Gavin was born and raised in the beautiful coastal city of Plymouth, England. His major initial academic background was in Psychology (studied BSc Psychology at the University of Southampton) and during this time he specialised in the research of advanced memory techniques. Understanding how to learn and memorise effectively has been a crucial skill that has enabled Gavin to take his career in many different directions and acquire a multitude of valuable skills. 

Alongside his passion for psychology and understanding how the brain works, Gavin also has an equal passion for understanding all aspects of physical performance. Throughout his career, he has completed numerous qualifications specifically related to physical performance coaching. He has an exceptional ability to learn and digest highly technical information and then teach that information in an engaging way that makes the content accessible to everyone. 

Gavin is a current Associate Lecturer at the University of Plymouth, a role he has held for over 10 years. He has also been a Keynote Public Speaker for schools and corporate clients for over 10 years, delivering inspiring and educational workshops on topics including memory and revision techniques, stress management, resilience, wellbeing, confidence, team-building & communication skills, success with difficult conversations, health science, exercise and nutrition, anatomy and more. He has an intense passion for learning, combined with an equally strong passion for communicating knowledge and delivering truly engaging workshops. 

Some of Gavin's other career achievements include:

• BBC One Health Expert - Gavin was the lead expert in the feature-length national BBC One documentary Supersize Cabbies, where he coached a group of taxi drivers to achieve impressive health and body composition transformations using a holistic multi-faceted approach combining exercise, nutrition and psychology. Alongside being the lead health expert for the full feature length BBC One health documentary, he has also appeared numerous times on BBC Radio Devon providing health advice, and more than 100 times in the Plymouth Herald newspaper in relation to various health projects.

• Educational Course Writer - Gavin has worked as a Course writer for Stonebridge associated colleges, Leap Academy and Learn Direct, authoring or co-authoring many educational courses such as Level 3 Personal training, Level 4 Advanced Sports Nutrition, Level 4 Strength & Conditioning and more. Alongside his role as a course writer, he has also been involved in tutoring and assessing students and holds teaching and assessor qualifications. 

• Sports Coaching - Gavin holds qualifications in football coaching, futsal coaching, stand- up paddle-boarding coaching, basketball coaching and ice hockey coaching. He has previously worked for Plymouth Argyle FC as a football coach and is currently a UEFA B and Full FA Youth Award qualified coach. At the time of writing, he is undertaking the UEFA B futsal coaching qualification and is the coach of the Marjon University men's futsal first team. 

• Football Science & Performance - In the football industry, Gavin achieved a scientific award nomination as part of a European Parliament project in Caserta, Italy for the development of a football analysis programme called the Football Coded Grading System. The system represents a scientific method of developing and assessing elite football technical skills. His Football Coded Grading System and associated coaching programme subsequently secured a license with national football powerhouse Goals Soccer Centres. 

• Fitness & Health - Gavin has a broad range of experience and qualifications within the fitness & health industry. He has delivered more than 10,000 hours of personal training sessions with clients over many years and has achieved exceptional results throughout his career, most notably through his work on the BBC One Supersize Cabbies documentary. He holds Level 4 qualifications in Strength & Conditioning, Sports Massage, Advanced Sports Nutrition, Exercise training for Chronic Respiratory Disease, and for Obesity & Diabetes management. He also holds Level 3 qualifications in Personal Training and Exercise Referral. In additional, he has accrued numerous shorter qualifications relating to injury rehabilitation and group exercise. 

• Sports Therapy & Rehabilitation - Gavin studied BSc Sports Therapy at the University of Marjons Plymouth and is currently undertaking the MSc Sport Rehabilitation course part-time at the University of Marjons Plymouth. He intends to use this qualification to open up further opportunities to support elite athletes within professional sporting environments.

• Mental Performance & Clinical Hypnotherapy - Alongside his psychology education at the University of Southampton, Gavin is also qualified as a Clinical Hypnotherapist, having trained at the acclaimed Clifton Practice. Gavin has supported hundreds of clients on an individual basis using his psychology and clinical hypnotherapy skills, achieving success in areas including helping clients to overcome severe anxiety and depression, lose weight, develop confidence, and supporting athletes who required psychological expertise to reach the highest levels of performance in their sport. 

Gavin has accrued a tremendous knowledge base and wealth of experience across multiple aspects of mental performance and physical performance, which he can implement in real world settings to support a wide variety of clients and goals.

Alongside supporting clients on a one on one basis in areas of mental performance, such as mental health and public speaking coaching, and physical performance, such as injury diagnosis and rehabilitation exercise programming, Gavin is also expanding the reach of his school and corporate workshops to cover the full extent of the UK. One example is the upcoming TRET staff wellbeing and resilience keynote speech in Manchester.

He is an experienced public speaker who delivers highly rated workshops on topics including wellbeing and stress resilience, revision techniques for students, success with difficult conversations for managers and more. Gavin is open to new opportunities to deliver his workshops to more schools and corporations across the UK and to pass on valuable workshop insights to an ever increasing audience.