Pete Jackson

Slice of PIE

Sports EN ↓ 36 episodes

What is a Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE)? And what does it look like across the worlds of sport, business, the military, education, the performing arts and many other performance fields? With 18 years working in marketing strategy for blue chip companies and 11 years training towards Sports and Performance Psychology chartership ( CPsychol - achieved in Jan 2024), I am seeking to find what each domain can learn from the other. To do so, I'm speaking to high performance experts, psychologists and those at the forefront of leadership, teamwork and organisational psychology research....

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#11 Social Identity - Dr Matt Slater & Chris Hartley (Part One) 17.06.2020 50:36

Dr. Matt Slater from Staffordshire University and Chris Hartley from the University of Stirling spend a lot of time thinking about groups, identity and leadership. Dr. Matt Slater is Associate Professor of Sport & Exercise Psychology at Staffordshire University, a chartered Psychologist and an active researcher with interests in the psychology of leadership and team functioning in performance...

#10 Performance, perspective and balance - Paul McVeigh 01.06.2020 1:01:15

Paul McVeigh left his home town of Belfast at the age of 16 to sign for Tottenham Hotspur. He made his first start for Spurs up front with Teddy Sheringham, scoring on his debut in 1997, and going on to represent Tottenham as well as Norwich City, Burnley, Luton Town and Northern Ireland. Since then he has worked in the media for the BBC, SkySports, BeinSports and TalkSport amongst many others… he...

#9 Dual careers and transitions - Dr Emma Vickers 25.05.2020 53:23

Dr. Emma Vickers is the research lead for TASS – (The Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme) …an organisation at the heart of supporting athletes managing dual careers, but also at the heart of developing and pulling together research to understand how these different demands impact, affect, conflict or compliment each other. Emma was an elite student-athlete herself, amongst the top 3 nationally in...

#8 Be motivated to be the best version of yourself...and help others - Kris Soutar 19.05.2020 1:07:50

Kris Soutar. He’s coached tennis for 27 years. He's a coach consultant for tennis Scotland and a performance tutor for the LTA… he runs his own consultancy called the Service Box and produces his own podcast The Tennis Journal ... he's also a project manager for the Judy Murray foundation – which aims to bring tennis into rural and disadvantaged areas in Scotland. In between all of this...

#7 S1 - Mid season review 16.05.2020 7:56

Halfway in to the first season of Slice of PIE it's time for a pause and reflection on what we've heard so far. Please feel free to reach out with any questions, ideas, reflections, challenges, or anything you'd like to discuss. You can find me in the following places: Email: pete@petejackson.co.uk Website: https://petejackson.co.uk/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/petejackson LinkedIn...

#6 From the classroom to the Boat Race - Helen Davis 11.05.2020 50:50

Helen worked in education for 25 years, before a mixture of itchy feet, curiosity, passion for sport... and some chance discussions with elite level athletes at her triathlon club - prompted her to pivot into her new career. Now Helen is a fully chartered and HCPC registered Sport Psychologist, working with Swim England, the Cambridge Women's University Rowing Team and various commonwealth an...

#5 Stress, rest and recovery - Professor Marc Jones 04.05.2020 44:21

Marc Jones is a Professor of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, as well as a consultant and researcher in performance settings working in both sport and business. He also runs a very helpful website called Sporting Bounce, which aims to connect sport psychology support with the world's sport performers and teams. Marc has done lots of work around the impact of stress on health,...

#4 Performance psychology and wellbeing - Dr Josephine Perry 27.04.2020 59:33

Dr. Josephine Perry worked in journalism, marketing, public relations and crisis communications across private corporations and government - before making the career transition to qualifying as a chartered Sport Psychologist. She now runs her own consultancy, Performance in Mind, as well as being a columnist, speaker and author. Her first book 'Performing Under Pressure' was published la...

#3 You are not your job - Leon Lloyd 19.04.2020 46:57

Leon Lloyd dreamt of playing for Coventry City, but winded up playing rugby for Leicester Tigers and England. Now, he's a CEO, author and speaker, as well as in the final stages of completing an MBA. As a former athlete that has moved from 'boot room to boardroom' he's the perfect man to skipper the Switch the Play Foundation - the UK's only charity dedicated to supporting...

#2 There's no linear path to unknown - Richard Keegan 13.04.2020 1:04:34

Based in sunny Canberra, Richard is a sport psychology practitioner, researcher, speaker and author. In 2015 he wrote 'Being a Sport Psychologist' - a book found on the shelves of every sport psychology trainee. This episode is about building careers. We dig deeper into a keynote I saw him deliver last year entitled 'The Heartless Mercenary Career Path: Authenticity, Resilience and...

#1 Resilience in people and organisations - Dr Mustafa Sarkar 06.04.2020 56:10

Mustafa is one of sport psychology's foremost researchers and speakers on resilience. He somehow managed to find time in between lecturing, consulting and presenting at international conferences - to speak to me about some of his experiences. We talk about resilience at the individual versus the organisational level, whether insights can be applied across performance contexts, and why we need...