Meet The Team & Hear Our Story
Our Story
After careers working with young people from the performance domain through to some of the most disadvantaged communities in the world, we felt that was something missing.
We wanted to combine our experience and passion for coaching young people with our fascination in the unseen side of elite performance, to work with them in building positive and resilient mindsets in a way that just doesn’t happen enough.
As keen junior athletes and graduates of top universities ourselves, we are passionate about sharing the things we’ve learned as professionals that we know would have supported us as young people.
About Tom
A successful but short junior sports career instilled in me the value of sport as a great teacher for life.
Across a range of different coaching roles, I have seen its ability to strengthen individuals and build communities.
I graduated from Oxford with a degree in Classics in 2013 and moved initially into rugby coaching, with roles at Hartpury College and Yale University before shifting focus to the Sport for Development sector in 2015.
I have since worked for charities in Brazil, South Africa and throughout the Alternative Provision system in the UK, using sport to empower some of the most vulnerable young people in society.
I am currently the Employability Manager for the charity Dallaglio RugbyWorks, delivering a programme to support excluded young people back into sustained education, employment and training at 16.
I am also very lucky to be a trustee of the fantastic NGO Umrio/Onerio, which uses the values of rugby to support the community of Morro Do Castro, a favela in Rio de Janeiro.
About Henry
I am a Sport Performance Coach who specializes in teaching mental skills to competitive athletes. Originally from England, I moved to the USA to complete my B.A. at the University of San Diego in Political Science and Psychology. I completed my M.A. in Sport and Performance Psychology at National University Golf Academy.
My interest in Sport Psychology stemmed from my own competitive endeavors and a fascination in understanding the unseen parts of competitive sport.
I am a student of sport and the wider applications to life that competitive athletics can provide. My philosophy is that while Performance Coaching is targeted at helping an athlete achieve consistent high level performances at a specific sport, the reality is that the mental skills learnt through sport will carry over into all facets of one's life.
About Alex
The techniques of Sport and Performance Psychology were the tools I lacked as an aspiring rugby player before injury put paid to my aspirations, but not my front row appetite!
Likewise, reflecting on my time studying History at Oxford university and early working life, I’d have really benefited from the approach to self-awareness, goal-setting, and self-talk that performance psychology and mental skills training teaching.
Working in operations for one of the fastest growing education organisations and a young education charity, my experience is similar to those of the young people I work with from all backgrounds.
Since graduating, I have trained staff to run educational programmes, delivered coaching and wellbeing workshops and first hand experience of running a sport-based social enterprise as a coach, Mental Health First Aid Instructor, manager at Universify Education and former director of the Charity Football League,
I have seen and experienced the transformative power of coaching and mental skills training in education, youth development and young graduates as well as in my own life. I am fascinated by the strategies teams and elite performers use to succeed and want to help translate these skills for young people to use in improving their everyday lives and help them achieve their full potential.