Performance consulting, coaching, keynote speaking for high-performing individuals and teams.
About Rachel
I am a high performance consultant and coach. More than twenty-five years in elite sport as an Olympian and World Championship medallist sit alongside an Applied Science degree in Physiotherapy and a Master of Science in Coaching Psychology, and together they shape how I work with individuals and teams to build performance that is both optimal and sustainable.
How I work
Three fields sit behind everything I do. Fourteen years as a professional cyclist gave me the lived understanding of what performance costs to prepare, deliver and maintain. An applied science background gave me the human system, physiology, load and recovery. Coaching psychology gave me the method for delivering both.
Coaching psychology is an evidence-based discipline drawn from cognitive, behavioural and organisational psychology, and it works through structured reflection. My job is to help you find your own answers and build the structures that hold them.
In practice we look at the whole system. What your body is carrying, how you are thinking under load, and what the environment around you is asking of you. We shift those three together.
THE CLIMB
My journey
Six moments that shaped how I think about performance. Under pressure, in the body, and over time.
BEFORE THE BIKE
The Physiotherapist
Before I raced, I studied the body. A Bachelor of Applied Science in Physiotherapy at the University of Sydney, then a decade working in elite sport, with an early understanding of how athletes perform and the science of keeping them there.
2008
The Leap
At 25 I left that career to start from scratch. I learned to ride a road bike, then to race one. Two years later I was racing professionally in Europe, against women who had been riding since childhood.
13 YEARS
The Apprenticeship
Thirteen years at the top of international racing, learning what it costs to prepare, deliver and maintain performance at world class level.
2012 TO 2023
The Summit
Silver at the UCI Road World Championships. An Olympian at Rio 2016. Six World Championship campaigns, four national championship podiums, two Tours de France. Starting late did not mean starting behind.
2024 TO 2025
The Transition
An MSc in Coaching Psychology at the University of Sydney. Academic rigour to back my lived experience, and a method for delivering both.
TODAY
The Next Chapter
I bring all of it, high performance expertise, coaching psychology and human performance science, to the people and organisations making their own climb.