Join us to explore how one of the fastest growing coaching specialisms - team coaching -can help transform organizations.
This webinar will be a highly experiential, interactive and practical session to help you better understand how team coaching can improve collaboration and organizational success.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the session you will have explored:
• how team coaching can benefit organizations
• what team coaching is, how it differs from other types of team development and the importance of a team coaches ‘way of being’
• the seven characteristics of top-performing teams
• practical tools and techniques to use with teams e.g. on purpose, inclusion and systemic collaboration
Core Competencies Addressed:
Cultivates Trust and Safety, Maintains Presence, Evokes Awareness, Facilitates Client Growth
Participants will earn 1.5 Core Competency CCEs for attending this program.
About our speakers:
Lucy Widdowson is an accredited executive and team coach, author, lead tutor on Professional Certificate in Team Board and Systemic Coaching at Henley Business School and Director of Performance Edge. Lucy was a UK ICF board member and the lead for team coaching for six years. Lucy is an ICF MCC credentialed coach, a Fellow of the CIPD and has an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change and was one of the first team coaches globally to achieve the new ICF ACTC team coaching credential. During her corporate career, Lucy worked at board level as an HR director and led award-winning teams. Lucy has developed a unique team coaching framework, model and approach that includes a team 360 diagnostic ‘Creating the Team Edge’, that has been proven to accelerate team performance for many executive and senior teams. Lucy co-led robust in-depth research on behalf of ICF Global into team coaching competencies. This work has been summarised in an academic journal article published by the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring in 2020. Lucy also represented the UK ICF in developing the Global ICF team coach competencies and has contributed to the development of the team coaching speciality designation. Along with this work, Lucy has co-authored books on team coaching with Paul J Barbour "Building Top Performing Teams” (Kogan Page 2021, 2025) and along with Jonathan Passmore and Katerina Kanelidou co authored 'Becoming a Team Coach: The Essentila ICF Guide (2025).
Paul Barbour is an accredited executive (PCC), team coach, and Certified Business Psychologist (CBP) who combines a love for evidence-based practice with a global client base and practitioner research. Holding four postgraduate qualifications, including two Master’s degrees, Paul was one of the first team coaches globally to achieve the new ICF ACTC team coaching credential. Paul’s main areas of research interest include human collaboration, conflict resolution and team coaching. Paul is co-author with Lucy Widdowson of Building Top-Performing Teams: A Practical Guide to Team Coaching to Improve Collaboration and Drive Organizational Success (Kogan Page, 2021; 2nd edition, 2025), among other publications including Becoming a Team Coach: The ICF Essential Guide (2025), with Lucy Widdowson, Jonathan Passmore, and Katerina Kanelidou. Paul has also published peer-reviewed papers on team coaching and conflict resolution and is a popular speaker in his areas of interest. An award-winning student on both his Master’s degrees (including the Henley MSc in Coaching & Behavioural Change), Paul was also awarded ‘Best Newcomer’ to Personal Construct Psychology at the 14th Biennial European Personal Construct Association Conference (2018). Paul’s interest in the psychology of teams began during a successful 20-year career as a senior leader at Kerry Group PLC, one of the world’s largest food and ingredients businesses. Paul is a lead tutor on the Henley Professional Certificate in Team, Board and Systemic Coaching.