On Mental Health

Today’s episode is on the topic of Mental Health for Coaches and we are joined for the discussion with one of our listeners, Mads Claussen. If you would like to join us for a future episode to discuss a topic that is close to your heart, then please contact us us at thegreatcoachespodcast@gmail.com or contact […]
Best of Series: Bill Sweetenham

Our Great Coach on this episode is Bill Sweetenham. Bill is an Australian swimming coach, who first started training athletes in the 1970’s in the rural Australian town of Mount Isa. His coaching career progressed quickly and he coached at his first Olympics in 1976, and was then Head Coach for Australia at the 1980, […]
On Skills

On this episode we discuss skills and what the Great Coaches have to say about them when it comes to individual and team dynamics. Applicable to all leaders.
Kathy Delaney-Smith

Kathy Delaney-Smith is a recently retired American Basketball coach who for 40 years led the Harvard Women’s Basketball team. During her tenure she led the team to over 600 career wins, 11 Ivy League championships and six NCAA Tournament berths, and between 1986 and 2011, every senior class except one, won at least one conference […]
Roy Hodgson

Roy has been coaching football since 1976, and over 46 years has led 21 teams in 8 different countries. His achievements are quite lengthy, but here is a summary: He led the Swiss national team to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup, a tournament they had not qualified for since the 1960’s. He […]
Graham Reid

Graham is a is a former Australian Field Hockey player that was part of the team that won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. And Gold at the 1990 World Cup. He became Head Coach of the Australian National Team in 2012 and lead them to the Champions Trophy, the Oceania Cup, […]
Doug Beal

Doug is an American volleyball player, coach and former CEO of USA volleyball. As a player he was a five time All American at Ohio State University, and then from 1970 to 1976 and played over 200 games for the USA Volleyball team. He became coach of the USA Men’s Volleyball team in 1977, and eventually led […]
Petr Kotik

Petr is the holder of a 5th dan in kickboxing and is the Head Coach of the Czech Republic Kickboxing team. He is a 14 time World Champion, a 5 time world cup winner, and 3 time winner of the USA open. He has also coached more than 10 amateur world champions.