Team Development

Build the trust, cohesion, shared vision and commitment necessary to take on new leadership thresholds together.

I develop tailored sessions, sequences, and retreats to help your newly formed or existing team grow stronger together as you take on your biggest and most challenging pursuits. Emerge from each team experience feeling more deeply seen and valued by one another and more equipped and fired up for the work at hand. I work with leadership teams, functional teams, and cross-functional project teams.

Expand self-awareness and interpersonal awareness as you get to know one another and how to work effectively together in an engaging way. You’ll gain greater appreciation of the range of experiences, styles, and strengths you each have and more clarity and shared vision for how you want to work together to bring your collective talents to bear.
Through storytelling, you will illuminate and crystalize your commitment to one another and the shared vision or values guiding the success of your collective work.
Through one or more memorable interactive protocols, you will illuminate new insights about the current system you’re in, gain clarity on where to focus your efforts, and develop shared commitment to a compelling future you can create together.
Through an interactive energy and time audit, guided reflection, and discussion, illuminate individual and collective ways to spend your most precious resource (your time and energy!) in ways that nurture and sustain team engagement, enjoyment, and energy through the ebbs & flows of work and life.
Learn and apply practical frames and tools for navigating the changes you are experiencing and taking on together. You’ll gain self-awareness and interpersonal awareness about how common characteristics of change are showing up and impacting your work and leave with shared language, tools, and deepened trust to lead more effectively through change together.
Over multiple meetings, build trust, shared responsibility, and commitment as you work to understand and crystallize your team’s unique purpose, vision for shared leadership, and the agreed expectations and systems for how you’ll lead together with flow, enjoyment, and impact.
You will get access to the Intercultural Development Inventory ®, receive customized debriefs of your results, and co-create a tailored development plan.
Transform stuckness into movement and possibility. Through skill builders, team building, and/or mediation, grow self-awareness of how you and colleagues relate to conflict and widen your skill set, tools, and openness for generative conflict in which you and others find new paths forward you didn’t previously recognize.

Team Development Workshops

Here’s a sampling of topics, sessions, or packages I can customize for your goals and needs:

Direct Support for Team Leaders

Benefit from advising and skill-based coaching for leaders who strive to craft and facilitate sessions like these themselves. This support is a great fit for first-time team leaders or managers, leaders navigating intense transitions or periods of change, and experienced leaders in need of a lift from a trusted expert.

Possible products and outcomes:

Developing a vision for your dream team
Crafting a set of intentional structures and rituals to bring that vision to life
Deepening understanding and appreciation of power and team dynamics at play
Expanding your library and knowledge of engagement protocols, activities, and tools
Gaining greater confidence and skill in designing and facilitating your own team meetings and experiences

What Clients are Saying

“Stephanie truly excels in curriculum development and facilitation. Her ability to connect and work well with others helped us maintain a learning environment where people feel validated and seen. Stephanie is a great facilitator who guides people through challenging conversations in a supportive and thoughtful way. I would recommend Stephanie's services to anyone who wants to develop an inclusive organizational culture and effective leadership skills.”

— Alex Cena, Director of Leadership Development LEAP

“I've seen and experienced first-hand the positive, measurable, forward impact and progress that resulted from Stephanie’s leadership and coaching.
Stephanie does a really great job with creating an atmosphere where participants trust in her as the content designer, facilitator, and expert and where we feel comfortable sharing tensions we might feel.
I cannot recommend her enough for any team's professional development, culture building, and coaching needs!”
~ Jonathan Dacula
HR & DEI Nonprofit Professional
“Stephanie’s design and facilitation were excellent. She really took to heart the context we shared about our group and planned accordingly.
She gave us just the right amount of structure to get started while empowering us. That helped us depend on one another.
She also navigated the varied needs people had and demonstrated deep care for it being a meaningful space for everyone.”
~ Kristen Quinn
Vice President Chief of Staff, Teach For America Chicago-Northwest Indiana
“Stephanie designed a sequence of team experiences for district leaders. The department head said their cultural shifts were one of the biggest wins of the whole summer. The team is already having more honest and transparent conversations than they ever have before and teammates who have never sought each other out are now choosing to collaborate. Meetings have felt more collaborative, focused, and productive and each team member is feeling more connected, which has allowed them to get more done and dig deeper into priority challenges.”
~Katie Friend, Engagement Manager & Leadership Team Member
Mass Insight Education & Research