FLS DIRECTORS

FLS DRAWS KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE FROM EXPERIENCED INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE SPORTS LEADERSHIP LANDSCAPE.

LUCY GILES

Colonel Lucy Giles was commissioned in 1992 after studying at Exeter University. Early regimental duty in the newly formed Royal Logistic Corps included postings within Germany, UK and South Africa with deployments to Bosnia (1994, 1997, 1999), East Timor and Sierra Leone. After gaining her Masters and completing the Advanced Command and Staff Course from 2001-03, she was posted to HQ Northern Ireland. She commanded 47 Air Despatch Squadron enabling operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the world. She also led a training sub-unit prior to her appointment as an instructor at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in 2011. Here she focussed on command, leadership and management, represented the College in military ethics and leadership development gaining her PGCE in 2013. Appointed Commander of New College RMAS in January 2015, she received an entry into the Debretts’ People of the Day in 2016. She won the ‘Inspirational’ and ‘Woman of the Year’ awards at the inaugural Women in Defence event in October 2016 and received an honorary doctorate from Exeter University for services to the military in July 2017. Promoted in 2018, she is the 36th President of the Army Officer Selection Board in Westbury. Still keen to ‘give something back’, she continues as ambassador for First Women UK, is part of the Girls School Association teachers’ mentoring programme, a Girl Guiding ambassador, is delighted to be a Director for the Foundation for Leadership through Sport and a member of the FA’s Technical Advisory Board. Lucy is married to Nick. They have two children; Jess and Alex. She enjoys singing, a bit of drama, chairs the UK Armed Forces orienteering organisation and aims to complete the Marathon des Sables in 2020

RICHARD HYTNER

Richard Hytner, Blue Hat Man and Adjunct Professor of Marketing, London Business School

Facilitator, educator and coach, Richard’s purpose is to help leaders land their best ideas.

He is former Deputy Chair, Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide, where he led its global strategy and innovation practice, helping clients earn loyalty beyond reason among their customers and people.

His book, Consiglieri: Leading from the Shadows (Profile Books) drew on that experience as a Deputy. It shines a light on the joy, craft and different contributions one can make in support of the ultimately accountable leader, helping to enhance the relationships that exist between top team leaders.

He has worked with leaders in many different worlds and across the world. From academia to accountancy, law to luxury goods, medical equipment to the military, publishing to engineering, and from dairy farming to financial services and football coaching.

At London Business School, where he is Adjunct Professor of Marketing, Richard teaches on the flagship Senior Executive Programme.

Richard has a passion for football. A lifelong supporter and season ticket holder at Old Trafford (until he gifted it to his United-besotted nephew), he co-founded with fellow Mancunian and broadcaster Michael Crick Shareholders United Against Murdoch and remains honorary President of what that organisation became over time, the Manchester United Supporters Trust.

He has facilitated extensive strategy programmes for Premier League Productions; been engaged by the education departments of both the FA (for UEFA PRO Level 5 and Tech Directors) and the Premier League, appearing on its Elite Heads of Coaching programme. He has also worked with regulators, trainers, owners and educators across the British Horseracing industry; and most recently with HEROS which retrains and rehomes retired racehorses and provides inspirational education to young people.

EBONI USORO-BROWN

Eboni played for England Netball at under-17 and under-19 level before being named as under-21 captain in 2009 leading the squad to the World Youth Championships. By that point she had already made her senior Roses debut, against Malawi in 2007.

She joined Team Bath Super League in 2005 helping the Blue and Gold secure four Superleague titles during a five year spell, before signing for The West Coast Fever, a team in the ANZ Championship based in Perth Australia in 2012. She was former Australian Diamond’s coach Norma first signing for the West Coast Fever’s 2012 season. After twice being named as Fever’s Most Valuable Player (2013 & 2014), Eboni moved to the Adelaide Thunderbirds for the 2015 season. She has since returned to Team Bath Netball where she was named Captain for the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Superleague seasons.

After helping England to bronze medals at both the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2011 Netball World Cup, she was named as Player of the Series as England recorded a historic 3-0 series whitewash against Australia in 2013. She also represented England at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and 2015 Sydney World Championships. To date, Eboni has earned 90 senior international Caps and is a member of the 2018 Commonwealth Games England Roses Netball Team that brought home the Gold Medal.

Alongside her netball achievements, Eboni graduated with an undergraduate degree in Law (LLB (hons)) and Masters in Commercial Law from the University of Bristol. She is now a solicitor in a leading legal firm in the South West, successfully combining a flourishing legal career whilst striving for yet more success on the netball court.

FRANK DICK

As one of the country’s best and most consistently inspiring motivational speakers, Frank is 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 medalists 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.

"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

With a history of sporting excellence he has, over the past 25 years of speaking to hundreds of companies both in the UK and around the world, recognised key areas of personal and professional development that, once taken out of a “training room” mentality and put into a different context, can lead to individual and team progress simply by giving a different perspective.

His expertise derives from years of detailed research into individual success and achievement. Frank combines this wealth of knowledge and experience into an informative and motivational approach to achieving long-lasting transformation of both individual and team performance.

"We have run conferences all over the world and the feedback has shown Frank's presentation to be the best many people have ever seen."

American Express

Frank is the author of four major publications: ‘Winning Matters’, 'Sports Training Principles', 'Winning' and 'Winning Lines', all classics in their fields.

In 2011, Frank was awarded an Honorary Professorship by the National Sports Academy of Bulgaria in recognition of his influence in advancement of coaching in Europe. This followed an Honorary Doctorate by Loughborough University for his contribution to coaching and coach development.

Frank’s contribution to sport and coaching has been recognised in being awarded an OBE in 1989, induction to the UK Coaches Hall of Fame in 1999 and the prestigious title "UK Sporting Hero" by Sport UK in 2001.

BOB REEVES

All his working life was concerned with sport-related education, working at Bristol University for almost 40 years, mostly as Director of Sport, Exercise and Health. Prior to that, he taught PE at Lancaster Royal Grammar School.

Having been awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship in 1987, studying changing trends in exercise and health, Bob developed the first Masters programme in the United Kingdom in Exercise and Health Sciences.

He established one of the first university sports performance programmes for students, enabling them to fulfil both academic and sporting potential. Five products of this programme participated in the London Olympics, three winning medals. Five other participants in the programme at different times went on to play rugby for England.

He was coach of Bristol University Rugby Club for over 25 years, also coaching England Students and the Bristol club. He became an honorary staff coach of both the Rugby Football Union and the National Cricket Association, the only person ever to hold both these awards, and he was involved in the establishment of the National Coaching Foundation.

He enjoyed helping to develop coaching in many sports, running the pre-season coaching for Oxford University Cricket Club for 6 years, and for 15 years helping the Hurlingham Polo Association in improving their coaching activities.

Bob was the Minister of Sport nominee on the Regional Sports Council for the maximum term permitted and was Chairman of the International Committee of the Physical Education Association.

His involvement with sport in Kenya lasted for over 25 years and he set up the ‘Bristol Kenya Partnership’ charity, which led to the Kenyan Olympic and Paralympic teams being based in Bristol prior to the 2012 Olympics, and to many Bristol and Kenyan schools being twinned. For this, Bob received the award for the best contribution to Olympic legacy in the South-West of England.

He was Chairman of the Students RFU for 10 years, following which he became the President, and he remains the President of Bristol University RFC.

In 1995, he was elected to represent the Students Rugby Football Union on the RFU Council, leading to his election as President of the RFU in 2013.

Bristol University and Roehampton University have awarded him with honorary doctorates for services to sport and higher education.