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The Great Coaches: Leadership & Life

The Great Coaches: Leadership & Life

By: Paul Barnett & Jim Woolfrey
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We explore leadership through the lens of high performance sport, by interviewing great coaches from around the world, to try and find ideas to help all of us be better leaders.

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Paul Barnett & Jim Woolfrey
Economics Management Management & Leadership Personal Development Personal Success
Episodes
  • Book Club: World's Best by Ric Charlesworth
    Apr 30 2026

    This episode is a recording of our book club.

    The book we discuss is World’s Best by Ric Charlesworth, the iconic Australian Field Hockey Coach Ric Charlesworth. Ric led both the Australian and Men's Hockey teams to World Cup victories. He also ed the women to an An Olympic Gold. He has also worked in Cricket, Australian Rules Football, is a medical Dr and spent 10 tears as a federal politican.

    Our discussion is led by Dr David Turner, a Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching at Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom,

    If you enjoy todays discussion and would like to join us for a future book club you can contact me on paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com

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    43 mins
  • Bob Shillinglaw
    Apr 23 2026

    Our great coach on this episode is Bob Shillinglaw.

    Bob is an American Lacrosse coach.

    Bob spent 42 years as a college coach, 39 of them leading the University of Delaware Mens Lacrosse team . He has coached 654 games, more than any other lacrosse coach in history, and is one of only 2 to win over 300 games. . Along the way his teams went to the NCAA tournament on 6 occasions and made the final four in 2007.

    He also led Team USA when they defeated Canada to win the 1999 World Cup of Lacrosse.

    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

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    43 mins
  • On Burnout
    Apr 9 2026

    Todays episode is on the topic of Burnout and I am joined for the discussion by Dr Gavin Weeks. Gavin is a Doctor of Psychology and Associate Fellow at Oxford Sayyid Business School and director of innovation and development at the consultancy Thompson Harrison.


    And Dr Brendan Meany. Brendan Meany is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant and His work focuses on implementing high-performance skills to optimize human potential in both sport and the corporate space. He is also the Chief Performance Officer of LiveFirstAI.com, he applies sport

    psychology principles that manage burnout and elevate functioning.

    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

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    49 mins
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