For team leaders, HR & executives
Understand your people differently. Change how they work together.
Practical team development that helps people understand how they behave, communicate and respond — so they can work with difference more intentionally, navigate change with greater awareness, and take greater responsibility for how they contribute.
Sometimes it looks like this...
The issue isn't always that people aren't capable.
Sometimes capable people are simply operating from different patterns, priorities and ways of communicating — without understanding what is happening between them.
These aren't always capability problems.
Sometimes they're awareness, communication and human-understanding problems.
And that gives us somewhere practical to begin.
Awareness changes what becomes possible.
When people understand their own behavioural patterns, they gain greater awareness of how they communicate, make decisions, respond under pressure and contribute to the team.
When they also understand that other people may think, communicate and work differently, difference becomes easier to navigate.
- Communication can become more intentional.
- Feedback can become easier to give and receive.
- People can take greater responsibility for their contribution.
- And teams can develop more capacity to work together when things don't go according to plan.
Awareness creates choice.
That is why the work doesn't stop at understanding a behavioural profile. Awareness is the beginning. What matters is what people learn to do with it.
Discover → Develop → Grow → Thrive
The Team Development Journey
The work develops progressively — from understanding yourself, to understanding each other, to practising new ways of working, and ultimately embedding that awareness into the way the team operates.
DISCOVER
Understand yourself.
This is the foundation.
People begin developing a language for understanding their own behavioural style and recognising the patterns influencing how they communicate, respond, make decisions and work with others.
Behavioural Awareness Foundations Workshop
An engaging introduction to behavioural differences and the Extended DISC® framework.
Extended DISC® Individual Assessment
Participants complete their behavioural assessment and receive an individual report.
Individual Debriefs
Where appropriate, one-to-one conversations help individuals interpret their profile and connect the insight to their actual role and working relationships.
Outcome
People begin seeing themselves more clearly — without turning behavioural differences into boxes or labels.
Ways of engaging
Start where your team is.
Every team is different. Some organisations need a strong behavioural-awareness foundation. Others are ready to look at team dynamics. Some need ongoing support to translate insight into behaviour and culture.
The work can be tailored around what is happening inside your organisation now — while allowing room to develop further over time.
Discover
Best for organisations beginning with behavioural awareness and individual insight.
Develop
For teams ready to move from individual understanding into shared language, communication and team dynamics.
Growth & Thrive
For organisations wanting to turn awareness into ongoing behavioural development through Team Growth Labs™, Behaviour Integration Sessions™, coaching and tailored organisational support.
These are engagement pathways. Discover → Develop → Grow → Thrive remains the overarching developmental framework.
Real teams. Real conversations. Real shifts.
Emotional Fitness
Understanding behaviour is one part of the work.
Building the capacity to respond differently is another.
Emotional Fitness is the capacity to meet challenge, pressure, uncertainty and change with greater awareness, access to resources and choice.
It is not about expecting people to remain calm all the time.
It is about helping people recognise what is happening sooner, create more space before automatically reacting, and develop greater capacity to choose how they want to respond.
In an organisational context this can influence:
You can't control every challenge a team will face.
You can develop how people meet it.
This isn't about putting people into boxes.
Behavioural profiling is used as a lens for understanding — not a label for explaining people away.
Extended DISC® can give teams a shared language for behavioural differences. But TLAP's work goes further.
It connects behavioural awareness with communication, Emotional Fitness, individual responsibility and practical application.
The intention isn't
"I'm a D, so that's just how I am."
It is
"Now that I understand this pattern, what choice do I have in how I show up?"
Understand yourself.
Understand each other.
Take responsibility for how you show up.
In the room
Practical. Engaging. Built for real teams.
This isn't development designed to live inside a workbook.
Sessions are interactive, conversational and grounded in the situations people are actually navigating at work.
Laura creates spaces where people can learn about themselves and each other without turning the room into a lecture — or making development feel like another box to tick.
The work can be adapted for:
Leadership teams • intact teams • business units • emerging leaders • organisations navigating growth or change
Team development and team bonding sessions draw on behavioural profiling, personality profiling and team dynamics — building the self-awareness, communication and relational skills behind healthier team dynamics and psychologically safer workplaces.
Based in Sydney · In person and online · English and Spanish
Organisations Laura has worked with
What people say
About Laura
Human development, without losing the human.
Laura Gutierrez is the founder of The Love Approach Project and works with individuals, leaders and teams to develop greater behavioural awareness, Emotional Fitness and self-understanding.
Her professional foundations include:
- Extended DISC® Accreditation
- Emotional Fitness Coaching
- Master Breathwork Facilitation
- Integrative Nutrition Health Coaching
- Degree in Social Communication & Journalism
Her approach combines behavioural insight with practical human development — helping people understand not only how they operate, but what becomes possible when that awareness enters the way they communicate, lead and work together.
Let's start with what's happening in your team.
You don't need to know which workshop, assessment or stage of the framework you need before getting in touch.
Tell Laura what's happening, what you're noticing and what you'd like to change. From there, we can explore what kind of development would best support your people.
Tailored workshops, team development journeys and organisational partnerships available.
We can't always choose what life brings us.
But we can learn to meet it differently.