TeamWeave

Human-Centred Culture Change

Supporting teams to deepen engagement, trust, and purpose

We help teams grow more human ways of working — where people feel safe, connected, and able to contribute to something bigger than themselves.

Are you and your team tired of shallow interactions? Persistent tensions? A culture that feels more performative than genuine?

You’re not alone. Around the world, more teams are rebuilding engagement by fostering real connection, belonging, and purpose at work. You may already be part of that shift.

Care for people and purpose aren’t “nice extras” — they’re essential for lasting success.

TeamWeave helps you to nurture people, purpose, and performance — so your team can truly thrive.

People

Cultivate an environment where each person’s capabilities and potential are recognised and valued. Where accountability is built on care, support, and shared commitment to growth.

We help teams nurture the conditions for connection, belonging, and wellbeing.

People are engaged and want to come to work because they flourish there.

Purpose

With deeper connection, authenticity and transparency, rich conversations about shared purpose become possible - tapping into the natural human desire to contribute to something good.

Our advanced programs support teams to co-create a purpose that reflects what they care about, what they’re skilled at, and what’s possible within their economic and organisational context.

Performance

When people grow, connect, and align with a shared purpose, engagement deepens and collective intelligence emerges.

The team becomes more adaptive, innovative, and better able to respond to complexity, without needing top-down control.

Burnout, absenteeism, and turnover all reduce significantly. Efficiency increases as energy is no longer lost to politics, gossip, or disengagement.

Our entry-level offering is the Check-in Learning Program.

A team check-in for people, not projects.

A powerful, simple practice that builds trust, human connection, and presence.

For a workplace that’s more than just a job.

I'm Curious - Show Me the Check-in Program Options

While research on check-ins specifically is still emerging, there is a growing body of work connecting human-centred workplace culture with improved team outcomes and organisational health. If you’d like to explore this further, here are several studies and reports:

Solid Foundations: Building on Real-World Success

While TeamWeave is new, our approach is grounded in real-world experience and proven methodologies.

Founder Stephen Cole applied these Next-Stage practices at his Australian firm, Integral Consulting Engineers, resulting in a thriving workplace culture, a co-created purpose and commercial success.

Globally recognised organisations that have successfully applied similar ways of working are Buurtzorg in the Netherlands, Morning Star in the U.S., and others featured in Frederic Laloux's Reinventing Organizations. You can explore more stories here, though the list is far from exhaustive.

The 2024 Teal Landscape Report (Teal Team & Human First Works) reports on 229 Teal organisations for whom they could find reliable and complete information to report on, with the actual number of Teal Organisations likely to be much higher.

These stories show the real-world impact of Next-Stage practices. At TeamWeave, we support teams to grow from introductory practices like in our Check-ins Program, through to deeper transformation in our Teal Program to foster lasting and meaningful success.

What people are saying:

  • David McKinnon Senior Structural Engineer, Integral Consulting Engineers

    I have gained more insights working with Integral Engineers than anyone else on how to be an effective engineer from a professional and personal level.

  • Celeste Salter Research Coordinator, Journal Editor, and Homeopath

    I met Stephen at the First Australian Teal Organisation gathering that he hosted in 2023. He had been implementing Teal organisations principles into his engineering company, forging the track on how to do it, what worked and what was challenging. The steps taken in his engineering company show us that ANY organisation can take up the challenge of Teal, when their heart and soul is in it.

    Since Stephen launched TeamWeave he has consulted with me numerous times to test his ideas.

    Bravery to confront the old system ways and see clearly what is needed on the inside as well as on the outside, is where Stephen thrives. His authentic heartfelt approach and experience traversing this terrain is highly recommended.

  • Dr Anna Wrobel Environmental Engineer, Honours Engineering Coordinator University of Tasmania

    Working with Stephen and the Integral Engineers team as a business advisor, and collaborating on projects, I could see they had created something special. A rare gem in the engineering environment, they were focused not only on project outcomes, but also on the wellbeing of everyone involved. They had a safe environment where people could be real with each other.

    It was the most ‘human’ workplace I have ever seen or been part of.

  • Mike Margolies Co-Founder and Co-Steward, Global Psychedelic Society

    Starting any organization is difficult, and starting a Teal organization comes with its own unique set of challenges. Stephen provided invaluable mentorship, including organizational guidance on our processes, feedback on my personal development as a leader, and coaching on how to handle specific struggles. Deep gratitude to Stephen and TeamWeave for helping us move through this!

  • Stevie Barisic, Senior Structural Engineer, Integral Consulting Engineers

    I’ve worked with Stephen at Integral Consulting Engineers for nearly five years. Through his leadership and the team’s commitment to the Teal framework, we built a workplace where trust, authenticity, and shared purpose are genuinely lived, not just talked about.

    Stephen creates space for mentoring, honest conversations, and shared decision-making. With weekly check-ins, business transparency and deep connection at the core, I’ve felt supported to grow both personally and professionally.

    His dedication to a values and purpose driven, inclusive culture continues to inspire me and many others. I trust he’ll continue his mission of inspiring and supporting others through the TeamWeave Community.

Where did TeamWeave come from?

Discover where TeamWeave came from as its founder shares the inspiration and journey that sparked the concept.

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Who is TeamWeave For?

TeamWeave is for teams who are motivated to grow and evolve, to move beyond burnout, disengagement and resignation.

It is designed for professional teams of 30 people or less. For teams within a larger organisation, or the entire organisation.

If that sounds like you and your team, TeamWeave could be exactly what you need.

If TeamWeave resonates but your team is not a perfect match with the above, we may still be able to support you.

Below we outline key features about working with our programs and being a Next-Stage Organisation. We hope that after exploring this you find that TeamWeave can still work for you!

Have questions? Send us an email or book a free Enquiry Call.

  • A prerequisite for a Next-Stage Organisation is a genuine desire to make a positive impact and have a fulfilled and thriving team, in addition to financial success.

    This is essential for leaders, and ideally most of the team.

    Applying the learnings and creating a new way of working together comes with challenges. For a successful outcome the desire for change must be strong enough to sustain the motivation to work through those challenges.

  • The TeamWeave Learning Programs and Coaching are suitable for teams of up to 30 people.

    Applying the concepts to larger teams can be more complex. At this time, we do not offer coaching for larger teams due to the additional support this requires.

    Feel free to email us if you have any questions—we’re happy to help.

  • TeamWeave Check-in, Foundations and Teal Learning Programs, and TeamWeave Coaching are designed for everyone in the team to participate, including leaders, owners, staff and board members. This shared learning experience enables your whole team to grow and learn together, without the need for separate internal training.

    Our Learning Programs foster peer-to-peer learning and interaction, creating a rich environment where participants can make meaningful progress with a small time commitment each week.

     Since much of the learning comes through participant interaction we can keep costs low, making it affordable for entire teams to stay engaged for an extended time if required.

  • The TeamWeave Check-in and Introduction Learning Programs are designed so that many of the concepts can be applied by a single team within a larger organisation. TeamWeave Coaching is available to support such teams apply the concepts.

    Teams within larger organisations often face the challenge of working with other departments that still operate using traditional “top down” approaches, and less open and authentic environments. How the team navigates this needs to be actively managed.

    Starting with just one team can be a low-risk way for an organisation to explore becoming a Next-Stage Organisation. The team can experiment, learn, and identify what works well. People from that team can then help introduce TeamWeave practices to the rest of the organisation later on.

    We do not recommend TeamWeave for government organisations at this time, even by individual teams. The structure and constraints typically present in government settings are not suited to this approach.

    The TeamWeave Teal Program is suitable only for entire organisations. The concepts covered require full support and active participation from the organisation’s leadership. It is not suitable for isolated teams within organisations that are not already engaging with TeamWeave or not already working toward Teal or another next-stage model.

    Have any questions? Feel free to contact us.

  • TeamWeave is perfectly suited to teams already working with Teal or other Next-Stage models.

    The learning programs help everyone in the team to build the relevant skills and knowledge. Whether you have external coaching support, guidance from within your team, or both. The learning programs compliment this and will accelerate and enhance the outcomes.

    If you do not have external support, TeamWeave Coaching can be a valuable compliment. The additional perspective and guidance can further accelerate and improve the outcomes for your team. It could be a little bit of coaching or a lot, whatever best serves your team and budget.

  • Tension and conflict exist in any team. A feature of Next-Stage Organisations is that they seek to understand and resolve those tensions, rather than control them with authority, or ignore them. They seek to create an environment where it is safe for people to speak openly about them and have a process to resolve them as best they can.

    When done effectively this builds trust, connection and team cohesion, and keeps the tensions at a healthy and manageable level.

    Such tensions will arise when applying TeamWeave learnings. The TeamWeave programs and Coaching give basic tools and skills to work through these.

    However, deeper tensions and conflict in a team will often increase the amount of time and support required for a team to implement changes from the TeamWeave programs. If the tension and conflict is significant we may also recommend getting professional conflict resolution support. Such professionals are available in our Consultants and Trainers Directory.

  • We want our programs to be available for as many people as possible. However being mostly online, participation requires a moderate level of literacy and computer skills, and computer access.

    If this is a barrier for some people in your team, we encourage you to find ways to bridge this gap. Here are some ideas:

    • Coach people in how to register and use it;

    • Someone read aloud pertinent content from the training;

    • For people in the team unable to access or use the training, have in person group discussions about it, what people are learning and how it could be applied.

    We would love for you to email us if you have other ideas for how to support people with this, to make TeamWeave more accessible to more people.

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Meet the Team

Stephen Cole
Founder, Co-Host and Coach, TeamWeave

Stephen built his own successful Teal Organisation, Integral Consulting Engineers. Inspired by its impact, Stephen sought a way to support more organisations to do it. The result is the TeamWeave Community.

Stephen leads mens groups and has participated in mens work for 20 years. He actively nurtures a deep connection with and reverence for nature, and loves to explore how humans are evolving and how that enables us to meet the pressing challenges facing humanity and the earth.

Here is a story of Stephen's journey: https://youtu.be/bYaib0j2kr8?feature=shared

Janine Beck
Co-host and Coach, TeamWeave

Janine has 25 years’ experience as a consultant, working with a diverse range of organisations in systems and technology development, knowledge management and training. She was an early participant in the Teal Organizations community in Europe.

Janine has also guided hundreds of individuals through transformational inner work. She is passionate about creating environments that foster authentic connection and help organisations evolve toward more conscious and collaborative ways of working.