Charles Van Commenee

Charles van Commenee is a Dutch athletics coach.

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Charles began his professional career as a technical director with the Dutch athletics federation before moving to take up a similar role for the British athletics team in 2001.

After a term as Performance Director for the Dutch Olympic Committee, he served as Head Coach of British Athletics from 2008 to 2012. Additionally, he has personally coached athletes to international medals, including Denise Lewis, Kelly Sotherton and Huang Zhihong.

“Charles delivered a one hour presentation on Leadership and Coaching at our annual conference. His messages and core themes were perfectly aligned to what we expect from our leaders and his coaching philosophy was one that we can all learn from and apply. His no compromise approach to accountability will ring true to any organisation that is serious about performance.” – Santander Corporate Banking

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