Governing Bodies · Academies · Clubs

Communication Consulting, Delivered Across Your Whole Organisation.

The institutional counterpart to our consulting practice: thermal audits, bottleneck workshops, protocol redesign and fractional advisory — scaled from the boardroom to the touchline, with digital tools supporting delivery in between.

NGB Ready·GDPR Compliant·Safeguarding Aware
ACE Coach App — quick prompts and instant coaching tools

How Organisations Engage Us

Three Ways Partnerships Run

Most partners begin with an audit, then extend into workshops and ongoing advisory once the bottlenecks are visible.

01

Organisation-Wide Thermal Audit

Structured interviews and diagnostics across board, staff, coaches and volunteers to map where information stalls, distorts or never arrives.

02

Workshops & Protocol Redesign

Bottleneck workshops with your leadership and regional teams, followed by written communication protocols your people actually use.

03

Fractional Advisory at Scale

Ongoing advisory across the partnership — reviewing how new protocols land, coaching leads through difficult conversations, and adjusting as the season moves.

The Underlying Framework

The ACE Architecture Matrix

The same three disciplines run through every engagement — from board-level protocol redesign down to the conversations happening on the touchline.

A

Alignment

Cognitive Clarity

Cutting through emotional projections to see matchday reality before reacting.

C

Composure

State Regulation

Resetting tone and body language to protect authority under touchline pressure.

E

Edge

Perceptual Advantage

Choosing exact, practical scripts for difficult conversations with parents and players.

One Delivery Tool

Digital Support Between Sessions

Consulting sets the protocols; the ACE Coach App carries them into the week. It is one component of a partnership, not the engagement itself — here is a real response a coach in your organisation would receive.

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ACE Coach App response — structured What's Happening, Reset First, What to Do Next, and What to Say breakdown with tone-adjustment chips.
Included In Every Partnership

Whole-organisation reach, without a licence barrier.

Protocols only work if they reach everyone. Under a partnership, every coach and volunteer in your NGB, academy or club gets the core ACE Coach App at no cost, so the standards agreed in the boardroom show up on a Sunday morning.

No cost to volunteer coaches

Single-click sign-in via club roster

Aggregate (never individual) organisational insights

Optional premium tiers for full-time staff

Trust & Governance

Governance, Safety & Compliance

Safeguarding Redirection

Automatic detection of welfare concerns with instant redirection to official NGB safeguarding procedures.

GDPR & Enterprise Security

Fully secure infrastructure powered by Cloudflare edge and Google Auth. No PII in prompts.

Expert Founder Led

Built by Mike Nichols — 25+ years across sports psychology, corporate leadership, and grassroots coaching.

Partner Pilot

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