On Thursday 4th June, Dr Meredith Belbin would have celebrated his 100th birthday.

Meredith is best known for his pioneering research and thinking on teamwork. The Belbin Team Role framework has become a global language for collaboration, helping teams understand themselves, value differences, and work together more effectively.

To mark and celebrate Meredith’s birthday and acknowledge his legacy, we invite you to join us on Thursday 4th June.

If you are Belbin Accredited, we encourage you to share your certificate or logo on LinkedIn, along with a short note about the impact Belbin Team Roles has had on your teams. Please include #BelbinDay26 so we can share them with the wider community.

We will also be hosting two fireside chats to share and discuss the impact that Belbin – both the man and the framework – have had on teams and organisations worldwide.

We hope you can join us.

 

Morning Fireside Chat – 11am BST

Please join us at 11:00 BST to hear how four Belbin practitioners have used Belbin and the impact it has had on their teams and organisations. This session will be facilitated and chaired by Jo Keeler, and she will be joined by:

Aidan Matthews | Learning Programme Manager/Coach | Socitm

Aidan brings over 25 years of experience in learning and development across private, public, and charitable sectors – both in the UK and internationally. His approach to fostering innovation is rooted in his passion for nurturing growth and unlocking talent at every level of an organisation.

Rhona Gibson FHEA | Senior Careers Adviser | University of Aberdeen

Rhona has extensive experience using Belbin’s student-facing GetSet reports to support student development, initially through the University’s co-curricular Leadership Academy, and more recently embedded within the curriculum to prepare students for work-based learning projects. Her work focuses on helping students better understand their strengths, work effectively in teams, and articulate their skills to employers. She will be sharing insights from this practice at the Graduate Futures Institute conference in July 2026 in Nottingham.

Rob Garner | UK Managing Partner | ClarusBlue Consulting Limited

Rob is an expert business transformation leader dedicated to helping people and organisations thrive. He began his career in the global automotive industry, adopting "The Toyota Way" philosophy of continuous improvement and people-first leadership. Rob later scaled these principles across diverse environments – first by founding a successful tech consulting firm, and then by guiding global banking institutions through major cultural and operational shifts. Throughout his career, his core focus has remained building high-performing teams, streamlining systems and developing outstanding leaders.

TBC

Join us at 11am

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"Meredith showed us the importance of cherishing the fact that people are gloriously different, and it is those differences, not their similarities, that make a team succeed. He also gave us permission. Permission to be ourselves. Permission to say you don't have to be good at everything. Just be really good at being you."

Barrie Watson

Afternoon Fireside Chat – 3pm BST

Please join us at 15:00 BST to hear how four Belbin practitioners have used Belbin and the impact it has had on their teams and organisations. This session will be facilitated and chaired by Jo Keeler, and she will be joined by:

Ahmed Aref | Learning and Development Manager | Jotun A/S

Ahmed manages learning and development initiatives globally with a strong focus on leadership and team effectiveness by designing and delivering in-person and digital learning experiences. These include blended programs, workshops, and interactive courses to support employees’ personal and professional growth.

Karen Hull | Associate Director, Office of Professional Education, Purdue Master of Engineering Management program | Purdue University

Karen is an academic and professional development advisor to rising engineering leaders in product, operations, analytics, manufacturing, consulting, and supply chain in all engineering disciplines. She has 12 years' experience in economic consulting and data analytics and brings her unique perspective to guiding engineers who are making a career pivot through graduate education in her role as Associate Director in Purdue University’s Master of Engineering Management program.

Lee Hall | Head of Learning & Development | Butcombe Group

Lee Hall is Head of Learning & Development at Butcombe Group, where he leads leadership and team development across the business. With a strong background in hospitality and people development, Lee has brought Belbin to life through practical, hands-on workshops and team sessions, embedding it into the culture to help teams better understand each other, strengthen collaboration, and improve performance.

Nilesh Tailor | Founder | Tailored Business Solutions (TBS)

Nilesh facilitates teams to improve their organisational effectiveness. He has international experience leading groups through Strategic Business Analysis, Continuous Improvement and Change, Team Development and Training. Additionally, he is certified as a Lean Sigma Practitioner and accredited to facilitate the Belbin Team Roles process, working with international, cross-functional teams.

Join us at 3pm

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"I think we’ve always been striving to find a way of helping people to work together. When people work in effective combinations, they achieve so much more than when they’re working alone. But to do that we need a language and it needs to be a language which is shared and enables people to communicate with each other. That’s what we’re after."

Dr Meredith Belbin. 1926 - 2025