“Systemic Team coaching is a process by which a team coach works with a whole team, both when they are together and when they are apart, in order to help them to improve both their collective performance and how they work together, and also how they develop their collective leadership to more effectively engage with their key stakeholder groups to transform the wider business.”

– Peter Hawkins, professor of leadership, Henley Business School, UK

I work with teams and partnerships to build their capacity for collective meaning-making and coherence of purpose with clear mission, vision and strategy to transform their business.

We start with a focus on internal dynamics to ensure trust and mutual understanding through a free flow of communication and truth telling. Differences of agreement and conflicts surface and become opportunities for growth and clarity and teams naturally come together to make better decisions that serve the whole of their organizations.

Healthy internal functioning is essential but insufficient for high team performance, we need to shift our attention to the team’s collective relationships with external stakeholders, with a focus on what the team will need to be and do to meet the needs of their future stakeholders. Teams need to engage in ways that transform their stakeholder relationships and drive internal transformation to meet their evolving needs.

The process of coaching a team allows them to identify when they are performing well – greater than the sum of their parts – and interrupting their negative patterns, self-limiting beliefs and assumptions that inhibit performance. Over time, teams become increasingly able to reflect on their own process, to integrate learning as they evolve and reach their highest potential.