Coach Talks
This year’s Coach Talks bring together leading coaches, coach developers, and performance leaders working at the highest levels of elite sport. These sessions focus on the coach as both a practitioner and a performer, exploring the personal, relational, and behavioural dimensions that underpin effective coaching.
Rather than focusing solely on methods and systems, this section highlights the coach as the central performance tool within the sporting environment. Across the talks, speakers will examine leadership, identity, communication, and practice design, offering insights into how coaches can develop themselves to better support athletes and teams.
Further details, including the full event schedule, can be found on the Itinerary page.
Vicky Huyton
Time: 13:45 – 14:10
The Coach as a Performer
This session explores how coaches are themselves a key performance factor within sport, highlighting the importance of communication, leadership, and emotional intelligence in shaping athlete outcomes. It challenges traditional high-performance narratives and focuses on developing the coach as a resilient, self-aware performer.
Russell Earnshaw
Time: 13:45 – 14:10
Be Yourself With Skill
This session explores how coaching effectiveness is shaped by adaptability, creativity, and practice design rather than rigid systems or technical control. It highlights how coaches can create environments that develop intelligent, independent athletes through flexible and intentional learning design.
