Richard Pruett explores emotional intelligence, athlete-centred coaching, and communication skills for strength & conditioning success.

Dr Phil Scott explores humanising innovation in coaching—linking empathy, communication, and performance for S&C coaches and sport scientists.

S&C coaches are uniquely positioned to understand the psychological pressures that accompany athletic performance.

Discover how Self-Determination Theory can help S&C coaches increase athlete motivation, engagement and performance through autonomy-supportive coaching.

The coach needs a comprehensive understanding of motivation to construct a positive training environment that is sensitive to the elemental motives of the athletes.

Learn how strength and conditioning coaches can recognise, prevent and recover from burnout through practical stress management, healthy boundaries and supportive workplace cultures.

Bill's presentation centres on WHY he arrived at his current model of reconditioning.

Simon Hartley is a globally respected sport psychology consultant and performance coach who has worked with gold medallists, world record holders and championship winning teams.

Nic Gill is a performance coach and consultant best known for his work as S&C coach for the NZ All Blacks for the last 16 years.

Tracey Neville MBE is a former England netball international and a former England head coach. As a player, she was a member of the England squad.

This session discusses why performance staff sacrifice without question for prestigious roles, and why this golden chalice quickly turns into a poisoned chalice.

Gil has coached athletes at all levels in sport and continues to nurture and develop young, talented athletes through the Live Active Talented Athlete Scheme in Perth and Kinross .

This presentation presents a modifiable system that can be utilised to address all coaching questions and take the guess work out of exercise selection.

This research aimed to further understanding as to what external/internal training load information elite coaches and managers use and how they make decisions on player availability in Australia's National Rugby League (NRL).

Discover why psychosocial coaching matters in strength and conditioning and how developing psychological, pedagogical, philosophical and sociocultural competencies can enhance athlete-centred coaching.