Charlie is currently a Leadership Consultant and Executive Coach and UK Sport endorsed mentor with a MSc in Coaching Science. She is also currently working as a Leadership Advisor with UK Sport and over the last 6 years much of her work focuses on Support and Challenge to World Class programme staff that have delivered Historical collective medal achievements in the last 3 Olympic and Paralympic Summer games and the last 2 Winter games. Specifically she has supported Performance Directors and their Teams to deliver Medal Success in Sochi, PyeongChang and Rio and she is currently working with the Senior Leadership teams of sports to prepare them for Tokyo 2021.  

Charlie is an accredited member through the Association of Coaching and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and she has lead on the development and implementation of the High-performance sports systems mentoring and Coaching strategies over 2.5 cycles. Prior to this she was the Director of Education and Development with Swim Ireland and was a former Olympic and Paralympic swimming coach representing Ireland in Beijing and London where the Irish swimming team saw medal winning performances in consecutive games.  

Charlies ultimate passion in life is to support people to achieve despite the unique challenges and opportunities thay may face.  She works at her best by navigating an ever-changing environment and has a Coaching approach that can support , especially those in leadership positions to help gain perspective and develop a route forwards for themselves facing change or uncertainty. Charlie adopts a holistic approach to Coaching and consultancy. 

Sam is the Co -Owner and Managing Director of Unforgiving Minute, a consultancy, with expertise based on years of experience within high performance sport.  Through 5 years working in UK Sport, Sam has extensive experience of crafting and delivering leadership & coaching development opportunities to Olympic and Paralympic Sports. His personal philosophy centres on drawing upon expertise from world leading high performers in any discipline, unearthing the ingredients of what makes these successful and finding opportunities to apply these through successful collaboration with others.  With a post graduate qualification in Executive Coaching from Ashridge Business School, Sam has a specialist interest in mentoring and coaching, working side by side with individuals and teams in support of them realising even more of their own potential.

Doug is a Director with Lacuna Learning and an award-winning mentor, coach and coach developer with extensive experience of working across the UK performance sport system.  Doug holds Masters’ qualifications in Psychology and sports psychology and his passion is to develop people through understanding how they learn, and then devising ways to accelerate that learning process, whether in a classroom, training ground or in the outdoors.

Doug has worked extensively with elite athletes, high performance coaches, national governing bodies and business teams.  He is an accredited coach and mentor with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). 

Dr. Sharon Madigan, RD, MSc, PhD, RSENSharon graduated from the University of Ulster with an MSc / PGD in dietetics and commenced work in the Belfast Trust as a community dietitian in 1995. She has a Phd in Nutrition Education. ​

From 2003-present she has worked as the performance nutritionist with the Irish Boxing Team working with young right up to the elite international team. The squad has had unprecedented success at all levels and returned 4 medals at last summer’s Olympics. From 2002-2009 Sharon delivered services at the Sports Institute Northern Ireland. Part of this role included the provision of nutrition education to the Ulster Rugby Academy, Hockey, Sailing, Triathlon, swimming. From 2008-2011 was the performance dietitian with the Senior Ulster Rugby Team.  

In 2010 she started work with the Irish Institute of Sport. She is responsible for delivery and aids coordination of nutrition services for elite Irish athletes across a range of Olympic and Paralympic sports. She co-ordinates the development of nutrition related policy and aiming to integrate a research evidence base into elite sport practice in a number of nutrition areas. 

She is currently a member of the science and medical team of the Olympic Council of Ireland and was the performance nutritionist with the Irish Team in London and Rio.