FounderFuel Show: What can founders learn from the world of sport?
In the last of our performance series, we’ve got Dr. Wayne Diesel coming on the Show to explore what we can learn as founders from the highest performing teams and individuals in the world of sport.
Across three continents, Wayne has worked with championship teams and elite athletes - including Tottenham Hotspurs, Springboks rugby, Miami Dolphins and Red Bull. Inside these demanding environments, he has seen first-hand why even the most talented athletes break down, and why a small minority build careers that last. Focusing on load management, recovery, mental resilience, and decision-making under pressure, we’ll be diving into how founders can apply elite athlete principles to build sustainable, long-term performance.
As always with our founder-only sessions, we’ll be keeping it pacey and real. It’ll be an AMA style convo, so come with your questions… you can ask him anything - from sporting secrets to the mental toughness and performance tips we can use as entrepreneurs.
More about Wayne
Wayne's career spans three continents and an eclectic mix of sports that most coaches could only dream of - including the NBA, Springboks Rugby, Tottenham Hotspurs and Red Bull. He was NBA Director of Player Care for the San Antonio Spurs, Sports Performance Director for the Miami Dolphins, led medical services for Tottenham Hotspur, and established a physiotherapy practice in the Sports Science Institute of South Africa. Currently, he is working as Performance Consultant for Red Bull.
More about the FounderFuel Show
FounderFuel LIVE is all about fuel for life and leading as a founder: Being an entrepreneur is a rollercoaster ride - physically, emotionally, and cognitively - which is why 92% of founders say that resilience is the number one requirement. In these founder-only sessions we talk to leading experts, the world’s peak-performers, and sit down for deep and sometimes-raw conversations with inspiring founders - all to surface knowledge and inspiration that fuels you to thrive on the journey that is founderhood.
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The host of this episode will be Christina Richardson, who has made it her mission to fuel the humans behind the startups and scaleups through her work at UCL School of Management and Foundology.
Christina led the original research that lifted the lid on founder-health, starting debates in Westminster on the topic, then founded Foundology to do something about it. Now hundreds of founders all over the world are in the FounderFuel family, where they coach and support each other every month in group-coaching FounderCircles - learning from each other, problem-solving together and developing as scaling leaders. Prior to this, she co-founded two technology start-ups herself so knows first-hand what it is like on the roller-coaster. Her first technology business launched in 2012 and was acquired by Enterprise Nation in 2015; her second was a Cannes Lions Innovation award winner and used by brands like Samsung, Vodafone and Expedia.