John is an Ashridge Business School associate and is director of the Sport Business Initiative at Ashridge teaching motivation, team work, leadership, wellness, coaching, lifestyle planning and personal performance. He is a psycho-physiologist specialising in exercise physiology and sports psychology whose work takes him across the UK, Europe, the United States and Australia.

You only need to take a look at some of the feedback from Touchstone Incisive to find out just how inspiration John is.

John’s background is in business and elite sport; over the past 15 years he has set up and run his own chain of health clubs, (take a look here: www.nealtraining.com) combining this business with consulting and teaching in public and private sectors. He has worked with elite international sports teams as a consultant psychologist, responsible for organisational dynamics and the individual performance of players and coaches.

As director of the Sport Business Initiative at Ashridge, he combines his business and sports experience, offering Olympic sports coaches and aspiring business leaders the opportunity to create their own development plans using a range of blended learning opportunities.

You can go direct to John's page on the Research & Faculty section of the Asridge website by clicking here - there are a few of John's past publications available for download.