About Us
Norman Brook is currently working at Skillshare International as Southern Africa Coaching for Hope Programme Manager.
Norman trained as a secondary school teacher and taught for two years before returning to studiy sports coaching in Scotland and Canada.
In 1982 he was appointed as British National Athletics Coach and based in Northern Ireland. He held this position for ten years developing expertise in high performance sport and community sports development. He coached several individuals to international honours and was coach to Great Britain teams at most major athletics championships including the Olympic Games. In Northern Ireland he worked at a community level developing clubs, coaches and athletes.
In 1992 he worked for the Sport Council for Northen Ireland as a sports development officer.
From 1993 to 1997 he ran a successful consultancy business working nationally and internationally in the field of sports development and management with clients that included major corporates, regional, national and international sports organisations. His projects included the UK-South Africa Sports Initiative which aimed to assist the process of transformation in sport in South Africa and empower previously disadvantaged individuals to become involved in coaching, officiating and administering sport.
In 1997 Norman returned to work for UK Athletics to manage the World Class Performance Programmes for endurance based athletes. He worked with some of Great Britain's leading athletes and their personal coaches through to the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
He returned from a successful Olympic Games to take up the postion of Chief Executive Officer with the British Triathlon Federation a post he leld until the end of 2007. Norman is widely acclaimed for his work in growing the sport of triathlon in the UK and establishing British Triathlon as a world leading triathlon nation.
Norman was a member of the British National Olympic Committee and served as a Board member of the National Coaching Foundation.
He relocated to Cape Town in 2008 with his wife Lisa, whom he met in South Africa in 1995, in order that they could spend more time with their three children Trevor, Caitlin and Lily who are all working or studying in the Western Cape.
Since relocating to South Africa, Norman has worked with a range of organisations in the Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Hungary, Ireland, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Tanzania, United Kingdom, and Zambia developing sport in different contexts.
