NEW: Leadership coaching for development teams

Performance Coaching Approach

Empowers teams to solve challenges independently, fostering autonomy, creativity, and tailored growth.

Inspires personal growth and strong teams to act as catalysts for meaningful systemic change.

Structured and solution-oriented mentoring providing practical strategies and clear guidance for urgent challenges.

This approach ensures teamwork towards a performance goal.

Systemic Coaching Approach

Focuses on interconnectedness within teams and organizations to promote systemic thinking and sustainable change.

This ensures alignment with MSD principles and practices.

Integrity in Coaching

Commitment to ethical behavior, honesty, fairness, and compliance in all coaching interactions.

Quality and Innovation

Developing scalable, innovative solutions with responsibility, respect, and excellence in coaching.

Accountability and Confidentiality

Adhering to professional codes of conduct while protecting client confidentiality and sensitive information.

Empowerment and Equal Opportunity

Encouraging initiative, leadership, and fairness with respect and compassion for all clients.

Our coaching empowers teams to unlock potential, strengthen collaboration, and drive systemic impact.

Key benefits include:

• Improved collective performance, capacity and capability: Teams develop enhanced vision, problem solving, decision-making, self-awareness, team dynamics, and continuous improvement. This leads to improved productivity, increased adaptation, enhanced accountability and improved dynamics.
• Enhanced collaboration and engagement: Teams make stronger connections, manage conflict, address challenges collectively, and create new innovative ways of working. This leads to more cohesive and productive teams and strengthened relationships.
• Greater alignment and stakeholder value: Teams become skilled at aligning with organisational goals, taking responsibility and co-creating value with and for all their stakeholders. This delivers value-driven results and fosters a positive culture.
• Sustainable, future-fit teams and leaders: Teams adapt quickly, thrive amid uncertainty, and lead across cultures and boundaries effectively. This leads to sustainable teams as well as stronger leaders, leadership and enhanced leadership pipelines.

• Recognised, respected and credible brand: We are a leading advisory, training, and research expert, we bring unmatched credibility in systems change and leadership development. We have proven coaching and mentoring experience and expertise that combines systemic practice, leadership insight, lived experience, and the latest MSD models, alongside…in ways that generic consultants can’t match.
• Proven experience in international development: We know international development because we’ve lived it. With 20+ years of experience, we combine systemic practice, MSD expertise, and cutting-edge coaching to deliver support that’s grounded, relevant, and practical. We understand the unique challenges of diverse, multicultural, and cross-sector teams.
• Evidence-based approach: We use proven frameworks and practical tools, rooted in MSD and shaped for international development practice. Our coaching focuses on helping teams navigate the unique challenges of development, such as cultural diversity, resource constraints, and the need for sustainable impact.
• Customised programmes: We offer tailored journeys that meet your organisation’s needs. Our coaching helps project managers in international development build high-performing, resilient teams that can navigate complexity, foster collaboration, and deliver sustainable impact—no matter how challenging the context.
• Focus on real lasting change: Our process is action-oriented and tailored to your team’s unique context—it is a journey—delivered and monitored over a series of sessions.
• Commitment to impact: We enable your teams to drive sustainable growth – our coaching is not just about better teamwork. It is holistic and focuses on the team’s overall development and everyone’s performance as a leader. It helps teams and individuals develop a vision, build strong relationships, and create a positive organizational culture.
• Ethical and confidential: We adhere to the highest professional standards, ensuring a safe, supportive, and confidential environment.
• Certified, experienced coaches and mentors: Our diverse team of coaches, mentors, and facilitators speak your language, understand your context, and ensure the right fit…so you get solutions that work. We have deep expertise in topics that matter, with many internationally accredited coaches and seasoned mentors .Our coaching staff combine international certification, deep practical experience, and a commitment to ethical, evidence-based practice. They are equipped to unlock the collective potential of your teams—enabling high performance, resilience, and sustainable impact.

Rooted in MSD: Grounded in our MSD training, our team coaching strengthens capability, collaboration and performance on shared goals—blending proven coaching approaches, techniques and tools with our established MSD mentoring programme—to provide situational support, which specifically helps you to address the challenges that you face in your context, for your continuous growth.

Evidence-Based Practical Tools: We use globally recognised frameworks, methods, collaborative tools. Our approach is grounded in and informed by the latest research and best practices from both the Global Team Coaching Institute and Henley Business School, ensuring your teams benefit from the most up-to-date and effective methods.

Context-Responsive and Impact-Oriented: We tailor our coaching to your team’s unique context. We measure success not by immediate results, but by the team’s ability to sustain growth, adapt, and deliver value for all stakeholders.

Blended and Holistic: Our coaching is rooted in systemic development practice, is designed to strengthen delivery performance beyond training…and performance.  It blends MSD tools, team performance coaching with leadership and systemic team coaching to build capability and capacity, as well as confidence and accountability. We coach the whole team, so they become more than the sum of their parts—clear in purpose, agile in action, and aligned with stakeholder needs. We help teams develop safe and trusting relationships, better ways of working, and new thinking, so they maximise their collective potential and performance goals.

Future-Focused: Our coaching is bespoke, solution focused and transformative. We help teams not only deliver results today but also innovate for tomorrow and build resilience for the future.

Group Facilitation Mastery

Skilled in guiding group discussions and managing activities to ensure positive, productive environments.

Active Listening and Questioning

Deep listening and insightful questioning provoke reflection and self-discovery among participants.

Creating Psychological Safety

Fostering safe spaces for sharing, challenges, and admitting mistakes encourages openness and growth.

Emotional Intelligence and Adaptability

High self-awareness and adaptability enhance managing emotions and adjusting approaches to group needs.

• Team coaching for project managers in international development addresses a unique set of challenges that arise from the complexity, diversity, and high-stakes nature of this sector:
  Cross-Cultural and Virtual Team Dynamics – Navigating cultural differences, diverse working styles, and language barriers in multinational teams. Building trust, psychological safety, and effective communication across remote or hybrid teams.
  Stakeholder Alignment and Collaboration – Aligning diverse stakeholders (donors, government agencies, local partners, beneficiaries) around shared goals and values. Managing expectations and fostering collaboration across organisational and sectoral boundaries.
  Complexity and Uncertainty – Leading teams through ambiguity, shifting priorities, and rapidly changing project environments. Supporting teams to be agile, resilient, and adaptive in the face of external shocks (e.g., policy changes, funding shifts, crises).
  Purpose, Identity, and Motivation – Clarifying the team’s collective purpose and identity, especially when team members come from different organisations or backgrounds. Sustaining motivation and engagement over long project cycles or in challenging contexts.
  Effective Communication and Conflict Resolution – Facilitating open, honest dialogue and constructive feedback, even when difficult topics arise. Addressing and resolving conflicts constructively, turning differences into sources of innovation.
  Accountability and Performance – Establishing clear roles, responsibilities, and ways of working to ensure accountability. Moving beyond individual performance to collective ownership of outcomes and impact.
  Continuous Learning and Improvement – Creating a culture of reflection, learning, and adaptation—essential for projects operating in dynamic environments. Embedding mechanisms for ongoing feedback, peer learning, and knowledge sharing.
  Sustainability and Handover – Preparing teams for project transitions, handovers, and sustainability planning. Building capacity for local ownership and long-term impact beyond the life of a project.

World-Class Qualifications and Experience

• Certified Professionals: Our coaches hold certifications from leading bodies such as the International Coaching Federation (ICF) or the Association for Coaching (AC), ensuring expert guidance.
• Proven Track Record: They have significant experience coaching teams and groups, with a history of delivering measurable outcomes in international development settings and diverse organisational settings.
• Relevant Backgrounds: They bring expertise in MSD, development practice, organisational development, training, and management to enrich coaching sessions.

Knowledge and Technical Skills

• Deep Understanding of Group Dynamics: Know how teams function, evolve, and develop over time.
• Familiarity with Coaching Models: Proficient in frameworks such as GROW and systems thinking, and able to apply them effectively.
• Ethical Practice: Adhere to strict professional standards, including confidentiality and ethical conduct.
• IT Proficiency: Comfortable with virtual coaching platforms and digital tools for effective remote and hybrid coaching.

ICF Team Coaching Competencies

Our coaches embody the ICF Team Coaching Competencies, including:

• Coaching the Team as a Single Entity: Focusing on the team as a whole, not just individuals.
• Maintaining Clear Boundaries: Distinguishing between coaching, facilitation, training, and consulting.
• Creating Trust and Safety: Building a safe space for open, honest interaction and encouraging participation from all members.
• Facilitating Team Growth: Using powerful questioning, feedback, and reflection to challenge assumptions, foster learning, and drive sustainable change.
• Ongoing Supervision and Reflective Practice: Engaging in supervision and continuous self-improvement to ensure the highest standards.