Barry Dancer

The Great Coaches: Leadership & Life

Our Great Coach on this episode is Barry Dancer.

Barry Dancer is a is a former Australian field hockey player and coach of Australian men's national field hockey team. As a player he competed in 48 international matches for Australia between 1973 and 1979. he was a member of the men's hockey team that won a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He began coaching late in his career as a player eventually going on to lead the Great Britain men’s team at the 2000 Olympics. In 2001 he was then appointed the Head Coach of the Australian men’s team and led them to 2 Commonwealth Games gold, 2 Champions Trophies and an Olympic Gold in 2004 and Bronze in 2008.

Barry is a coach with a deep well of wisdom, built from many years of success and failures.

The highlight so our interview were:

• How he challenges himself each day with the questions: what have I done today to improve the way that I or my people do things?
• The learnings he has on managing workload and obsession as a coach and finding a balance that allows you to maintain your energy.
• And The way he talks about the idea of Belonging and he uses it to remind people of the privilege of being part of something that has a long history, and a bright future. And how this became a motivating factor not something that weighed people down.

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