Talent alone is not enough.
Sir Clive Woodward is the World Cup winning Head Coach who led England’s rugby players to World Cup glory in Australia in 2003. A former England International and British & Irish Lion himself, prior to his full time coaching career Clive established a successful business career working for nine years with Xerox in the UK and Australia before establishing his own small finance and leasing company. During Clive’s tenure as Head Coach England moved from 6th in the world to being the number one ranked team, winning every trophy an England team can win.
In 2006 Clive joined the British Olympic Association. As Team GB’s Director of Sport he worked in close partnership with key stakeholders in British Sport to support the national coaches and athletes at the Beijing & Vancouver Olympics as well as deliver Team GB’s most successful Olympic Games in the modern era at London 2012.
Clive is currently the Founder and Chairman of Hive Learning – an app which has digitised Clive’s coaching methods and is designed to improve the quality of learning in business and sport and is the Director of Sport for the APEX2100 International Ski Academy which aims to become the World’s Leading High-Performance Academy for young, aspiring athletes wanting to achieve their goals in Alpine Skiing.
Clive also offers Digital Learning programmes on “The DNA of a Champion” which is a live learning platform and community that provides simple, powerful insights and practices that will help any leader, manager, team or individual to improve their performance.
Talking Points
DNA of a Champion
Topic Title: DNA of a ChampionDNA of a Champion
Topic Synopsis: Great teams are built from great individuals, and Clive has identified four criteria that mark out a champion, whether in sport or business. This talk unpacks each one and shows how they can be coached into a team rather than left to chance. Clive draws on his work building England's World Cup winning side and Team GB's London 2012 programme to bring the model to life.
Key Takeaways: Audiences leave with a clear, repeatable framework for identifying and developing champion behaviour in their own people, and a practical view of how talent alone falls short without the right coaching and culture around it.
Winning Culture
Topic Title: Winning CultureWinning Culture
Topic Synopsis: Clive's talk on Winning Culture is built around one idea: create an environment so good that everyone wants to be part of it and nobody wants to leave. He explains the collaborative leadership model he used to build England's World Cup winning rugby team and Team GB at London 2012, and how the same thinking applies directly to business.
Key Takeaways: Audiences walk away with a practical model for building a culture that attracts, retains and gets the best out of people, along with the leadership behaviours that make that culture stick.
Relentless Learning
Topic Title: Relentless LearningRelentless Learning
Topic Synopsis: Working with champion teams and individuals in sport and business over two decades, Clive has found one trait common to all of them: the ability to learn and take on new skills faster than the competition. This talk explains why learning and collaboration sit at the centre of high performance, and how Clive coaches teams to get better together, every day.
Key Takeaways: Audiences leave with concrete methods for building a culture of continuous learning inside their own teams, and a clearer sense of how collaboration accelerates improvement.
Tackling Change
Topic Title: Tackling ChangeTackling Change
Topic Synopsis: Clive's reputation as an innovative leader comes from his willingness to challenge conventional thinking and find new ways of operating, a skill that matters more than ever in a fast changing corporate world. This talk explains why embracing change is non-negotiable for teams that want to stay ahead, and how a culture of relentless learning helps organisations adapt rather than fall behind.
Key Takeaways: Audiences gain a practical approach to leading change with confidence, plus the mindset shifts needed to treat change as an advantage rather than a threat.
The Power of Data and Technology
Topic Title: The Power of Data and TechnologyThe Power of Data and Technology
Topic Synopsis: Data and technology are powerful tools in both sport and business, but only when people understand why and how to use them. Clive explains how he has applied data and technology with the teams he has worked with, and the tangible impact it has had on individual and team performance.
Key Takeaways: Audiences leave with a clearer understanding of how to put data to work for performance rather than simply collecting it, and practical questions to ask before investing in new technology.
