Learning & Development for the Sporting Industry
Develop the Person.Unlock the Performance.
Talent Unlocked develops the people of sport: athletes and coaches, and the clubs, schools and sporting organisations behind them. From the psychological edge to the physical engine to professional capability, we build what separates good from great.
One company. Every level of sport.
Our learning and development interventions are built for the people of sport: athletes, coaches, clubs, schools and sporting organisations and their staff.
Mindset profiles, gamified workshops, one on one coaching and an individualised acceleration, speed and endurance program. Built for any athlete, any sport.
For AthletesThe CoachPOP™ Coach Mindset Profile and the SportsPOP™ Squad Mindset Report: understand how you're wired to coach, and how your squad is wired to perform.
For CoachesThe Warrior Within, delivered at your location: a gamified workshop that builds the six core mental performance skills in your athletes, with zero staff workload.
For Clubs & SchoolsFully customised fractional learning and development: strategy, leadership, high performance teams and coach development, designed around your identified problems.
For Sporting OrgsTrusted by the people of sport.
Having played elite-level sport for over 10 years and now coaching national-level youth athletes, I know how often the mental side of performance is neglected. The SportsPOP™ Athlete Mindset Profile gave me valuable insights into my mindset, while Malcolm and Gemma’s expert debrief helped me turn those insights into action. From both an athlete and coach perspective, I highly recommend it to any athlete wanting to unlock their potential.
From day one it was professional and well run. Zara was properly tested in week one, given a plan based on her own results, and every session was clear and easy for her to follow. The Sunday group runs were a highlight, tough sessions she wouldn’t have pushed through on her own, and she never wanted to miss them. She improved her top speed by over 1km/h, which has definitely been evident in her games this year. Seeing her progress in real numbers made a huge difference. Highly recommend.
Initially, I saw CoachPOP™ as another profiling tool, but I have quickly realised it is much more than that. It has given me a common language to better understand my athletes, ask better questions and explore what might be sitting underneath behaviours rather than simply reacting to what I see. CoachPOP™ has not become another report sitting in a drawer. It has become part of how I coach and, more importantly, it has put me in a better position to do the right thing by every athlete I work with.
Meet the Founders
Talent Unlocked was built by two people who've lived the world of sport and people development from very different angles, and both arrived at the same conviction.
Malcolm brings two decades of hands-on experience in learning & development, facilitation and psychometric assessment, backed by a Bachelor of Education and a Master of Education. He's coached across multiple sports, raised a nationally competitive athlete, and built L&D programs that actually change behaviour. That combination of academic grounding, real-world coaching and personal experience shapes everything Talent Unlocked delivers.
Working with psychometric tools across corporate and sporting contexts for twenty years has given him a rare ability to translate complex profile data into language athletes and families actually understand and can act on. As an experienced workshop facilitator, he's designed and delivered programs across community, corporate and sporting environments, bringing the same energy and rigour to a parent night that he would to a boardroom.
Gemma pairs over a decade in the sport industry with a high performance background as both an athlete and a coach, all driven by a simple motivation: helping others thrive. She earned her Bachelor's degree on a four-year scholarship at William Carey University (NAIA Division 1) in the United States, immersing herself in an elite athletic environment before carrying that same standard into her professional career.
Coaching has been the constant. Gemma has coached teams for many years and still does today, has worked as a high performance goalkeeper coach with the Queensland Academy of Sport, and has dedicated much of her coaching to developing young female goalkeepers, building their technical, tactical and psychological game alongside their confidence. Whether in sport or in business, what drives her is the same: seeing others reach their potential, and knowing she played a part in getting them there.
Together, they share a single belief: people are the performance edge. Whether it's an athlete learning their inner game, a coach growing beyond the accreditation pathway, or an organisation deliberately developing its staff, the sporting industry wins when its people are developed on purpose. Talent Unlocked exists to bring that development to every level of sport.
“We unlock potential across sport: in athletes, in coaches, and in the clubs, schools and organisations behind them.”
Develop the Person.
Unlock the Performance.
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