- Why aligned teams consistently outperform their peers
- The common warning signs of misalignment
- The real impact of misalignment on performance, wellbeing and culture
- Evidence-based approaches to strengthen team cohesion
- Tools and techniques you can apply with your own team and across your organisation
Masterclass
New Year, New Start: Aligning Your Team for Success in 2026
Part of January Jumpstart 2026: The Leadership Recharge
Location: Online (via Zoom)
Exclusive IoL Member event.
CPD hours: 0.75
We’re living and working in unprecedented times - and with constant pressure, uncertainty and change, teams are finding it harder than ever to stay aligned and perform at their best. Research consistently shows that when teams are aligned, both people and organisations thrive. Yet the reality is that most teams aren’t operating anywhere near their full potential.
This practical and energising session, hosted by the experts at teamSalient, explores why alignment is the foundation of high performance, what misalignment really looks like in everyday team dynamics, and how leaders can reset, reconnect and strengthen their teams for the year ahead.
Whether you coach teams, lead a department, or want to improve collaboration across your organisation, this masterclass offers a clear framework and actionable steps to transform team effectiveness in 2026.
What you'll learn
Who is this session for?
Leaders and managers, coaches and facilitators, HR, L&D and organisational development professionals. Anyone responsible for improving team performance in 2026.
What is The Leadership Recharge?
The Leadership Recharge is a week-long series of member-exclusive masterclasses designed to recentre, refresh, and strengthen your leadership for the year ahead.
From Monday 26 to Friday 30 January, join an inspiring expert each lunchtime as they share fresh ideas and practical strategies to set you up for your most successful year yet.
Is this event CPD recordable?
Yes. This event is CPD-recordable for IoL Members.
After attending, any CPD hours you've earned will appear in your dashboard via myportal.
Belinda O'Neill MIoL
Event Host
Dr Declan Woods
CEO, teamGenie
Andy Duncan
Client Delivery Director, teamGenie
Hosted by award-winning best-selling author, speaker, event facilitator, podcaster, content creator, educator and the founder of Be Inspired To Be®, Belinda O’Neill. Belinda is a vibrant member of our community and the much-loved host of our monthly webinar series, Meet The Author.
Dr. Declan Woods specialises in working with leadership teams in international blue-chip corporations and public sector bodies to transform their organisations.
He is the CEO of teamGenie, an international venture specialising in designing, coaching, and developing teams. Declan created the award-winning diagnostic tool, teamSalient, to help teams radically improve their impact.
Declan is the world’s first Master Team Coach accredited with the Association for Coaching (AC), and a Chartered Psychologist. Declan created the industry standard for team coaching and was made a life Fellow for improving coaching in organisations globally.
Alongside coaching, Declan is Professor of Leadership Practice at King's College London (KCL), and an Advisory Board Member of The Harvard Business Review (HBR).
Andy is the Client Delivery Director at teamGenie, a C-Suite Executive Coach, an AC accredited Master Team Coach, and specialist in developing leaders and teams to unlock their potential, through leadership development and team coaching activities.
Andy has broad and deep experience in building coaching cultures in organisations and successfully designed, systemised, embedded and scaled a team coaching programme and supporting culture within a large financial services organisation. He has a passion for supporting and driving change at an enterprise level, in service of building high levels of engagement and performance.
Belinda O'Neill MIoL
Event Host
Hosted by award-winning best-selling author, speaker, event facilitator, podcaster, content creator, educator and the founder of Be Inspired To Be®, Belinda O’Neill. Belinda is a vibrant member of our community and the much-loved host of our monthly webinar series, Meet The Author.
Dr Declan Woods
CEO, teamGenie
Dr. Declan Woods specialises in working with leadership teams in international blue-chip corporations and public sector bodies to transform their organisations.
He is the CEO of teamGenie, an international venture specialising in designing, coaching, and developing teams. Declan created the award-winning diagnostic tool, teamSalient, to help teams radically improve their impact.
Declan is the world’s first Master Team Coach accredited with the Association for Coaching (AC), and a Chartered Psychologist. Declan created the industry standard for team coaching and was made a life Fellow for improving coaching in organisations globally.
Alongside coaching, Declan is Professor of Leadership Practice at King's College London (KCL), and an Advisory Board Member of The Harvard Business Review (HBR).
Andy Duncan
Client Delivery Director, teamGenie
Andy is the Client Delivery Director at teamGenie, a C-Suite Executive Coach, an AC accredited Master Team Coach, and specialist in developing leaders and teams to unlock their potential, through leadership development and team coaching activities.
Andy has broad and deep experience in building coaching cultures in organisations and successfully designed, systemised, embedded and scaled a team coaching programme and supporting culture within a large financial services organisation. He has a passion for supporting and driving change at an enterprise level, in service of building high levels of engagement and performance.