We’ve focused on Human Performance
That means you’ll get an approach from our coach that is focused on understanding the specific needs of this person, relative to their performance demands at work, but taking into account all of the things that are going on in their life which contribute to an overall readiness to perform.
We’ve got a common sense approach that helps people start looking at the ways in which their energy is influenced and how these influences support or detract from an ability to meet daily demands.
We’re also focused on helping people take tangible actions that will ensure the best possible choices are being made to influence energy and readiness to perform. This means we’ll help people plan their physical energy strategies for day-to-day life and performance (rest, recover, nutrition, hydration). We’ll also help plan strategies designed to support psychological readiness and energy. We’ll also help people start seeing themselves as a high level performer and therefore thinking about how effectively they’re using the support and expertise of others around them to help be as prepared as possible to perform.
Being very pragmatic, we’ll also use our coaching approach to help people prepare for the reality of their diary – so rather than trying to find a single solution that solves every challenge forevermore, we’ll proactively plan week by week adaptations to readiness that reflect the fact that some weeks make it easier to be readier and some weeks the challenge is greater.
Motivation is a critical factor
The coaching approach will also support the person being coached to make great use of some simple rules of motivation and we’ll support them to understand how the influences of Control, Confidence and Connectedness work for them as a person and how they can use this knowledge to fuel their motivation consistently and effectively.
This motivation approach means that we are in a position to help the person see that motivation is within their own control and how they choose to focus their thoughts, attitudes and actions will have a significant effect on the quality of motivation being experienced.
Overall our approach allows a balance of support and challenge from the coach to be used to help the person understand the performance and readiness choices available to them. We will help identify courses of action to test out and help the person run ‘experiments’ to determine what effect these new ideas are having on the areas of performance/life that have been targeted.
Coaching support
Sessions are a maximum of 90 minutes to keep them focused on the most relevant information and we carry out a mixture of face-to-face, video-meeting and phone meeting to be able to create momentum and build a collaborative learning approach over a short period of time. We also encourage as much communication and sharing of learning as possible between meetings to ensure that the person is staying connected with their coach and using them as a key resource in building the performance and motivation skills.
The Coaching Team
Keith Hatter
Keith’s extensive background in the Business to Business sector includes partnership as a chartered surveyor in a central London commercial real estate consultancy; leadership of the UK’s first national self-storage business and 10 years as an award winning Divisional Managing Director in a FTSE 100 company - one of the youngest to have held that post in what was widely recognised as a particularly harsh and demanding performance environment.
Keith has also written extensively for several publications on the subject of performance, motivation and the links between the mindset needed to succeed in sport and that required for success in the business world. He has been quoted by The Sunday Times, The FT, the CIPD and several leading trade journals and speaks frequently on the subject of high performance at conferences and seminars. In 2013 he was named by SAP in the list of the top 50 human potential influencers and is a co-author of “Perform”.
He is proud to lead the K2 team in his role as CEO. He is also an eight time Ironman, widely recognised as the toughest one-day endurance event on earth.
Dr Chris Shambrook
Chris has a passion for elite performance. He’s been the Psychology Consultant for the GB Rowing Team since 1997 and having completed his fourth Olympic cycle with the incredible success of London 2012, he’s as enthusiastic as ever to apply what he knows about the psychology of success to as many people as possible. Chris is responsible for developing the content that sits behind all of our programmes, so he is constantly looking for more relevant and effective ways to communicate our messages. With a foot in the world of Olympic sport still, he is also responsible for
making sure that we are fully utilising the tools and techniques that are behind the recent Olympic success in all of our work to ensure that we really do help people think, prepare and perform like elite athletes.
Dr Katherine Bond
Katherine loves working with people, and in particular loves helping them see how good they can be. With 15 years experience of working with Olympic and Paralympic athletes, and having been to four Olympic/ Paralympic Games, and most recently her first winter games in Sochi,
As a Chartered Psychologist with a PhD in Performance Psychology, Katherine helps Chris make sure that our programmes are full of clever, useful stuff that’s underpinned by robust psychological principles and knowledge and practice from the world of elite sport. Katherine’s view is that performance is performance, irrespective of context. So she invites people to think of themselves as performers, and works with them to get better at performing.
Dr Andrea Furst
Andrea enjoys nothing more than being around people and working with people to squeeze the most out of themselves. She is at her best when working with multi-disciplinary teams on what they need to do to get what they want. She has extensive international experience working as a sport psychologist with high achievers, predominantly elite professional, semi-professional, and amateur athletes, including World Champions and Olympic Gold Medallists. She is one of those optimistic types and is fascinated by the unique abilities of the human brain.
Andrea is performance-focused. She helps people get their desired results by being engaging, direct, and leveraging mutual expertise. She lives our Brave value and will tell people what she thinks will guide them towards getting results (rather than what they want to hear). Given her experience in the elite sporting world, she is very practical and hands-on. She works hard to promote responsibility for both performance and finding answers to problems, and wants people to learn to manage themselves and push to always get better at what they do. She loves helping people perform under pressure and achieve results, when it really counts.
Andrea can’t stand still! She thrives on ‘doing’ and brings that approach to her work. She
continues to work with elite athletes, helping us stay relevant in a world where high performance is raw - so Andrea can help our customers in the world of work think, prepare, and perform like elite athletes.
Jim Constable
Having worked in the Financial Services Industry for 15 years Jim
decided to use his Sport Science degree and move into the performance development and coaching world. This has allowed him to exercise his belief in the importance of working with people on mindset, as well as knowledge and skills, to get the best performance out of themselves and others. More recently Jim has completed a Masters Degree in Applied Sport Psychology and is constantly on the lookout for new information, new stories and ways of combining them with tried and trusted coaching work.
Jim works hard to try and create long-term impact with his customers. In an ever increasingly busy business world he fundamentally believes in the value of reflection and learning as well as action and epitomises the K2 value of True. Jim has a sound database of stories and working examples that consistently bring the principles behind our work to life.
Luisa Godfrey
Luisa embarked on her own K2 journey in 2009 as a client determined to learn how to take her own performance to a higher level. To say that her experience was life changing is an understatement. She is incredibly passionate, some say evangelical, about helping people to achieve their full potential, and has a great track record of doing just that!
Luisa holds a MBA from the University of Reading and is an experienced and successful business leader. Her career spans the Defence, Security, Public and Not-for-Profit Sectors. An excellent communicator and facilitator she has
held senior management positions leading large multi-disciplinary teams in both the UK and the USA. Luisa is able to draw on her strong commercial and interpersonal skills as well as her ever increasing knowledge of how people tick to challenge people’s thinking about their own performance.
Having joined the K2 team leaving behind corporate life, Luisa is also bringing her skills to bear in the not-for-profit sector as a Trustee for the Newbury based charity 'Swings and Smiles. She’s not quite sure when she discovered her desire to get fit and to regularly exercise but it was quite a shock for everyone when it happened. She now swims regularly, runs – well shuffles – almost daily and in October 2011 climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Her next big challenge is already in the diary. In June 2015, she'll be taking part in the Cotswolds Way 100 mile challenge - essentially four marathons in four days! Apparently the best bit will be sleeping in a pre-erected tent at the runners' village every night!
Matt Barker
Matt keeps the K2 operational engine running smoothly and leads the team of coaches. He loves coaching individuals and teams and leading the programmes of work we do with many of our customers. He delivers impact and provides insights that generate performance improvements.
As a coach Matt simply loves helping people improve. He has a strong desire to understand the performance challenges being faced and then encourages and supports people to achieve things they didn’t think were possible. Whether creating an impact with individuals and teams or generating insight at a
for what works. He leaves people with actions plans that can be brought to life quickly and with great effect. Whilst many might think “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” Matt thinks “if it ain’t broke, I wonder how we can make it better”.
He was an international 800m and 1500m runner (PBs of 1:48 and 3:41), is an enthusiastic cyclist, has a young family and a busy work life. If you see him sat totally still for any length of time, let us know and we’ll check to see if he’s feeling OK. He gained a degree in sports science a masters in exercise and health science, directed the fitness service for a successful chain of health and leisure clubs, set up a consultancy and then merged that business with K2 in 2006. Since then he’s kept on learning, developing new skills and finding improved ways of helping people to perform better.
Matt Scroggs
Matt joined K2 with a strong background in elite sport and high performance. Fascinated in the science behind helping people perform better and applying his knowledge and expertise in this area, is what makes Matt tick. He firmly believes ‘better never stops’.
Working at an international level, Matt’s experience ranges from professional football, rugby, international Polo and more recently working as head of human performance for Williams Formula 1 team. Matt continues to provide performance consultancy to a number of F1 drivers and racing teams. Whether
delivering to large audiences, multi-disciplinary teams or in a one to one coaching environment, Matt offers a thought provoking, boundary breaking look at human performance and how the application of behavioural science can develop and fulfill potential.
Matt has an insatiable passion for performance development. He believes we all have the ability to be better but all too often don’t make that choice. Why not and how, are questions Matt can answer. Matt brings our ‘Be Human’ value into play. Initially working in clinical primary healthcare, Matt is a people person. Drawing on strong interpersonal skills, Matt applies a practical, people focused approach to performance psychology measured by impact. Working with individuals and teams to help realise, develop and fulfill performance potential, Matt offers a fresh, client centred and driven approach to performance.
Matt refuses to stand still. Whether running half marathons with 60lbs of Army kit on his back, to being trackside at racing events, Matt remains immersed in elite sport. He is currently developing a book on human performance, and continues to strive for better so our customers can truly realise how good they can be.