Our Culture and Leadership and Talent and Development teams at UK Sport are passionate about growing capacity within the high-performance community to support current and future performance.
We aim to develop best practice in supporting sports programmes, and the people within them, to live vibrantly through thriving communities that perform sustainably.
We are committed to bringing out the brilliance of our performance people by connecting and developing individuals, teams and the wider community. Additionally, we also notice there is work to do to ensure we are a diverse and inclusive population, where there are huge opportunities on the journey ahead. There are a range of activities available to support sports on their performance journey and there is a clear intention in our work to deliver meaningful and inspiring experiences.
Get to know our people
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Phoebe Sanders
Culture and Leadership Advisor
Phoebe works in partnership with sports to develop sustainable, thriving performance environments through the integration of experiential and psychological knowledge. She is a chartered sport psychologist, an associate of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and a certified executive coach, with experience spanning Olympic and professional sport, media, healthcare, and academia.
Updated: 11 July 2023
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Chris McCready
Culture and Leadership Advisor
Chris is an experienced practitioner having worked in elite sport all his adult life. Firstly, as a professional footballer, then as a researcher followed by a role at the Manchester United FC academy in Player Care/Performance Lifestyle. Chris is a Culture and Leadership Advisor and is passionate about supporting people to be at their best at work, find some sense of balance in how they navigate life and create special memories throughout their journey.
Updated: 11 July 2023
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Jenny Close
Culture Development Project Manager
Jenny's role provides operational management for work with World Class Programmes, to deliver the system-wide Culture Health Checks, Walk the Floors and support programmes. In addition she develops and maintains the operational plan for the delivery of UK Sport’s Culture Strategy.
Updated: 11 July 2023
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Steve Tart
Programme Manager
Steve has worked at UK Sport within a variety of coaching and leadership development roles. Steve currently works on a number of projects across the team with a key focus on the project management of leadership development programmes and PLx, our annual learning and development event.
Updated: 15 August 2022
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Grace Stanley
Team Co-ordinator
Grace plays an essential role in supporting and co-ordinating the team’s projects and budgets, whilst also overseeing project planning and tracking.
Updated: 15 August 2022