David Joyce is an internationally recognized leader in human performance, strategy and decision making. He holds Masters degrees in both Sports Physiotherapy and Strength & Conditioning, as well as an MBA. He has worked with hundreds of elite athletes, including multiple world and Olympic champions and in multiple sports around the world.

Nowadays, Dave’s focus has shifted much more towards enabling major sporting organisations, corporates, start-ups and emerging leaders navigate through the choppy seas of complexity, and set themselves up to thrive in an increasingly uncertain future. He has written and co-edited with Daniel Lewindon 2 internationally best-selling textbooks on high-performance and rehabilitation, and the new edition of High Performance Training For Sports has just been released to critical acclaim around the world.

QUOTES

“It is a bit of fallacy to think that your values are permanent with you; we all change and what I valued 15 years ago, is different to what I value now”

“When you are sitting at your desk and it is all a bit too daunting, you have to eat the elephant one bite at a time”

“After 2 or 4 years, you collect your thoughts, you collect your wisdom and then you reassess your (career) journey”

“You can view strength training as skill training under duress”

“Being able to explore different movement patterns is so important for athletes”

“In 20 years of my career, the people who can hula hoop, don’t seem to get back pain… I just think people that move well, don’t get injured as much from non-traumatic causes”

“Managers need to coach, give feedback and delegate to their staff to be effective”

SHOWNOTES

1) How David got started and high-performance journey

2) Coaching inside and outside of sport

3) Understanding yourself, assessing your strengths and understanding what you are looking for in your career as a coach

4) Writing your own eulogy as a way of plotting your career and life

5) Doing your groundwork on researching where you might want to work in the profession

6) Your appetite for risk, career stage and how that may shape your career choices

7) The second incarnation of High Performance Training for Sport and what has changed since the first

8) Things David has learned from putting the book together and what he would take back into his practice working with athletes

9) Understanding the sport as deeply as possible for an S&C coach

10) Hula hooping, trampoline, and movement varibaility for injury prevention in athletes

11) Looking widely outside your "trench" to see what you can pick from other industries

12) The key components of management for leaders

13) The most amazing thing David has seen in training

PEOPLE MENTIONED

Andrew May

Brene Brown

Dan Lewindon

Nick Winkelman

Brett Bartholomew

Stu McMillan

JB Morin

Sophia Nimphius

Jacque Tran

Shona Halson

Matt Jordan

Rett Larson

Jeremy Sheppard

James Cleary