Shortly after the 2012 Olympic Games in London had drawn to a close, I flew out to Vancouver to attend the 2012 International Scientific Tendinopathy Symposium, which was hosted at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Whilst I was there, I met with Dr. Jack Taunton, then...

In my last post, I discussed the benefits of having a team of mentors backing you up on your journey of personal and professional development. I can certainly attribute much of my growth, resilience and success to the guidance that my mentors have contributed over the years.

Over several years, I have managed to surround myself with some incredible mentors to guide me along my career pathway. Each of my valued friends and confidants, have contributed critical advice in different areas of my professional development, and are always open to talking...

In my previous blog, I had started to review Matthew Syed's latest book, "Black Box Thinking". I had looked at the concepts of "Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset" cultures and "Cognitive Dissonance", considering how these behaviours affect our ability to learn from error...

Occasionally, along comes a book that you struggle to put down once you’ve picked it up; dominates all book recommendations to your friends for months on end; you end up buying for people that you think would benefit from reading it; and it fundamentally changes your outlook...

In September 2015, CONQA Sport, the South African sports event management and consulting group, launched their sports performance symposium. The event brought together 320 talented, progressive and like minded sports practitioners from around the world, to unearth challenges...

After reading more about the performance culture that has been developed over recent years by the management, coaching and playing personnel at the New Zealand All Blacks, I wanted to learn more about the environment that has been created at cycling’s Team Sky.

When I first decided to start writing my blog, the idea was never to do anything other than give myself a platform that would keep a record of my learning and personal development. By making it public, my thought was that it would help keep me accountable to ‘someone’ other...

Since the early 2000s, I have made a significant effort when traveling the globe to visit sporting organisations, teams or athlete groups around the world. The benefit of this was first relayed to me by, the then Leeds United head physiotherapist, Dave Hancock, who had...

I arrived back in the UK on Monday night with a busy week in store. Lunch meetings with Andy & Rich, the co-founders of Headspace, as well as my former British Athletics colleague & good friend, John Rogers, were lined up. Visits to both Manchester United & Manchester...