Leading Stories
A regular deep dive into the fascinating and compelling stories of leaders who are making a difference in their companies, communities, schools, organisations and families. Interviews with people working in real world settings facing the challenges and opportunities that we experience in the post pandemic world.
Leading Stories
"If they can do that, what can I do?": Tony Sainsbury - 'Leading Stories' Part 1
Tony Sainsbury OBE has dedicated his career to disabled sports since the mid-1970s, when he began coaching at the Manchester & District Disabled Sports Club. He served as Great Britain's Paralympic Team Chef de Mission from 1980 to 1996, managing the team through five Summer Games. He helped establish the British Paralympic Association in 1989 and went on to work with multiple Olympic and Paralympic organising committees, including Sydney 2000, Salt Lake 2002, and London 2012, where he served as Villages General Manager. In 2016, he returned to the Chef de Mission role for the Independent Paralympic Athletes Team, leading the first-ever refugee and asylum seeker athletes in Paralympic competition.
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