About Teamscapes

Family-owned since 1995. Senior-led, every time.

Lucy McGibbon started Teamscapes because she kept seeing the same thing: teams with good people who still weren’t working well together. More than 30 years later, that’s still the question behind everything we do.

Since
1995
Learners
65,000+
Organisations
400+
Delivered in
5 countries

Clients include

Mercedes-AMGDeloitteNHSUniversity of CambridgeVeoliaMorgan SindallVolkswagenNFU
Dr Stewart Desson, CEO of Lumina Learning
“What stood out to me the most about the Teamscapes approach was the depth of experience of the facilitators in working these exercises. They have done this many times and they really know how to work the group.”
Dr Stewart Desson · CEO, Lumina Learning

The leadership team

Founded by Lucy. Grown as a family business.

No account managers and no hand-offs. One senior person stays with you from the first call to the final review.

Lucy McGibbon
Founder and CEO

Lucy McGibbon

Lucy has designed team and leadership development for clients including Mercedes-AMG, Veolia and the NFU. She still works in the business every week, oversees every client relationship and is a qualified Lumina Spark practitioner.

Managing Director

Chris McGibbon

Chris runs the business day to day, leading strategy, marketing and growth. He is a qualified executive coach and brought Lumina Spark into how Teamscapes works.

How we work

It starts underneath the presenting problem.

If a client asks for a team day, our first question is why. Is it trust, silos, communication, confidence, or something that’s changed recently in the business? The activity is only ever a way to make behaviour visible. The real work happens in the conversation afterwards, and in what the team does with it back at their desks.

“Lucy demonstrated a thorough understanding of our team’s needs and objectives for the day, carefully considering any sensitive issues.”
Keeley Jones · Head of HR – Commercial, Veolia

Three things that don’t change

  1. 01

    No hand-offs

    One senior person scopes your work and stays with you through delivery and review. Lucy oversees every client relationship.

  2. 02

    The debrief is the point

    People learn more from what they do together than from what they’re told. Every activity ends with a debrief that links it back to real work.

  3. 03

    People are the part that doesn’t automate

    The more of the work software can do, the more a team’s results come down to how its people decide, disagree and trust each other. That part has never been learnable from a screen. It’s what we work on.

Why contour lines

Every team has its own landscape. For 30+ years, we’ve been learning to read them.

You’ll see contour lines all over our site. They’re how we think about teams. Like a map, every team has high ground it can build on and low ground that quietly holds it back. From the outside, both can look flat. So we read the landscape before we suggest anything.

Peaks are strengths to build on, like trust or a shared direction.
Hollows are what holds a team back, like silos or decisions that don’t stick.

That’s what the free Team Diagnostic does: a written read of your team’s landscape, before any solution.

See how the Diagnostic works →

Where we deliver

Wherever your team is. However big it is.

Across the UK
At your offices, or at a venue that suits the day. We bring the kit, the activities and the facilitation.
Online
Workshops, coaching and Lumina Spark debriefs run live online, for teams spread across sites.
International
For the right programme, we travel. We’ve delivered in four countries outside the UK.

Delivered in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia and the United States.

Working with a large organisation?

From one leadership team to 150+ new starters a year in cohorts of 50, three years running.

  • Multi-site and multi-cohort programmes, in person, online or hybrid
  • One senior point of contact, however many teams take part
  • Happy to work through your supplier onboarding and procurement process
Ask for a free consultation →
1 tree for every 20 delegates

Giving back. We plant a tree for every 20 delegates and give directly to local charities. Not as a marketing line, but because it’s how the business has always run.

Lucy McGibbon, CEO of Teamscapes

Want to meet the team? Start with a conversation.

45 minutes on Microsoft Teams with one of our senior team. Not a sales rep. Your written Team Snapshot follows within 48 hours.

Request a free Team Diagnostic45 minutes with our senior team