About our founder Daniel Smyth:
Daniel Smyth is a BACP registered psychodynamic therapist based in inner London. Daniel’s focus is on behaviour and the catalysts behind it. He is the founder and creator of the Sport and Thought, Football as Therapy project which as an organisation works in both primary and secondary schools within the United Kingdom and Europe.
Beyond The present is the outcome of all work and learning undertaken by Daniel and his colleagues under the Sport and Thought, Football as Therapy handle.
Daniel works with both adolescents and children in a therapeutic context and offers consultancy on institutional dynamics alongside senior leadership teams in inner-city secondary schools and within the corporate world.
As both an individual and an organisation, both Daniel’s and Sport and Thoughts aim is to help young people develop the emotional control and the resilience they need to participate actively in school, complete their education and lead fulfilling, emotionally rich lives.
Daniel’s work with adolescents expressing both behavioural and substance misuse difficulties has been recognised by the UK Home Office on two occasions. He has spoken at a number of conferences, most recently in Qatar, national and international television, live national radio and given seminars at institutions including the Freud museum London. He has two papers published on the rational Sport and Thought uses to work with young people.
Daniel set up the Sport and Thought organisation 10 years ago as a direct response to the lack of accessible spaces to support young people to have a place to understand themselves. Daniel alongside Sport and Thoughts objective is to make thinking and thinking about the self, more accessible to all and to remove what may be perceived to be the difficulty to this.
Published work
Smyth, D. (2014). Sport and Thought. Football as therapy: A year in the life of an inner city project. Psychodynamic Practice: Individuals, Groups and Organisations, 20, 104_115.
Smyth,D. Sport and Thought: development of a sport-based therapeutic intervention: Contemporary Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Wayne Clarke – Operations Director:
As well as overseeing our operations Wayne is the founding partner of the GGI, based out of the UK/Netherlands. From 2007 until 2012 he was the managing partner of the advisory arm of Best Companies, who produce the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies lists.
He began his career at Arthur Andersen and went on to lead employee engagement for BDO, the fifth largest accounting network, who achieved a top 20 ranking in the Sunday Times Best Companies lists. Wayne is an economics graduate and has spent over 20 years helping to improve the performance of organisations through improved people engagement.
He works throughout the world designing and delivering strategic growth focused programmes within the private and public sector. To date he has worked with more than 700 CEOs/boards and thousands of managers in over 30 countries. Wayne is an international keynote speaker and has been recognised for 4 years by HR Magazine as one of the top 25 “Most Influential Thinkers” in the world. Wayne is a visiting lecturer on the MBA and International Business Masters programme at Cass Business School in London and Dubai.
In 2012 at the New York JCI/UN Partnership Summit, he was formally recognised as a JCI Ambassador for his work in promoting the principles of JCI and the United Nations Foundation; previous recipients of this ambassadorship include former UN Secretary General Mr Ban Ki Moon.
Ashley Price – Development Director:
Ashley is our Development Director of Beyond The Present. She works alongside our colleague Rose in the Growth department. Together they develop and deepen new and existing relationships with education settings worldwide to aid their ambitions of creating high performance for both colleagues and students alike. Ashley spent the majority of her career working with corporate organisations helping to develop the best people cultures and employee engagement levels, her focus whether in the boardroom or classroom is to get the very best out of people and to help them win.
A mum of two, Ashley is also Chair of a preschool committee and just received ‘Good’ in a recent Ofsted inspection.
Rose Leach – Programme Director:
Rose is our Programme Director at Beyond The Present. She works alongside our colleague Ashley in the Growth department. Together they develop and deepen new and existing relationships with education settings worldwide to aid their ambitions of creating high performance for both colleagues and students alike. Rose spent the majority of her career working with corporate organisations helping to develop the best people cultures and employee engagement levels, her focus whether in the boardroom or classroom is to get the very best out of people and to help them win.
Rose is focussed on delivery, from processes to systems she ensures a seamless and enjoyable programme for you and your colleagues to participate in.
