The True Athlete Project

For over 16 years, Richard worked as a performance coach in high-performance sport with some of the best organisations and athletes in the world including 3 Olympic Cycles. Despite enjoying his work, underneath he was experiencing imposter syndrome and stuck in his identity as a coach in sport. In 2015 he gave end-of-life care to his mother. This experience changed his life, allowed him to truly see what was important to him and inspired him to provide the support he didn't have. He founded Men behind Sport whose mission is to support practitioners and coaches who are driven to make an impact in high-performance sport yet feel lost with direction, stuck and pigeonholed by their identity in sport and burnt out from improving their athletes at the expense of themselves.