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Steve Ingham
Dr Steve Ingham helps leadership teams build high performance, drawing on 30 years in British Olympic sport supporting 200+ World and Olympic medallists. A performance scientist and author, he's worked with Google, Pfizer, and McLaren.
Dr Steve Ingham is a performance scientist and executive coach who spent 30 years inside the British Olympic system. He now helps leadership teams apply the science behind World and Olympic medals to goal setting, decision making, and performance under pressure.
As Director of Science and Technical Development at the English Institute of Sport, Steve led 200 scientists supporting Team GB and Paralympics GB through to Rio 2016. He's supported more than 1,000 athletes, over 200 of whom won World or Olympic medals, including Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill and Sir Steve Redgrave.
Steve's work turns what makes athletes faster into tools teams can use on Monday morning: making better decisions under pressure, setting goals that raise the probability of success, and building environments where honest feedback is normal. He runs the Health and Fitness service at the Fortius Clinic, teaches at Warwick Business School and Oxford's Saïd Business School, and co-founded the Supporting Champions consultancy.
Audiences see a long jump world record measured out across the room and data from ten million marathon runners, then leave with a necessary-versus-unnecessary filter for decisions, a clearer approach to goal setting, and practical ways to build a team that keeps performing when the stakes rise.
Steve hosts the Supporting Champions podcast and wrote How to Support a Champion, and suits leadership offsites where teams want evidence from elite sport they can act on.
Topics, sessions and talks
Steve Ingham shows how high performance comes from increasing the probability of success. Using a long jump world record stretched across the room, Olympic footage, and data from ten million marathon runners, he shows why SMART goals often underperform and introduces a simple necessary-versus-unnecessary filter for decisions made under pressure. Drawing on his work with Jessica Ennis-Hill, Steve leaves leaders with practical frameworks for goal setting, perspective-switching, and building environments that sustain high performance.
Steve Ingham's experience guiding athletes to Olympic and World medal success translates into practical strategies for teams under pressure. His combination of elite sport pedigree and active corporate consulting gives audiences evidence-led frameworks that are immediately applicable to their own performance challenges.
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Dr Steve Ingham builds his sessions around physical demonstrations and data, such as a long jump world record stretched across the room and results from ten million marathon runners, then links each one to his work with Olympic athletes and the client's own goals.
Dr Steve Ingham speaks on increasing the probability of success, goal setting under pressure, decision making, and building high-performance environments for teams. He led 200 scientists as Director of Science and Technical Development at the English Institute of Sport and has supported more than 1,000 athletes, over 200 of whom won World or Olympic medals.
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