From Team Coaching to Team-of-Teams Coaching: Building Collective Performance Across Networks

Organizations today achieve results through networks of interconnected teams rather than isolated, standalone teams. Yet many leaders and team coaching approaches continue to focus primarily on improving the effectiveness of a single team. In complex environments, however, the greatest performance challenges often occur between teams - where competing priorities, unclear accountabilities, siloed thinking, and weak collaboration can limit organizational success.

This interactive session explores how team coaches can expand their practice from coaching individual teams to coaching a broader team-of-teams system. Participants will examine the unique dynamics of interconnected teams, explore common barriers to collective performance, and learn practical approaches for strengthening alignment, collaboration, stakeholder value, and shared accountability across organizational boundaries.

Participants will also gain insights into how to coach relationships, interdependencies, and collective leadership across multiple teams. Whether working with leadership teams, cross-functional groups, or large organizational systems, attendees will leave with practical tools and questions to help clients move beyond siloed performance toward greater enterprise-wide impact.

Learning Objectives:

• Differentiate team coaching from team-of-teams coaching.

• Identify common systemic challenges across interconnected teams.

• Apply coaching approaches that strengthen collective leadership and collaboration.

• Explore contracting and stakeholder considerations when coaching team-of-teams systems.

About the Speaker

Michelle Chambers, M.Ed., PCC, ACTC, CHRL, CTDP, CSODP, EIA, ITCA | Organisation Development Practitioner, Systemic Team Coach and Leadership Development Expert

Michelle Chambers is a senior organization development practitioner, systemic team coach, and leadership development expert with more than 30 years of experience helping leaders, teams, and organizations navigate complexity, lead change, and strengthen collective capability. She has worked across financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing, higher education, public sector, and not-for-profit sectors, supporting organizations such as RBC, Pfizer, Toyota, Hydro Ottawa, and the Ontario Public Service. Michelle is Director of the Centre of Excellence in Organization Development and Change at Schulich Executive Education and an ICF Prism Award recipient. A published author, international speaker, she has trained and mentored hundreds of team coaches globally.

Recently, Michelle has partnered with Dr. Catherine Carr to deliver “Systemic Team of Teams” training programs internationally, helping coaches and leaders build collective leadership and system-wide performance across complex organizational networks.