THE ELITE ATHLETES AND ELITE SPORTS TEAMS POWER PROGRAMMES

‘I’m the best, I just haven’t played yet.’ Muhammad Ali - on golf

'There's a lot to be said for what happens after their careers ... Michelle helps players prepare for the long, long time not playing'

Shay Trainor

Joint CEO Team Sports Management Football Agency

- on players coming to the end of their careers

'There's a lot to be said for what happens after their careers ... Michelle helps players prepare for the long, long time not playing'

Shay Trainor

Joint CEO Team Sports Management Football Agency

- on players coming to the end of their careers

WE SPECIALISE IN WORKING WITH ELITE ATHLETES:

coming to the end of their professional careers, and

at those critical inflection points when important decisions need to be made about their future.

We understand the challenges that you as an Elite Athlete face and what it has taken to achieve at the highest level.

You, unlike most other professionals in any other walk of life, face the unique challenge of:

coming to the end of a glittering career, just as your peers are beginning theirs, and

having to reinvent yourself, when you have already put every ounce of focus and energy into achieving your unrivalled success without ever having considered any other future.

WE WORK WITH YOU TO:

Identify and harness your greatest strengths and immense talents,

Identify what drives and motivates you at the deepest level, and

With the use of the most cutting-edge psychometrics, based on pure Neuroscience and Neurobiology, facilitate you in formulating new goals and clearly defined strategies,

so that you can create the new and empowering future that you envision for yourself and achieve even greater success in your next career, than you have achieved in your first.

Taking the next step requires a profound degree of self-awareness and a clear understanding of what it is that you want to achieve and the resources you will need to get there.

OUR ELITE ATHLETE POWER PROGRAMME AND STRATEGIC POWER PROGRAMME ARE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO ENABLE YOU TO DO THIS.

You will set clear goals for the future.

You will discover:

• your greatest strengths and talents,

• your innate motivations and drivers, what moves
you forward and what may hold you back

from achieving the goals that you set;

what makes you unique, your personality traits and approaches to:

• idea generation

• decision making

• problem solving

• managing stress

• dealing with conflict

• preferences for rules and schedules

• attitude towards risk

• tendency to trust

• degrees of emotional containment
• tendency towards traditionalism

• degrees of mathematical

and linguistic competency, and

• your proficiency at executive social skills, and ability to
interact and communicate effectively with those around you.

You will discover the kind of leader you have a natural
tendency to be, and the kind you could become:

• Charismatic

• Authoritative

• Commanding

• Diplomatic, and

the type of leadership style you naturally adopt as:

• an Innovator

• a Stabiliser

• a Driver, or

• a Facilitator

AND

We work with you:

• to answer the questions that will take you from where you are now to where you want to go,

• facilitate you in creating a new mission, and vision, for your future endeavours, and

• the optimal strategic and operational plans that will enable you to achieve them,

so that you can achieve the goals you set and create the most compelling future.

THE PERFECT REINVENTION

Michael Phelps

the most decorated, most successful Olympian of all time

As Bob Bowman, Michael Phelps’ long-time coach told the New York Times;

“Michael had no idea what to do with his life, it made me feel terrible. I remember one day I said,

‘Michael, you have all the money anyone your age could ever want or need; you have a profound influence in the world; you have free time, and you’re the most miserable person I know.’”

This about the world’s most decorated Olympian, 22 medals, 18 of which were gold.

What Michael Phelps had done to that point, as so many High-Performing Athletes have to, is to stake his entire identity on his career, staying singularly focused on a goal and achieving extraordinary success.

But over the years, what his laser focus on his swimming career had not allowed him to do,
was to develop other parts of himself, other strengths and skills which at that point must have seemed irrelevant and completely superfluous.

Slowly, and with great Coaching, what he began to do was develop a more complex view of himself. A more multi-dimensional view, and he began to rebuild his psychological strength again.

His psychological comeback was ultimately built around taking a different view of success, one
that was not soley connected and inextricably entwined with his former identity as ‘a swimmer’.
As he said in an interview on the Today Show,

“I thought of myself as just a swimmer, and nobody else... and finally I just was like you know what? screw this...”

MICHAEL PHELPS

and he was back on top of his game; an even better swimmer, entrepreneur, an even happier man.

As he said in a recent interview,

“I’ve spent decades staring at that black line at the bottom of the pool... I’m ready to channel my competitiveness into something new... back then i just wanted to dig the deepest black hole and be left alone... I’m happy now... and I’m excited for what’s ahead of me.”

MICHAEL PHELPS