This Belbin Accredited Team Coaching Programme has been developed to help participants understand how to curate team growth, learning and better business performance.

This exciting new programme applies a 'learning by doing' approach and is designed for those looking to expand their skills and gain professional accreditation in the emerging area of Team Coaching. 

Programme duration & delivery

The programme consists of three modules (CoLabs) delivered over a nine-month period.

Delivery is through a combination of face-to-face learning facilitated by the faculty, along with specified individual learning support at key points during the programme.

Each cohort will be encouraged to come together to form their own learning community to expand learning opportunities beyond the formal learning interventions.

Delegates will be expected to participate fully as a member of this learning community and undertake their own further learning following their self-reflection and practical experiences through the programme.

Learning outcomes at a glance

• An exclusive and unique programme using Belbin Team Roles as a basis for understanding team strengths
• Learning outcomes representative of the ideologies covered by the internationally recognised Inner Development Goals (IDGs) framework
•  A focus on ‘learning by doing’, exploring relevant theories alongside individual action and practice
• Collaborative learning approach to nurture development of critical, reflective thinking and self-awareness
• Delegates will develop the confidence and ability to build and apply a personal approach to Team Coaching
• Programme delivered by a faculty of internationally accredited and experienced team coaches
• This is not a training course that will be delivered to a rigid agenda, in a classroom style.

Delegates will be responsible for their own learning which will require their full engagement for the duration of the programme. 

Is this programme right for you?

We need to be very clear – this programme will not be for everyone due to the approach it takes.

• This programme is not a ‘tick box’, ‘learn by rote’ approach which will provide everyone with a generic ‘toolkit for doing team coaching’.
• By the end of the programme delegates will be expected to have developed their own perspectives, style and philosophy alongside the confidence and ability to build and apply a personal approach to team coaching.
• Delegates will require a high level of sustained energy and enthusiasm, an enquiring mind, a commitment to personal learning and development, and a willingness to continually practice and reflect.
• The emphasis will be on ‘doing’, developing a team learning approach through experiential group work in an open and honest group environment.

Contact us if you would like to talk with the lead tutor for the programme about what is entails.

Learning journal & final assessment

Delegates will be provided with their own Personal Learning Journal to complete throughout the programme. This will be unique and personal to them. Delegates will be expected to complete this themselves as it will inform the final assessment.

In month 9, delegates will be required to complete and submit an original, written piece of work as their final assessment.

This reflective piece should evidence how you have developed your thinking, philosophy and practice as a team coach. Central to this will be an evaluation of your personal learning contract along with evidence gathered from interaction with coaches, clients and peers as you practise as a team coach.

Final assessments will be graded pass/fail by the programme provider. Successful candidates will be awarded ‘Belbin Accredited Team Coach’ status and also proof of completion of ‘Accredited Diploma in Team Coach Training (ADTCT)’.

The Practical Details

Programme cost

Just £7,950 + VAT per delegate, which includes:

• Nine days face-to-face coaching development
• Coaching supervision and support in-between CoLabs 
• Personal Learning Journal resources
• Final assessment evaluation
• Professional post accreditation materials to showcase your achievement
• Lunch and refreshments each day during CoLabs
• Dinner on one evening during each CoLab

Note: Excludes delegate travel, accommodation and additional subsistence costs.

A non-refundable 10% deposit is required at time of booking.

Contact the Belbin office for full details of payment terms and cancellation policy.

Dates and venues for the face-to-face Colabs

These will be held at a venue in the Cambridge area. 

Cohort sizes are limited to maximise learning and enable the learning to be tailored to the needs of the individuals in each cohort. 

Cohort 3 dates

• CoLab 1:  9th, 10th & 11th September 2025
• CoLab 2:  3rd, 4th & 5th February 2026
• CoLab 3:  26th, 27th & 28th May 2026

Cohort 4 dates* 

• CoLab 1:  10th, 11th & 12th February 2026
• CoLab 2:  2nd, 3rd & 4th June 2026
• CoLab 3:  15th, 16th & 17th September 2026

Attendance on all days of the CoLabs and on-line support meetings for each Cohort is compulsory.

* Note: Programme cost for Cohort 4 may be subject to change

Meet the Lead Tutors

This unique Team Coaching programme would not be possible with the time, knowledge and dedication of our Team Coaching tutors.

This has been a journey which has included many professional and experienced team coaches who have given us their time to co-create this unique programme.

Lead Team Coach: Chris Jackson

Chris’ introduction to team coaching followed many years of running his own enterprises first in the Service sector and then Leisure and Tourism. Through his business activities he subsequently delivered business support to other organisations for over 20 years. In 2014, he ‘collided’ with academia and became involved in the delivery of the ‘Team Academy’ way of team coaching.

This involved immersion in the Finnish ‘Tiimiakatemia’ model with travel to Scandinavia and Europe to discover how this evolved, and its impact in practice. Chris went on to develop, deliver and lead programmes and modules that were delivered heuristically, with a dialogic approach.

Team coaching in this context differs from mainstream applications in that it generally focusses on enterprise learning programmes for young adults. However, moving on from academia, Chris has been able to use his own lived experience to synthesise the application of team coaching practice across different platforms and subject areas, always with a distinct focus on individual, team, and organisational learning.

Chris holds a Masters degree in Entrepreneurship from Durham University and has carried out doctoral research into team learning through the process of team coaching.

Chris’s Team Coaching Philosophy:

Chris believes that effective team coaching practice starts with the person and must not be wholly dependent on, or defined by, models, frameworks or theory. Its purpose is to curate spaces which foster transformative learning that enables participants to actively navigate complex scenarios and make sense of emergent problems as interdependent learners.

This requires humility and vulnerability along with recognition of competencies and attributes that go beyond models, theory and frameworks, whilst acknowledging ecosystems and our planet as stakeholders in organisational progress.

Lead Tutor: Dr. Elena Hinova-McNamee

Over the last ten years Elena has been coaching leaders, helping them expand their level of consciousness through rethinking and reshaping their values and beliefs. This enabling process encourages reconnection with their core selves, discovering deeper purpose & vision, and achieving sustainable success personally and professionally. She has coached extensively in Europe, UK, USA, Canada and Australia. In the last 5 years her focus has been on team coaching to enable regenerative organisational transformation.

Previously, Elena spent fifteen years in leadership roles in the corporate world - Human Resources Director and as CEO in one of the most human sensitive industries - Health Care and Pharmaceuticals.

Elena’s mission is to enable, through leadership and team coaching, the transformation of leaders and teams to thrive on purpose and inspire them to use their businesses as a force for good. Her company, Thriving Leadership™, is a Certified B Corporation, placing it among fewer than 10,000 businesses worldwide that meet high standards for social and environmental impact.

Elena has a PhD in Organisational Leadership and Coaching at New Bulgarian University (NBU). 

Elena’s Team Coaching Philosophy:

Elena believes every team is an interdependent whole with the innate capacity to sustainably thrive. Her role is to create and hold a safe space where a team’s potential can fully unfold. She inspires teams who are committed to transformation, and she coaches with integrity, honesty, courage, and wisdom. Her style is evocative and gentle, yet she challenges when needed – dedicated to growth and learning. 

As a Certified B Corp Founder and CEO, Elena believes that businesses can be a force for good.