Gordon Tietjens – Starting in new organisations [00:01:16]

Gordon is the former coach of the New Zealand men’s national team in rugby sevens; the All Blacks Sevens. He started coaching the team in 1994 and had immediate success winning the Hong Kong 7’s. He then went on to win the 7’s world series on a record 12 times. Along the way the team also won the world cup in 2001 and 2013, and 4 Commonwealth Games gold medals. He stepped down as the coach in 2016 and took on the head coach of Samoa. He has been inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame and in 2013 was knighted for his services to Rugby.