Our guest in this episode is Greg Baker.

Greg was instrumental in the success of British Para Table Tennis achieving multiple medals at the London 2012 Paralympic games, and securing record breaking results in both Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, helping Great Britain secure 2nd place in the overall medals table.

As an ex-England International table tennis athlete, former National Coach, Head Coach and current Performance Director at Boccia UK, he has successfully competed and worked in elite sport performance leadership and management positions for over 20 years. As a certified executive coach working in all sectors, he believes in leadership responsibility at all levels within an organisation and brings his values of trust, respect, honesty and togetherness.

During our conversation, we talked about:

• Seeing wellbeing as a performance advantage
• When not to change the plan
• The responsibility of the leaders to create the environment for others to be at their best
• Knowing the individuals in your team and adapting to their needs
• Essential headspace
• Comfort zones and consciously moving out of them in order to understand ourselves under pressure 
• Doing vs being
• The importance of asking yourself what you are avoiding
• Constantly tweaking
• Jacinda Ardern, Ernest Shackleton and Winston Churchill
• Endurance by Alfred Lansing
• Belonging by Owen Eastwood
• Turn The Ship Around by David Marquet

Do join us on our sister podcast, Towards Leadership, where we look in more detail at tools, reflections and practical application of the ideas, insights and inspiration we get from our guests on Leadership Letters. An episode focused on Greg’s insights will be coming soon. If you are already subscribed to Leadership Letters, look out for it in your podcast feed.

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