Toni has represented South Africa and been internationally ranked (no. 447) on the professional tennis world tour. She specialises in the qualities, skills and tools that create “Whole Champions” in all aspects of life, and is co-founder of the Champion Academy.
She works with top national and international sports teams, athletes, performing artists, business leaders and their organisations. Toni has coached athletes who have competed at the Olympics, Junior Olympics, Paralympics, the Dakar Rally, the Africa Games and international show jumping, amongst others.
She has attended the World Economic Forum in Davos twice, learning from leaders such as Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Paulo Coelho, Marissa Mayer and Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter. For her Master’s thesis, “The Making of Champions: A Constructed Reality”, she interviewed and studied many world champions to understand the workings of their successful minds.
Rikki is an internationally certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner with a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial & Clinical Psychology and Communications. She is passionate about growing “Whole Champions” across sport and the arts, training the secrets of champions, how to master pressure and how to build a unique Champion Toolkit.
Ranked the number-one junior tennis player in South Africa, she was selected as a junior Springbok at 15 and competed on the international professional tour for eight years. She played Wimbledon, the US Open and the French and Italian Opens alongside the likes of Amanda Coetzer and Wayne Ferreira.
She integrates meditation, yoga and brain gym into her work, and currently trains leading South African sports stars, artistic talents and teams.
The principles we use to develop champions, and that we teach parents, coaches and leaders to model.
Champion labelling, praising strengths and encouraging perseverance.
Calm, judgement-free correction after mistakes, losses and slumps.
Word and action stay congruent; behaviour is consistent and dependable.
Make practice and competition social, playful and genuinely fun.
Belief, correction, trust and enjoyment, repeated until they become identity.
The “BUTER” model stands for Belief, Unemotional correction, Trust, Enjoyment and Repetition.
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