Collaborative teams:
The keynote
From good intentions to business as usual:
designing a culture of collaboration
In most teams and organisations, we typically set out with the greatest intentions for collaboration. We know why we should do it. As social creatures we (usually) want to do it. We even know how to do it. So, why do we start… and then stop?
Many teams and projects start out with excellent collaboration efforts. And yet it’s predictable for many that once we get busy, individualism and silos creep back in. And so we start back over again, declaring that we ought to collaborate more. The cycle repeats.
In this talk, CEO and coach, Tracy Playle explores what it really takes to create a culture of collaboration in your teams and organisations that will actually transform the way that you work, and last. We’ll explore why successful collaborations have nothing to do with another new technology, more meetings, or frequent brainstorming sessions. Instead we’ll look at what it takes to design a shared purpose, and lay the foundations of trust, psychological safety, openness, creativity, connection, accountability and conflict resolution needed to make collaborations last and thrive.
About Tracy Playle (she/her/they)
Tracy is an award winning keynote speaker who has delivered inspiring talks at events and conferences across five continents.
Beginning her career in communications and broadcast engagement in the early 2000s, Tracy went on to start her own business - Pickle Jar Communications - in 2007. She is a company CEO with experience of growing and developing teams, and supporting others to do the same. She has a particular specialism in content strategy, user-led experience design, and the education sector.
Levelling up her own leadership and consultancy practices, Tracy trained to become an ontological leadership coach. She has achieved professional certified coach (PCC) credentials with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Through her coaching work Tracy supports individuals and teams to achieve their goals by uncovering predictable patterns for how they get in their own way, and to help them develop lasting transformations.
As a CEO and coach, Tracy channels curiosity, creativity, connection and play to support others to bust-up the behaviours that disempower them and choose a more empowered way of being.
Tracy is an advocate for diversity and inclusion, and opening access to education. She is the founder of ContentEd and the Utterly Content Global Festival, through which she is able to lead and create space for global conversations about how we inspire people through the power of education, and how we make the world more inclusive and compassionate for all. She is also the author of The Connected Campus (2020).
Tracy lives in a converted Victorian chapel in the North East of England with her four dogs. They can often be found driving around on adventures in their campervan - Nellie the Elevant - that Tracy proudly built with her own hands.
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Tracy Playle BA MA DipCIPR PCC
CEO, Coach and Chief People Officer, Author of The Connected Campus (2020)
Speaker language: English (UK)
Available for speaking engagements: Globally, and online
Speaking style: Playful, insightful, challenging, compassionate
Topics: See speaker page for more speaking topics
