14/06/2026
Spent a fantastic Friday out at HQ with 150 leaders, coaches and business owners from all over the country 👉🏼 at the Swans institute performance and leadership event.
It was a unique experience with the event taking place within the state of the art Swans training facility - there’s a palpable kind of magic in such an elite setting. The line up of speakers was really something and the opportunity to chat with so many leaders from literally every industry you can think of was 💯…it’s safe to say there were plenty of learnings and inspo to take home!
We heard from sports journalist and presenter Kath Loughnan, premiership player, premiership coach of the swans and now director of performance John Longmire, Swans COO Drew Arthurson, Ex Wallbies captain Michael Hooper and ex player, captain and now head of wellbeing and player development Brett Kirk.
You may never have considered it but there are a stack of parallels between elite sport organizations, culture and athlete performance and small business. When exploring the leadership and performance frameworks at the swans, there were many ‘yep, our studio team nail that’ along with ‘ohhhh love that approach, we could adapt and adopt a,b and c’…moments 💭
A very worthy investment. Investing in progressive leadership is an investment in our team and therefore community. Stoked to fly the flag with my teeny side kick in tow.
Side note…absolutely every effort was made to sway Bonnie into a red and white Guernsey…I’m sure a sight that would please many of the studio crew 😆❤️🤍
