Since retiring from competitive sport in 2004, Matthew has built a substantial career as a speaker, facilitator, and coach, working with executive teams and senior leaders across a wide range of sectors. He completed his coaching qualification in 2016 and has since developed a client base at CEO and ExCo level, drawing on the lived discipline of multi-year team preparation, high-stakes performance, and continuous improvement under pressure. He is a regular speaker on leadership, teamwork, and performance mindset for corporate audiences worldwide.

His sporting experience translates with striking relevance to the challenges executive teams face today. He speaks with authority on how high-performing teams establish unspoken contracts around expectations and standards, how they sustain motivation through long cycles where results are not yet visible, how they manage the psychology of continuous improvement when they are already good, and how they rebuild collective identity after disruption, loss, or change. The parallels to teams navigating transformation, merger, or succession are ones Matthew has explored across many years of corporate engagement.

In cohort contexts, Matthew brings particular depth on performance mindset and mental resilience – how leaders prepare themselves to show up with full authority in high-stakes moments, irrespective of external noise. Drawing on the mental preparation disciplines of elite Olympic sport, he helps senior leaders examine what derails them, what they are holding back, and how to build the inner steadiness that sustained high performance demands. This is a theme of real relevance for leaders moving into ExCo and board-level roles for the first time.