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Steve Ingham
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Steve Ingham helps organisations build high-performing teams, drawing on his career supporting Olympic and World champions including Jessica Ennis-Hill and Sir Steve Redgrave. A sports scientist, author, and podcast host, Steve has advised organisations from Google to McLaren.
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Steve Ingham is a sports scientist and performance consultant who has spent his career embedded in elite sport, helping athletes and teams reach World and Olympic level.
He has supported more than 1,000 athletes, over 200 of whom went on to win World or Olympic medals, including Jessica Ennis-Hill, Sir Steve Redgrave, and Sir Matthew Pinsent, and coached Kelly Sotherton to Olympic and World medal success. Steve went on to lead a 200-strong team as Director of Science and Technical Development at the English Institute of Sport, following earlier roles at the British Olympic Association. He holds a PhD undertaken while working with the rowing team and is a Fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences.
His work translates the principles behind Olympic performance into practical guidance for teams working under pressure. Structured preparation, honest feedback, and composure when it matters most are the same tools that took his athletes to the podium, and Steve shows organisations how to apply them to their own high performance goals. He shares this thinking as host of the Supporting Champions podcast and author of two books on applying science to elite performance.
Audiences leave with a clearer sense of how to build resilience, use feedback to drive improvement, and create the conditions high performers need to thrive under pressure, drawn from three decades spent inside elite sport's most demanding environments.
Book Steve to bring genuine Olympic-level insight into how high performance is really built, sustained, and led.
Topics, sessions and talks
Steve Ingham argues that high performance is not about working harder, but about 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 draws on three decades of embedded work with Olympic and World-level athletes to translate elite sport science into operational frameworks for organisations. He structures his sessions around the same preparation, feedback, and composure principles he applied with athletes such as Jessica Ennis-Hill and Sir Steve Redgrave, grounding each point in documented outcomes from his time at the English Institute of Sport and the British Olympic Association.
Dr Steve Ingham speaks on increasing the probability of success, goal setting under pressure, and building high-performance environments. He served as Director of Science and Technical Development at the English Institute of Sport, leading a team of over 200, and has supported more than 1,000 athletes, over 200 of whom won World or Olympic medals.
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