ROUNDTABLE WEBINAR EVENTS

The Collaborate Sports Interactive Webinars focuses on real-world learning, immersive discussion and collaboration.

Speakers will utilise the session to provide thought-provoking discussion and reflection as opposed to a lecture-style webinar. So, take a look at the sessions below and sign up to join us as part of your own personal development!

Topic: Performance Planning for a Lacrosse World Cup

Collaborator: Josh Wall, Head of Strength & Conditioning - England Women's Lacrosse

When: 25th November - 730pm GMT / 230pm EST

Josh Wall is Director of Performance and Athletic Wellbeing at Wycombe Abbey, where he leads the Performance Athlete Programme and integrates athletic development into the wider PE curriculum. He has spent 12 years in youth athletic development and 11 years in international lacrosse across Wales Men's, Italy Women's, and England Women's, including two European Championships and three World Championships.

In this interactive session, Josh will take us inside England's preparation for the Women's Lacrosse World Championships in Tokyo in July 2026, a tournament that brought plenty of challenges. Using the World Cup as a real-world case study, he'll walk through his thinking on how the team prepared, where the plan met reality, and how they adapted. It's a discussion, not a lecture, so bring your own questions and experiences.

By the end of the session, we will have explored:

Building a needs analysis that fits the context of the performance problem: We will compare the demands of the sport with the demands of a tournament, and understand how this can shift your physical priorities.
Heat preparation approaches: Hearing how Josh took on this challenge in a part-time, non-professional environment to best prepare players.
Overcoming travel fatigue and jet lag: Josh will share how he tackled getting a squad ready for long-haul travel and time-zone change before they arrived for competition.
Adaptability in the moment - can you prepare? Josh will draw on some unexpected challenges to discuss with those in attendance!

This one is all about performance planning in the real world - not much of what we discuss will feature in the textbooks! So join us to develop your performance problem-solving skills!

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Topic: Optimising Performance around Travel Fatigue and Jet Lag

Collaborator: Tom Clark, CEO of Phaze, Physical Performance Coach

When: 14th December - 730pm GMT / 230pm EST

Tom Clark has spent 13+ years as a performance coach in elite motorsport, including working trackside with Formula 1 driver Esteban Ocon, before founding Phaze - the travel performance system helping coaches and teams manage jet lag and travel fatigue at scale. He recently completed a Professional Doctorate at Liverpool John Moores University, with research focused on jet lag and travel fatigue: educational interventions, behaviour change, and digital delivery in elite sport. Tom is also a Registered Sport & Exercise Nutritionist, and his work on travel performance has been featured in The Athletic, Business Insider, The Atlantic and Formula1.com.

In this interactive session, Tom and I will discuss the underlying physiology that influences jet lag, the performance barriers that can come from travel fatigue even if you don't fly across time zones, and practical steps you can take to reduce these negative effects on performance.

By the end of the session, we will help you consider:

The physiology underpinning jet lag and travel fatigue - and why they're two different problems requiring two different strategies.
What actually creates travel fatigue on the road, in the air, and on arrival.
Real-world case study scenarios that bring the research to life, and will help you work through practical “do’s and dont’s” in this area of your performance planning.
Why pragmatism can beat the "perfect" protocol - getting athletes to bed early isn't always feasible, and why some long-haul trips eastward can mean planning for a backwards shift rather than a forwards one.

This is one of those opportunities to learn about strategies that you’d otherwise have to learn on the job when travel problems pop up in your performance world. So, join us to build your understanding of how to optimise travel strategies moving forward!