Slice of PIE

Kris Soutar. He’s coached tennis for 27 years. He's a coach consultant for tennis Scotland and a performance tutor for the LTA…  he runs his own consultancy called the Service Box and produces his own podcast The Tennis Journal ... he's also a project manager for the Judy Murray foundation – which aims to bring tennis into rural and disadvantaged areas in Scotland. In between all of this he's also managed to take his skills in to other industries like Oil and Gas. What a perfect guest then, to talk about the systemic challenges of governing bodies, how to work with coaches and what factors at the organisational level can help promote performance and wellbeing across the system. You can find Kris here:

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/KrisSoutar

Business on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/TheServiceBox

Business website:
https://theservicebox.com/

Kris' podcast:
https://theservicebox.com/kris-soutars-tennis-journal-podcast/

Halfway in to the first season of Slice of PIE it's time for a pause and reflection on what we've heard so far. Please feel free to reach out with any questions, ideas, reflections, challenges, or anything you'd like to discuss. You can find me in the following places:

Email:
pete@petejackson.co.uk

Website:
https://petejackson.co.uk/

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/petejackson

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacksonpete/

Helen worked in education for 25 years, before a mixture of itchy feet, curiosity, passion for sport... and some chance discussions with elite level athletes at her triathlon club - prompted her to pivot into her new career. Now Helen is a fully chartered and HCPC registered Sport Psychologist, working with Swim England, the Cambridge Women's University Rowing Team and various commonwealth and Paralympic medalists. Together with collaborator Lucy Gossage, Helen has also developed IRON-MIND, a 6-week online master class focusing specifically on psychology for Iron Man and other endurance athletes. We discuss her career pivot and the insightful parallels between the classroom of 30 kids and a boat crew of 9 women… the demands of an elite student athlete, and the lightbulb moments when you’ve managed to ‘get through’ to someone – whether a student in school or an elite swimmer in the consulting room. You can find Helen here:

Website:
https://www.thinkbelieveperform.co.uk/

IRON-MIND:
https://www.thinkbelieveperform.co.uk/iron-mind

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ThinkBPerform

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/thinkbelieveperform/

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/thinkbelieveperform

Marc Jones is a Professor of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, as well as a consultant and researcher in performance settings working in both sport and business. He also runs a very helpful website called Sporting Bounce, which aims to connect sport psychology support with the world's sport performers and teams. Marc has done lots of work around the impact of stress on health, wellbeing and performance, and this is where we focus the majority of our conversation - as well as discussing what insights and learning can be applied across different performance contexts. You can find Marc here:

Sporting Bounce website:
https://www.sportingbounce.com/

Manchester Metropolitan profile:
https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/hpsc/our-staff/browse/department-of-psychology/profile/index.php?id=3719

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/profmarcjones

Researchgate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marc_Jones3

Research mentioned in the podcast:
https://www.nuffieldhealth.com/article/the-effects-of-remote-working-on-wellbeing-stress-and-productivity
https://hbr.org/2006/12/extreme-jobs-the-dangerous-allure-of-the-70-hour-workweek
https://happiful.com/claudia-hammond-on-rest-and-relaxation/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322651758_Person-Environment_Fit_A_Review_of_Its_Basic_Tenets

Dr. Josephine Perry worked in journalism, marketing, public relations and crisis communications across private corporations and government - before making the career transition to qualifying as a chartered Sport Psychologist. She now runs her own consultancy, Performance in Mind, as well as being a columnist, speaker and author. Her first book 'Performing Under Pressure' was published last year (2019) by Routledge, and contains 64 strategies with evidence as to why they work and instructions on how to implement them. We traverse a number of topics including wellbeing, career transitions, light bulb moments, managing multiple agendas, publishing, and the trade off between the rise in to management, and getting further away from what made us fall in love with the job in the first place. You can find Josephine here:

Social:
https://twitter.com/Josephineperry

Website:
https://performanceinmind.co.uk/

The book:
https://www.routledge.com/Performing-Under-Pressure-Psychological-Strategies-for-Sporting-Success/Perry/p/book/9780367333171

Other resources mentioned in the podcast:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00475/full
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10447-012-9175-3

Leon Lloyd dreamt of playing for Coventry City, but winded up playing rugby for Leicester Tigers and England. Now, he's a CEO, author and speaker, as well as in the final stages of completing an MBA. As a former athlete that has moved from 'boot room to boardroom' he's the perfect man to skipper the Switch the Play Foundation - the UK's only charity dedicated to supporting all sportspeople to successfully transition into life outside of sport. We discuss the trade-off between focusing on your primary performance area and building interests and skills outside of it - from the All Blacks and the German football team, to Jamie Roberts and Beth Tweddle. You can find Leon here:

Social:
https://twitter.com/LeonLloyd13
linkedin.com/in/leon-lloyd-b409201a 

Website:
www.leonlloyd.co.uk

His book:
http://www.leonlloyd.co.uk/life-after-sport/

Switch The Play:
https://switchtheplay.com/
http://twitter.com/switch_the_play

Based in sunny Canberra, Richard is a sport psychology practitioner, researcher, speaker and author. In 2015 he wrote 'Being a Sport Psychologist' - a book found on the shelves of every sport psychology trainee. This episode is about building careers. We dig deeper into a keynote I saw him deliver last year entitled 'The Heartless Mercenary Career Path: Authenticity, Resilience and Strength-in-Diversity'. Whilst focused on sport psychology, Richard's insights can be applied across many industries - highlighting the ever present challenge of change and uncertainty, and how to future proof ourselves in a dynamic world. You can find Richard here:

His book:
https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/Being-a-Sport-Psychologist/?K=9781137300898

eBook:
https://www.vitalsource.com/en-au/products/being-a-sport-psychologist-richard-keegan-v9781137300904?term=9781137300904

Social:
https://twitter.com/sportpsychaus
https://www.instagram.com/sportpsychaus/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardkeegan/?originalSubdomain=au
https://www.instagram.com/sportpsychaus/

Projects:
https://www.sportaus.gov.au/physical_literacy
https://www.sportaus.gov.au/physical_literacy

Mustafa is one of sport psychology's foremost researchers and speakers on resilience. He somehow managed to find time in between lecturing, consulting and presenting at international conferences - to speak to me about some of his experiences. We talk about resilience at the individual versus the organisational level, whether insights can be applied across performance contexts, and why we need to move away from the notion that resilience is an ability to endure on your own.

You can find Mustafa here:

https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/science-technology/mustafa-sarkar
https://twitter.com/MusSarkarhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mustafa_Sarkar
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mustafa-sarkar-b6370256/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAAS08CF5p8ck4
https://www.bases.org.uk/imgs/55_tses_editor_s_choice_spread__p20_21_815.pdf
https://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3604

You can find me here:
www.petejackson.co.uk