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Coach Developers & Coach Educators

Develop the coaches who develop the athletes. Purpose-built DISC and 360 tools for the people building the next generation of coaching.

Enhance your coach education and coach mentoring work with sport-specific behavioral assessments and accreditation pathways. Give the coaches you work with a behavioral framework and shared language they can carry through their entire coaching career. Coach development is where behavioral change compounds. Across a cohort, the coaches you develop can go on to shape the experiences of thousands of athletes. Our tools are designed to build behavioral capability alongside the tactical and technical curriculum already at the core of coach development.

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Who This Is For

Coach developers, coach educators, coach mentors, national coaching pathway leads, and university faculty responsible for developing coaching capability. Whether you work within a single sport, a specific stage of the pathway, or across a national coach education framework, Team8 People gives you practical behavioral tools that can be integrated into the development structures you already use.

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National & Governing Body Coach Developers

Coach development managers, high-performance directors, and national coach education leads at governing bodies, national sport organizations, and Olympic committees.

Use CoachDISC and Coach 360 to add a consistent behavioral framework across your coach education programs.

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Coach Educators & Program Coordinators

Coach educators, mentors, and program coordinators delivering development through governing bodies, associations, universities, or dedicated coaching programs.

Integrate DISC into workshops and mentoring without replacing the technical content already in place.

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University Coach Education Faculty

University academics and coaching faculty teaching coach education, coaching pedagogy, and sport coaching degrees.

Use CoachDISC and the wider sport DISC range to connect classroom learning with the behavioral demands students will face as practicing coaches.

How Coach Developers Partner With Team8 People

Benefit from a behavioral development framework that integrates into your existing coach education programs, mentoring frameworks, and coach pathways. Turn coach behavioral insight into a foundation that carries through their entire coaching career.

Program Evaluation & Development

Use the Coach 360 and behavioral data to evaluate the effectiveness of your coach development program. Track how coaching behavior changes across a program, and adapt your curriculum based on what actually shifts. Then, use those patterns to strengthen future modules, mentoring, and support programs.

Cross-Sport & Cross-Organization Application

For coach developers working across multiple sports, governing bodies, or organizations, CoachDISC provides a consistent behavioral framework that can travel across different coaching environments. The context may change, but the shared language remains consistent across the coaches you develop.

Coach Cohort & Pathway Development

Deploy DISC across coach cohorts moving through a development pathway, such as coaching apprentices, emerging coaches, and high-performance development groups. A shared behavioral language gives participants a practical way to discuss how they communicate, give and receive feedback, and behave under pressure.

Master’s Programs in Coaching

Integrate CoachDISC into master’s-level coaching programs through Team8 People’s Academic Partnership Program. Students can use their own profiles to connect behavioral self-awareness with coursework around coaching practice, communication, leadership, and athlete relationships.

Coach Education Curriculum Integration

Embed CoachDISC and applied behavioral content into existing coach education courses, from entry-level coach training through advanced certifications and pathway programs. Use it within modules covering coaching behavior, communication, feedback, self-awareness, and leadership.

Individual Coach Mentoring

Use CoachDISC and Coach 360 in one-to-one coach mentoring to give development conversations a structured behavioral foundation. DISC helps coaches understand their natural style and preferences, while the Coach 360 adds feedback from the people who experience their coaching.

Programs

Recommended Pathway for Coach Developers

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DISC Accreditation for Coach Developers

Team8 People’s DISC Accreditation is the primary pathway for coach developers who want to embed DISC across their coach education programs.

Training is delivered through six tailored one-on-one sessions with Bo Hanson, Founder and Director of Team8 People, and gives you access to the full Team8 People DISC range, including CoachDISC, AthleteDISC, and Sports ManagerDISC, together with the resources and support needed to use them confidently in coach development settings.

What's Included:
  • One-on-one training tailored to your role and intended use
  • A package of 10 DISC Assessments to get started
  • Training and facilitation materials, plus full ongoing mentoring support
  • Co-branded reports and account platform
  • Exclusive wholesale pricing
  • Administration and marketing support
  • Access to our Global Consultant Network to connect with others in your field
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Emotional Intelligence Accreditation

Take your coach development toolkit to the next level and become accredited in the Emotional Intelligence 360 assessment at the same time. Combined DISC & EI Accreditation gives you access to our full range of DISC Profiles plus the EI 360, sequenced together as two assessments that can be effectively used in coach leadership development.

What's Included:
  • Includes everything in the DISC Accreditation Program, plus:
  • Two additional training sessions to build EI into your program
  • A package of EI 360 Assessments
  • Specific EI 360 training and facilitation materials
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Academic Partnership Program for Coach Education Faculty

For university faculty running coach education degrees or sport coaching programs. Integrate CoachDISC and the sport DISC range into your curriculum, with support for faculty, integration into existing assessment structures, and student access at student rates.

Coach graduates should enter their coaching careers with the right behavioral toolkit already in hand, not have to learn it years into practice.

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Coach Development Program Design & Consultation

For national governing bodies or coach development organizations designing new coach pathways or refreshing existing programs. Team8 People offers consultation and co-delivery to integrate behavioral development into your coach education framework, drawing on decades of applied experience with coach development globally.

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Facilitated Coach Development Programs

For governing bodies or organizations wanting Team8 People facilitators to deliver behavioral development directly to a coach cohort. Whether it’s a one-off program launch, a series of workshops through the year, or an annual cohort program, delivery is led by consultants with real coach development experience.

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Tools & Assessments

Key Tools Designed for Coach Development

CoachDISC behavioral profile for coaches

CoachDISC Behavioral Profile

CoachDISC Behavioral Profile

CoachDISC helps coaches understand how their behavioral style shapes the way they communicate, give feedback, respond under pressure, and build relationships with athletes. For coach developers, it gives mentoring and education conversations a practical framework for exploring how each coach can adapt their approach.
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Coach 360 effectiveness review

Coach 360

Coach 360

Coach 360 is a multi-rater review that shows coaches how their effectiveness is experienced by the people around them, combining self-perception with feedback from athletes, peers, support staff, and program leaders across eight coaching effectiveness competencies. For coach developers, it helps surface gaps between intention and impact and gives mentoring conversations clearer development priorities.
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Team8 People EI 360 Report

EI 360

EI 360

Our proprietary Emotional Intelligence 360 assessment combines self-perception with structured observer feedback across its four Elements and 18 Competencies. It helps coaches understand how others experience their emotional intelligence and identify targeted development priorities. Used after DISC, it provides a natural next step by building on behavioral self-awareness for stronger coaching and leadership.
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DISC AI Coach Functionality

DISC AI Coach Functionality

Your personal DISC assistant, purpose-built for practitioners and administrators. Available through the Team8 People DISC administrator platform to accredited coach developers, coach educators, mentors, and program administrators with administrative access, rather than individual coach participants. Use it to add context to individual or cohort results, prepare for workshops or mentoring sessions, plan development conversations, and extend the ongoing value of DISC.
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DISC Card Game

DISC Card Game

A tactile facilitation tool for bringing DISC language to life in coach education. Use the cards to help coaches recognize behavioral differences, discuss communication and feedback preferences, and to embed the language of DISC into your program outside of workshops or formal training.
Learn more about the DISC Card Game

Why Coach Developers Choose Team8 People

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CoachDISC and Coach 360 were developed specifically around the realities of coaching, rather than translated from generic workplace tools. The language, feedback dimensions, and applied strategies reflect how coaches communicate, lead athletes, manage pressure, and work within wider performance programs, so coach developers can move straight into application rather than first translating corporate terminology.

Team8 People’s coach development methodology has been shaped through three decades of applied work with coaches across Olympic, professional, collegiate, national, and developmental environments. That experience feeds directly into how the tools are taught and used, giving coach developers practical material they can connect to mentoring, curriculum, and real coaching challenges.

You wouldn’t design a coach education program as a single two-day intensive, so we don’t structure our accreditation that way either. 

DISC Accreditation is delivered through six tailored one-on-one sessions rather than a single intensive course. This gives coach developers time to use the assessments with real coaches between sessions, bring those experiences back into the training, and build the methodology into their own programs as they learn.

Ongoing mentoring also continues well beyond the formal accreditation program.

e genuinely value our relationship with our clients and believe our success lies in the success of your organization using our reports, which is why we’ll never surprise you with hidden fees or paywalls to access resources.

  • No annual reaccreditation, licensing, or hidden administration fees.
  • No paywall between you and the facilitation resources you need to actually use the assessments effectively.
  • No additional costs for supporting capabilities such as the Team Dynamic Report or the DISC AI Coach.

 

Once accredited, the only things you’ll pay for are the individual assessments you need, at exclusive wholesale pricing. Everything else is included as part of our service and support.

Team8 People was founded by Bo Hanson, four-time Olympian and three-time Olympic medalist for Australia. The same applied behavioral science that underpins our work with Olympic programs, NCAA athletic departments, and professional teams sits at the center of the assessments and development programs we deliver.

DISC Accreditation gives you access to the full Team8 People DISC range, including AthleteDISC, CoachDISC, Sports ManagerDISC, Team8 DISC, TeacherDISC, and TacticalDISC. For coach developers working across different sports, roles, or broader leadership settings, that means one behavioral framework can move with you across contexts without requiring a separate accreditation for each Profile.

What our clients say

Hear from a coach developer using Team8 People:

“The coaches saw how powerful it is to understand the makeup of their team and those around them. The a-ha moment could be like, ‘Oh, that’s why you get the way you get when I approach you in this manner. It doesn’t work very well for you, so I’m going to try a different style next time because that’s just how you might respond better.’ There were a lot of moments like that where I think people made the connection of like how to take this and put it into practical use with each other, which was the whole point and was great to see. I think that was a huge positive piece of the course.”

Danielle McNamara, Former Director of Coach Education, Intercollegiate Tennis Association

 

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Hear from others in coach development:

"We value Team8 People's (formerly Athlete Assessments) depth of experience and knowledge in working with team sports, coach development and their ability to relate to our coaches and players in a practical way.”
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Wayne GrantHigh Performance Manager, Touch Football Australia
“Team8 People (formerly Athlete Assessments) went above and beyond our expectations and I have heard nothing but positive feedback from our coaches, staff and student-athletes. I am very pleased with our student-athletes’ attendance! We’ve already heard great feedback today!”
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Carleigh CollinsDirector of Compliance, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
“We have a long and solid relationship, which delivers an essential service in the development of high performance coaches. This expertise integrates well with other activities and messages we believe are important.” 
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Lawrie WoodmanCoaching Development Manager, AFL
“Through completing my CoachDISC Profile and unpacking it with Bo to have a better understanding of what it all means, I have learned more about how I think, behave, and relate to others."
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Kristen VealHead Coach of Basketball Australia’s Centre of Excellence Women’s Program, Basketball Australia
“What I most value about working with Team8 People (formerly Athlete Assessments) is the strong liaison in developing the program to meet the needs of the candidate in a bespoke manner related to the sport. The attention to detail and support provided to each candidate and the regular feedback is exceptional.”
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Rob ShermanHead of Coach Education, Football Federation Australia
“The mix of a professional business perspective that Liz Masen brought to our discussions, and the professional high performance sport perspective that Bo Hanson brings, broadened my own perspective and directions that aren’t the run of the mill, what everyone else sees, concepts and ideas.”
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Larissa AndersonAssistant Coach of the Melbourne Boomers WNBL Team, Basketball Australia
“Team8 People (formerly Athlete Assessments) have added value to our program with relevant strategies and solutions in ways which we can improve as coaches and get the best from our players.”
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Dylan HidesCoach Education Coordinator, National Rugby League
“Team8 People (formerly Athlete Assessments) adds value to our course through expert delivery of information in an area that complements and integrates with the ARU coaching development approach.”
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Matthew WilkieCoaching Pathway Services Manager, Australian Rugby Union
“The CoachDISC Profile was truly one of the highlights and an extremely crucial starting point for my development and betterment as a person, coach, and leader. Players look for that authenticity.”
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Jackie BrownHead Coach of Queensland South U18 Women’s State Team and Assistant Coach for the U17 Women’s National Team, Basketball Australia
“Learning through the DISC Model has given me a self-awareness of knowing what works for me as a coach and what doesn’t.”
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Katrina HibbertCEO
“In the past, I have been involved in seminars where communication and leadership styles have been workshopped, however not to the same length and detail as the CoachDISC profiling. I found it extremely valuable and eye-opening.”
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Dee ButlerHead Coach of the Hume City Broncos Championship Senior Women (Big V League) Team and U19 National Head Coach, Basketball Australia
“We chose to incorporate the CoachDISC Profile because we thought it complemented the curriculum and would add value to the course. The feedback we have received from students has resoundingly confirmed that this was the right choice. Many students often comment that they were cynical of the value of the CoachDISC prior to the course, but after completing it found it very useful in reflecting on and improving their coaching and personal interactions.”
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Dr. Charles “Hal” WilsonAssistant Professor of Kinesiology Georgia Southern University
“In preparing students for a career in sports leadership, Athlete Assessments’ Sports ManagerDISC Profile is a cornerstone tool in our students’ development of self-understanding, enhanced collaboration skills for team project, and effective communication strategies to engage with various stakeholders on the job. Bo and Liz provide a valuable service beyond the DISC profile assessment. Their facilitation of customized sessions with students over Skype, resource explanations through video introductions, and creative strategies for maximizing the use of DISC with our students have enriched its place in our graduate program curriculum. What I appreciate most is their deep understanding and passionate commitment to the application of DISC in developing responsive, effective sport leaders.”
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Sara Lopez, Ph.D.Director, Center for Leadership in Athletics University of Washington
“At the University of Northern Colorado it’s all about application… Self-awareness is the fundamental building block to building a true coaching philosophy and then throughout the development process as a coach… Through the CoachDISC and guest lectures with Liz, the partnership helps me provide the opportunity for my students to begin to build a foundation for their coaching philosophy and coaching behaviors (and style). This is their first chance to self-reflect within the context of coaching and Athlete Assessments helps facilitate their early growth and development as an effective coach.”
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Dr. Scott DouglasAssociate Professor, Advanced Principles of Coaching University of Northern Colorado

How to Get Started

1

Inquire

Tell us about your coach development work, the coaches you support, and how you’d like to embed behavioral development into your programs.

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We Confirm Fit

Together, we’ll identify the right pathway for your organization or association.

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Co-Design Your Program Integration

We’ll collaborate on how best to incorporate DISC and supporting resources into your program structure.

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Embed Into Your Coach Development Programs

Once accredited, integrate CoachDISC and the sport DISC range into your coach education curriculum, mentoring frameworks, or coach cohort programs, with access to wholesale practitioner pricing across the assessments you use.

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Ongoing Access & Support

Access the full assessment range, facilitation and marketing resources, DISC AI Coach, additional reporting capabilities, and ongoing consultant support with no additional fees, minimum spend, reaccreditation or renewal fees, or hidden charges.

Ready to embed behavioral development into your coach programs?

Whether you’re a national coach developer, coach educator, or coach education academic, Team8 People gives you the tools, accreditation, and applied expertise to build behavioral capability into the coaches you develop. Coaching is a people role, and coach development should build that foundation from the start.

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Coach Development FAQs

Can I use CoachDISC in my existing coach education courses?

Yes. Once you're DISC Accredited, you can integrate CoachDISC and our full range of sport-specific DISC Profiles into your existing coach education programs.

University faculty can also access CoachDISC for student use through the Academic Partnership Program.

CoachDISC complements existing technical, tactical, and pedagogical content rather than replacing it. It can sit as a dedicated behavioral development module or be woven through existing topics such as communication, feedback, coaching philosophy, leadership, and athlete relationships.

Yes. Team8 People has worked with national governing bodies and coach development organizations to integrate CoachDISC and behavioral development into national coach pathways. We can consult on program design or deliver facilitated cohort development directly.

University coach education faculty can integrate CoachDISC and other sport-specific DISC Profiles into their curriculum, with student access at student rates, faculty resources, curriculum integration support, and options for research collaboration. Faculty can also complete DISC Accreditation if they want to deepen their own use of the assessments.

Yes. Multiple people from the same organization can complete DISC Accreditation together, with the training tailored around your shared coach development context. Reduced pricing may also be available where participants complete the accreditation sessions together.

Talk to a Sport Specialist on our team. Share what your coach development work covers and how you’d like to strengthen your toolkit, and we’ll connect you with the right pathway.