Frank Dick
Frank is a former Director of Coaching for the British Athletic Federation and an expert in 'Performance Management'. He has been coaching athletes and sports professionals since 1970 and his prodigies have included Daley Thompson, Boris Becker, Gerhard Berger and Katarina Witt. He is currently involved with, Ronnie Irani, Justin Rose, Ipswich Town Football Club and Jean Todt (Ferrari Formula One Manager).
An international athlete himself, Frank has coached athletes to Olympic, World and European honours and is currently the President of the European Athletics Coaches Association.
In 2003, Frank was recognised with two awards; one in recognition of the work he has done to create a coaching culture within Abbey National and the other, a jointly received major training award from the prestigious American Society of Training and Development.
Recently Loughborough University awarded him a doctorate for his work in advancing the theory and practice of coaching in sport and business.
Frank is also author of three major publications, 'Sports Training Principles', 'Winning' and 'Winning Lines', all classics in their fields.
Frank's contribution to sport and coaching has been recognised in being awarded an OBE in 1989, induction to the UK Coaches Hall of Fame in 1999 and the prestigious title UK Sporting Hero by Sport UK in 2001.