I am delighted to speak with Dr Ellie Gennings in this episode. Ellie is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching based in the Department of Sport and Event Management at Bournemouth University. Ellie is interested in children's wellbeing, children’s rights and safe sport.

Ellie completed her PhD in 2022 in which she measured children’s wellbeing developing a wellbeing scale.

In this episode we discuss a fantastic paper Ellie led on entitled “A critical examination of children’s well-being and well-becoming in a professional youth football academy”.

I’m delighted to speak with Dr Peter Schneider in this week’s episode. Peter is an expert in high performance environments and transitions. He was most recently the mental performance coach at RB Leipzig helping them to win 2 DFB Cups and 1 Supercup.

Peter’s focus is to help create talent development environments in which athletes, coaches, and parents are provided with the necessary information that leads to success at the professional level.

Peter’s area of expertise includes talent-development environments, transition into professional sport, group processes, coach-athlete relationships, and mindfulness in soccer.

In this episode Peter and I discuss a range of psychological topics and Peter shares his experiences working with RB Leipzig in the German Bundesliga.

I’m joined by Jeremy Holt in this episode. Jeremy is an author, leadership team coach, trainer and mentor with three and a half decades of experience applying psychology to real-world teams in business, sport, and public service.

Jeremy’s work with teams focuses on identity - the glue that binds people together and drives performance. As a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, Jeremy supports leadership teams and boards to create shared identity, clarity and cohesion, so that accountability flows naturally and performance becomes sustainable. Whether in the boardroom or on the training ground, Jeremy helps leaders build teams that are not just effective, but proud of who they are together.

We speak about Jeremy’s new book “For the Love of the Game: How to coach identity, belonging and performance in sport”. The book has been written for grassroots and youth sport coaches who care about the people in the shirts as much as the results on the scoreboard. Drawing on years of experience and grounded in social identity research, Jeremy introduces the TRIBE protocol– a practical and powerful method for building a team identity that fuels belonging, commitment and high performance.