Leaders Performance Podcast

Join us as we take a step inside the Royal Ballet. So what can sport learn from these ‘artistic athletes’ and the way they train to perform? To get to the bottom of it we return to this session from the Leaders Performance Summit in London in 2014. Kevin O’Hare, Director of the Royal Ballet, takes to the stage alongside Greg Retter, the Clinical Director of Royal Ballet Healthcare. Jarle Aambø was...

What can sport learn from behavioural finance? The field challenges the traditional assumption that individuals are rational and always make the optimum decision when confronted with choices. In fact, behavioural economics tells us that people are irrational and are driven by their emotions, which serves to undermine their decision-making. As in sport, sound decision-making is essential in the wor...

How do you take talent from good to great to world-class? It’s a question we posed across a broad cross section of elite coaches, teachers and instructors in this fascinating session from the 2015 Leaders Performance Summit in New York. On stage that afternoon were: -Dr Dehra Harris, Medical Director & Asst. Professor Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis -Lt Col Jeff Orr, F-16 Pilo...

What are the priorities for a first-time General Manager in the NFL? That was the question on everyone's lips when Les Snead, GM of the LA Rams, took to the stage alongside Tom Telesco, his counterpart at the San Diego Chargers at the Leaders Performance Summit in LA in 2016. Moderator Steve Gera kicked things off by posing a question about the biggest surprises for two scouts taking the front off...

Today we’re cranking open the Leaders vault to bring you this colourful session from the Leaders Sport Performance Summit in London in 2014. Sitting in the hot seats that day were world-renowned chef Raymond Blanc and his friend, the influential restauranteur, Diego Masciaga. Moderator Chris Parker is spot on when he draws the parallels between the world of elite sport and the duo’s need for consi...

For the latest edition of the Leaders Performance podcast we delve into the archives to bring you this session from the 2013 Leaders Performance Summit in New York. We welcomed New York Giants Owner and President John Mara and General Manager Jerry Reese onstage to discuss the creation of a winning culture that led to Super Bowl success in 2007 and 2011. This warmly received session, moderated by...

The Leaders Performance Podcast lands with a payload of insight from the recent Leaders Sports Performance Summit in LA on 11th March. Elite performance practitioners share their tips, reveal their blueprints, and detail the ingredients that have served them best in creating a recipe for success. In this edition: - Andy Walshe, Head of High Performance at Red Bull, talks America's Cup Sailing, exp...

Alastair Campbell is a journalist, author, strategist, communications expert and sports fan. One of if not THE architect of New Labour, Campbell is best known for his work as director of communications and strategy and Downing Street Press Secretary for former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. Needless to say, politics feature quite prominently in our conversation but the prime focus was on his book,...

The Leaders Performance Podcast lands with a goldmine of insight from the recent Leaders Sport Performance Summit in London on 8th and 9th November. Elite performance practitioners share their tips, reveal their blueprints, and detail the ingredients that have served them best in creating a recipe for success. In this edition: - Prof Dehra Harris, Medical Director of the Standardized Patient Progr...

Our brains use stories to understand our lives and overcome problems, and to get past these problems, we have to change the story. For an athlete who has experienced a setback, there is an opportunity to take hold and tell a new story of resilience and come back and be the hero. In this session from the Leaders Sport Performance Summit in LA earlier in 2016, Meg LeFauve , co-writer of Pixar's accl...

SAP has been the official cloud and analytics partner of the Women's Tennis Association since August 2013. Over that time, it the technology giant has developed the most sophisticated performance data platform in world tennis. The WTA has worked with its sponsor to integrate the new technology into the fabric of the game itself. The women's game allowed in-game coaching breaks before SAP came onbo...

Ed Hoffman is Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA. He explained exactly what that means in a session at the Leaders Sport Performance Summit in New York in June. Over 30 years at NASA, Hoffman has known many a smart person make many a dumb mistake. An organisational psychologist, his job has been to instil a culture of effective communication across a large and complicated organisation, ensuring that...

The Leaders Performance Podcast lands with a goldmine of insight from the recent Leaders Sports Performance Summit in New York. Elite performance practitioners share their tips, reveal their blueprints, and detail the ingredients that have served them best in creating a recipe for success. In this edition: - Rick Spielman , GM at the Minnesota Vikings , and Thomas Dimitroff , GM at the Atlanta Fal...