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Frank Dick

Former head coach of the GB Olympics team

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Frank Dick

Former head coach of the GB Olympics team

Biography

As one of the country’s best and most consistently inspiring motivational speakers, Frank is still riding high on the outstanding results from his position as High-Performance Director at SASCOC (South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee) where he was the consultant to South Africa's top coaches and athletes at the Rio Olympics and Paralympics.  RSA achieved 10 medals with 2 Gold, 6 Silver & 2 bronze. Four of those medals were won in athletics, Franks area of expertise.  
 
In 2016 Frank was invited by Eddie Jones to undertake a challenging position in the UK as strategic planning consultant the England Rugby Leadership Team in preparation for Rugby World Cup 2019 Japan. 
 
He is also President of the European Athletics Coaches Association, Member of the IAAF Coaches Commission, as well as Chair (and architect) of the IAAF Academy.
 
From 1979 to 1994 he was the British Athletics Federation's Director of Coaching, where he was widely acknowledged as and remains one of the outstanding sports coaches and coach mentors in the world.  In this position Frank led the British Athletics team into its "golden era" with Olympic gold medallists such as Daley Thompson, Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe. Frank personally trained Daley Thompson and created training programmes for individuals such as Gerhard Berger, Katarina Witt, Boris Becker and Justin Rose.

Testimonials

"He brought a professionalism to the management of the team that we had never had before or have had since."
Seb Coe, Running My Life

Just a line of thanks for delivering such a splendid speech.  You really did capture the spirit of what we are trying to do here at BMW Finance.
BMW Finance (GB) Ltd

We have been running conferences all over the world and the feedback has shown Frank’s presentation to be the best many people have ever seen.
American Express

It was essential that we communicated our message powerfully and without you, we would have been unable to do that. Your speech was very inspirational – a great way to close the conference.
European Technical Director, Heinz

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