How can team coaches increase their adaptability and versatility? What are the essential roles of an effective team coach? What bodies of knowledge about teams are critical for coaching teams for success?  Tune in to this installment of the Team Coaching Zone podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe interviews team coaching thought leader, educator and practitioner Dr. Laura Hauser.  Dr. Hauser is the Founder of www.Leadership-Strategies.com and President of the Graduate School Alliance for Education in Coaching. Laura wears multiple hats as masterful coach, consultant, mentor, author, educator, social scientist, conference speaker and business owner.  She is the author of the seminal team coaching article based on her PhD dissertation Shape-Shifting: A Behavioral Team Coaching Model for Coach Education, Research and Practice in the 2014 Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture, 5, 48-71. Themes explored on the podcast include:  Laura's journey to team coaching following an 18 year corporate career and founding Leadership Strategies International in 1993 Laura's seminal doctoral dissertation on team coaching in organizations The Shape-Shifting team coaching model: 4 essential and dynamic roles: Advisor, Educator, Catalyzer, Assimilator 4 lenses for understanding teams: group dynamics, task coordination, team development, systemic context Laura's upcoming June/July 2018 Gestalt Review article on The Team Coaching Operating System Stories about coaching teams using the Shape-Shifting model Inspiration and advice for making the leap into coaching teams And more!  This episode provides a wonderful opportunity to learn from one of the team coaching field's pioneering thought leaders who bridges the worlds of theory, research and practice.  Tune in today and let Dr. Laura Hauser help you take your team coaching practice to the next level!  This is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!