Others develop over several months, allowing us to work more deeply with relationships, behaviours and patterns as they emerge through team coaching or group coaching.
I also form longer-term leadership team coaching partnerships with teams and organisations, providing continuity, challenge and an independent outside perspective as the organisation evolves.
Where useful, I draw on approaches including ecosystem mapping and regenerative leadership practices. These can offer a very different way of seeing a team or organisation: not as a machine to be made ever more efficient, but as a living system whose health depends on relationships, energy, adaptability and the conditions around it.
Where a piece of work would benefit from additional expertise, I also collaborate with trusted coaches, facilitators and specialists who bring different strengths alongside my own.
A note on Retreats and Away Days
A team away day does not have to be a choice between having fun and doing meaningful work.
The two can belong together.
A change of environment can create the space and distance that is difficult to find in everyday working life. Forests, mountains, coastlines and the sea can help people slow down, think differently and have conversations that might never happen in a normal meeting room.
I can incorporate an away day or retreat into a wider team coaching engagement, or create a standalone experience for a team looking for something enjoyable, memorable and meaningful.
I work particularly in Mallorca and across Europe, and also collaborate with others to create experiences further afield.
Who Team Coaching is for
I work with senior leadership teams, executive teams, founders, high-performing teams, changemakers and organisations going through growth, uncertainty or transition.
The common thread is not size or sector. It is curiosity: a genuine willingness to look honestly at what is happening and explore what might become possible.
This work tends to be most relevant when:
- A leadership team is pulling in different directions and needs to find a shared way forward.
- A team is highly capable but struggling to function well together.
- An organisation is going through significant change and needs support to navigate it.
- Energy, creativity or trust are beginning to fade.
- A new leader wants to build a healthy and cohesive team from the start.
- A successful team wants to explore what could come next.
- An organisation wants something more meaningful than a conventional away day.
You do not need to know exactly what the solution is. That is part of what we can explore together.
What my clients say
Find out more
Perhaps you are looking for a brilliant away day.
Perhaps something within the team is not working as well as it could.
Or perhaps things are going well and you are curious about what else might be possible.
Every team is different. The best place to start is a conversation.
Get in touch to tell me a little about your team, what is happening and what you would love to make possible. Together, we can explore what kind of experience or support might be most useful.
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes your approach to team coaching different?
I bring together coaching, behavioural change, systems thinking, experiential learning, nature-based practice and regenerative leadership. But my work is also grounded in many years of leading teams myself.
I have led teams of more than 250 people in Morocco, remote lodge operations with around 120 staff in the Atacama Desert, the British Government’s busiest consular operation, and geographically dispersed teams with representation on every continent. I have worked across cultures and in English, Spanish and French.
So I understand leadership and team dynamics from the inside. I know that teams are messy, human and constantly changing, and that no single formula works everywhere.
My approach is therefore highly personalised. There may be deep conversation and challenge, but also movement, experimentation, Nature and playfulness. The aim is to create a space where people can enjoy being together while also discovering something that genuinely helps the team flourish.
We are mainly looking for a fun away day. Is this still for us?
Absolutely.
Not every team needs a major intervention. Sometimes people simply need to step away from work, spend good time together and enjoy themselves.
The difference is that I will also look for opportunities to make the experience meaningful. A brilliant day can be fun while also helping people understand one another better, strengthen relationships and return to work with fresh energy.
You can have an enjoyable day together. You can also have an enjoyable day that genuinely matters.
How is team coaching different from team building?
Team building tends to focus on morale, connection and a shared experience. Team coaching goes deeper, working with the underlying relationships, patterns and behaviours that determine how a team functions over time.
The two are not mutually exclusive. In my work, they often come together.
A team can have a wonderful shared experience while also asking: what did we notice, what did we learn about ourselves, and what might we do differently afterwards?
What is the difference between team coaching and group coaching?
Team coaching works with people who already function as a team and whose success depends on how well they work together.
Group coaching brings together individuals who may come from different teams or organisations but who share similar goals, challenges or learning opportunities.
Both approaches use coaching conversations, reflection and shared learning. The difference lies in the relationships between participants and the outcomes they are working towards.
How long does a typical team coaching engagement last?
It depends entirely on what the team needs.
A focused experience may last a few hours or a day. An away day or retreat may run over several days. A deeper coaching engagement might continue for three to six months, while an ongoing partnership may develop over a longer period.
We agree the shape of the work together rather than fitting the team into a predetermined programme.
Do you work with remote or internationally distributed teams?
Yes.
I have spent much of my career leading and working with international teams across cultures, languages and continents.
Team coaching can take place online, in person or through a combination of the two. For distributed teams, online work combined with periodic in-person gatherings can create a particularly strong balance between continuity and deeper connection.
