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Simon Drane

  • Coach, Facilitator & Programme Design Lead

Simon specialises in wellbeing, resilience and performance

In a career spanning almost two decades, Simon has a track record in applying psychological principles to enable elite athletes and business professionals to enhance their performance, reach their goals and achieve their ambitions

Professional Profile

Overview

  • Passionate about helping individuals and businesses to incorporate some of the physical and mental lessons learnt in sport to cope with high-pressure situations and deliver when it really matters
  • A skilled Sport Psychologist and Business Consultant, with broad experience of people and team development across a wide array of business contexts and sectors
  • An experienced facilitator who is particularly interested in achieving engagement through online communication mediums
  • Focuses on the tangibility of psychology, ensuring understanding and utilisation regardless of the context

Track Record

  • Held positions at the highest level of Olympic Sport, including Lead Psychologist at British Athletics and for GB Badminton across three Olympic cycles (Beijing, London and Rio),
  • A Senior Consultant and Programme Lead for Lane4, an award-winning management consultancy that specialises in people performance
  • Has led on the design, delivery and evaluation of numerous leadership development programs at all levels of an organisation
  • Helped upskill and accredit fellow facilitators in the use of virtual platforms to facilitate both webinars and virtual workshops
  • Product development and guest speaking in the area of Resilience & Wellbeing and Pressure Management

Further Info.

Knowledge Areas

  • Performance Psychology applied to a variety of contexts
  • Subject matter expert in wellbeing and resilience – including values-based delivery of acceptance and commitment therapy concepts
  • Use of Biofeedback and Psychophysiology to provide objective measures of self awareness
  • Unconscious Bias facilitation to help leaders be more inclusive

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"Enabled us to co-create solutions that address current and future organisational needs. We’d highly recommend working with the team."
Nicola HutchinsonCEO
Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) for North East & North Cumbria (NENC)
"Hatching Ideas delivered a best-in-class onboarding process. We would very happily work with the team again."
Benton RobertsonCEO
Hunter Gatherer Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
"I would highly recommend the Hatching Ideas team to all organisations looking for improvement, development and growth."
Anthony RobsonCEO
QE Facilities
"I can honestly say without reservation that this business walks the talk when it comes to its values, people and proposition."
Richard StokesLeadership Lead
REPL Group, Part of Accenture
"I would thoroughly recommend Hatching Ideas to other organisations support their improvement programmes."
Pat KeelingDirector of Strategy
Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
"They produced very real results, both in deliverables and excellent communication strategy. I've been very impressed."
Joe Hill-WilsonDirector of Sales & Customer Services
Learn Amp
"Working with Hatching Ideas has had a truly immediate and effective positive benefit for my team, myself, and my clients"
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J9 Consultancy

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