Simon Scott

Running alongside my Dad as he cycled the Thames towpath calling out to his latest schoolboy crew is one of my favourite memories. I was 8. From his coaching (and book!) I learnt about the value of applying science to making a boat go faster and from the running I became a reasonable middle distance runner despite no talent at all!

Both came together through my involvement in the British Miler’s Club. Founded by Frank Horwill, this was a movement that challenged conventional training practices and developed new practices based on science. For a time in the 80s, British middle distance athletes went faster and ruled the world. Then the rest of the world caught up!

11 years as a Royal Marines Officer taught me about the power of a high performance environment, a collective ethos and spirit that creates the conditions for ordinary people to achieve extraordinary performance over and over again through deliberate, rigorous, quality practice – and to stay cheerful, even in adversity.

Since then, in the last 25 years, I have been lucky enough to continue to have fun and to learn with and from many great people including; international sportsmen and women, talented children, a writer, devoted charity leaders and remarkable people in all sorts of organisations from the FCO to leaders of Global companies and entrepreneurs running their own business from start up to scale. We make most progress when we work on real time very real opportunities.

In every case my aim is simple; to help others to learn better ways to be stronger and to be measurably more successful – however they chose to define their success.