Building intelligence systems, cultures and skills that allow you to maximise your network and connections. Working in elite sport and the charity sector to better understand people.
Organisations from sports teams to charities have large amounts of technical insight at their disposal. They also have networks of connections, contacts and relationships that offer insights into people.
What most lack is a means of bringing this all together to elevate decision making and performance. They need a system, intelligence culture and skills that create the right human insights alongside the technical.
Bringing it together creates the best discussions, aligns perspectives, enhances decision making and de-risks them by capturing information that would otherwise have been missed.
METIS Performance exists to support your existing scouting and profiling processes. We work to maximise your network and create useful data points that elevate your decision making to a level beyond that of your competitors.
The most expensive mistakes in recruitment are almost never failures of technical evaluation.A. Soli — How to Scout
We think we can see into the hearts of others based on the flimsiest of clues.M. Gladwell — Talking to Strangers
Bringing an alternative perspective to your challenges, questioning and exploring your landscape, so you make the best possible decisions.
Immersing in your environment to stress test your thinking around performance. Asking questions and bringing observations that challenge you to give an elite answer as to "why things are as they are," and supporting you with the solution.
Indicative timeframes (refined after initial conversations): Initial 1 day immersion, periodised follow up days on site.
Designing and embedding the processes that turn scattered insight into one complete picture — built bespoke around how your organisation actually works, not a template rolled in from outside. From first signal through to a decision you can stand behind, with clear escalation when something matters. Built with your team, so it keeps running once we're not in the room.
Indicative timeframes (refined after initial conversations): Multiple days on site per month, embedded in your team.
Bringing stories, insights and practical skills to your group to open up thinking and create immediate improvements.
Indicative timeframes (refined after initial conversations): 0.5 to 1 day deliveries.
Gathering and interpreting information that is key to your planning and understanding of context. Recognising that success leaves clues, we work with you to strategise and plan, using better internal intelligence.
Indicative timeframes (refined after initial conversations): Initial 1-2 day conversations and analysis, periodised follow ups working alongside planning team.
Combining unique experience across global business, elite sport and defence, Chris has over 18 years of work in environments where winning matters, where ambiguity is high and where understanding people is crucial.
Chris has been trusted by senior execs, boards, head coaches, performance strategists and leaders to guide, challenge and find new ways of enhancing their performance.
Rooted in these experiences is the ethos of "Talk to the Person" — the need to cut through noise, interference and other data to understand the people at the heart of high performance.
Working across the Premier League, Championship, and Adran Premier, and within the charity sector.