Clare Strange
Associate Consultant
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Clare Strange is an Associate Consultant at Lane4. She uses her elite performance background to design and deliver performance development workshops for clients at an individual, team and organisational level. Clare uses her life and sport experiences to demonstrate key learning points particularly in relation to mental toughness, coping with change and delivering sustained high performance.
Leadership & Team Development
Clare has worked with leaders and teams in a range of contexts from fully formed teams wanting to improve their collective performance to newly formed teams needing to clarify their purpose. Clare translates her elite sporting experiences of high performing team environments to facilitate insights and develop skills in key areas of team and leadership development.
Mental Toughness
Clare works with clients to sustain performance during periods of significant organisational change. Drawing on her specialised understanding of Mental Toughness, Clare has worked with teams and individuals to develop resilience, maintain focus and motivation and achieve exceptional results under pressure.
Work at Lane4
Clare Strange is an Associate Consultant with Lane4 and draws on her life as an elite athlete to deliver performance development workshops to a host of Lane4 clients.Clare uses her life and sport experiences to demonstrate key learning points particularly in relation to mental toughness, coping with change and delivering sustained high performance.
Areas of specialism include:
- Mental Toughness
- High Performing Teams
- Dealing with Change
- Personal Leadership
Clients include:
Nestlé - Performance Leadership
nPower - Personal Leadership & High Performance
Marsh - Mental Toughness
Dresdner Kleinwort - Mental Toughness
Argos - High Performing Environments, Managing Performance
Currys - Personal Leadership & Dealing with Change
National Grid -
CCE - Lessons from
Background
Clare is one of Britain's top wheelchair basketball players and a core member of the GB women's team. In September 1997, Clare sustained damage to her spinal cord after a horse riding accident left her paralysed from the waist down. Sport has always been a large part of her life and Clare took up wheelchair basketball in 1998..
Throughout her basketball career, Clare has combined either study or work with a high level of training. After the 2004 Athens Paralympics, Clare spent nine months playing for the Italian League Champions. Clare competes at an international level and aims to compete in her fourth Paralympics in London 2012..
Clare has worked for the Youth Sport Trust as an athlete mentor on a behaviour change programme 'Living for Sport', which aims to re engage young people in school life. Clare has received significant critical acclaim and was the recipient of the Sunday Times Inspirational Sports Woman of the year award in 1998 and British Wheelchair Sports Foundation, Best Newcomer in 2000. In 2007 she won Individual Female Achievement - Wheelpower Sports Awards for her performance at the European Championships .
Clare enjoys coaching basketball and supporting the sport's development. Her positive attitude has been instrumental in generating support for GB wheelchair basketball where she has been a core fundraiser for the team.
