Frank Dick Biography
Frank Dick is renowned as one of the country’s best and most consistently inspiring motivational speakers. Frank Dick is the current Chair of Scottish Athletics, President of the European Athletics Coaches Association, Member of the IAAF Coaches Commission, as well as Chair (and architect) of the IAAF Academy.
Frank Dick as British Athletics Federation's Director
From 1974 to 1994 he was the British Athletics Federation' s Director of Coaching, where he was widely acknowledged as one of the outstanding sports coaches in the world. In this position Frank Dick coached athletes such as Daley Thompson, Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe to European, Olympic and World honours. He also created training programmes for individuals such as Gerhard Berger and Boris Becker to name but a few.
Inspirational Keynote & Workshop Facilitator
Frank has combined his talent for inspiring sporting achievement with the business world. By recognising the synergy between effective coaching techniques on the playing field and in the office, over the years he has developed a range of inspirational keynote speech themes, workshop topics and bespoke employee development programmes that remain as popular and relevant today as ever.
His expertise derives from years of detailed research into individual success and achievement. Frank combines this wealth of knowledge and experience into an informative and motivational approach to achieving long-lasting transformation of both individual and team performance.
With a history of sporting excellence through coaching some of the best talent in the world he has, over the past 20 years of speaking to 100’s of companies both in the UK and around the world, recognised six key areas of personal and professional development that, once taken out of a “training room” mentality and put into a different context, can lead to individual and team progress simply by giving a different perspective.
Author of three major publications, 'Sports Training Principles', 'Winning' and 'Winning Lines', all classics in their fields. Frank’s latest book ‘Winning Matters’ was published in August 2010.
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.
Speech Presentation Topics
Frank has spoken to audiences in the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia and USA/ Canada. His keynote speeches include:
“The Winning Difference”
- Creating the right motivational atmosphere in the workplace.
“Team Talk”
- Everyone in the team has a value; team achievement is about understanding and developing strength of diversity and not encouraging uniformity.
“Coaching Matters”
- The development of the individual into an effective, inspiring and educational manager can be key to team and business success.
“Leading Edge”
- Truly great leaders understand that being a part of the team is more effective than just leading it, and it is the mastering of this challenge that can lead to personal and professional excellence.
“Talent - from Potential to Performance”
- Perform better today than yesterday by doing different things and doing things differently; being able to manage the performance of emerging talent increases the potential for growth and success.
“Prepared to Win”
- We cannot always choose and change our conditions and circumstances, but we can always choose and change our attitude.
New Presentation
“Performing in Adversity – The Lessons to be Learnt From Sport”
Frank’s new presentation looks at how to coach your team through the difficult climate ahead. Frank’s speech looks at managing present attitudes and preparation in adversity, increasing light and reducing heat in creating a climate to make progress.
Working closely with companies and events has shown that the six themes mentioned above work either as individual concepts or collectively, dependant upon the objectives of the occasion.
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Frank Dick News
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Frank Dick at World Class Coaching Conference 2010
9th November 2010
Speakers Frank Dick, Jim Lawless and Ed Stafford will be attending the World Class Performance Conference 2010 in Scotland today. The event – hosted by BBC Sport’s Hazel Irvine – will bring together the best Olympic and Paralympic coaches, performance directors and leading sports science practitioners.
Ronnie O’Sullivan Wins Fifth World Title
7th May 2013
Snooker player, Ronnie O’Sullivan beat Barry Hawkins to win the Betfair World Championships at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
Mike Forde Links Business to Football
18th April 2013
Business speaker and one of the UK’s leading sports executives, Mike Forde has compared the ideas and practices used in professional football to those used in business environments.
Anna Watkins Announces She is Pregnant
25th March 2013
Olympic double skulls champion and motivational speaker, Anna Watkins, has announced that she is pregnant.
Steve Black Believes Jonny Wilkinson Has What It Takes
18th February 2013
Steve Black, keynote speaker and Jonny Wilkinson’s coach for 15 years, believes Wilkinson has what it takes to become a great coach.
Tanni Grey-Thompson Given Two New Appointments for 2013
10th December 2012
Tanni Grey-Thompson has been appointed to the Independent Commission investigating the Lance Armstrong scandal and to the Board of the London Legacy Development Corporation.
Andrew Strauss Must Not be Lost To Cricket
3rd October 2012
Steve James of The Telegraph hopes that the former England captain will continue to inspire UK cricket.
David Gower Saves His Jokes
1st October 2012
The charismatic English cricket legend David Gower talks to the Guardian about one of the defining moments in his career, and about why he keeps his funny one-liners close to his chest!
Dave Brailsford Takes British Cycling To A Higher Level
7th April 2011
Dave Brailsford, Performance Director for British Cycling, and esteemed motivational speaker, is one of a group of driven and inspirational figures working to make London’s Olympic dream a reality.
Sarah Brown ‘Top UK Tweeter’ Says The Independent
21st February 2011
Sarah Brown, Britain’s ex-First Lady is top of the ‘Tweeterati’ list, according to The Independent.
Frank Dick Reviews
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comments from evaluations were 'Best of the Day so far', ' excellent has us on an emotional rollercaster', 'motivating', 'fantastic privilege to listen to'
Frank's energy and enthusiasm was a wonderful injection for us and his ideas and messages were carried through into the second day of our conference and indeed back into the day to day business.
Frank took on board our brief and executed it to perfection. We couldn't have asked for anything else. He proved to be an excellent start to our conference and our coaches thought he was fantastic. We definitely made a good choice!
Thanks for creating such a hugely positive influence on our staff. The overwhelming response was that your session was the best we've ever had at one of our conferences.
Frank was inspirational and brilliant. Any more words would not do him justice.
Just a line of thanks for delivering such a splendid speech. You really did capture the spirit of that we are trying to do here at BMW Finance.
He have been running conferences all over the world and the feedback has shown Frank's presentation to be the best many people have ever seen.
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