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You Know DISC. Now Meet Belbin — The Smarter Way to Help Individuals Succeed in Teams.

DISC gives you personality types. Belbin delivers peer-reviewed, actionable insights grounded in 40+ years of research.

Looking for a DISC alternative? Belbin builds teams that perform.

🔍 Guess Your Top Team Role

There are 9 Team​ Roles as defined by Belbin. Which might describe how you show up in a team? Find out — in just 6 questions.

1. When you’re part of a team, what role do you naturally take on?




2. When you're working on a project, what do you naturally focus on most?




3. What do you naturally do when you're in a group?




4. When things get hectic, what do you usually do?




5. What do people on your team usually turn to you for?




6. How would you describe your working style?




Workplace team in conflict representing collaboration challenges before using Belbin

Beyond DISC. What's Next For Your Team?

DISC is a great start—but many teams are left asking: Now what?
  • You’ve typed your team. But it hasn’t improved collaboration.
  • You’ve done the training. But nothing’s changed.
  • You want more than personality theory. You want practical insight.

That’s where Belbin comes in.

Developed at Henley Business School and validated in peer-reviewed studies, Belbin identifies how people actually behave and contribute in teams—giving leaders real data, real roles, and real results.

Belbin picks up where DISC stops—turning insight into action.

Feature DISC Belbin
Focus Personality traits Evidence-based team behaviour and contribution
Use Case Communication, personal insight Building effective teams, improving collaboration
Dynamic Over Time? ❌ Static types ✅ Roles change with context
Practical Team Tools ❌ Limited ✅ Actionable reports, team mapping

Belbin’s Team​ Roles are grounded in over 40 years of research and used in universities, government agencies, and Fortune 1000 companies worldwide. Unlike personality typing tools, Belbin measures observable behaviour using multi-rater feedback, so you get data that can be tracked, acted on, and linked directly to performance outcomes.

What Are Belbin Team Roles — and Why Do They Matter?

DISC helps you understand your style. Belbin goes a step further. It shows how you actually contribute to a team’s success.

Each of the 9 Belbin Team​ Roles describes a pattern of behavior you naturally adopt when working in a team — like being the ideas person, the organizer, the finisher, or the motivator. Knowing Team​ Roles helps you:

  • Pinpoint how you naturally add value in a group
  • Avoid common blind spots and misunderstandings
  • Build more balanced, effective teams
  • Assign the right work to the right people (at the right time)

Belbin makes teamwork measurable and actionable — moving from self-awareness to team performance you can prove.

👉 [Learn about the 9 roles]
Sample page from a Belbin Individual Report showing team role scores and behavioral strengths
Sample page from a Belbin Individual Report showing team role scores and behavioral strengths

From Self-Awareness to Team Performance

Improve Team Effectiveness with Belbin

Download our free buyers’ guide to see if you’re ready for Belbin.

Discover how to go beyond personality types—and start building teams that truly work together with evidence-based insight and measurable ROI.

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Move beyond personality. Get to team dynamics.

Evidence your CFO will love.

HR and L&D leaders are under more pressure than ever to prove ROI. Belbin measures what people do in teams — integrating peer-reviewed methods with practical tools — so you can spot collaboration gaps, reassign work smartly, and see measurable gains in productivity and engagement. No personality labels. No fluff.

 

Curious how your team stacks up?
In one session, we’ll show you how a Belbin assessment works, what your Team Collaboration Map could look like, and how we help teams perform at their best — without guesswork.

 

Let’s talk.
Fill out the form or call us now to book your free discovery session.

Trusted by the Teams Who Can’t Afford to Miss

Belbin has been trusted by global organizations for over 35 years—including Fortune 1000 companies who know performance isn’t about personality, it’s about team chemistry.

It’s not just theory—it’s the Gold Standard in team dynamics.

“Belbin gave us a framework we didn’t even know we needed. It changed how we collaborate.”

— Director, Global Strategy, Pharmaceutical Company

 

Lindsay Lalla

Lindsay Lalla is the VP of Marketing and Client Support for Belbin North America. Most recently, she has been spearheading the introduction of the Belbin Team Role methodology into North America. Lindsay is a skilled facilitator, and also runs the Belbin Accreditation classes where she certifies others in the Belbin method.
Lindsay’s formal education is in instruction and performance. Combined with her 17 years of adult education experience, she brings a depth of understanding in how to deliver the highly experiential workshops that are a hallmark of the Belbin North America approach to education and organizational development.

Patrick Ballin

Patrick offers more than 25 years of experience with some of the most successful businesses in Europe as a consultant, change manager and executive coach.

He has helped many well-known organisations to get their ideas and projects off the ground by working with business leaders and their teams to optimise interaction, strategy and execution.
Patrick was Global Head of Supply Chain and Logistics Development for The Body Shop, an international retailer of ethical health and beauty products, and managed its change programme across 52 countries. In 2009, he set up the national redundancy coaching service, Rework, for the UK industry charity, Retail Trust. Patrick spent his earlier career with ACWL Group, one of the pioneering UK Apple Centres, where he was a divisional Director.
He holds an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, is a Visiting Lecturer for Brighton Business School, a Fellow of the RSA and coach for social enterprise incubator On Purpose.

Max Isaac

Max is the CEO of 3Circle Partners. He brings a depth of knowledge and experience from his career in general management and consulting in North America, England, Europe and Asia.
Max has assisted CEOs and senior leaders within client organizations with the design and implementation of Interaction Planning processes, team based organizational development programs and Lean Six Sigma initiatives.
Prior to moving into the field of organizational development, Max was the CFO for the Retail Division within The Molson’s Organization, where he took a lead role in growing the business to over $1 billion in revenues, doubling its size in four years through acquisitions and internal growth.
Max is co-author of Close The Interaction Gap, The Third Circle – Interactions That Drive Results, Setting Teams Up for Success and A Guide to Team Roles. He is also the contributing author of the Organizational Change sections of Mike George’s books Lean Six Sigma published in May 2002 and Lean Six Sigma for Service published in June 2003. Max is a registered CPA, CA in Canada. His undergraduate degree was earned at Witwatersrand University, South Africa.