HC Collective Podcast

Tara has worked extensively in private and public mental health and within forensic settings where she has provided a psychological service to a broad range of clients presenting with a range of severe and complex psychological, behavioural and emotional difficulties along with enduring mental health difficulties.

Tara specialised residency was within a Weight Management Service and her research on bariatric surgery and obesity have been presented both nationally and internationally.  Tara also works with the Veterans Evaluation Service providing assessment for US Military Veterans in Europe. She is also a member of The Psychological Society of Ireland and its Clinical Division.

High Calibre Collective was founded by Ireland’s renowned Tennis Pro James Cluskey, who has spent a lifetime delivering high performance. His achievements on the court had him represent Ireland in the Davis Cup from 2006-2015. As a tennis pro, James won 15 professional titles and was ranked 145 in the world. In 2018, James and 3 others undertook the physically and mentally gruelling challenge of attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the longest doubles tennis match – over 60 hours. Despite physical fatigue, James’s sheer determination and winning mindset ensured that he succeeded in achieving his long-standing goal.

James has given keynotes on High Performance to several companies across several industries including companies such as Porsche, California Bank,  Keelings, The NTMA, CTI Global and Voxpro. His prime focus will always be to empower individuals to enhance their performance in all aspects of their lives.

James is an established Life & Career Coach, Executive Coach, Business Coach, Leadership Coach and Trainer.

He is accredited with the International Coaching Federation, the International Coaching Council and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and a member of the Irish Institute of Training & Development.

He has helped many individuals with their life and career decisions over the last 7 years and in his spare time, he volunteers at Jobcare (www.jobcare.ie) helping people who are currently out of work to get their careers back on track.

James has over 30 years of business experience in a variety of senior leadership roles at established media powerhouses including The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times and have been a professional trainer and coach since 2009.

Kurt started his career at the Kennedy Space Center as space shuttle databank mission lead for the Hubble Space Telescope, Venus Radar Mapper, Galileo (released probes into Jupiter atmosphere), Ulysses (Sun close fly-by) as well as numerous other missions. He has been granted nine patents in privacy and security technology globally and has a Masters degree in Theoretical Mathematics and Bachelors degree in Business.

As an entrepreneur, Kurt believes in a ‘people-first’ leadership philosophy having founded grown and sold three successful businesses most recently FairWarning which protects patient privacy in 8,500 healthcare facilities around the world. FairWarning’s offerings also protect consumer privacy and security in financial services companies holding over $1 Trillion in wealth. In founding FairWarning, Kurt had less than $1 million of outside investment exclusively with lifelong friends to produce a 75x+ return to investors as well as producing shareholder profits for 10 consecutive years along they way.

Kate McDaid is a health and performance nutritionist and founder of NutriKate, a high-performance nutrition consultancy based in Dublin. Having played and captained the Irish Basketball team, the importance of nutrition became apparent to Kate at a young age and a true passion for this area blossomed. Kate followed her ambition and completed a masters in Sport and Exercise Nutrition at Loughborough University. Before returning to Ireland, Kate secured a role, advancing to senior health and performance nutritionist in a leading nutrition consultancy in the UK. Here she was able to build an extensive portfolio working with professional sports teams, elite sporting scholars, corporate clients, charity organisations, weight-loss and health seeking individuals.

 Kate returned to Ireland in 2017 with this experience and founded NutriKate. The NutriKate team works with an array of clients; athletes, teams and individuals looking to improve their health, performance or body composition. They deliver nutritional workshops, seminars and support to corporate entities and sports clubs around the country too. Kate is currently the head of performance nutrition for the Dublin Senior Ladies and Longford Senior Men’s football teams. Kate and her team strive to cut through the nonsense and deliver advice and content that holds truth, practicality and is backed by the latest scientific research. 

Gina London is an Emmy winning veteran CNN correspondent and anchor with more than a decade of television, radio, internet and print experience who is now an internationally recognized expert at helping professionals improve themselves and their companies through dynamic and powerful communications.

David Sammel was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and is a world prominent and accredited tennis coach, sports consultant and writer. 

Since 2010, David has been the Head Coach at TeamBath-MCTA and authored a best-selling book ‘Locker Room Power: Building an Athlete’s Mind’.

Nick Littlehales, the leading elite sport sleep coach, has been redefining sleep for over two decades.

Founder of the R90 Technique and referred to by his clients as The Game Changer. Discover for yourself the sleeping secrets, techniques and practical interventions adopted by elite athletes, players and coaches in world sport.

Kingsley Aikins is a recognised expert on Networking and has written and spoken extensively on the topic. He has run workshops and presentations for some of the world’s leading companies such as Google, Linkedin, Accenture, Deloitte, Intel, KPMG, PwC and a number of leading law firms in Ireland and elsewhere. He has worked with governments and international agencies such as the US State Department, the UN, EU and the World Bank. 

Kingsley is an economics graduate of Trinity College Dublin and has lived and worked in 6 countries in all of which he found networking and building networks essential for making progress. He worked for 10 years for the Irish Trade Board and IDA Ireland and was based in Sydney. He then led the Ireland Funds for 17 years mostly based in Boston. In his time with the Funds over a quarter of a billion dollars was raised for projects in Ireland. He was awarded a CBE for his work on British – Irish issues. 

A former Leinster rugby player he is now based in Dublin with his wife and three children.

James is an established Life & Career Coach,Executive Coach, Business Coach, Leadership Coach and Trainer.

He is accredited with the International Coaching Federation, the International Coaching Council and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and a member of the Irish Institute of Training & Development.

He has helped many individuals with their life and career decisions over the last 7 years and in his spare time, he volunteers at Jobcare (www.jobcare.ie) helping people who are currently out of work to get their careers back on track.

James has over 30 years of business experience in a variety of senior leadership roles at established media powerhouses including The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times and have been a professional trainer and coach since 2009.