Paul has over 20 years experience at almost every layer of the sports industry. Paul spent 10 years as a professional rugby player across Europe before pivoting into high performance coaching where he managed staff in sports science, sports medicine, and strength and conditioning departments.Â
Paul has consulted to many sports technology companies across the last 10 years, and also has extensive executive coaching experience. Paul has an MBA from AGSM in Sydney and is currently studying LLM International Sports Law in Practice at Sheffield University in UK.
Highlights of the episode:
- What practitioners need to do if they want to work in elite sport
- Why internships must increase interns employability
- Why athletes and staff need to be obsessed to win
- How to use data to drive decision making in high performance
- Advice to sport scientists and coaches to filtering what metric to measure
People mentioned:
- Darren Burgess
- Dan Baker
- Dan Pfaff
- Martin Hume
- Kelvin Giles
- Alex Natera
- Tim Doyle
- Chris Sterling
- Ashleigh Jones
- Emily Wilson
- Rich Johnson
- Frans Bosch
- Jurgen Klopp
- Jace Delaney
- Lachlan Penfold
- Carmen Colomer
- Craig Bellemy
- Matt Taberner
- Dan Di Pasqua
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Jack McLean is the founder of Prepare Like a Pro. He loves coaching people so that they can reach their personal/professional goals and become the best that they can possibly be. He is currently the Strength & Rehab Coach of Melbourne Football Club and has worked as Strength & Conditioning Coach at Hawthorn Football Club. Jack is a Level 3 Australian Strength & Conditioning Association and Professional Coach and a Level 1 Australian Weightlifting Federation Coach.
