Jeremy Snape
Senior teams crack under sustained pressure long before strategy does. Leaders are asked to hold composure, confidence and standards through stretches that look nothing like the conditions they were promoted in. The methods that build that resilience inside elite sport rarely make it into corporate practice in any usable form.
Jeremy Snape is a former England cricketer and sport psychologist who helps leadership teams build the mindset, composure and team standards that elite sport relies on under pressure.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Jeremy Snape
- He has run the experiment in public. As performance coach to Shane Warne’s Rajasthan Royals, he built the dressing-room culture that won the inaugural IPL title against far better-resourced franchises.
- His work sits at the join between two credentials most consultants only have one of: an England international playing career and a master’s in sport psychology, applied across Premier League football, England Rugby and South African cricket.
- The “Inside the Mind of Champions” podcast gives him a continuously refreshed evidence base. Guests include Sir Alex Ferguson, Pep Guardiola, Eddie Jones and Rahul Dravid, and the material feeds directly into his executive sessions.
- Through Sporting Edge, he has spent two decades translating sport psychology into corporate practice rather than telling sporting war stories with a thin business gloss on top.
Biography highlights
- Former England international cricketer, 10 ODIs and one T20I, with a Man of the Match award on ODI debut against Zimbabwe.
- County career at Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire and Leicestershire; captained Leicestershire and lifted the Twenty20 Cup in 2004.
- Master’s degree in sport psychology, taken during the latter stage of his playing career.
- Performance coach to the Rajasthan Royals during their IPL title-winning campaign under Shane Warne, with subsequent roles at Delhi Daredevils, England Rugby, Premier League football clubs and the South African national cricket team.
- Founder and Managing Director of Sporting Edge, the performance consultancy he established in 2005.
- Non-Executive Director of the League Managers Association since 2013, supporting leadership development for football managers at St George’s Park.
- Host of the “Inside the Mind of Champions” podcast, with guests including Sir Alex Ferguson, Pep Guardiola, Eddie Jones, Rahul Dravid and Shane Warne.
Biography
The Rajasthan Royals were the cheapest-bought, lowest-rated franchise in the inaugural Indian Premier League. They won it. The performance coach embedded with that team, working alongside Shane Warne to build a culture out of nothing in a few weeks, was Jeremy Snape.
That project is the cleanest illustration of what he does. Snape played 10 One Day Internationals for England and captained Leicestershire to the Twenty20 Cup, and during the back end of his playing career he took a master’s in sport psychology. The combination is unusual: a working international athlete who became a credentialed performance specialist, rather than an academic with a fan’s interest in sport.
Since founding Sporting Edge in 2005, he has taken those methods into corporate work, alongside continued roles in elite sport, including Delhi Daredevils, England Rugby, Premier League football and South African cricket. In 2013 he joined the League Managers Association as a Non-Executive Director, helping design the leadership programmes that football managers take at St George’s Park.
His “Inside the Mind of Champions” podcast keeps the research live. Conversations with Sir Alex Ferguson, Pep Guardiola, Eddie Jones, Rahul Dravid and Shane Warne are not entertainment for him; they are the working material that feeds the frameworks he takes into boardrooms on team trust, composure under scrutiny and the unglamorous standards that separate first place from fourth.
Key speaking topics
- High-performance culture
- Leadership under pressure
- Team trust and standards
- Mindset and mental resilience
- Performance psychology for business
- Talent development and succession
Ideal for
- CEOs and executive teams entering a sustained period of pressure, scrutiny or transition
- Senior leadership offsites focused on team standards, trust and decision-making in stretch conditions
- Sales, trading and client-facing leadership groups whose performance hinges on composure under public-facing risk
- HR and L&D leads designing leadership development programmes for high-stakes commercial roles
Audience outcomes
- A specific read on how elite sport builds composure and how that translates into executive decision-making under scrutiny.
- Concrete language for what high-performing team standards actually look like day to day, beyond the values poster on the wall.
- A clearer view of where individual mindset ends and where team culture has to take over.
- Methods for sustaining performance after a setback, drawn from named figures in elite sport who have done it publicly.
Talks
A session on how elite performers build, protect and rebuild their personal best under pressure, and what executive teams can use from that practice.
Key takeaways:
- How world-class performers handle scrutiny, setbacks and the pressure of the moment
- The mindset routines that separate consistency from one-off performance
- What translates from the dressing room into executive decision-making, and what does not
A leadership session built from interviews with elite leaders in sport, the military and the performing arts, focused on how they set standards and hold them.
Key takeaways:
- How elite leaders make hard calls and hold standards through public scrutiny
- The signals that distinguish a high-trust team from a high-talent one
- How leaders rebuild authority after a visible loss or setback
A session on the team practices that sustain performance over years, not single seasons, drawn from cricket, rugby and football case work.
Key takeaways:
- What sustained team performance looks like beyond a single winning year
- The standards, rituals and conversations that distinguish enduring teams
- How succession and refresh are handled inside elite squads without losing edge
Videos
Testimonials
Fees
| EUR | GBP | USD | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home Country | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| Asia Pacific | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| Europe | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| Middle East & Africa | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| South America | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| United Kingdom | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| US East Coast | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| US West Coast | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| Virtual | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |