Leaders Performance Podcast

David Dunne describes a perennial problem for practitioners in elite sports.“There’s a fundamental mismatch between what practitioners can deliver and what athletes actually want and desire,” he told Joe Lemire and John Portch on the People Behind the ...

“Everything is based upon the game for us,” said Ryan Alexander.“Understanding how the physical demands and fitness is going to be interpreted on the field as it is going to relate to the technical and tactical execution of a certain style of play.

At November’s Leaders Sport Performance Summit at the Oval in London, a coach was overheard saying: ‘I have a team looking at AI but I have no idea what they do’.Gary McCoy is the CEO of Peak AI, who have been shortlisted in Sports Business Journals' l...

Ben Baroody is a big believer in psychologist Michael Gervais’ idea that the apex of well-being and performance is human flourishing.“It means a lot to us,” he tells Henry Breckenridge and John Portch on the Leaders Performance Podcast,

“How do we design tech and tech solutions to almost combat [other] tech solutions and distractions?”The question is posed by Brian Cunniffe of the UK Sports Institute [UKSI], who is Joe Lemire and John Portch’s first guest on The People Behind the Tech...

Lydia Bedford, the Head Coach of the Brentford men’s under-18s team has some firm coaching advice.“There’s no shortcuts, even though everyone seems to want them these days,” she tells Henry Breckenridge and John Portch on the Leaders Performance Podcast, which is brought to you today by our friends at Keiser.“Time on the grass, working in different environments, working under different people as leaders will help you to understand what it looks like for you...

Zendler speaks to Joe Lemire and John Portch about her work with Rimkus and the NBA and NBPA’s Wearables Validation Program.“It was scary at the start. It was this white space of do we want this to happen? Can you make it happen?” says Jessica Zendler.

Dr Daniel Laby is talking to John Portch and Joe Lemire about his vision training with Liverpool and England star Trent Alexander-Arnold in 2021.He says: “If the question is: ‘are you worse than you should be for your sport?

“The greatest gains in S&C can be made in how you make yourself an integral part of the team,” says Johnny Parkes.“You have to be out there with the team on a daily basis, you have to have those soft skills – I actually call them essential skills – we ...

“You can watch the room change from that lived experience approach,” says Marc Williams, a programme facilitator at gambling harm minimization consultancy EPIC Risk Management.Marc, a former professional footballer who suffered the consequences of gamb...