Bill Nelson is an elite international sporting coach who has turned his knowledge of developing peak team and individual performance into a world-class corporate consultancy, Total Performance Concepts Pty Ltd.

Bill's wisdom on the science of motivation, performance coaching and team building has been utilised by business organisations, defence forces, the real estate and telecommunications industries, educational institutions, local government, numerous businesses and elite sporting programs throughout the world.

Major corporate brands including Canon and Panasonic have called on Bill's services on national advertising and marketing campaigns.

His business draws on his expertise and time as an Olympic coach who contributed to peak performances at both the Barcelona (1992) and Atlanta (1996) Games, world championships and other international competition.

He is a multi-award winning swim coach who has worked with the sport's foremost performers in such academies as the world-acclaimed Australian Institute of Sport.

Bill embarked on his professional coaching career in 1981 and during the next two decades received numerous Coach of the Year awards at regional, state and national level.

His success took him to Commonwealth Games, World Championships and the Olympics, plus elevated him to vice-presidency of the World Swim Coaches Association.

During this time, his ability to isolate the building blocks of peak performance was recognised by other sporting entities. From 1992-94, Bill served as an advisor to the Australian Road Cycling Team and, during the mid-90s to 2001, consulted to the premiership-winning SE Melbourne Magic and the Victoria Titans National Basketball league teams .

He has provided team-building services to Australian football and rugby clubs, and, in 2002-03 was a member of the coaching and management team which steered the Sydney Kings basketball team to the NBL crown.

His actions speak as loud as his words as evidenced by his own personal sporting achievements, his role in the Sydney Olympic Torch Relay and his awarding of an Australian Sports Medal.

Underpinning Bill's reputation as a great motivator and team builder is his impressive communication skills. Part of his busy itinerary includes numerous speaking engagements and a weekly radio program.

He was born on 26 March, 1961, but his early education revealed no clues as to what would become his chosen vocation for life.

The unlikely origin of this ultimate career choice came via an introduction to the workforce as a below-ground coalminer. It was in the coal mine that Bill first witnessed how reward could be reaped from the most unyielding environment if the concepts of teamwork, co-operation and ingenuity were applied to the task.

Bill believes that his sporting background and the competition it generates is the perfect finishing school for a motivator and team builder.

"Sportspeople have known for decades that one of the key strategies to increasing performance levels is to work with coaches and mentors who will create a plan of action that can and will extract the absolute best out of them and have them achieving outstanding results," he says.

In 1981, he took those values into a fledgling coaching career with the Westlakes Swim Club, near Newcastle, NSW. His familiarity with water sports sprang from his own boyhood experience as a swimmer and his continuing quests as a competitive surfboard rider. Seven years after entering the coaching ranks he was engaged by the nation's outstanding sports academy, the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra and on his way to the Olympic Games

Bill's travels within the elite performance environment offered exclusive access and insights to the science of fulfilling the potential of both the individual and team across a vast range of disciplines.

Through Total Performance Concepts Pty Ltd, he works with individuals, teams and businesses to increase performance, productivity, synergy, efficiency and enjoyment to develop and maximise true potential.

He is a great believer that any development should embrace the happiness and well-being of both the individual and team in a manner that creates winning outcomes for career and family life.

To this end Bill finds ready support in his wife Joanne and three children, Jae, Elle and Kye.

Since Bill Nelson established Total Performance Concepts in 2000, more than 200 organisations and numerous individuals have availed themselves of his guidance in defining a clear direction, setting goals and strategies, developing an authentic culture, overcoming impediments to success, defining leadership qualities, creating accountability, learning self-management techniques, developing true teamwork and committing to a vision.

These "secrets" to achieving peak performance are revealed in Total Performance Concepts' performance coaching programs, interactive workshops, Bill's motivational speeches, teleconferences and his widely circulated monthly newsletters.

"For the past 20 years I have helped numerous individuals, teams and businesses increase profitability and performance," says Bill Nelson. "The results speak for themselves. These strategies, insights and programs continue to provide outstanding results in business, in sport and in life in general and they can work for you. Guaranteed!"