Our Great Coach for this episode is Tracey Menzies StegbauerTracey is high performance swimming coach. For ten years she worked at the Australian Institute of Sport 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 internationally recognised swimmers such as Craig Stevens, Ky Hurst, Simon Cowley, and Kirsten Thomson however Tracey is best known as the coach of five-time Olympic champion Ian Thorpe.  Today, Tracey coaches at Rackley, Parkinson in Queensland Australia.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 was appointed England Rugby's Defense Coach in 2015, under Eddie Jones, where more success followed; two Six Nations titles, one Grand Slam, a series win for the first time in Australia and two series wins in Argentina. If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we take a seat in the boardroom with Cameron Schwab, CEO at Design CEOCameron, 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 Richmond Football Club at just 24, the youngest in the history of the League. For the next 25 years, he was CEO of three AFL clubs, Richmond, Melbourne, and Fremantle.Cameron holds a MBA, is a talented artist, has battled cancer and depression, and in our discussion talks openly about the parenting challenges of supporting a transgender child.He now runs Design CEO where he helps organisations build COURAGEOUS, CONFIDENT & CREATIVE LEADERS.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach for this Episode is Dr István GörgényiIstván 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 in 1986. From 1991 to 1994, he was Head Coach of CACEL Nice Water Polo Club in the French National League, winning the championship 3 times.He then moved to Australia and in 1998, was appointed the Australian women's national water polo team Head Coach. That team went on to win the inaugural water polo gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. We have released this interview to coincide with the 20th anniversary of this historic win.In 2004 he retired from coaching and set up a consultancy based on his 'Hunting Territory ' philosophy, which he created based on more than 20 years of research into team dynamics and group performance.Dr István Görgényi TEDx Talk Deep Water Horizon: How Hunting Territory Made an Oil Rig SinkIf you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 weight divisions.Born in Ireland but now living in Australia, Merc runs the very successful CounterPunch program. CounterPunch utilises a mix of performance psychology, sports science and boxing to teach teenagers the life skills needed to manage emotions such as stress, anxiety, anger and depression. You can find more information about the CounterPunch program hereIf you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 winning the Bledisloe Cup in 2001 and 2002 against the mighty All Blacks of New Zealand.He was an assistant coach for the South African Springboks when they won the 2007 Rugby World Cup and from 2012 to 2015 he coached the Japanese Brave Blossoms, leading them to their upset win over South Africa in 2015.His autobiography is called "My Life and Rugby: The Autobiography" by Eddie Jones In this discussion Eddie references the book "The Courage to Be Disliked" by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach for this episode is Dr. Richard Charlesworth AORic 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 appointed coach of the Hockeyroos, one of the most successful international sporting teams during his reign. He later coached the Kookaburras from 2009 to 2014 and has worked in consulting roles with the New Zealand national cricket team, Indian hockey, the Australian Institute of Sport and the Fremantle AFL Football Club.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach for this episode is Rohan TaylorRohan 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 Swimming Club. Over his career he has produced and worked with some of Australia's top swimming talent; most notably Olympic swimmers Leisel Jones, who won the 100 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and dual Commonwealth Games gold medallist, Belinda HockingIn 2008, he was appointed as high performance coach at Nunawading and in 2017 was appointed State Head Coach for Victoria and Tasmania.The key highlights in this interview wereRohan's openness in explaining his coaching philosophy of collaboration, commitment, communication and consistency. How he describes resetting the culture of his swimming squad with a simple act at every training session to deeply reinforce that individual's are part of something far greater than just themselves.How reflective he becomes discussing the mentoring of other coaches, and how he deals with managing moments of self doubt, replacing that with a purpose.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 was appointed head coach of the Australian U21 netball team in 2006. Lisa coached the Australian National team for 102 matches; winning 83 of those games. She oversaw gold medal successes at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2015 Netball World Cup, as well as silver medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and 2019 Netball World Cup.Lisa is an articulate and passionate coach; who speaks candidly about the issues propelling elite performance. She has high expectations and standards and you will hear here talk about this in the context of team culture; and the “sisters in arms” trademark that she introduced.Other highlights of the discussion for me included:Expecting her players to not only become leaders on the court but also aspiring to be a Prime Minister off the courtHow google look for employees with coaching experienceAnd how coaches csocializing with athletes can create problems within the team.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on the Episode is rugby's Dwayne NestorDwayne 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 2017 becoming their Head Coach in 2018.Outside of Rugby, Dwayne is a strong advocate for the development of coaches and individuals through his organisation SiSu Life, where he specialises on the mental development of athletes and professionals in creating high performance mindsets. Dwayne's website: https://www.sisulife.com.au/The key highlights of this interview wereHis insights in creating a suit of armour to protect yourself against self-doubt by doing the hard work in training and preparation, Getting the very best out of his players to execute consistently under pressure and, after so many years of elite coaching he can still be surprised by the high levels of self-awareness in his playing group.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.