Coach Mentoring
individualised programmes to accelerate learning
For many people, the best way to learn is on an individualised mentoring programme, where the learning is based around your personal goals and areas you want to develop.
The coach mentors at inspire2coach are some of the most experienced in the industry, with unmatched career experience developing and training players, coaches and coaching programmes world-wide.
A mentoring programme is a significant investment in your future as a coach. Contact us to discuss your specific needs.
i2c tennis Coach Mentors
"I'm passionate about what I do. I provide both a sounding board and advice to help you reach your potential."
"I help set and achieve clear and measurable goals to develop your coaching and coaching business."
"Whatever it is you have in your mind, big, small or not sure where to start. I endeavour to get the best from you."
Mark Tennant
"I help set and achieve clear and measurable goals to develop your coaching and coaching business"
Together with his business partner, Richard Marklow, Mark has grown inspire2coach from scratch to one of the largest and most successful tennis providers and coach education companies in the UK. Mark is:
- A very experienced LTA Level 5 coach with wide ranging experience as a club coach.
- Responsible for inspire2coach Coach Education programmes in the UK and internationally
- A respected coach education tutor, international consultant and presenter having delivered courses, workshops and project in over 100 countries worldwide, for tennis companies, facilities and organisations, including the LTA, ITF, Tennis Europe and the Confederation of African Tennis
Specialisations
- Business growth & programming strategy
- Communication and team building
- Leadership and management
Richard Marklow
"I'm passionate about what I do. I provide both a sounding board and advice to help you reach your potential."
Richard is a Director and joint owner of inspire2coach, one of the UK's largest tennis providers and Coach Education centres. inspire2coach currently operates at more than 30 venues in England. Richard is an experienced tennis manager responsible for:
- inspire2coach club programme strategy in the UK, working with a senior management team, coaches, and key facility contacts at our indoor facilities, traditional clubs and park programmes
- driving profit, shaping programmes, and working with staff
Richard is also a very experienced Coach Education tutor.
Richard's extensive experience includes:
- A lifetime of tennis coaching working with all levels and ages of players including national standard juniors
- Tennis management in the commercial sector
- Delivering coach education and CPD courses on a variety of on- and off-court subjects, and as a consultant to the LTA
- Working on a variety of projects abroad including Tennis 10’s programme in Qatar, Player coach workshops in Greece and developing an adult programme for HVS in Finland.
Specialisations
- Business growth & programming strategy
- Environment specific specialist (Indoor centres and clubs)
- Leadership and management
Adam Wharf
"Whatever it is you have in your mind, big, small or not sure where to start. I endeavour to get the best from you."
Adam is a former low level professional, with both a singles and doubles world ranking. He is active in performance coaching, and is Head of Performance for inspire2coach.
Adam's 20 years of career experience have seen him working with a variety of ages and levels in national and international ‘performance’ tennis areas including:
- Private coaching at Bollettieri’s
- Running his own business
- Working for David Lloyd and running Edgbaston Priory as a High Performance Centre.
Qualifications and training:
- Level 5 Master Performance coach.
- Trained massage therapist.
Specialisations
- Performance tennis
"We were mentored as a team of coaches by inspire2coach and we went from strength to strength growing our programmes" (Ricky Piper, David Lloyd, Lancashire)
"We hired inspire2coach for mentoring for the team at David Lloyd Finchley. The content was very good and was tailor-made to our requirements. The communication and organisation was excellent. We would be very happy to use inspire2coach again" (Andrew Dantis, N. London)
“I’ve been using personalised mentoring for over 10 years. inspire2coach have helped guide and grow my tennis business and has helped take me from being a one-man band to running a programme at an indoor tennis centre in Cardiff” (Sena Tengey, Director of Tennis, Diamond Tennis Academy, Cardiff)