Workshops
Themed workshops from esteemed presenters aimed towards industry readiness
About Us
ProPerform Sport Mentoring is a career development programme offered to individuals who wish to work in sport. We provide our clients with an aspirational approach so that they can motivate themselves to develop their brand and establish a reputation as a successful sporting professional. Our programme was founded in 2008 by Robert Kielty who has been mentoring and consulting in professional and elite sport for over 25 years.
Career opportunities in sport are hugely competitive and are often dependant on the support structures that individuals have access to. Our programme therefore provides experienced Mentors who help clients construct a unique career plan. We have a live schedule of workshops from esteemed Sporting professionals, an online community of practice network connecting clients to industry as well as an exclusive industry placement when they are required to provide that much sought after experience. Applicants have the flexibility to join via an online programme as well as attend our live face to face schedule.
Our mentees come from different populations. Very often they are graduating students from school, college or university who recognise the need for an individual career plan or a network in which to promote their attributes. We also attract existing sporting professionals who may have reached a career ceiling or wish to diversify into other sports employment.
We are rightly proud of the role we have played in the success of many of our previous mentees and our story can also be accessed through our social media platforms.
Robert Kielty
Robert is the Director and Founder of ProPerform Sports Mentoring providing consultancy and mentoring to individuals, teams and organisations. He is an active member of Mentoring Europe.
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The programme started formally in 2008 with the arrival of his first child, which acted as a catalyst for a more formal mentoring process- allowing Robert more quality time with the kids.
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Robert has been a leader and innovator in high performance sport with an output for cultural change and development of athletes and coaches. He has a proven track record working across various sports. This has included consultancy performance positions with Team GB, Scottish Premiership Rugby, British Basketball League and the Scottish FA.
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Robert has had an output in Professional Football over many years and has held first team sports science and medicine positions at 8 UK clubs. He was previously the Lead for Coach Education on the Physical Preparation Coaching Awards for the Scottish FA where he engineered transformational change for coaches, coach developers, managers, leaders, senior teams and players.
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Robert is dedicated to creating mentoring programmes and strategies that build people’s confidence and brand. These are the catalyst for career success. His programme is shaped and informed from his 30 years of experiential learning and network building across UK, Europe and North America. His programmes are regularly peer reviewed by an advisory board consisting of sports industry leaders.
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He is dedicated to the role that education plays in career success and he has been a lecturer and programme director at 4 universities in the areas of performance coaching, sport science and sports management. He has also held a number of external examiner positions at UK institutions and has been on the validation panel for many programmes including the English FA League Managers Association and UCFB Wembley consortium
Robert was most recently the lead for Sports Professional Practice in the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at University of Stirling, one of the UK’s leading high performance Universities. He has been responsible for creating the faculty’s largest work-based sport placement programme linking hundreds of students, staff and sports agencies
Case Studies
NEIL ROSS
Lecturer Edinburgh College; S&C Coach Scottish Rugby; MSc; UKSCA Accredited; UEFA B Licence
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ProPerform provided a Career mentoring plan and internships in college lecturing and elite youth sport science
DECLAN MCKEAN
Scouting Analyst at Heart of Midlothian FC
Student at New College Lanarkshire and Sport Management at Glasgow Caledonian University.
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ProPerform provided a Career mentoring plan and networking strategy linking him to high performance (football) sporting professionals
SEAN MILLER
1st Team Rehabilitation Conditioning Coach, Newcastle United Football Club
Student at Edinburgh College, Napier University and M.Res at Wolves FC.
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​ProPerform provided a Career mentoring plan and Internship with Raith Rovers FC 1st team. ProPerform also co-presented a paper at the Science and Soccer Conference, St Georges Park
SEAN DAVIDSON
High Performance Basketball Coach- under-18 women's squad at Caledonia Gladiators.
Student at Glasgow Clyde College and Sports Coaching at University West of Scotland.
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ProPerform provided a Career mentoring plan and Internship within a Fitness Coaching and Sport Science programme in elite youth sport
JENNY FISCHER
Lecturer and Researcher at the German Sport University Cologne
Student at Glasgow Kelvin College and Sport Management at Glasgow Caledonian University.
ProPerform provided a Career mentoring plan and an internship organising our workshop programme and International trips.
ROBBIE CUTHBERT
Business Development Director -Indigo Fitness
Student at James Watt College and Sports degree at Open University
ProPerform provided a Career mentoring plan resulting in networking strategy linking him to high performance fitness and sporting professionals
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