StrongSuits Certified Facilitator Training (London, 19-20 March 2026)

The StrongSuits 2-Day Certified Facilitator Training is designed to address the most pressing questions in team coaching today:

• How do I support the team in bringing out the best of everyone's strengths?
• How do I build team trust and psychological safety in a fun, accessible way?
• How do I improve communication and decision-making in the team?
• How do I improve the way team members give each other feedback?
• How might I support understanding and conflict resolution in the team?

StrongSuits is a powerful strengths-based approach to building stronger teams which uses playing cards and games to get teams having fun and feeling energised while generating high-impact conversations about how people behave and how they can develop.

StrongSuits is based on 4 major insights from modern psychology:

• People perform at their best when they play to their strengths
• Cognitive diversity makes teams stronger
• People interact and communicate in different ways
• Every strength can be overplayed and become a limitation

StrongSuits revolutionises team coaching, one-to-ones and wider performance development across the whole organisation. It is highly accessible and adaptable and can be tailored to suit your team or organisation's needs ranging from a 1-hour slot at a team retrospective or staff conference all the way up to a multi-layered people development programme across the whole organisation.

• Team Coaches, Facilitators, Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters and those in similar roles who want to build stronger teams
• Leaders in HR, Talent, Culture, L&D, OD, DEIB and those in similar roles who want to develop a more engaged, diverse and inclusive workforce
• Career and Business Coaches who want to support their clients to play to their strengths and to communicate more effectively
• Leaders and Managers who want to truly understand and draw from individual strengths in their teams for innovation and high performance
• Entrepreneurs who want to recruit a diverse team of talent as they grow
• Career Changers and Personal Development Enthusiasts who want to play to their strengths and transform their limitations into opportunities for growth
• Universities and Academic Institutions who want to foster greater teamwork on projects and assignments
• Organisational Change Agents who want to understand how each team responds to and contributes to the change
• Inter-personal Mediators who want to facilitate a safe and non-intrusive way of resolving conflicts that is both appreciative and improvement-oriented

The training is spread over 2 days, each with a distinct focus:

On Day 1 you will experience the best of the StrongSuits Team Strengths™ and Team Insights™ workshops as a participant in the group. This will allow you to experience the power of StrongSuits as a group or team member. You will experience theory and practice in small chunks, reflect on inspiring stories, work through fun games and exercises and focused group discussions.

On Day 2 we will dive into facilitation practice for each topic and you will gain hands-on practice by facilitating games yourself and exchanging feedback with each other. The goal is to give you the confidence and provide you with everything you need to get started right away using StrongSuits to build stronger teams and in one-to-one coaching.

• The Big Ideas - StrongSuits is based on the most current insights from modern psychology about what makes teams work and what limits them.
• Your Winning Hand Game - You will identify your own strengths and develop an appreciation of the group's strengths
• Your Winning Hand Variations - You'll learn additional ways to understand your own and other's strengths
• Your Opposite Number Game - You'll develop an appreciation of the cognitive diversity in the group and how this contributes to group or team performance
• Your StrongSuit Game - You'll identify how you and others prefer to interact, how you deal with conflict and how you handle responsibility
• Your Shadow StrongSuit Game - You'll identify how your interaction style changes under negative conditions
• The StrongSuits Team Strengths Map™ - You'll understand how you behave as a team under positive and negative conditions and explore how you can develop.
• Overplayed Strengths - You'll understand how strengths can become limitations when they are overplayed
• Transforming Overplayed Strengths - You'll learn a simple way of identifying and transforming self-limiting overplayed strengths
• At Your Best.. and Even Better If.. - You'll learn a powerful technique to appreciate each other's strengths and to give and receive constructive feedback on areas for growth
• Your Point of Breakthrough - You'll identify the difference that makes the difference and the change that you're committed to working on

• 2 packs of the StrongSuits Team Insights™ Foundation cards
• The StrongSuits Facilitator Manual
• Post-course digital downloads
• Access to an exclusive online community of StrongSuits Certified Facilitators
• An official certificate from StrongSuits in digital format

Ryan is a Team and Organisational Effectiveness Coach, Agile Coach, Workshop Designer and Trainer. He's been instrumental in transforming ways of working for teams, programmes, departments and business units in organisations such as UBS, BP, Vodafone, UK Ministry of Justice and SAP. Over the past decade he's coached and trained dozens of teams and over a thousand managers, coaches and facilitators across every major sector. Prior to that he was a senior consultant and senior project manager in multi-national consulting firms in the City of London. Ryan is the CEO of StrongSuits. He holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Cape Town, an MBA from Warwick Business School and over a dozen certifications in personal and team development.

As a software engineer for over a decade, Andrea noticed the widespread lack of leadership and communication skills in engineering organisations on various projects. It was when Andrea was exposed to structured leadership development programmes at Ericsson that she discovered how systemic organisational and leadership development can lead to effective teamwork and how those efforts can scale. "StrongSuits fits perfectly in the portfolio of leadership skills development - and enables this via a useful, engaging set of games and interventions" says Andrea. Andrea founded and leads Lean Advantage Ltd, a group of consultancy and training companies set across the UK and Switzerland.

Andrea has an MBA from INSEAD, is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and an IDEO trained Design Thinking Programme facilitator. She leads and consults in Enterprise Transformation and Change Programmes in global organisations.

Is there a limit to the class size?

Yes. The class size is limited to a maximum of 20 participants plus trainers and assistants.

The timings on Day 1 and Day 2 are different. What are they?

Day 1: Thu 19 March , 9:30am - 5:30pm

Day 2: Fri 20 March, 9am - 5pm

Where is the venue?

The Wesley Hotel and Conference Centre, 81-103 Euston Street London NW1 2EZ, London, United Kingdom

The Wesley is only 5 mins walk from London Euston Station or 10 mins walk from London King's Cross / St. Pancras Station.

Any further questions?

Please visit strongsuits.com or email Ryan Behrman directly at [email protected]

Info: On Day 1 you will experience the best of the StrongSuits Team Strengths™ and Team Insights™ workshops as a participant in the group. This will allow you to experience the power of StrongSuits as a group or team member. You will experience theory and practice in small chunks, reflect on inspiring stories, work through fun games and exercises and focused group discussions.

Info: On Day 2 we will dive into facilitation practice for each topic and you will gain hands-on practice by facilitating games yourself and exchanging feedback with each other. The goal is to give you the confidence and provide you with everything you need to get started right away using StrongSuits to build stronger teams and in one-to-one coaching.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Wesley Hotel and Conference Centre, 81-103 Euston Street, London, United Kingdom

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

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