TEAM COACHING
Strengthening collective leadership and sustainable performance to create value beyond the team
Leadership teams today operate in environments shaped by complexity, competing priorities, and constant change. Effectiveness is not only about how well the team works together, but about how clearly it understands its role, how it reads its environment, and the value it creates beyond itself.
Systemic Team Coaching enables teams to step back, think together with greater clarity, and ensure their collective leadership delivers real value for the organisation and its stakeholders.
What team coaching is
Systemic team coaching is not about improving relationships in isolation or “fixing” individual behaviours. It focuses on the team as a leadership entity, helping it strengthen how it thinks, decides, and acts collectively in service of its purpose.
This work is particularly valuable when leadership teams are navigating:
- growth, transformation, or increased complexity
- challenges in decision-making or alignment
- high-stakes responsibilities that require collective accountability
- the need to sustain or deepen their impact as a leadership team
The work helps teams to:
- clarify their mission and strategic role
- align around priorities and decision-making
- engage effectively with stakeholders
- translate collective leadership into tangible organisational impact
Team coaching is a developmental process that strengthens the team’s capacity to lead collectively in complex, high-stakes environments.
Who this work is for
This work is for leadership teams who want to look beyond individual roles or interpersonal dynamics, and examine how they operate as a collective within the wider system — including the organisation, its stakeholders, and the environment they serve.
It is valuable both for teams navigating change or complexity, and for teams that are already performing well but want to sustain or strengthen their collective leadership and impact.
How I work with teams
My approach to team coaching is systemic and outward-looking. Alongside attention to relationships and trust, we focus on the team’s mission, its stakeholders, and the value it is here to create.
I create a calm, structured, and psychologically safe space where teams can think together rigorously — about their purpose, patterns, and impact. I combine careful listening with clear, direct challenge, helping teams notice how their assumptions, decisions, and ways of working shape outcomes beyond the team itself.
This approach equips teams to make aligned decisions, act with confidence, and sustain their effectiveness in complex environments.
“Laurence has the ability to make you really think and reflect on what you want to achieve. She has the ability to take you on a journey of change whilst enabling you to decide on the outcome and commitment yourself.”
Head of cybersecurity & forensics - insurance industry
Themes teams bring into coaching
Every engagement is tailored to the team’s context and needs, but common areas include:
- purpose, mission, and value creation
- stakeholder relationships and engagement
- decision-making and accountability
- alignment between internal dynamics and external impact
- navigating complexity, tension, and competing priorities
- sustaining collective performance over time
- The work evolves alongside the team’s environment and challenges, building long-term capability as well as immediate effectiveness.
How to get started
Team coaching begins with a conversation to understand the team’s context, challenges, and aspirations. Together, we explore what success would look like and how coaching can best support the team in achieving it.