BART SCHOUTEN
Multiple Olympic Gold Medal Winning Coach
I Coach & Mentor Elite Coaches In High Performance Sport
Any Sport, anywhere
“Leading up to the Tokyo Olympics I reached out to Bart for some insight related to his successful program. We subsequently set up a series of knowledge – sharing sessions which impacted our training philosophy and contributed to our gold medal in Tokyo.”
– Michelle Darvill, Former National Rowing Coach for Canada and the Netherlands –
SHORT BIO BART
- Multiple Olympic Gold Medal Coach
- Coached speed skating at 6 Olympics, contributing to 10 Olympic Medals
- Athletes won 35 Medals at the World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
- Athletes skated 10 World Records
- Coached and lived in 4 countries and cultures:
the Netherlands (12 yrs), USA (10), Germany (4), Canada (14) - Fluent in Dutch, English and German, proficient in French
- Owner of Schouten Performance Coaching International, Inc.
- Chartered Professional Coach
- Speaker
- Improve coaching performance
- Improve (self-) Leadership skills
- Improve coach ability and coachability
- Improve decision making
- Greater understanding of yourself & others
- Better people skills
- Better connections with athletes,
staff & management
- Improve well-being
- Improve life-work balance
- Make you feel heard, understood & supported
- Decrease your loneliness
“After having had the pleasure of working with Bart as my coach in Berlin for four years leading to me winning an Olympic Bronze Medal, I was allowed to join Bart’s team again in Canada, where Bart put me in my strength for his team. Explaining how to skate a 10km, I discovered that people listened, and I could put my thoughts and feelings into words. Two months later the world record was broken by a skater present at that presentation.
Intensely happy with my small contribution prompted by Bart, this is where the feeling of me wanting to be a coach arose. The listening ear and consulting on the right training program. Radiating tranquility around the playing field, in training and competition situations.”
– Bob de Jong, Olympic Champion and former National Speed Skating Coach for South-Korea and China. –
- Dealing with pressure
- Training programs
- How to have tough conversations
- Managing support staff
- Your coach signature
- Endurance training
- Managing your emotions
- Dealing with ‘difficult’ athletes
- Secret to coaching success
- Politics in your organization
- World Record Performances
- Dealing with stresss
- Channeling your passion
- Where your focus can be
- Writing a Yearly Training Plan
- How to give and receive feedback
- Monitoring of performance
- Intention versus perception
- Coach-athlete connection
- Self-awareness
- Athlete buy-in
- Stopping your thoughts
- Altitude training
- Importance of technique
Socrates: “Know Thyself”
Bart: “Grow Thyself”