Belbin Accredited Team Coaching Programme
What if you could genuinely impact upon the way that teams work — not just coach or train them better, but help them see themselves, their colleagues, and the world around them differently.
That's the purpose of Belbin's nine-month, fully accredited Diploma in Team Coach Training.
Built on decades of research into what actually makes teams tick, this isn't a classroom experience — it's a living, breathing journey through real practice.
Your learning will be tailored to your own work environment, allowing you to work with real teams, face real challenges, and develop a team coaching philosophy that is authentically yours.
Three immersive, in-person, CoLabs form the heartbeat of the programme, woven together with mentoring and coaching, peer learning and reflective practice that takes your thinking beyond models and frameworks long after each session ends.
What sets this programme apart is what sits at its core: a deeply practical, delightfully simple, behavioural framework that challenges ‘more of the same’ thinking.
It gives teams and leaders a shared voice and safe space where they work on their strengths, their blind spots, and the dynamics that quietly shape everything they do.
Used well, it's transformative.
Leaders, trainers and coaches who complete our programme leave not just with an internationally recognised qualification (accredited by the Association for Coaching), but with the confidence to lead interventions that create lasting change — and the insight to understand why they work.
If you work with teams and you're ready to go beyond the surface, this programme was built for you.
We’d love you to join a growing community of team coaches who are changing the way teams work — from the inside out.
Start your Team Coaching journey
Booking for Cohort 4 is now open.
Contact us to talk with one of Lead Team Coaches and start your team coaching journey. Fill in the form below.
“The Belbin Team Roles model has given me the most precise behavioral language to work with real teams. It reveals what works, what breaks, and what can grow—not with judgment, but with sharp clarity. The Belbin Accredited Team Coaching Programme deepened that craft and added a new layer: seeing and sensing where a team—and its members—are ready to grow.”
Mats Soomre, Cohort 1
Programme duration & delivery
The programme consists of three CoLabs delivered over a nine-month period.
Belbin CoLabs are unique spaces for experiment in the areas of team coaching, team learning and team dynamics.
The spaces are provided with ongoing support to encourage individual and shared learning journeys, for the purpose of discovery by curating a culture of learning by doing.
Delivery is through a combination of in-person learning facilitated by the faculty, along with specified online individual learning support at key points during the programme.
Over the nine month journey you will experience individual and group mentor coaching sessions, peer learning sessions and self-paced reflective work. All of the work that we do together is focussed on each participants live work context.
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.
"Having attended the Belbin Accredited Team Coaching Programme I have had an opportunity to deepen my knowledge of coaching and what it particularly means in a team context...and has played a key part in helping me shape my coaching philosophy."
Aidan Matthews (Cohort 1)
Dates and venue 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 4 dates*
- CoLab 1: Tuesday 6th - Thursday 8th October 2026
- CoLab 2: Tuesday 9th -Thursday 11th February 2027
- CoLab 3: Tuesday 25th - Thursday 27th May 2027
Attendance on all days of the CoLabs and on-line support meetings for each Cohort is compulsory.
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"The key thing for me was learning to distinguish between team facilitation and team coaching and understanding when to apply each approach for maximum impact. I have gained more confidence in adopting more of a team coaching mindset—encouraging the team to solve their own problems rather than providing solutions myself."
Anthony O'Hara (Cohort 1)
Assessment and Awards
Over the duration of the programme, you will compile a portfolio of work that evidences your learning journey as a team coach.
The purpose of this is to track and evidence your learning journey as a team coach.
This will also inform your final piece of work which forms the formal assessment which demonstrates how you have developed your own thinking, philosophy and practice as a team coach.
In recognition of the way in which the programme is delivered and the time that you will enjoy in practice and supervision, AC have agreed that successful candidates can ‘fast track’ to individual recognition as an ‘Accredited Team Coach’.
Successful candidates will be awarded
- an Accredited Diploma in Team Coach Training (ADTCT) from the Association of Coaching.
- Candidates who are already accredited to deliver Belbin Team Role Theory will gain the additional status of ‘Belbin Accredited Team Coach’.
Those that are Belbin Accredited will also have their details added to the Belbin Coach directory.
"Belbin Team Coaching has transformed how I understand and harness the power of teams. It’s given me the tools to lead with self-awareness, coach others to play to their strengths, and create space for real collaboration and growth."
Sharon Hartley (Cohort 2)
Start your Team Coaching journey
Booking for Cohort 4 is now open.
Contact us to talk with one of Lead Team Coaches and start your team coaching journey. Fill in the form below.
Benefits of the programme
For Individuals
- Achieve globally recognised accreditation as a Team Coach
- 12 months complimentary Associate Membership of Association for Coaching (AC) with access to the global community and resources
- Personal development with enhanced confidence and effectiveness as a Team Coach
- Recognise and deliver safe and ethical team coaching practice
- Build on existing skills and discover opportunities to transform your practice and career.
- Be part of the Belbin Coach Directory (applies only to those who achieve Belbin Accredited Team Coach status).
For Organisations
- Empower the Board and/or Senior Leadership Team
- Builds individual and team values, Developing team purpose and flow.
- Adds a new dimension to using Belbin Team Roles, optimising ROI to build more effective teams.
- Develop in-house practitioners in a powerful and emerging field
- Demonstrates the value of becoming a continually learning, developing, and future-facing entity.
- Develop a reputation as a forward thinking, resilient organisation, retaining and attracting the best talent
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 been involved in co-creating 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.