Ben's experiences include 12 years leading player and coach development programmes at Chelsea FC & Colchester United FC.
Ben supported and led on the development of players who have played Champions League & Premier League football and represented their respective Nations in World Cups, European Championships & Olympics. Ben is a senior coach developer for the National Governing Body of Football in England.
A career of over 20 years in coaching and player & coach development, Ben has supported the collective and individual development of high performing teams and people. Inspired by a simple motive to ‘Empower people to be Their Best’ and focused consistently and intently, whilst working with high level practitioners, on supporting them to better understand the values and beliefs that drive their behaviour, aligning their own approach with the demands of their role.
Ben specialises in the following courses:
Support individual professional development through teaching and learning
Enhance group/team cohesion
Principles would be the following six steps:
a. Values, Vision & Purpose (what are we doing)
b. What is each persons/teams individual and collective role in a. (What does it mean to me)
c. How do we behave to enable a. to be lived in our day to day activity
d. What is getting in the way of progress? (Blockers)
e. What can we do collectively to make progress (enablers)?
f. How are we going to do & when and how will we check how it's going.