Alan is one of the leading practitioners and consultants to Olympic sports, designing and delivering world-leading development programmes and systems for elite coaches. He has supported, trained and worked with over 500 high performance coaches, achieving over 19 Gold medals (30 in total) across 5 Olympic Games.
Alan has spent a lifetime working and training specialists to operate in unpredictable environments, initially as helicopter aircrew; commando qualified, trained by the SAS as a survival instructor, a mountaineer and infantry officer. It was then that he made the leap into performance sport, training as a sport psychologist specialising in skill acquisition and decision-making. Since then he has been working in the heart of Team GB performance sport, training high performance managers, coaches and athletes to apply decision-making principles with gold-winning successes from Sydney to Rio.
His models and training techniques have been integral to the performance gains for a range of sports such as Sailing, Canoeing, Hockey, Diving and Skeleton.
When not in work you’ll find Alan racing a hydrofoil sailing dinghy, hanging off a rock face or adventure racing with his daughter and dog in tow. Failing that he believes a restorative cup of tea and a calming yoga session will help to align the universe.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”
