Through Nathan’s 30 years in the elite world of AFL football, including 18 years as a professional player (5 years as Captain), 2 years as a Coach and 7 years as a Director of the St Kilda Football Club, he has gained great insight into how to extract great performance from individuals and teams.
Since leaving St Kilda he has been applying his expertise in human performance in the fields of education, business and sport.
Initially, Nathan began his career as a primary school teacher until the rigours and demands of AFL football took over. Throughout his career, he maintained touch with the workforce and managed his own retail outlet in the highly competitive sporting goods market.
Since retiring he has been an AFL Assistant Coach, Senior Consultant at leading Management Consultancy, Mettle Group and recently Chief Operating Officer and People and Cultural Manager at Call Active Pty Ltd.
In 2014 Nathan founded his own consultancy organisation specialising in the fields of personal development, leadership, culture and resilience.
Recently Nathan has focused on the world of high performance and how the lessons learnt as St Kilda and Victorian State of Origin Captain can be transferred to both sporting and non-sporting clients.
Nathan’s work builds heavily on the concepts of personal responsibility, ownership and making the most of your talents; whilst focusing on practical actions that can be employed immediately.
Nathan strives to leave a lasting impression on his clients by connecting through relevant stories of his time as an elite athlete, teacher, business owner and executive.
In 2019 Nathan was appointed head Coach of the Vic Metro U/18 women's team and is now the Head Coach of the Western Bulldogs AFLW team as well as a member of the ABC Grand Stand Commentary Team.
Nathan has a Diploma of Teaching and Diploma of Business, but most importantly is married to Fiona and has three beautiful daughters, Ruby, Molly and Alice.
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EDUCATION
AFL
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