Good collaboration not only drives business results such as innovation, productivity, and efficiency — it also transforms how we experience work. When teams truly collaborate, they harness everyone’s unique strengths, build meaningful connections, learn continuously, and challenge each other to grow.

A high-performing team culture like this doesn’t happen by accident; it requires intentional design to become the natural way of working together. In this fast-paced, practical session, Alison will share tools, techniques, and a framework for building a collaborative team culture that delivers results for both people and businesses.

What we’ll cover:

• Defining your unique team culture to build strong foundations for collaboration.
• How to move beyond surface-level “team building” to create lasting change.
• Techniques to establish team habits that bring more collective creativity and productivity.
• Tools to design and facilitate meetings that strengthen how your team works together.

Why is it important for people to learn this skill?

Good collaboration not only drives business results such as innovation, productivity, and efficiency – it also transforms how we experience work.
When teams truly collaborate, we harness everyone’s unique strengths, build meaningful connections, learn continuously, and challenge each other to grow.

But a high-performing team culture like this doesn’t happen by accident – it requires intentional design to become how you naturally work together.
In this fast-paced, practical session, Alison will share tools, techniques and a framework for building a collaborative team culture that achieves results for people and businesses.

Who is this relevant for?

This session is for leaders and team members who want to create exceptional working environments where everyone thrives and delivers their best work.

About the Subject Matter Expert

Alison Coward is the founder of Bracket, a consultancy that helps forward-thinking organisations build high-performing collaborative team cultures. She is a team culture strategist, workshop facilitator, trainer, keynote speaker and author of “Workshop Culture: a guide to building teams that thrive” and “A Pocket Guide to Effective Workshops”. Clients include: Google, Meta, Wellcome and the V&A. With 20 years’ experience working in, leading and facilitating creative teams, Alison is passionate about finding the balance between creativity, productivity and collaboration so that teams can thrive and do their best work together.