The Great Coaches: Leadership & Life

Our Great Coach on this episode is Jan Stirling.Jan is the current General Manager of High Performance at Basketball Australia.Jan played 163 games in the Australian National League between 1982 and 1991. She started her coaching career in 1993 guiding the Adelaide Lightning to 12 straight finals appearances and five consecutive Grand Final appearances resulting in four Championships.She became Head Coach of the Australian Women’s team, The Opals, in 2001. The first time a former Australian player, and a woman, had ever taken charge. Jan had immediate success winning a bronze medal at the 2002 World Championships, the silver medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and then gold at the 2006 world championship in Brazil.She has also held high-performance coaching roles with the South Australian Men's Cricket team, and the Port Adelaide Power AFL team.In 2008 Stirling was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contribution to sport.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 Eddie Bolger.Eddie is the current coach of the German National Boxing team.Born in Wexford, Ireland, Eddie won national titles at underage and senior levels before moving into coaching.He joined the Irish boxing program in 2008 and was appointed one of Ireland's national coaches for the 2016 Rio Olympics.He became coach of the German National Boxing Team in 2017.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 Chris O’Brien.Chris O’Brien is Australia’s most successful rowing coach, with 2 gold and 2 silver medals over the last four Olympic regattas.And 6 gold with numerous rowers at the annual World Championships.In August 2012 Chris was appointed Head Coach of Rowing Australia, leading the team to a much improved performance at the 2016 Rio Olympics where they won 1 Gold and 2 Silver medals.After the Rio Olympics Chris left Rowing Australia and joined the Australian Institute of Sport where today he is the Lead Performance Consultant across a variety of sports.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 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.