by DOCIAsport | Nov 21, 2023 | Insight, Monthly Insights
“Duty of Care In Action” “Who’s looking after the people looking after the people?” “Take and give care” Three phrases that have not only have become synonymous with the work I do at DOCIAsport but phrases that have played on my mind increasingly in 2023. My career...
by DOCIAsport | Nov 20, 2023 | Insight, Monthly Insights
This week is Safeguarding Adults Week, and I am delighted that DOCIAsport has some active involvement in this week of awareness hosted by the Ann Craft Trust. Going back to 2013 when I was a new CEO at the British Athletes Commission, I knew there was a need for an...
by DOCIAsport | Oct 27, 2023 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
This is very much a personal reflection on a journey in professional and performance sport that started in 2012 to today and is still to be completed. In 2012 I became the CEO of the British Athletes Commission (now the British Elite Athletes Association – the union...
by DOCIAsport | Oct 10, 2023 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
The ‘weather’ that has defined my mental health for too long – Freezing! (But there’s been a climate change.) I have had a real interest in mental health for a number of years. As the CEO of the British Athletes Commission (BAC) – the union for Olympic and...
by DOCIAsport | Sep 27, 2023 | Insight, Monthly Insights
Have you ever won an award? Not like your House Orderly badge in the Cub Scouts or the Geography Prize at school – both in my collection by the way – but an award for your work in business. I (in the guise of DOCIAsport) have in fact won four to be honest....
by DOCIAsport | Sep 1, 2023 | Insight, Monthly Insights
All political parties must (do) accept that there is a long-term health crisis in the UK. As this piece in the Guardian highlights we have a current government publishing a strategy, arguably without substance, just months shy of a general election. The opposition who...
by DOCIAsport | Aug 24, 2023 | Insight, Monthly Insights
The role of the coach has been on my mind over recent weeks. Actually not just the role of the coach but the position of the coach too. It’s great when things go well but when they don’t that position can feel very isolating and lonely. Over the last week or so I took...
by DOCIAsport | Aug 16, 2023 | Insight, Monthly Insights
Let me start by giving three declarations of interest. I love sport, all sport – I’m an ‘addict’. I am passionate about supporting England across all sport – having loved the Ashes and the Netball World Cup and await a stellar performance from the...
by DOCIAsport | Aug 10, 2023 | Insight, Monthly Insights
In April 2014 I was privileged to be invited to a private dinner whilst I was in Edinburgh to listen to a conversation about the forthcoming devolution referendum. I left with a souvenir of that evening that acts as a reminder about my professional goal every day. So,...
by DOCIAsport | Jul 31, 2023 | Insight, Monthly Insights
I’ve always known that I have Manx in my DNA. My grandfather was a ‘Manxman’ from what the locals call ‘Sunset City’ Peel on the west coast and my mother lived on the island in her childhood, but it had always been a subconscious, dormant feeling. Until 2020 when a...
