Rory Underwood

Rory Underwood is probably best known as England's highest ever rugby try scorer. During his career, Rory scored a record 49 tries for England and won 7 caps for the British Lions touring Australia and New Zealand.

Rory played first class rugby at Leicester Tigers for 14 years and was awarded the MBE in 1992 for his services to rugby. From 2007-2020, Rory joined the Board of Leicester Tigers as a non-executive Director.

Throughout his record-breaking rugby career, Rory also amassed 3.000 hours flying as a pilot for the Royal Air Force.

During his RAF career he flew the Jet Provost TMk5A, Hawk TMk1A, Tornado GR1, Canberra T17 and the Dominie. He was responsible for introducing Crew Resources Management (CRM) training into the RAF, thereby developing a culture where personnel look at how teamwork and decision making is affected in time limited stressful situations.

In 2009, Rory founded Wingman Ltd. Using his experience as an athlete at the highest level and his years flying fast jets in the Royal Air Forces, Rory applies these experiences of operating in a high-performance environment to the challenges faced by CEOs, MDs and business owners as they try to grow their businesses.

His specific interest and expertise in the areas of effective communication and high performance leadership within teams, coupled with his experience, allows him to bring a different perspective into the performance of business teams.

Rory incorporates his inspirational experiences with practical performance activities creating an environment for delegates to explore and challenge their view of teams and how they can make an impact within the business. He explores and challenges delegates about their understanding of teams, high performance and how to measure it.

With over 20 years of working with businesses of all sizes and within a variety of sectors, Rory brings a different perspective to your stereotypical ‘team building’ workshop. Rory has collated all the issues and challenges that face leaders and managers as they try to grow their business and created a strategy implementation methodology called LIFT that enables organisations to deliver their strategy effectively.

Through his talks, Rory explores the relationship between values and motivation that is bound together by trust to enable you to create and sustain a high performance team ethos within the organisation.

As a thought leader, Rory also presents on business strategy at the University of Surrey and the University of Leicester’s School of Business.

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