EP49: Guest Episode – Rich Turner (The Corporate Athlete) | The Clarity, Identity & Psychological Safety Every Team Is Missing

EP49: Guest Episode – Rich Turner (The Corporate Athlete) | The Clarity, Identity & Psychological Safety Every Team Is Missing

From Clean Break Chats by Andy Delderfield and Richard Casement

April 11, 2026 · 1h 14m · Episode 49

About this episode

Rich Turner discusses the key elements that separate high-performing teams from average ones, focusing on clarity, identity, and psychological safety.

What separates a high-performing team from one that's just going through the motions? According to this week's guest, it usually comes down to three things most organisations never get right: clarity, identity, and the psychological safety to actually fail without consequence. Rich Turner is a high-performance coach, sports scientist, and what he calls a Corporate Athlete. He's spent years taking the lessons of elite sport - the debrief cultures, the marginal gains mindset, the psychology of team identity - and applying them to the messy, complicated reality of corporate teams and leadership. The result is a coaching approach that's refreshingly honest: high performance isn't a moment, it's something you have to be able to sustain. In this conversation, Rich, Rich and Andy get into what the best teams actually do differently, why your identity as an individual - and as a collective - can quietly cap your potential without you even realising it, and why the absence of feedback loops in most workplaces is quietly killing performance. They also explore the self-determination theory, the loneliness of being a solopreneur, why autonomy and purpose matter more than most leaders think…

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