About Us
Inspiring Teams & Transforming Workplace Cultures
At Horizon Team Design, our vision is to be your trusted partner in strengthening leadership, deepening collaboration, and creating workplace cultures where individuals and teams truly thrive. We help organizations improve team effectiveness and build healthy, high-performing environments tailored directly to your context.
Your Partner in Building High-Performing Cultures
Joanna Abbott, Founder & Principal Consultant
Our Customized Approach to Organizational Success
Every engagement is thoughtfully designed to address your unique goals, challenges, and operational needs. Drawing on deep expertise in leadership development, team dynamics, communication, organizational change, and personality psychology, we deliver customized consulting experiences rather than generic, one-size-fits-all programs or automated surveys. We pair evidence-based practices with engaging, interactive facilitation that inspires meaningful conversations, strengthens professional relationships, and creates measurable, lasting results across your entire organization.
Meet Joanna
With more than 20 years of experience in team development, leadership development, organizational development, higher education, and career development, Joanna Abbott helps leaders and teams better understand themselves, strengthen collaboration, and turn insight into meaningful action.
As Founder & Principal Consultant of Horizon Team Design, Joanna designs and facilitates highly customized team development workshops, leadership programs, and executive team experiences focused on the real challenges teams face—from communication and decision-making to conflict, trust, feedback, and navigating change.
Joanna combines advanced expertise in personality and behavioral assessments with skilled, engaging facilitation. Her credentials include:
MBTI® Master Practitioner
Everything DiSC® Certified Practitioner
FIRO-B® Certified Practitioner
Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF)
Strong Interest Inventory® Certification Faculty
Master of Public Administration (MPA)
Her background in public administration and higher education gives her a practical understanding of how people, teams, and organizations navigate complex workplace dynamics. Whether facilitating an MBTI team workshop, DiSC workshop, leadership development program, or customized team-building experience, Joanna focuses on helping participants connect insights to the way they actually communicate, collaborate, solve problems, and lead.
Her strength is translating evidence-based frameworks into conversations and experiences that feel relevant, practical, and immediately useful. Rather than simply teaching an assessment or model, Joanna helps teams uncover the patterns shaping how they work together and identify practical strategies for working better.
The result is a customized, engaging experience designed to create clarity, strengthen connection, improve team effectiveness, and build momentum long after the workshop ends.
“Joanna made each team member feel comfortable discussing MBTI results and did a wonderful job explaining the different areas of MBTI for each individual employee one on one. Joanna then guided us through our group results as a team, which was eye opening for all of us. The process was smooth and her insights were hugely helpful in interpreting results.”
— Kelsey
Expertise That Moves Teams Forward
Insight that translates into action: Participants build greater self-awareness, better understand their colleagues, and leave with practical strategies for stronger team communication and collaboration.
Customized team development: Every workshop or program is designed around the team’s goals, dynamics, challenges, and organizational context.
Skilled, psychologically safe facilitation: Joanna creates an environment where leaders and team members can participate openly, explore differences productively, navigate conflict, and have conversations that lead to meaningful progress.
Engaging learning that sticks: Sessions are interactive, approachable, and grounded in real workplace situations, helping teams apply what they learn well beyond the workshop itself.
"Joanna’s knowledge was excellent and presentation style was warm and welcoming, breaking down barriers and enhanced engagement."
Let's Design Your Future Success.
Strengthen leadership, improve team effectiveness, and build a high-performing culture. Contact us to create lasting results for your organization.