Supporting Champions

This week Tim Harper from Harper Performance joins us to discuss moving out of elite performance support in the UK to create unique, locally driven solutions to performance problems in disadvantaged communities across the world. Tim and his social enterprise are on a mission to give sport back some of its purer spirit, to diversify thinking about preparation and performance and to fiercely champion the underdog. A short introduction to Tim Harper's career pathway in professional sport and Harper Performance - a social enterprise aiming to provide performance support services to disadvantaged populations. Exploring the catalyst's that led Tim to change his career focus, mindset and the desire to find a path that had real purpose and meaning. Sport as a microcosm of society. Not being happy with the values of sport and what it represents and wanting to challenge and change its platform for societal change. Tim's experiences in professional rugby union in the UK and Africa as a practitioner led to a questioning