We, the Team — Trust, Clarity & Honest Collaboration ⏱ Up to 120 min · Max 12 participants
Team trust and clarity
What does trust actually look like inside a team — not in theory, but on a Tuesday afternoon when everything is running late? This session is built around collective sense-making. For each pillar of team effectiveness — trust,…
Communication Skills Practice
Feedback / Difficult Conversations
Goal Alignment
Group Activity
Group Cocreation
Psychological Safety
Workshop
Description
What does trust actually look like inside a team — not in theory, but on a Tuesday afternoon when everything is running late? This session is built around collective sense-making. For each pillar of team effectiveness — trust, role clarity, honest conversation, shared commitment — the group defines it together: what it looks like when it's working, what it looks like when it isn't, and what gets in the way. Participants bring real stories, real friction, and real wins. The energy in the room builds as people recognise shared experiences they've never had the space to name out loud. The session closes with the creation of a Team Charter — a living document the group authors together, capturing the agreements and commitments they want to hold themselves to going forward. It leaves teams with something tangible, and a felt sense that they built it themselves.
Benefits
What participants walk away with: A shared language for what good teamwork actually looks and feels like. Greater clarity on roles, expectations, and the unspoken rules that have been running the team in the background. A co-created Team Charter they can return to — and a renewed sense that they are capable of building something worth belonging to together.
Hosted by Vanessa Defournier
About the Host
I'm Vanessa Defournier, a global leadership coach and facilitator based in Morocco, working worldwide.
I've spent over 20 years helping people and teams connect more deeply — with themselves, with each other, and with what they're actually here to do. I've lived and worked in 10 countries, coached in four languages, and held space for leaders navigating some of the most demanding environments on the planet: from McKinsey consulting rooms to international development institutions tackling climate, inequality, and systemic change.
What draws me to this work isn't the frameworks — it's the moment when something shifts. When a team that was talking past each other suddenly starts listening. When a leader drops the performance and gets honest. When a person realises they already knew what they needed to do, they just hadn't let themselves see it yet.
My style is warm, direct, and deeply human. I create experiences that feel safe enough to be real and engaging enough to matter. People often tell me they came in expecting a workshop and left feeling something more like a reckoning — in the best possible sense.
I bring cultural fluency, emotional depth, and a genuine love for the complexity of people. Whether I'm working in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese, the invitation is always the same: show up as you are, and let's do something meaningful with that.
Focus Areas
Development/Coaching
Location
Rabat, Morocco
Languages
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
Travel Locations
Brussels ; Paris; Lisbon; Madrid: London; Tunis; additional cost based on real expenses (flights/stay)
Corporate Experience
Significant
Session Types Offered
Interactive (eg. improv, group-art, yoga etc.)
Past Experience Doing Sessions
Yes - Interactive
Client Requirements
Inspiring room/space; flip charts and markers; speakers; large post its
Past Clients
Prose; Inter American Development Bank; Swagelok; Green Climate Fund;
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