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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 too 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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Reflections: Farewell To A Quiet Architect Of Rugby
A quiet architect just left the building—and the story behind his work is a masterclass in leadership. We take a clear-eyed look at Chris Lendrum’s two decades inside New Zealand Rugby, showing how a…
Stu Woodhouse: Leading a school rugby program and an International side
What does it take for a national team with little budget and less infrastructure to climb from 71st to 40th in the world? We sit down with Stu Woodhouse to unpack a decade leading the…
Stu Edwards: Looking after Coaches Mental Well Being
Add to the research here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEaFJl2Iks5RDGq93lTXyOv3RS5SoNJsibRPVWytiQgSWarg/viewform?pli=1What if the biggest performance edge your team is missing is the…
Craig Newby: Losing Teaches What Winning Hides
What do you do when the scoreboard won’t budge? We sit down with Cambridge head coach Craig Newby for an unfiltered look at leadership, culture, and performance in the middle of a 14-game winless…
Reflections: Work Rate Beats Game IQ More Than Coaches Admit.
What if the fastest way to a stronger culture isn’t a better speech but a better session plan? We take a hard look at Gordon Tietjens’ legendary methods with the All Blacks Sevens and unpack why…
Gordon Tietjens: I Coach Intensity Before Tactics
What if the hardest session you’ve ever done became the moment your team truly bonded? We sit down with Sir Gordon Tietjens, the architect of All Blacks Sevens dominance, to unpack a culture built on…
Reflections: How to deal with Pressure
Pressure isn’t a detour in coaching—it’s the road itself. We open up about the weight leaders carry, from constant decision-making to public scrutiny, and why stress doesn’t signal failure but…
Joey Mongalo: How to Deal with the Pressures of Coaching
Ever feel like your work is judged on the tiniest slice of time while everything that matters happens in the shadows? We sit down with Sharks coach and leadership consultant Joey Mongalo to unpack…
Reflections: How First and Last Moments Shape Coaching
A surgeon’s simple habit changed the way we coach. We dig into how the first and last moments of any experience anchor the emotion, memory, and meaning people carry forward—and how that insight can…
Andre Pretorius: Understand And Assist
A late-night training, a tired team, and a coach who missed the real story—that’s where everything changed. Andre Petorius shares how a single moment of misread effort led him to apologize, “break…
Reflection: Learning from a master coach
Pressure without panic. That was the standout energy we brought home from the Brisbane youth rugby coaches forum, where we watched Mike Cron turn complex coaching into something calm, sharp, and…
Nick Evans: Removing the Burden of Outcome
What if performance starts with belonging, not tactics? We sit down with Nick Evans—All Black fly-half turned Harlequins attack coach—to unpack how culture, clarity, and a few well-chosen words can…
Reflections: Bens Coaching Playbook
https://www.coachingculture.com.au/Bens_Culture_Playbook DownloadEver notice two teams run the same drills with the same energy, yet one takes off while the other stalls? We dig into the invisible…
Ben Darwin: Why coaches get sacked.
Want to know why the “hot coach” from a powerhouse program often struggles at your club? We sit down with Ben Darwin of Gain Line Analytics to unpack the data behind coach hiring, culture, and the…
Reflections: Twenty Years, Five Lessons In Love And Coaching
Download Bens free Culture Playbook here: https://www.coachingculture.com.au/Bens_Culture_PlaybookA 20-year anniversary felt like the right moment to unpack how love, family, and coaching actually…
Zane Hilton: I Was A Bad Player, So I Coached Instead
What if the most important part of coaching isn’t the playbook, but the five-minute chat before training? We sit down with Zane Hilton, assistant coach of the Queensland Reds, to unpack a career…
Reflections: Bens Book Review
A dusty bookshelf turned into a wake-up call. While sorting old favorites, we found a box of Tuesdays with Morrie—and that rediscovery became a fresh look at how culture, love, and emotion shape the…
Andrew Hore: Hard Conversations Keep Standards High
What if the toughest conversations are actually acts of care? We sit down with Andrew Hore—veteran leader across the Crusaders, Ospreys, New Zealand Rugby, and the Blues—to unpack how culture really…
Reflections: Privilege, Context, And The Real Measure Of Coaching
A year can teach more than a stack of textbooks when you commit to showing up every week. We look back on a season built on a simple promise: open a door to world-class coaching minds so any coach,…
Warren Kennaugh: Your Team Is Not A Democracy, And That’s Okay
Pressure doesn’t invent behavior; it reveals it. That’s the heartbeat of our conversation with behavioral strategist Warren Kenor, who brings three decades of coaching across elite rugby, cricket,…
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