HEARTS & MINDS

Thursday 27th February, 2025 – Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough FC

How do we connect with and engage our people… hearts and minds?

Join us at The Riverside Stadium, home of Middlesbrough Football Club on 27th February 2025, for an evening dedicated to creating health, happiness, and high-performance in ourselves and our teams. You’ll hear from…

– British & Irish Lion rugby star and A380 captain, Tony Underwood.

– World champion open water swimmer and cardiac health champion, Nick Parkes.

– Elite sport psychology consultant and mental health advocate, Simon Hartley.

As well as food, drink and a fantastic opportunity to network with incredible leaders from across the region, Tony, Nick, and Simon will share some of their insights and experiences.

– Caring Unlocks Excellence with Tony Underwood.

– Heart Matters with Nick Parkes.

– World Class Mindset – from the Foundation to the Podium – with Simon Hartley.

As if that wasn’t enough, you’ll also be helping raise money for two amazing charities – CEO Sleepout and The British Heart Foundation.

WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE CONFERENCE 2025

Thursday 2nd October, 2025 – Lords Cricket Ground, London

How can we achieve the ‘impossible’?

Have you ever looked at a challenge that is so huge… so daunting… it looks impossible?

Do you see your people getting stumped because the challenge before them seems impossible?

For the World Class Performance Conference 2025, we’ve brought together a hand-picked selection of incredible people who have all conquered seemingly impossible challenges to share their experience, insights and wisdom.

How do we take on ‘impossible challenges’?

How do we get our own mindset in shape?

How do we engage our people?

How do we enable them to overcome extreme challenges and set-backs?

 We’re going to find out!

Simon Hartley is the CEO and founder of the Be World Class Group. Ten-time author, keynote speaker and co-host of The Podium Podcast and The Demon Charmers Podcast.

Through his background in sport psychology he has spent much of his career working with elite athletes and sports teams, helping them to get their mental game and their mindset right. Simon’s real passion is working with and studying the very best in the world, figuring out what makes them great and then helping others adopt those principles.

“I often say that my background is in elite sport psychology. I also explain that sport psychology is a misnomer. It’s really human psychology. What works for athletes works for the rest of us. What works for an elite sports teams works with all teams. That’s why our work has such an impact across any field of endeavour”.