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Justin Crow is the Head of Human Performance at Melbourne Victory Football Club who compete in the top tier of football in Australia (A-League). Justin has over 20 years experience in the world of high performance, beginning as a professional AFL player for the Collingwood FC. After his playing career Justin went on to become a Rehab Physio for Collingwood FC, Project Lead (AIS) & Senior Manager of High Performance at Paralympics Australia for the lead up and Tokyo 2020 games itself. At the ripe age of 28 he also was met with the challenge of being thrusted into the High Performance Manager role for the Essendon FC (AFL) during one of the most challenging periods in the clubs history. This is an incredible conversation with someone who has been able to not only persevere but thrive in a role that is often met with an abundance of uncertainty, variability and pressure and despite this all, has been able to manage successful teams with a variety of sports, organisations and athletes.
Highlights from the episode…
- How his career started with working for a professional football club in Ghana, Africa.
- Justin shares how he got his first role as a physio in professional sport back at the club he once played for.
- Is it important to have played the game for you to be successful in a high performance role?
- Rapport building is merely a process of establishing commonality and how building rapport is crucial in leading high performance teams.
- How communication pathways differ in the AFL compared with A-League teams.
- After a successful 3+year stint at the Collingwood, Justin received a call out of the blue to take up a role at Essendon.
- Justin shares his reflective practice and how important it is when working in sport.
- After the well publicised supplements saga, Justin was then thrusted into the High Performance Manager role for one of the biggest clubs in all of sports in Australia.
- Justin delivers an unprecedented perspective during this period at the club and how he personally navigated the loneliness, scrutiny and stress, to finally come out the other end with an abundance of lessons, skills and character building experiences.
- How Justin moved from Essendon to take up the role with Paralympics Australia (PA).
- Justin provides an insight into the vast responsibilities of his role which oversaw Paralympic athletes of multiple sports, ages, professionalism, classifications with varied support and resources across numerous locations all around Australia.
- Justin shares in depth what went into the set up of Tokyo 2020 Paralympics including the logistics, support structures, onsite clinic, staffing, scheduling of appointments etc.
- After PA, Justin was approached by Melb. Victory and shares some of the structures he has put in place to assist the staff, coaches and players across Men’s, Women’s and Youth teams thrive in their environments.
- What do High Performance Managers get evaluated? What is deemed to be a good job vs a bad job.
Justin Crow contact details:
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/justincrow/?originalSubdomain=au
Host: Luis Resa
Contact me on:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-resa-a975196b/
- Email: [email protected]
Thanks for listening and please leave a review. If you would like more information on anything mentioned in this episode simply send me an email.
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Justin Crow is the Head of Human Performance at Melbourne Victory Football Club who compete in the top tier of football in Australia (A-League). Justin has over 20 years experience in the world of high performance, beginning as a professional AFL player for the Collingwood FC. After his playing career Justin went on to become a Rehab Physio for Collingwood FC, Project Lead (AIS) & Senior Manager of High Performance at Paralympics Australia for the lead up and Tokyo 2020 games itself. At the ripe age of 28 he also was met with the challenge of being thrusted into the High Performance Manager role for the Essendon FC (AFL) during one of the most challenging periods in the clubs history. This is an incredible conversation with someone who has been able to not only persevere but thrive in a role that is often met with an abundance of uncertainty, variability and pressure and despite this all, has been able to manage successful teams with a variety of sports, organisations and athletes.
Highlights from the episode…
- How his career started with working for a professional football club in Ghana, Africa.
- Justin shares how he got his first role as a physio in professional sport back at the club he once played for.
- Is it important to have played the game for you to be successful in a high performance role?
- Rapport building is merely a process of establishing commonality and how building rapport is crucial in leading high performance teams.
- How communication pathways differ in the AFL compared with A-League teams.
- After a successful 3+year stint at the Collingwood, Justin received a call out of the blue to take up a role at Essendon.
- Justin shares his reflective practice and how important it is when working in sport.
- After the well publicised supplements saga, Justin was then thrusted into the High Performance Manager role for one of the biggest clubs in all of sports in Australia.
- Justin delivers an unprecedented perspective during this period at the club and how he personally navigated the loneliness, scrutiny and stress, to finally come out the other end with an abundance of lessons, skills and character building experiences.
- How Justin moved from Essendon to take up the role with Paralympics Australia (PA).
- Justin provides an insight into the vast responsibilities of his role which oversaw Paralympic athletes of multiple sports, ages, professionalism, classifications with varied support and resources across numerous locations all around Australia.
- Justin shares in depth what went into the set up of Tokyo 2020 Paralympics including the logistics, support structures, onsite clinic, staffing, scheduling of appointments etc.
- After PA, Justin was approached by Melb. Victory and shares some of the structures he has put in place to assist the staff, coaches and players across Men’s, Women’s and Youth teams thrive in their environments.
- What do High Performance Managers get evaluated? What is deemed to be a good job vs a bad job.
Justin Crow contact details:
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/justincrow/?originalSubdomain=au
Host: Luis Resa
Contact me on:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-resa-a975196b/
- Email: [email protected]
Thanks for listening and please leave a review. If you would like more information on anything mentioned in this episode simply send me an email.