Team Coaching
For boards, executive teams, senior leadership teams. For teams ready to do the work that will elevate their performance.
Team coaching can create valuable space when a team is:
- Ready to create greater alignment around priorities and make decisions more effectively
- Willing to stop avoiding difficult conversations and start working with unresolved conflict
- Building trust after organizational or leadership changes
- Moving from a group of strong individuals to a genuinely effective team
- Needs to clarify roles, responsibilities and ways of working
- Preparing for growth, transformation or a new strategic move
- Needs to develop into a founder team, executive team or is a newly formed leadership team
- Planning an offsite that needs to create lasting change-not simply a good day together
How we work
We start with a conversation – to understand where your team is, what your goals are, and who’s involved in making this happen. From there, the path we take is shaped by what your team actually needs. No two engagements look quite the same – but you’ll always be fully heard, held by structure, and met with a pace that matches your team’s readiness.
The work may include team assessment, facilitated team sessions, leadership offsites and observation of team dynamics.
Engagements are designed around the team’s needs. Deeper development typically takes place through a series of sessions over several months. A focused workshop or leadership offsite may be the right starting point when the team has a specific question or immediate priority. Ongoing team coaching usually begins with a six-month commitment and may grow to 12 months, depending on the team’s goals and development. We typically meet once a month for a 90-minute session, allowing time between sessions for the team to put new insights and ways of working into practice.
I work with executive, senior leadership, founder and cross-functional teams. Sessions are available in person in Bulgaria and internationally, or online where that format serves the team well.
Individual coaching is also available alongside this work – for the team leader and any team member who wants that space for themselves.
At the beginning of the engagement, we agree clear boundaries around confidentiality, the role of the sponsor and what-if anything-is shared outside the team. This creates a space in which team members can speak openly while keeping the purpose and expectations of the engagement clear for everyone involved.
What teams may achieve
Depending on the team’s goals, the work can support:
- Greater trust and psychological safety
- More honest and productive conversations
- Clearer roles, priorities and accountability
- Better-quality decisions
- Healthier approaches to conflict
- Stronger collaboration across functions
- Greater alignment around purpose and direction
- The ability to continue developing without ongoing dependence on a coach
From conversations that stall to conversations that change things.
I offer team coaching to teams who are willing to go beyond what is now, to build a team that is thriving, not just performing. Drawing on my own 20+ years as a CFO and CEO, I create the space for a team to unlock the potential it already holds – cutting through the noise of daily demands, confronting what’s difficult, and focusing on what actually matters. I trust the wisdom your team needs is already within them. My role is to inspire them to unlock it.
A team can’t always see its own loop. Even a team that values reflection can get stuck circling the same conversation – because everyone in the room has a stake in the answer. I come in without one. That’s what lets a team get to the conversation it’s been circling.
For Founders
The team coaching that I offer is for you if you want a solid start. I work with founders who want to build with intention from day one: teams, culture, and a way of leading that grows with the company, making sure you keep in mind what matters most to you. There’s no old identity to untangle here — just the chance to build the right one from the start.
What changes, when we work together
Teams I work with gain real clarity and calm. A clear picture of where they’re headed, how they’ll get there, and how to act on it without losing sight of what matters. Alongside that: a stronger team culture, and a sharper awareness of how they show up for the stakeholders around them – so their contribution goes further.
A team that leads with intention doesn’t just perform differently – it changes what everyone around it experiences: the people it employs, the customers and partners it serves, the organization it becomes.
The first conversation
Our first conversation is an opportunity to explore what is happening in the team, why it matters now and what a useful outcome would look like. I will also explain how I work and help you consider whether team coaching, an offsite or another form of support is the right next step.
Katrin is the founder of Bliss Coaching and an executive and team coach with more than 20 years of experience as a senior leader, CFO, CEO and Country Manager. She works with leaders and teams in Bulgaria and internationally.
Based in Sofia, I work with leadership teams in Bulgaria and internationally, both in person and online.
If this is what your team needs but the budget isn’t there yet, I offer one pro-bono seat at a time.