Empowering Coaching Australia

I look back at my coaching in the early days and would hate to be coached like that. Knew my sport and ran a session with military precision, gave most of the playing time to the better players and then had to put the bench players on at critical times because I hadn’t put them on earlier. Thought I had to stay far removed from my players, not about fun, it was about work. I coached just like how I was coached - the apprenticeship of observation. Fast forward and add a couple of degrees and mentors on the way and my coaching is about athlete autonomy, relatedness, and creating sessions that are fun, engaging, and challenging. I want athletes to thrive, come back next season, and invest in a life of physical activity. I now work with coaches exploring the building blocks of autonomy, belonging, and competence development - in other words motivation. How can we create environments where athletes (and) coaches thrive. If you are interested in exploring the role of motivation in coaching join me in January 14, at the Point Lonsdale Bowls club.

Local sport coaches and anyone thinking about coaching in the Bellarine— I am running an Empowering Coaching workshop on Jan 14 at Point Lonsdale Bowls Club.
We will explore what truly drives athlete motivation and how the right coaching climate helps athletes embrace challenge, take ownership, enjoy the process, and come back next season keen for more.

With 20+ years in coaching, coach development, and academia, I will share practical tools and real-world strategies backed by solid evidence. If you want to build a training environment where athletes thrive, this session is for you.

Welcome to Empowering Coaching Australia, a home for coaches looking for more than drills and tactics. My work centres on motivation, the driving force behind all our actions. When coaches master the art (and science) of cultivating a motivational climate athletes embrace challenge, take ownership, relish the process, and eagerly return for the next season.

With over two decades of experience in coaching, coach development, and academia, I have guided coaches across community, youth, and performance settings in building thriving training environments and programs. Here you will discover practical tools, real-world strategies and straightforward insights grounded in evidence, not guesswork.

I tailor Empowering Coaching workshops for sports clubs and schools. For individual coaches there is opportunity to join EC workshops for mixed sport face to face and online.