Inside Team GB: How High-Performance Leadership Really Works with Paul Ford MBE

In this episode, Dr. Jacob Naish and Gary Peters sit down with Paul Ford  MBE, one of the most influential figures behind Team GB’s Olympic success over the past decade.A high-performance leader, strategist and culture architect, Paul has spent 15+ years guiding medal-winning performance across four Olympic Games, leading delegations of 850+ athletes and staff and shaping the environments where Britain’s best perform under extreme pressure.Originally trained in exercise physiology, Paul has built a career designing high-performance systems across sport, public and private sectors — from launching elite training centres across continents to managing multi-million-pound campaigns and advising leaders on what it really takes to win the right way.Expect to hear insights on:🏅 How Team GB builds performance environments that thrive under pressure🧭 Why leadership is lonely and why that’s perfectly normal🔥 What high-pressure environments teach us about self-care and sustainability🎯 Why preparation beats last-minute genius every single time🤝 The real meaning of ‘common purpose’ inside the Olympic system🧱 Why culture-first leadership outperforms talent-first leadership in elite sportThis is a truly grounded, honest and incredibly useful conversation for anyone working in sport, media, technology or business. Paul’s lessons on pressure, planning and people translate directly into the boardroom and into everyday life.“You can’t manage others unless you can manage yourself.”