"The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champion: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners."
Bill Walsh, one of the greatest coaches in NFL history.
About Prevailing Wind: The Philosophy
The most successful sailors and business leaders share one thing: they understand the Prevailing Wind. They don't fight the conditions; they analyse the situation and the forces at play. They understand the strengths and weaknesses' of themselves, their teams and their competitors, they have a strategy and they make informed decisions. In the 'moment' they adjust their course, trim the sails and move forwards deliberately and effectively - better than the competition.
The truth is that nobody is perfect, we help people and teams to strive to be better than themselves yesterday and learning faster than their opposition - that is the only sustainable competitive advantage.
Our coaching draws deep parallels between the world of high performance sport and the boardroom. We support and guide you to develop robust and resilient strategic plans, drawing from decades of experience in high performance sport.
Our goal is simple: enabling you and your teams to maximise the probability of sustained success in your chosen field.
Collaboration is a contact sport - but it need not be combative, with the right environment and culture, your teams can develop the psychological safety and performance mindset to challenge and support one another and co-create their best plan.
Load the probability of success: by investing in sound process - a robust performance strategy underpinned by a high performance culture.
Enable Co-creation and collaboration - challenge the notion that: "Those that create the battle-plan rarely have to battle the plan..."
Close the Intention > Action Gap by creating accountability.
We have spent two and a half decades applying high-performance principles in sport and now across into business. With a background in Performance Sport, Performance Leadership and extensive experience coaching competitive athletes, business leaders and teams, we specialise in translating real-time performance insights into repeatable strategic success.
We help companies and leaders navigate complex market conditions and achieve sustainable and optimal progress. Coaching focuses on aligning your team, optimising performance, and setting a clear strategic course to capture the Prevailing Wind in your industry.
Leadership Development: Building resilient, high-performing teams across various domains. Team Alignment: Ensuring every department is pulling in the same direction.
Change Management: Navigating transitions without losing momentum.
A selection of recent experience
One of the South of England's leading recruitment companies approached with a request for a bespoke presentation on Performance strategy and culture for their annual staff meeting.
In the wake of the pandemic the client was striving to ensure that their company was a great place to work with a high-performance culture - we worked with them to ensure that those concepts were not mutually exclusive, indeed the best teams, those that achieve sustainable success, pay deliberate attention these pillars.
Bespoke presentation for a cohort of business leaders within SME IT companies focusing on the parallels between high performance sport and the fast paced and dynamic sector and how traditional strategic planning does not survive contact with reality in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world.
Bespoke project with the founder of a successful IT/Cyber security business, the client aspired to leverage the benefits of strategic alignment, with less interference and friction across teams and more time and energy mobilised behind business critical goals.
Focusing on clarity of vision, intent and strategy and the dynamics of a high performing team.
