The Coaching Advisory Panel

Charlotte Fisher

Charlotte currently works with endurance athletes of county standard and above, including a word record holder para-athlete targeting Tokyo 2021. She has 8 years’ experience in coach and team leader roles with England and Great Britain teams.

Charlotte has worked with people of all ages and abilities in a variety of settings, including in education, community sport and health. Further, 20 years’ experience of working in sports development in various regional and national roles has brought her into contact with coaches from all walks of life and at different stages in their journeys.

Continually inspired by the people that she meets, Charlotte is passionate about supporting people in coaching.

Ladi Ajayi

Ladi has been involved in sport for over 37 years as a performance athlete and a sport development professional and has extensive management experience.

Coming from a deprived background and growing up in the care system, sport helped Ladi to feel normal and to survive. Those experiences, coupled with often being a pioneer and even a first in some cases within local, regional, and national organisations, has given Ladi a well-rounded perspective of sport and physical activity and its power to change lives.

Ladi has been involved in the ‘Leisure and Physical Activity Development' service in Hackney and running community sport in Lambeth. One of the first Active Sport Managers in the country, he is currently a board member of the Black Collective of Media in Sport.

Lee Nicholas

A coaching and sport enthusiast, Lee is passionate about developing himself and others to improve coaching, ensuring that coaches have the knowledge and confidence to help everyone they coach succeed in their goals and reach their potential.

His current position is with the Saints Foundation as the Coaching and Training Lead.

He also coaches Southampton FC’s academy U11 team.

Kevin Bowring

The first full-time professional National Coach for the Wales National Rugby Team from 1995-1998, Kevin has also been a PE teacher and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff, working specifically on the Sports Coaching degree programme.

After 15 years as Head of Elite Coach Development within the Professional Rugby Department at the Rugby Football Union, Kevin founded Teaching Learning Coaching Ltd, a coaching consultancy with the aim to help coaches, leaders and people become the best versions of themselves.

He has over 40 years’ experience as a teacher, coach and coach developer, and was a non-executive director of UK Coaching from 2011-2017.

Michael Inpong

Michael is a Strategy and Marketing Director who has worked for some of the biggest grocery brands in the UK. In 2017, Michael was appointed Fellow of the Marketing Society.

A keen sportsman, Michael has played high level youth football, won a national karate championship and is a qualified UK Athletics coach. Michael is also a Trustee of the Women’s Sport Trust.

Michael’s wide-ranging experience ensures that he can offer keen insight into our future development based on an in-depth and well-rounded understanding of the sector.

Michelle Bramley

An international lawyer, executive coach, non-executive director, and board advisor working across commercial and not for profit sectors, Michelle has worked extensively across countries and across cultures.

As a non-executive director at UK Coaching, Michelle chairs the Governance Committee, is the Duty to Care Board champion and is a member of the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee.

With experience in leading large teams and as an active coach and mentor, Michelle has a passion for developing diverse, high-performing teams with a strong focus on inclusion. Her goal is to see diversity and inclusion be firmly embedded in sport and physical activity.

Sarah Mortiboys

Sarah began her career as a youth worker in Birmingham. After time at both Sport England and the Youth Sport Trust, she retrained as a teacher.

Inspired by London 2012, Sarah founded the London PE & School Sport Network, which has supported over 160 schools and engaged over 200,000 children and young people in physical education and school sport.

Sarah is now the Managing Director and incoming CEO of Dallaglio RugbyWorks. Using the values of rugby, the team builds confidence, self-esteem and communication skills, supporting and empowering participants into education, employment or training.

Sarah is a firm believer in sport’s power to help change people’s lives for the better.

Adrian Christy

Chief Executive of Badminton England since 2006, Adrian is an experienced senior leader with an in-depth knowledge of the sport sector.

Under Adrian’s leadership, Badminton England has secured the greatest level of commercial investment in the history of the organisation, seen the YONEX All England Championships be included among the three badminton ‘majors’ on the World Tour and had its achievements recognised when they were awarded the prestigious ‘Governing Body of the Year’ Award at the BT Sport Industry Awards.

Adrian is passionate about driving a journey of digital transformation to increase reach and engagement with players, members, fans, and partners, as well as to increase revenues, thus improving self-sufficiency.