Team Coaching
I’ve worked with leadership teams for more than 25 years. Based in Cambridge, I’ve worked with corporations, scale-ups and the third sector, as well as in academic environments at Oxford and Cambridge. I’ve done this across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.
Nothing is Written
My approach draws on the principle of “Nothing is Written” — a phrase borrowed from Lawrence of Arabia’s refusal to accept what was supposedly inevitable. The work isn’t about installing a methodology.
Instead, I help teams have the conversations they’ve been avoiding, meet the uncertainties they’re feeling, and find their own way forward from there.
That means working without a rigid agenda and without the consultant’s reflex to arrive with answers.
Who works with me?
This tends to suit leaders who know that another framework isn’t what they need. Teams that are, in some way, genuinely stuck — not failing, but not moving — and who sense that the missing ingredient is less about strategy than about how they’re working together.
Do get in touch if you’d like to know more.
Emotional
Effective teams must have an emotional connection. Most of us have more talent for it than we realise
Embodied
We're not machines, teamwork is expressed in our bodies not just our heads and words
Relevant
Learning rooted in live issues for participants, not teaching idealised abstractions based on other businesses and industries
Socialised
Some of the most powerful development happens when we learn from our experiences of each other
Practical
Nothing sustains a willingness to grow more than seeing some practical benefits, sooner rather than later
Stories about my work
I share my experience in a series of short videos. Here are a selection and you can see the whole collection here.
non-knowing growing
some of the best work happens in uncertain spaces
kindly
mischief
getting unstuck sometimes means experimenting
practice beats models
a little story about the gap between reality and our models of reality
Some of the issues I work on with teams
Communication skills: listening skilfully, speaking effectively, and conveying trustworthiness and integrity in how you communicate.
Emotional intelligence: developing empathy, managing stress, and building strong relationships with others.
Conflict resolution: resolving disputes, managing difficult conversations, and building consensus among stakeholders.
About me
I’ve worked with teams around the world for 30 years.
I’m on the faculty of the Homerton College Cambridge Changemakers leadership programme. I’ve been a visiting tutor at the Oxford Universtiy Business School.
I’m the author of the book Unhurried at Work and a co-founder of Creative Facilitation.
