Stephen is a passionate sport management professional who has been involved in sport for 20-plus years as a full-time Sports Administrator of high-school-aged, high-performance and pre-elite sport and coach development programs across South West Sydney and Wollongong in NSW, Australia. Stephen has also been a volunteer coach with experience in both junior and senior basketball programs at regional representative levels throughout the same time period. Stephen works closely with both athletes and coaching staff of high-performance Junior teams and has been a consultant and character coach within senior semi-professional sporting teams. His key focus and role within those environments, and his consultations are centred on creating and reinforcing team culture as its base foundation, and becoming intentional about building the relationships that matter – being the relationships with athletes as a person of great worth and potential, and not just a player with athletic ability. Stephen has a strong passion in building relationships to influence and empower young athletes within his own teams to achieve their own success on and most importantly off the court by focusing on his personal experiences gained from adopting the 3-Dimensional Coaching concepts. “I have seen strategies like the One Word and Spotlight drills change my athletes. 3-Dimensional Coaching has changed the way I personally coach; I have never coached teams so tight since utilising the 3D concepts within my own coaching, and the framework 3D provides allows continued learning and adaptation within those concepts year on year. Before the start of each program season I am continually re-reading my notes taken during the many times I have accessed and completed the online training, as well as notes from throughout the previous season on the incredible positive effects that 3D coaching has had on my athletes, and myself personally. ”