I started rowing at 13 and immediately fell in love with that magic feeling of being part of a team on a mission all together. Unfortunately though I wasn't much good at rowing, but I stuck at it and, after a lot of hard work, I finally made it into the GB Olympic Rowing Team ten years later; but then only to miss out on racing at my first Olympics in Sydney 2000, instead being selected as the “spare man” (aka the worst job in the world). 

Sitting on the sidelines watching the Best collect their Gold medals I was determined this was not going to destroy me, and from that moment I’ve been fascinated by what more is possible by the power of the mind and heart through belief, powerful choices and hard work.

Over the next eight years I won two Olympic Gold medals as part of the GB Coxless Four in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, and four World Championship Golds.

After retiring from rowing I wanted to test myself and the principles I learnt in rowing in other worlds and, amongst other challenges, I have summited Mount Everest and skied to the North Pole.

I’ve been working with businesses for ten years sharing the mindsets, codes and approaches we have in the GB Olympic Rowing Team, on Mount Everest and in the Arctic, in order to help leaders and teams perform at their best.