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Coaching for co-founders, partners, and teams ready to navigate complexity and maximize their collective impact.

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You are Ready for More.

At People Lab, we help leaders, teams, and coaches work in ways that create lasting impact.

You've built a capable team. You've assembled talented people. You deliver results. And you sense there's another level available.

You're ready to make decisions faster and have them stick. To navigate disagreement without it derailing momentum. To work with each other instead of around each other. To turn stakeholders into genuine partners instead of keeping them at arm's length.

You want the energy currently absorbed by internal friction redirected toward external impact.

Most partnerships and teams operate without the foundations that make this possible. No clear agreements about who decides what. No frameworks for navigating conflict productively. No explicit understanding of how you'll work together when pressure hits.

You've been figuring it out as you go. You're ready to build something more intentional.

We Know This Path.

We've spent 15 years working with partnerships and leadership teams at exactly this point. Talented people ready to deepen their impact.

You're ready to have the hard conversations before they become crises. To move beyond compromise toward genuine alignment. To shift energy from internal dynamics to external relationships. To turn stakeholder engagement from transactional to collaborative.

We know what makes this possible. Clear agreements that adapt as you grow. Frameworks for making decisions and navigating conflict. Skills for maintaining connection under pressure. Understanding how your team connects to everyone your work serves.

Systemic team coaching builds this capacity. You develop the infrastructure to work together effectively while strengthening the connections that create value with stakeholders and communities.

Our Services

Partnership Coaching

For co-founders and business partners who want clear agreements and the skills to navigate growth, conflict, and change together.

EXPLORE PARTNERSHIP COACHING

Leadership Team Coaching

For teams ready to align around shared purpose and create meaningful impact with stakeholders and communities.

Coaching Supervision

For practitioners who want to deepen their capacity to work with teams, partnerships, and complex systems.

Explore Supervision
EXPLORE SYSTEMIC TEAM COACHING

How We Work

At People Lab, we help leaders, teams, and coaches work in ways that create lasting impact.

Assessment
We start by understanding where you are: what's working well, what you want to strengthen, and what you're ready to build. We do this through a discovery process that is tailored to your organization and ecosystem.

Agreements
We help you create explicit frameworks for decision-making, communication, conflict, and roles that actually fit how you work.

Development
We build your capacity through coaching, skill practice, and real-world application under pressure.

Engagement
We work to strengthen your ecosystem and the connections that create value beyond your team.

Integration
You embed new practices into how you operate so the changes stick long after coaching ends.

Who This is For

Co-Founders & Business Partners
You're building something meaningful together. You want to establish strong foundations now that will carry you through whatever comes.

Leadership Teams
You're navigating complexity that no single leader can handle alone. You're ready for your team to operate as more than the sum of its parts.

Action-Oriented Leaders
You're results-focused and ready to see the bigger picture. You know internal optimization has a ceiling.

Purpose-Driven Organizations
You're committed to creating value that extends to communities and ecosystems, not just shareholders.

What Becomes Possible

Clear Decisions
You make choices quickly because you have frameworks everyone trusts. Decisions stick because everyone understands how they were made.

Productive Conflict
You disagree openly without damaging relationships. Differences strengthen your thinking instead of creating division.

Genuine Alignment
You speak with one voice because you've actually aligned, not just compromised to move forward.

Stakeholder Partnership
External relationships deepen because people trust how you show up. They want to partner with you, not just be managed by you.

Sustainable Pace
You navigate pressure without burning out because you're working from solid foundations, not constant firefighting.

The Difference

Without intentional foundations, teams plateau. With them, teams break through to new levels of impact.

The partnerships and leadership teams that establish strong infrastructure early navigate growth, pressure, and change without fracturing. They make decisions cleanly. They disagree productively. They maintain trust under stress. They become the competitive advantage they were meant to be.

Meanwhile, the opportunity cost of staying stuck keeps growing. The relationships that need trust. The impact that demands collective capacity. All waiting for you to build the foundations that make them possible.

You're ready to build those foundations.

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We’ve partnered with some amazing individuals, partners and teams.

  • Your work helped our team recognize their own agency in being part of a self-driving team. Our engagements are more collaborative, and team meetings are more productive.

    -US Government Agency

  • It was valuable for our team to connect with purpose as we navigate through significant transitions in our organisation. Andria’s coaching approach to facilitation kept us on track, resourceful, and resulted in some key discoveries and insights. Since then, we have expanded Andria’s role to include regular executive coaching and high-level planning as well as support for the growth and transition of our organization. The results are a more focused and engaged team, working together to fulfill our mission.

    Executive Director, Tech Non Profit

  • Over a number of sessions where we really started to explore how we were perceived by our stakeholders, who we were, who we wanted to be, what we wanted our brand to be and how we wanted to be perceived in the business - the team got more engaged every session and the team building and synergy that began to develop was remarkable.

    - JVR, VP Revenue Operations & Enablement

  • Working with Andria was the best investment I made in myself in the past 5 years. During my transition from upper management to Executive Director, Andria’s clear headed, authentic approach provided the space and clarity I need to pursue new opportunities and align my values and career goals.

    -M.M. Executive Director

  • I am no longer timid when it comes to vocalizing what I need or communicating what it is that I need. I have a deeper level of insight and understanding of why I do things and how to engage with others, based on my own behaviors and how they are communicating. I have new relationships with people outside of my immediate group at work, something I never would have done prior to this program!

    - Chloe, Mid Level Manager, Consulting

  • We wanted to find a way to look at how kindness and compassion fits into our organization. We turned to the People Lab to look at our Centre in ways we haven’t done before. She helped us define how we can implement and ensure Kindness and Compassion exists within our organization. She helped us define areas in which we could incorporate change and provided us with great tools to assist in the ongoing process of ensuring Kindness and Compassion lives on in our organization. Andria continues to support our program; she is one of the best investments our organization has committed to.

    H. Humphries - Childcare Centre

  • Andria empowered our team with listening insights, intelligence and tools - what we learned is now guiding our team vision! Bravo, Andria!

    -SOS Design (now Borealis)

  • Andria was really supportive and flexible to take discussions in areas where I needed help. She challenged me constantly to think through and helped me structure very actionable goals, messaging and steps which was extremely helpful.

    - Senior Manager, Consulting Firm

  • Your true gift is keeping me laser focused on what’s truly important in my business.

    - J.F. Small Healthcare Business Owner

  • I feel like I have grown night and day since starting coaching! This has been one of THE most beneficial things I have ever done for my career.

    Mid-Level Manager, Consulting Firm

  • “Well, that was suprisingly helpful”

    - new manager after first coaching session

  • For the last few months, I have had the opportunity to work with Andria Gillis. Like many others, I was starting to feel stuck or uninspired. I was feeling like I was at a crossroads. And if there is one feeling that makes me uncomfortable, it is the feeling of not knowing what I want to do next because that feeling so rarely happens with me. I’m always the girl with the plan, the back plan, and the back-up to the back up plan! Andria created space for me to truly drive home what I have always known about myself - what I do and what I am passionate about are not the same.As a result of that “revelation”, I am making plans to walk down new paths where the roads that lead to my passions and what I do will finally meet. My spidey senses tell me that the journey is going to be magical.

    • Melissa Green, Attorney, Entrepreneur

  • I have far more confidence when it comes to understanding my role as a leader. Before starting coaching, I was unsure of myself and how I could provide the most value to my team. I now feel like I know exactly what I need to do and should be doing in order to help my team grow personally and professionally.

    Natasha H. Head of Product, Fortune 100 Web Services Company

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