20 years researching champions and potential fulfillment in high performance sport, using the latest methods and techniques in mind training and how this applies to success in business and other aspects of life.
Toni Gaddie
Clinical and Sports psychologist
Toni Gaddie understands intimately what makes a champion and how to bring out champion talents in individuals and teams. She practices as a Clinical and Sports Psychologist where she assists sports stars and industry business leaders in becoming “whole champions”.
She co-founded the Champion Academy, which focuses on programmes for elite athletes, as well as business executives. She is currently working with leading South African sports teams to achieve champion status and delivers talks and programmes to business leaders to assist them in achieving excellence.
In 2011 and 2012 Toni attended the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland, where she collaborated with world leaders in business, psychology and sports psychology, further honing her approach to working with champions.
At a young age Toni became one of South Africa’s top female tennis players and earned her place in the South African International Tennis squad. As a professional, her highest world ranking was 447 in singles and 280 in doubles. Her failure to achieve her dream of world no one, spurred her on to study the psyche of champions first in sport and then business.
Rikki Gaddie Dworcan
NLP Practitioner and Mind Trainer
Rikki is passionate about growing “whole champions” in all sports as well as the arts. She motivates high performance athletes to grow their greatness by training the secrets of champions. She co-founded The Champion Academy, which focuses on programmes for elite athletes. Rikki is currently working with leading South African sports stars as well as top South African artistic talents and teams.
She is an internationally certified Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner and has a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial, Clinical Psychology and Communications.
Rikki was ranked the number “One” tennis player in South Africa as a junior. At age 15, she was selected as a junior Springbok and chosen for the South African Super Squads to travel on the International Professional Tennis Tour.
Her team players included the likes of Amanda Coetzer, Mariaan De Swart, Wayne Ferreira and David Adams amongst other high world ranking tennis professionals. Rikki has competed in various tournaments including, amongst others, Wimbledon, French, US and Italian Opens. Rikki’s inspiration from her success’s, and the disappointment of her failures have inspired her to change the lives of the incredible athletes she works with.