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Team Leaders and Organizational Development

You have capable people. What’s missing isn’t talent.     It’s the trust, accountability, and shared purpose that turn a a group of individuals into a high-performing team. 

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High-functioning teams don’t happen by accident. They’re built intentionally, strategically, and with the right leadership driving them forward.

The Experience Behind Bernadette's Work

What 25 Years Inside Corporate Leadership and 16 Years Solving
Its Biggest Problem Looks Like

  • 25+ Years
    Fortune 500 executive career in retail and technology leading global teams and driving organizational performance at scale

  • 400+
    Executives, managers, teams, and HR leaders coached and trained across technology, retail, manufacturing, financial services, and professional services around the globe.
  • 16 Years
    Running one of the most recognized executive leadership coaching practices in the Southeast
  • 3-Year Avg
    Average client engagement duration because sustainable team and leader transformation takes more than a workshop

Does This Sound Like Your Team?

You're working harder than ever to lead your team — and it still isn't clicking. If any of this sounds familiar, you're in the right place:

  • You have the right individual team members but they aren't working effectively together
  • Trust is low, accountability is lower, and you're not sure how to fix either
  • Team members are disengaged, frustrated, and looking to you for answers you don't have yet
  • Conflict is either avoided entirely or handled badly, and both are costing you
  • You sense the culture is broken but can't pinpoint exactly where it went wrong
  • You're losing strong contributors, not to competition, but to poor team dynamics and weak leadership
  • Your team's underperformance is showing up in missed deadlines, stalled projects, and attrition numbers that are getting hard to explain to leadership above you.

Here's the truth they won't tell you...

Here’s what most leadership training gets wrong: it focuses on the individual and ignores the system they operate in.

A team isn’t just a collection of capable people. It’s a living dynamic, shaped by trust, communication, conflict, accountability, and shared purpose.

When any of those things break down, the whole system underperforms. And no amount of individual skill development fixes a broken team dynamic. 

 

We don’t just coach leaders. We transform the environment those leaders operate in, so that every person on your team is clear on the vision, committed to the goals, and genuinely invested in each other’s success.

This is the work we do through our Team Performance Framework — combining DISC and/or 360 assessments, the Five Dysfunctions of a Team methodology, team coaching, and structured accountability systems into a single, coherent engagement.

I’m here to show you exactly what it takes by:

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  • Team & Individual Self-Assessments - Gives every team members and the leader a clear picture of individual strengths, development areas, and how they should show up for the people around them, before any coaching begins.
  • DISC Behavioral Assessments - Identifies the communication styles, working preferences, and behavior patterns that are either powering or poisoning your team's collaboration. The results become your foundation for every coaching conversation that follows.
  • High-Functioning Team Training - Based on various teaming frameworks, including the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, this training surfaces specific dynamics at play: trust, conflict, communication, accountability, and results, that could be holding your team back, and provides tools and language to address the gaps..
  • Team Coaching - structured group and individual sessions with clear goals, defined milestones, and built-in accountability. No open-ended conversations but a results-driven process with measurable progress markers.
  • Focus Groups - Confidential, facilitated conversations that uncovers what your team members actually think but won't tell you, giving leaders the honest intelligence they need to lead more effectively.

WHAT CHANGES AFTER WE WORK TOGETHER:

Team success
  • ✓ For the leader: Clear on exactly how they're experienced by their team, equipped with the communication and accountability tools to lead differently, and confident making the hard calls, not avoiding them.
  • ✓ For the team: Aligned on a shared vision and goals, operating with genuine trust and productive conflict resolution, and delivering consistent results rather than depending on the leader to hold everything together.
  • ✓ For the organization: Reduced attrition among high performers, measurable improvement in team engagement scores, and a leadership bench that can sustain performance through growth, change, and pressure.

Isn’t it about time you and your team achieve the personal and professional success you’re working so hard for?

Team Managers

HOW A TEAM ENGAGEMENT WORKS

  • Diagnostic
    We begin with a leadership and team diagnostic leveraging assessments, focus groups, and/or one-on-one conversations to identify exactly where the team is breaking down and why.
  • Custom Development Plan Based on the diagnostic findings, we build a structured engagement plan specific to your team's dynamics, goals, and timeline, combining coaching, training, and accountability frameworks.
  • Execution & Accountability We execute the plan together, tracking progress, adjusting where needed, and maintaining the accountability structures that keep momentum alive between sessions.
  • Results Review
    At defined milestones, we measure outcomes against the goals established at the start, so you can demonstrate ROI to your leadership and know exactly what changed.

Team engagements typically run 6 months and are customized to your team's size, goals, and starting point.

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We engaged Bernadette for a Mindset Hacks for Success presentation.
Her personal success story was honest, funny and resonated with many. As a follow-up, she prepared a Mindset Hacks summary with additional tips…and the survey results from the session were great. Most of the comments were how the participants started journaling for the first time the day of the session or shortly thereafter. We were very happy with the session.
Ann ClaesonManhattan Associates
Ann Claeson
I have worked with Bernadette as my coach since 2016, primarily focused on my communication style and decision making, as well, as a sounding board on key situations, and more.
The difference she has made is not only noticeable to those around me, but also to how I feel about myself and the improved results I see when speaking, and more importantly, responding and sharing information with others.
Bernadette not only provides great tips and techniques, but also shares a great deal of wisdom about how to view conversations and situations. She truly knows how to dispel fear and doubt and encourages you to climb those deep steps towards the riches of courage and confidence.
Dorothy O'MaraPfizer
Dorothy O'Mara
Bernadette Boas truly is a ball of fire when it comes to coaching. She has the expertise, skills, processes, dedication and commitment to her clients that gets you motivated and positioned for success. She shares creative, effective ideas and strategies to optimize your visibility and messaging... while providing encouragement for your soul. She's the best!
Chris HuntHunt for Hope For Wellness
Christine Hune testimonial for Bernadette Boas, Ball of Fire Coaching
I engaged Bernadette Boas to work with our leadership teams and emerging leaders as we navigated a range of challenges across our business; leadership capability gaps, communication breakdowns, cultural friction, and low engagement. What I didn't anticipate was how quickly Bernadette identified the true barriers holding our leaders back. She doesn't coach at a surface level; she goes deeper, building self-awareness and reshaping leadership behaviors that ultimately drive performance, alignment and culture. Throughout the engagements, I saw tangible change; leaders communicating more effectively, teams becoming better aligned, and managers stepping up with greater confidence and accountability. The impact extended well beyond coaching sessions; it showed up in how our teams operated day by day. She connects effortlessly at every level, brings more than 25 years of corporate experience, and holds people accountable while ensuring they feel genuinely supported. If you organization is serious about closing leadership gaps and developing leaders who deliver real, sustained results, Bernadette is exactly the partner you want by your side.
Sharon NobleSVP global human resources at huber engineered materials
Sharon Noble
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Let's do this!

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