Paul Barnett & Jim Woolfrey

The Great Coaches: Leadership & Life

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We explore leadership through the lens of high performance sport, by interviewing great coaches from around the world, to try and find ideas to help all of us be better leaders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Paul Barnett & Jim Woolfrey

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Sports

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Latest episode

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

Tracey Menzies 30.09.2020

Our Great Coach for this episode is Tracey Menzies Stegbauer Tracey is high performance swimming coach. For ten years she worked at the Australian Institute of Spor t and with Swimming Australia coaching at both World Championships and Olympic Games.  For 15 years, Tracey coached at the renowned Sutherland Leisure Centre taking over as Head Coach in her final five years. She has coached inter...

Paul Gustard 27.09.2020

Our Great Coach for this episode is Paul Gustard .  Paul is Head Coach at Harlequins Rugby club in the United Kingdom. In a ten year career, he played more than 150 rugby Premiership games for Leicester Tigers , London Irish and Saracens .  He started coaching in 2009 at his old club Saracens guiding them to Premierships in 2013, 2015, 2016 and a European Championship in 2016. Paul...

Cameron Schwab 23.09.2020

In this episode we take a seat in the boardroom with Cameron Schwab , CEO at Design CEO Cameron, grew up as the son of an Australian Rules Football CEO and spent his childhood mixing with his football heroes. His career started in Australian Football at the age of 20 overseeing talent identification and player recruitment at the Melbourne Football Club . In 1998, he was appointed CEO of the Richmo...

Dr István Görgényi 20.09.2020

Our Great Coach for this Episode is Dr István Görgényi István represented Hungary as a Water polo player 96 times and was a member of teams that won the silver medal at 1972 Munich Olympics, the gold medal at the 1973 World Championships, the silver medal at the 1975 World Championships. From 1984 to 1990, he was Head Coach of Ujpest in the Hungarian National League, leading them to a championship...

Mercedas Taaffe-Cooper 18.09.2020

Our Great Coach for this episode is Mercedas Taaffe-Cooper. Merc, as she likes to be called, has won European and World Championships in kickboxing. She is also a registered Psychologist, has a degree in Sports and Exercise Science and is an International Boxing Coach with over thirty-five years of coaching experience, having worked with numerous boxers ranked in the top 10 in their world in their...

Eddie Jones 13.09.2020

Eddie Jones is one of the most experienced and decorated coaches in world rugby.  He has been the head coach of the England national rugby team since 2015, leading them to win the Six Nations in 2016 and 2017 and then reaching the final of the 2019 Rugby World Cup. He previously coached the Australian Wallabies between 2001 and 2005, taking the team to the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final and winni...

Ric Charlesworth 04.09.2020

Our Great Coach for this episode is Dr. Richard Charlesworth AO Ric is an Australian sports coach, author, medical doctor, and former politician. He played first-class cricket for Western Australia and international field hockey for the Kookaburras winning a silver medal at the 1976 Olympics. He served as a federal member of parliament in Australia for 10 years. After leaving politics, he was appo...

Rohan Taylor 30.08.2020

Our Great Coach for this episode is Rohan Taylor Rohan is a high performance swimming coach and the current National Head Coach of the Australian Swim Team , The Dolphins. His coaching career started at the Shoalhaven Academy and moved through Carey Aquatic, Saddleback Valley Aquatics, Laguna Hills High School , Irvine Novaquatics and in 2000, he joined the coaching staff at the Nunawading Swimmin...

Lisa Alexander 22.08.2020

Our Great Coach on this episode is Lisa Alexander. Lisa Alexander was the coach of the Australian Netball team , known as the Diamonds, from 2011 to 2020. She finished her tenure with an 81% winning record. Her coaching journey started in country Victoria, before she progressed to coach the  Melbourne Phoenix  in the  national competition, taking the team to two title wins in 2002 and 2003. She wa...

Dwayne Nestor 16.08.2020

Our Great Coach on the Episode is rugby's Dwayne Nestor Dwayne is an Australian professional rugby coach with over 14 years coaching elite level rugby. He's the current Head Coach of the Australian Women’s International Rugby Team, the Wallaroos. In 2016, he coached the Perth Spirit to a Championship and joined the coaching staff of the Wallaroos, the Australian Women’s International Rugby Team in...

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