Share Your Story: Strengthening Our Community Through Member Content

20 August 2026

Our weekly newsletter brings you regular updates, insights and useful industry content, but some of the most valuable stories come from you – our GCMA members – sharing your experiences, ideas and successes with one another.

We’d love you to continue putting forward the projects, achievements, ideas and insights you think other members would find interesting or useful. By sharing what you’re doing and learning, you can help build on the great content already featured in GCMA Weekly and give fellow members the opportunity to learn from your experience.

We’d love to hear about:

Successful projects – what you’ve delivered, what worked and what others could learn from your experience.
Best practice – approaches, ideas and lessons that could help fellow members.
Career milestones and successes – qualifications, promotions, awards, new roles or other achievements worth celebrating.
Industry insights – your perspective on trends, challenges, opportunities or developments across the sector.

You don’t have to write the article yourself

If you have an idea or story to share, you can write and submit your own article – or simply let us know you have something interesting to contribute.

Our designated journalist can then get in touch to find out more and develop the story with you, whether that means writing an article together or creating a piece on your behalf.

Sharing knowledge strengthens the community

Member-generated content is an important part of what makes a strong professional community like the GCMA. Peer-to-peer support, shared experience and practical insight can be just as valuable as formal guidance and industry news.

Your experience could provide another member with a new idea, a solution to a challenge, inspiration for their career, or a fresh perspective on an issue affecting the industry.

So, if you’ve got a story, an achievement, an idea or an insight that others could benefit from, put it forward.

We’ve made it easy with our dedicated submission and contact page – tell us what you’d like to share, and we’ll take it from there.

If you have any questions about getting involved, feel free to contact [email protected] – we’re looking forward to sharing your stories.

SHARE YOUR STORY HERE

By Mark Shanley

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John Steele

John Steele is a former professional athlete, sports coach, Olympic Leader and is the Executive Director of Sport at Loughborough University. He has been Chief Executive across a range of sectors. Drawing on leadership experience of nine different Olympic and Paralympic Games (including the amazing events at the Rio Games), John reflects on the lessons from this unique period in British sport and relays his fascinating views on creating high performing teams.

Indeed, inspired from PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, by the most successful performance ever for Team GB, he has a whole host of new business and leadership insights into how this was brilliant performance was achieved and how it can translate back into your organisation.

John moved into the corporate world, before he enjoyed an outstanding career as a professional rugby player achieving international honours. After his playing career, he turned his hand to coaching and achieved the highest accolade for a British club coach by winning the European Cup with Northampton Saints. He then became Executive Director on the Saints Board during a period of unprecedented growth, and served on the England Rugby Board during the successful world cup campaign of 2003. It was no surprise that John’s talents were called upon to drive through a change and modernisation programme as CEO of the Rugby Football Union – a challenge that became controversial and ended in his departure from the post after only a year, but with his dignity and professional pride intact.

Headhunted by UK Sport, John took up post as CEO the day before London won the 2012 Olympic bid – and this promising start was sustained as he embarked on developing the UK’s high performance sport system, which he led for a six-year period of unprecedented success through the Beijing and London Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Post-London 2012, with the Olympic legacy in place and an obligation to continue inspiring a generation, John took up his post as Group Chief Executive of the Youth Sport Trust. He has also succeeded Steve Cram as Chairman of the English Institute of Sport, an organisation described as ‘the team behind the team’, which delivers a range of performance impacting solutions to over 40 Olympic and Paralympic sports and some non-Olympic sports.

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Dr Jo Salter MBE

Dr Jo Salter MBE is famed for becoming the first female fast jet pilot, having flown the Panavia Tornado ground attack aircraft during her services in the Royal Air Force. Joining the RAF aged 18, Jo has since taken Air Cadets into the skies as part of Air Experience Flights, become the Director of Global Transformative Leadership for PWC, and most recently become a Global Advisory of GenAI for PwC.

Jo has piloted flights in the Air Cadets Air Experience Flights and inspired countless budding armed service members to pioneer a male-dominated sector, having been the leader of an all-male squadron. Since leaving the military behind, Jo has established a strong business career working in roles such as Head of Technical Services for NetConnect, European Operations Manager for Automated Power Exchange and Managing Director of Saltin Ltd.

Having developed first-class expertise in leadership, analytical thinking and performing under pressure, Jo is now a highly sought-after public speaker to share stories from her time in the skies.

Jo is a passionate Trustee of The Royal Air Force Club and an Ambassador of the Global Angels charity, an organisation that gives communities around the world access to clean water, education, healthcare and encourages female and youth empowerment. Jo has also authored two books, titled Energy: 52 Ways to Fire Up Your Life and Become an Energy Angel and Energize: Spring Clean Your Mind and Body to Get Your Bounce Back Today and Every Day.

In recognition of her achievements throughout her career, Jo has also been named as one of the 50 Most Inspiring Women in the World by Harpers & Queen. She is now working as the Director of Global Transformation Leadership at PWC, after working in other roles such as Director of Risk Technology Strategy, Director Chief of Staff to Head of Technology & Investments and the Director of People & Organisations.

In 2022, Jo was invited personally by Tom Cruise to attend the premiere of Top Gun: Maverick. Most recently, Jo received an honorary doctorate of Arts from Bournemouth University.