Coaching Culture with Ben Herring

About Coaching Culture with Ben Herring

Coaching Culture with Ben Herring is your weekly deep-dive into the often-overlooked “softer skills” of coaching—cultural innovation, communication, empathy, leadership, dealing with stress, and motivation. Each episode features candid conversations with the world’s top international rugby coaches, who share the personal stories and intangible insights behind their winning cultures, and too their biggest failures and learnings from them. This is where X’s and O’s meet heart and soul, empowering coaches at every level to foster authentic connections, inspire their teams, and elevate their own coaching craft. If you believe that the real gold in rugby lies beyond the scoreboard, Coaching Culture is the podcast for you.

Publisher

Ben Herring

Category

education · education · sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Jan 2025

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

159 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026

   The Hidden Cost Of Poor Culture

   Poor culture doesn’t just create problems you can see. It quietly steals the best parts of your team: the extra effort people would have given, the performance you expected from talented staff, and the potential that never gets a chance to emerge. We bring a high performance lens from elite sport into everyday leadership, because the same culture patterns show up in offices, businesses, and teams of every kind. We unpack three big costs. First, lost effort: when people do “just enough” becau...

2. 

   18 Oct 2026

   What 17,500 Boys Really Want From Adults | Tauranga Boys' Principal Andy Turner

   A school can have great buildings, strong results, and a proud sports history and still miss the thing that actually makes young people thrive. We sit down with Andy Turner, principal of Tauranga Boys’ College in New Zealand, to unpack what he calls “invisible strength” and why school culture and team culture start with beliefs and values long before they show up as traditions, standards, or slogans. We get specific about boys’ education and leadership: the biggest message young men share is...

3. 

   13 Oct 2026

   The Three Bs Of Modern Coaching | Keynotes & Workshops

   Coaching hasn’t gotten softer, it’s gotten more human. We’re seeing it in sport, in business, and in everyday workplace leadership: the old model where players and employees simply adapt to the coach does not hold up the way it used to. So we share the framework we teach in our Coaching Culture workshops and keynotes, built for modern coaching, modern teams, and modern expectations. We walk through the Three Bs of modern coaching: Build, Bring, Become. First, we build the environment and tea...

Who has been a guest on Coaching Culture with Ben Herring

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Gav Hickey
• Mark Jones
• Tony Shaw
• Felipe Contepomi
• Ben John

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

76,350

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

180 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100

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Quality

81

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

51

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