Team Coaching · led by Marie Willis
Marie Willis runs team coaching at Lequin. 23 years of senior leadership coaching. Clients include EDF, the BBC, Skipton Building Society and PepsiCo. Systems coaching, led from the background not the front.
We'll send a written summary within 48 hours and tell you if team coaching is the right call.
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Senior leadership teams across many businesses have brought Lequin in for team coaching. The list includes:
Three moments
The HRDs we work with most often arrive in one of three moments. Either way, the next step is usually a discovery call.
The meetings are polite. The decisions are slow. There are conversations happening in pairs that should be happening in the room. The team isn't failing. It isn't working either. This is the team coaching moment most often missed because nothing is visibly broken.
You've just restructured. Different remits, new direct reports, the strategy is the same but the people running it aren't. The team that worked last quarter isn't the team in the room now. They need to become one team again before they can deliver the plan.
The strategy is sound. The board has signed off. Six months on, the metrics aren't moving and the team is starting to argue about why. The change that was supposed to land in the operating model never reached the team behaviour. We work the gap between strategy and behaviour.
How we coach
Most team work in the UK enterprise market is heavy facilitation: two or three facilitators, a packed schedule, behavioural science models, exercises. It works for the offsite. It doesn't work for the exec team that needs the dynamic between them to actually shift.
The exec team doesn't sit in a vacuum. The patterns playing out between them are shaped by the wider organisation: the reporting lines, the previous team, the strategy they didn't write. Systems coaching means we work the system the team is operating inside, not just the conversations in the room.
We deliver team coaching face-to-face, in the room with the team itself. Some interviews and follow-up sessions are handled online. The in-person mix is agreed at the scoping call, not imposed.
Marie scopes every senior team engagement personally. The named team coach in the room is senior: corporate background, sector context, ICF accredited. No junior consultants observing or note-taking. One team coach, one team, across the engagement.
Lequin has played a key role in helping us understand how we can work together to develop our culture and deliver our strategic ambitions. They continue to add huge value to our development as a senior team.
The shape of an engagement
Most team coaching engagements with Lequin run three to six group sessions across nine to twelve months. The shape is built around the team's actual operating rhythm, not a fixed cadence.
The named coach is paired with the team across the whole arc. Group sessions are the primary work. Where the dynamic calls for individual conversations alongside, the coach can run those too. The same coach holds the relationship throughout.
All team engagements are delivered in person with some pre work and follow up via video. The in-person mix is agreed at the scoping call, not imposed.
We'll send a written summary within 48 hours and tell you if team coaching is the right call.
Long arcs
Most team coaching is delivered as a one-off offsite or a short engagement. We work the team across multi-year arcs.
Five years at EDF Dalkia UK developing the senior team through a leadership transition and a four-year strategy roll-out. Multi-year team and 1:1 work inside the BBC across structural changes. Team development inside Skipton Building Society across leadership populations.
We've been at this long enough to see what shifts in month one versus what shifts in month nine. The team coach in the room at the end of the engagement is the same coach who scoped it at the start. The system holds.
Cutting edge
Our work is not about sitting in a room discussing problems. It is about creating meaningful and lasting behavioural change.
Sometimes that requires a more disruptive approach.
One of the ways we do this is through working with horses.
Unlike people, horses are unaffected by hierarchy, status or office politics. They respond only to behaviour. Inauthenticity, over-control, inflated ego and mixed messages are quickly exposed.
Working alongside horses challenges leaders to rely less on authority and more on self-awareness, emotional regulation, clarity and authenticity.
The result is immediate, unfiltered feedback on how they show up and the impact they have on others.
Before booking
When the team isn't failing but isn't working either: meetings are polite, decisions are slow, conversations that should happen in the room are happening in pairs. Team coaching is also the right call after a re-org, when a new leader joins, or when the team needs to land a strategy that's stuck.
Where to start
Most team coaching engagements with Lequin begin one of two ways. Both are free or fixed price. Neither starts with a sales pitch.
Option one
30 minutes with Marie. She'll ask about the team, the moment they're in, and what's happened so far. We send a written summary within 48 hours, including whether we think team coaching is the right call. About one in four scoping calls turns into a paid engagement. The rest end in a clean handover.
Book a 30-minute callOption two
A 90-minute online workshop for up to 12 of your leaders. Choose one topic from our list. We lead the session, your people take part, you watch the work. If we're the wrong fit, we'll tell you and you keep the materials. Most pilots happen within 6 weeks of booking.
Book the pilot