Ex-England Rugby Captain and once voted the Best 7’s Player in the World, Ollie is Founder of Optimist Performance. Since retiring from professional rugby, Ollie has been involved in a number of life-changing challenges and has notched up 4 Guinness World Records to date. Ollie brings over 20 years of experience in sports and business to help leaders overcome change and transform their teams to achieve new levels of success.

Charlotte has a twenty-year career history as an academic and strategist, leading cultural change most recently as Head of the Women’s game at the Welsh Rugby Union, where she instigated the inaugural professional contracts for senior women’s rugby. Charlotte has a wealth of experience working across public, private and third-sector organisations. Charlotte is a self-confessed insight geek who supports companies in measuring the impact of strategic and cultural change.

Clare is an expert in Performance Neuroscience, NLP, Clinical Hypnosis, Brain-Based Coaching and Mental Performance and Flow. She has 26 years of experience helping leaders, elite athletes, creatives, entrepreneurs, and special operators reach their peak potential by harnessing the power of the Flow state. Clare works with individuals, teams, and organisations who operate in high pressure /high-risk environments, and specialises in rapidly recoding the reflexive thoughts, emotions, and behaviours typically thought of as beyond conscious control. Mind Power for Individuals™. Mind Power for Teams™. Mind Power for Life™

Vic Strachan is a behavioural consultant with over 20 years of experience in supporting organisations and their people exploring, experiencing and above all, practicing communication and behavioural insights which transform conversation, connection and performance.

Vic gained insight into the psychology and behaviour of  high performing teams from her early student days. She was part of the 2001 University Challenge winner team [Somerville college, Oxford] which became the unwittingly inspiration for David Nicholls book ‘Starter for Ten’. Initially working as an editorial journalist for Harpers & Queen, a life changing interview with Deepak Chopra led her to realise she didn’t just want to write about people’s life stories, she wanted to tell them and she made a life-changing decision to retrain as a professional actor. Vic worked in theatre and television for over 15 years before transitioning to her work as a behavioural and communications consultant. She remains a leading voiceover artist in animation providing regular work for DreamWorks, Netflix and Sky.

Sophie Storm Roberts is an adventure athlete, TEDx speaker, and transformative mindset coach on a mission to ignite human potential. After building and leading the sales team that turned a startup into the UK’s fastest-growing company and ‘Best Place to Work,’ she walked away from conventional success to write her own story.

With no athletic background, Sophie became a record-breaking adventure athlete; the only person in history to climb the highest mountains in all eight Alpine countries and cycle between them in just 32 days. Her endurance feats include Ironman triathlons, cycling across the USA, 24-hour Tough Mudder, and leading 1,000+ people from London to Paris in 24 hours.

She is also the founder of TrailBlazers, a non-profit empowering teenage girls through adventure and mindset training, and is a keynote speaker for TED, Harvard, and Fortune 500 companies, known for her high-energy talks on courage, confidence, and peak performance.

For the past 8 years, she’s been coaching professionals to speak confidently and persuasively so they can reach the outcomes they want – whether through presentations, meetings, interviews or panels; to internal or external audiences.

Emma brings a powerful blend of strategic thinking, creative insight, and commercial focus to Optimist Performance.

With a background in corporate learning and development and the automotive industry, she has worked alongside senior leaders for over 20 years, shaping brand, culture, and performance through purpose-led marketing and communications.

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Ruth’s passionate about inclusive, accessible coaching, she draws on tools like narrative therapy, ACT, and creative modalities to help clients reconnect with purpose, resilience, and human insight.

Off-the-clock, she’s a Executive & Wellbeing Coach, triathlete, adventurer and mental-health first aider – believing that personal growth and professional leadership flourish when grounded in whole-self wellbeing.

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