Nonprofit teams are navigating more pressure than ever — yet systemic team coaching has remained financially and culturally out of reach for most mission-driven organizations. Betsy Block is changing that. As founder of the Agate Initiative, she's built a cohort-based model that brings professional team coaching to nonprofits for under $10,000, backed by TCI's validated Team Diagnostic Assessment.

In this episode, Betsy and Spencer Horn break down why team coaching is uniquely aligned with nonprofit values, what's kept it out of the sector until now, and what real transformation looks like when you build a coaching model from the ground up — for the organizations that need it most.

Agate Initiative

betsy@b3coach.com

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Most team challenges aren’t about capability—they’re about what’s happening beneath the surface.

In this episode of Teams Unleashed, Spencer Horn sits down with Jane Zhang to walk through a real case study of a team facing performance pressure, internal challenges, and the need to deliver results in a complex environment.

Rather than focusing on quick fixes, the work centered on identifying and shifting the team’s underlying “DNA”—the patterns driving how the team communicated, made decisions, and held each other accountable.

What followed was a measurable transformation:

· Increased productivity and positivity

· Faster execution and improved delivery metrics

· A shift from individual effort to true team alignment

This conversation breaks down what actually changed inside the team—and how team coaching made that shift possible.

If you want to understand how real team transformation happens, this episode gives you a clear, practical example.

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Most teams don’t fail because of execution.

They fail before the work even begins.

In this episode of Teams Unleashed, I sit down with Peter Hård to talk about what it really takes to set a team up for success.

Peter brings over two decades of global experience working with executive and specialist teams across 50+ countries—and was part of the work with the ICF that helped shape the Team Coaching Core Competencies.

We get into:

• The difference between team building, team development, and team coaching
• Why so many teams rush into action—and pay for it later
• What “setting up for success” actually looks like in practice
• Why patience, not speed, is critical in the early stages

If you’re coaching teams or leading them, this conversation will challenge how you think about getting started.

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