About
Practitioner. Leader.
Researcher. Coach.
Dr Ryan King works with leaders, specialists and teams facing complex problems — helping them understand the problem, organise expertise and work together more effectively.
His perspective has been shaped by more than two decades working across Olympic and professional sport as a practitioner, coach, performance leader, strategist and researcher.
The story
One question,
arrived at slowly.
Ryan's career has been spent inside elite and high-performance environments — from working directly with athletes and coaches to leading multidisciplinary performance teams and advising organisations on performance strategy and systems.
Across Olympic and professional sport, the same challenge repeatedly appeared: organisations were rarely short of expertise.
The harder question was how that expertise should be organised, combined and used to solve the problem in front of them.
Why do organisations employ exceptional experts, put them into multidisciplinary teams, and then give surprisingly little thought to how that expertise should be combined?
That question became the starting point for his doctoral research and ultimately for Blended Intelligence.
Four perspectives
Where the thinking comes from.
Practitioner
More than two decades working inside elite and high-performance environments, close to the athletes, coaches, specialists and problems that shape practice.
Leader & Strategist
Experience leading multidisciplinary performance teams, specialist functions and performance systems — and helping organisations think strategically about how expertise is organised and used.
Researcher
Doctoral and peer-reviewed research examining problem-solving, professional expertise and multidisciplinary collaboration in elite sport.
Coach
Coaching and mentoring leaders and practitioners, and facilitating teams, to interrogate difficult problems, challenge assumptions and think more clearly about what comes next.
Experience
Built in high performance.
The thinking behind Blended Intelligence has been shaped through more than two decades of practice, leadership and research across Olympic and professional sport.
- 20+ years
- Working across elite and high-performance sport.
- Olympic & professional sport
- Experience as a practitioner, coach, performance leader and strategist.
- Leaders, practitioners & teams
- Workshops, facilitation, coaching and mentoring with people and teams from recognised sporting organisations.
- Research
- Professional Doctorate and peer-reviewed research examining problem-solving, expertise and multidisciplinary collaboration.
Experience is communicated through its calibre, breadth and nature rather than through association with named organisations or individuals.
Beyond sport
Sport is where the thinking developed.
The problems are not unique to sport.
Many organisations face the same challenge: complex problems, multiple specialists and expertise that has to be brought together effectively.
Blended Intelligence explores how to make that process more deliberate.