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Coaching Culture with Ben Herring is your weekly deep-dive into the often-overlooked “softer skills” of coaching—cultural innovation, communication, empathy, leadership, dealing with stress, and motivation. Each episode features candid conversations with the world’s top international rugby coaches, who share the personal stories and intangible insights behind their winning cultures, and also their biggest failures and learnings from them. This is where X’s and O’s meet heart and soul, empowering coaches at every level to foster authentic connections, inspire their teams, and elevate their own coaching craft. If you believe that the real gold in rugby lies beyond the scoreboard, Coaching Culture is the podcast for you.
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- Yesterday53 min
Nili Latu: The Untold Story of Tonga's Warrior Captain
Some leaders earn trust with speeches. Nili Latu earned it by taking hits, taking responsibility, and taking care of people when nobody else would. From captaining Tonga through chaotic tours and unpaid campaigns to coaching a new generation back home, Nili’s story is a masterclass in coaching culture, Pacific Island leadership, and what “service” really means in high-performance sport. We talk about leaving Tonga at 10, learning rugby and English in New Zealand, and carrying the press...
- 1 weeks ago1h 0m
My All Blacks Regret, Rassie Erasmus & the Truth About Coaching
The best coaching stories aren’t about the whiteboard, they’re about what happens years later when an old player stops traffic just to give you a hug. That’s where this conversation with John Plumtree goes fast: past trophies and into the parts of rugby coaching and leadership that actually last. Plum has coached at the highest levels with the Sharks, the Hurricanes, Ireland, and the All Blacks, and he brings a grounded view of culture that cuts through the usual slogans. We talk about the h...
- 1 weeks ago1h 2m
The School That Produces Chile's Rugby Captains | The Grange School
A school with 2,100 students shouldn’t feel like a family, yet that’s exactly what we found at Grange School in Santiago, Chile. I’m joined by Francesco “Pancho” Pinha, former Chile captain, lifelong teacher, and the proud tradition keeper who helps explain why this program keeps producing an extraordinary share of Chile’s national team players and leaders. We talk about what “culture” looks like when it’s lived for decades: consistency over many years, coaches who care, and fundamentals don...
- 2 weeks ago1h 11m
How a State School Built a Rugby Powerhouse | Northampton School for Boys
A state school winning at Twickenham sounds like a fairy tale until you hear how Northampton School for Boys actually built it. We sit down with Phil Beaumont and Simon Heffer, the leaders behind NSB rugby’s decade-long rise from six teams to 18 teams and hundreds of players, all in a non-selective, lottery-intake comprehensive where rugby is optional. What makes it work is not a single golden generation, it’s a repeatable system that keeps producing confident players and tight-knit squads ye...
- 2 weeks ago13 min
The Hidden Cost Of Poor Culture
Poor culture doesn’t just create problems you can see. It quietly steals the best parts of your team: the extra effort people would have given, the performance you expected from talented staff, and the potential that never gets a chance to emerge. We bring a high performance lens from elite sport into everyday leadership, because the same culture patterns show up in offices, businesses, and teams of every kind. We unpack three big costs. First, lost effort: when people do “just enough” becau...
- 3 weeks ago1h 2m
What 17,500 Boys Really Want From Adults | Tauranga Boys' Principal Andy Turner
A school can have great buildings, strong results, and a proud sports history and still miss the thing that actually makes young people thrive. We sit down with Andy Turner, principal of Tauranga Boys’ College in New Zealand, to unpack what he calls “invisible strength” and why school culture and team culture start with beliefs and values long before they show up as traditions, standards, or slogans. We get specific about boys’ education and leadership: the biggest message young men share is...
- 3 weeks ago17 min
The Three Bs Of Modern Coaching | Keynotes & Workshops
Coaching hasn’t gotten softer, it’s gotten more human. We’re seeing it in sport, in business, and in everyday workplace leadership: the old model where players and employees simply adapt to the coach does not hold up the way it used to. So we share the framework we teach in our Coaching Culture workshops and keynotes, built for modern coaching, modern teams, and modern expectations. We walk through the Three Bs of modern coaching: Build, Bring, Become. First, we build the environment and tea...
- 4 weeks ago1h 12m
Turning a Struggling Irish School Back Into a Rugby Powerhouse | Sean Skehan
A coach can win games and still lose the room. Sean Skehan joins us to get brutally honest about what actually holds a rugby program together when pressure hits, emotions run high, and real life at home is waiting after the final whistle. We start with parenting and identity, because becoming a dad forces Sean to rethink anxiety, post-loss frustration, and the discipline of being fully present, lessons that transfer straight into leadership and coaching culture. From there, we dig into the n...
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Coaching Culture with Ben Herring is your weekly deep-dive into the often-overlooked “softer skills” of coaching—cultural innovation, communication, empathy, leadership, dealing with stress, and motivation. Each episode features candid conversations with the world’s top international rugby coaches, who share the personal stories and intangible insights behind their winning cultures, and also their biggest failures and learnings from them. This is where X’s and O’s meet heart and soul, empowering coaches at every level to foster authentic connections, inspire their teams, and elevate their own coaching craft. If you believe that the real gold in rugby lies beyond the scoreboard, Coaching Culture is the podcast for you.
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