Insights on Sustainable Performance
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Practical thinking on energy, focus and leadership under pressure — drawn from recovery science, real coaching conversations, and Kate’s own experience as a Paralympian and organisational psychologist.
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7 Habits of Leaders Who Perform Hard and Sleep Well at Night
Let’s talk about something that doesn’t get nearly enough airtime in leadership conversations: recovery. Not the concept of it — most leaders will nod along to the idea that recovery matters. The practice of it. The actual, deliberate, non-negotiable building of recovery into a working week, rather than hoping it turns up somewhere in the…
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What Executives Can Learn From How Athletes Recover
When people picture elite athletes, they think about the training — the early mornings, the discipline, the physical output. What rarely gets mentioned is that the world’s best performers spend just as much time and intention on recovery as they do on the work itself. That’s not accidental. Recovery is the whole point of the…
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From Elite Sport to Executives: The Same Game, Different Field
If you’ve ever wondered what happens when you take someone out of elite sport and drop them into the world of executives, the short answer is: nothing really changes. The longer answer is what this post is about. I spent over 20 years in high performance environments — a blend of time as an elite…
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Just Stop
The subtle art of slowing down to speed up: what high-performance sport taught me about sustainable corporate performance There’s a moment in elite sport that rarely gets spoken about. It’s not the podium. It’s not the breakthrough performance. It’s not even the comeback story. It’s the moment an athlete—highly trained, deeply driven, and operating at…
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You Are Not Tired – You Are Leaking Energy
Most of us treat exhaustion as a single problem with a single solution. But human energy flows through four distinct domains — and learning how they feed each other might be the most useful thing you ever do for yourself. ◈Mind Focus, clarity, thoughts, beliefs ◉Body Physical vitality, movement, rest ◍Emotion Feeling, connection, expression ◎Spirit…
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From Endurance to Excellence Rethinking High Performance in Leadership
For most of my life, I’ve worked in high-performance environments. As an elite athlete. Inside corporate organisations. And now alongside executives and senior leadership teams. Different arenas. Different pressures. But one strikingly consistent pattern. High performance doesn’t break because people aren’t capable. It breaks because recovery is missing from the equation. What elite sport understands…