tri Partnerships

Our team of direct impact performance coaches, consultants, and educators.

WHY DO WE EXIST?

tri Partnerships brings together people with extensive professional experience in a number of different fields, particularly focused on the coaching and development of others. We want to share the knowledge and skills we’ve developed as a team.

WHO ARE WE?

tri Partnerships are a dedicated team of professionals who work together to inspire sustainable behavioural change.

HOW DO WE DO THIS?

By offering consultation and coaching for businesses, community groups and individuals.

tri Partnerships produce experiential based, personal and corporate development workshops, events and programmes by combining leading edge learning and communication frameworks with performance art / sport practices and software designed to help you meet and sustain your full potential.

Who do we work with?

We work with other agencies and coaches who deliver training; from rugby clubs to businesses. We also facilitate personal and professional development for individuals.

MEET OUR TEAM

HQ

Jamie Armstrong is the founder of Trust Rugby International. Following a long and varied career encompassing business, performance, coaching, creativity and science, he finally landed with rugby. He has built an impressive reputation, with an eclectic range of clients, groups and individuals for inspiring and supporting them to learn to juggle a sustainable working life within a creative thinking environment. Jamie’s vision and dedication for tri has resulted in its success over the years, culminating in Jamie winning the World Rugby ‘Spirit of Rugby’ Award in 2018.

Qualifications– UK CC Coaching Level 3, Scottish Rugby Coach Educator, World Rugby Licensed Trainer, UK CC Strength and Conditioning Level 1
Coaching: Accredited NeuroLingusitic Practitioner, “Time to Think” Coach and Consultant, Strengthscope Accredited Coach, Strengthscope Team Coach, NHS Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Level 1.

Karen Mitchell – I have extensive experience working with individuals with additional support needs and I am driven by Inclusion and celebrating difference. I set up The Fife Clan Unified Rugby Team and coupled with having played myself, I have experienced the benefits gained from engaging in rugby for players, enablers, coaches and spectators alike. My passion is to open doors to encourage as many players as possible to engage in the sport regardless of age, (dis)ability, gender, culture and experience and to provide a safe and stimulating environment in which to do so.

Qualifications – UKCC Coaching Level 2, Sports Leaders Tutor Assessor and UK CC Strength and Conditioning Level 1

David Woods joined tri in as a player/enabler in 2017 and then in 2018 came on board as full time Team Leader for tri WorX , and Glasgow clan assistant coach, then in 2019 became Business Director for tri Worx C.I.C.

With over 20 years’ rugby experience and as much developing and growing businesses, David is combining these skills to assist in player coaching and helping our players grow in the working environment through tri WorX, by developing employment programmes/projects.

David is qualified as a Sports Leader Tutors Assessor and working towards UKCC Coaching Level 2.

Fiona McLean tri TeamWorX Programme Leader and lifestyle coach. “If I haven’t learned something new today, I haven’t been working hard for enough” Fi has been involved with tri in a supporting capacity since 2013 and it is her constant joy to watch the players and participants both old and new, grow and develop new skills. She is always striving for everyone to find new ways to learn.

Yve Barry is one of the newest additions to the team and having completed her internship with us is now working part-time. She has just graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in English Literature and Sociology. Yve is responsible for the development of our Sustainable Pathway tool, while also completing various admin and marketing duties. Trust Rugby stood out to Yve due to its priority for inclusiveness and diversity, while being centred around and based on the principles of a sport she has always loved.

Yorick Petri joined the tri Group in Autumn 2018 with a remit of assisting on a marketing project part-time. It did not take long for him to understand the passion and commitment of the whole team in delivering sustainable lifestyles for clients. This was the motivation that drove him to join the team, to help shape the future growth and success of the organisation.

Working for a charity and CIC, are a departure for him, having spent the last 30 years in in the Pharmaceutical industry, most recently as Senior Global Marketing Director where his marketing expertise and leadership have helped shape evolving care in the areas of Cardiology and more recently Oncology.

Coaches

David Cranston – Rugby has always been in my family and when I was given the opportunity to become a Development Officer and Coach with tri in June 2018, I knew it would be a great experience. I now work to promote and develop rugby in the Caledonia area which is a great way to encourage equality and enable everyone to play. Since joining tri I have also taken on the role of Director of Rugby at Fraserburgh RFC where the Caledonia Clan hub is based. Being a coach involves supporting the players to meet their potential along with a good team spirit.

Stevie Main – Stevie provides a high-quality coaching experience for all participants that attend training with the Clans and tri partnerships. He is the lead coach of Trust Rugby International Unified Rugby Football Club (tri URFC) and supports the development of the rugby programme with tri.

Shabaz Khan – I have been involved with tri since 2012 where I started as a volunteer enabler. From there I quickly became part of the coaching, development and coach education team, delivering to community groups, the club side and national squad. Being involved with tri has developed me as a player, coach and a person. I’ve learned a great deal regarding disabilities and developing the person as well as the player. Regardless of where my life takes me I will always be part of tri in some way or form.

Qualifications – UKCC 1 & 2 Rugby Union, SRU/UKSCA Level 1 Weightlifting, Autism Awareness Training, CALMS Aggressive Behaviour Management Training Module 1&2, Inclusive Coaching Training

International

Simon and Michael are both founding members of Trust Rugby International and development directors for tri Spain, our Spanish partner organisation. They have been instrumental in the development of tri since its inception. From the very beginning they have helped shape the organisation’s growth to become one of Spain’s largest unified rugby development organisations. They are partnered with The Valencian Federation of Rugby as well as the national Governing Body FER.

Based in Cullera, Valencia, Spain, El Clan and partner organisations host the annual Festival Internacional de Rugby Inclusivo, which has grown from a rugby only festival to a full cultural inclusion experience with over 600 attending last year’s event, including Rugby, Dance and Culinary exhibitions.

Simon y Michael Artiles Shannon son miembros fundadores de Trust Rugby International y directores de desarrollo de tri Spain, nuestra rama asociada en España. Han sido instrumentales en el desarrollo de tri desde su creación. Desde el principio, han ayudado al crecimiento de la organización para convertirse en uno de los proyectos de desarrollo de rugby inclusivo más grandes de España. Tienen acuerdos de colaboración con la Federación Valenciana de Rugby y con la Federación Española de Rugby (FER).

Con sede en Cullera, Valencia, España, El Clan (junto a otras entidades y organismos) organizan, con carácter anual, el Festival Internacional de Rugby Inclusivo. El evento ha pasado de ser un festival exclusivo de rugby a una experiencia de inclusión cultural completa, con más de 600 asistentes en la edición del año pasado, y que, este año, incluirá rugby, danza, gastronomía y exposiciones.

Qualifications

Simon Artiles

UKCC/SRU Rugby Coach Level 1; Rugby ready Practical (2011); Rugby Laws (2011); Rugby Ready Online (2011); Strength and Conditioning Level 1 online (2011); CPD Rugby 7s (Cullera, 2011)

Michael Artiles

UKCC/SRU Rugby Coach Level) Rugby Ready Practical (2011); Rugby Leyes del Juego (2011); Rugby Ready Online (2011), IRB Strength and Conditioning Level 1 (2011), Curso PFC Rugby a 7 (Cullera, 2011).

Dean Sutherland – Dean is passionate about communicating and ensuring all people are supported in their right to communicate, to be listened to, and to participate in life. As a speech-language therapist, course facilitator and senior lecturer based at the University of Canterbury, he loves finding ways of supporting children and families who experience difficulty communicating. Dean has undertaken research looking at supporting children with disabilities to develop early communication skills, including children in developing countries, and the use of augmentative and alternative communication by children and adults. He is a past president of the New Zealand Speech-language therapists’ association and a foundation member of the International Communication Project – a multinational initiative with the goal of increasing global awareness of the importance of communication.

Stephane Leblois is a rugby player and disability rights advocate based in the Washington, DC-area. Stephane’s rugby career began at the University of Georgia before he moved to DC, where he began playing for the Washington Renegades RFC – one of the world’s first LGBT-inclusive rugby clubs. While he remains a player with the Renegades, Stephane has chosen to focus on combining his passion for rugby with his passion for disability rights by working with TRI to found the US’ first Unified Rugby team, the Washington Wolfpack RFC. In founding this team, Stephane hopes to create a blueprint for other players and coaches interested in starting unified teams in the US.

LeeAnn Napiorkowski is a World Rugby Level 2 Coach and a World Rugby Coach Educator. She is an inclusion teacher in the Ottawa Catholic School Board where I work with students with developmental disabilities. Napiorkowski coaches with St. Peter HS, Ottawa Beavers-Banshees RFC, Carleton University and the Ottawa Valley Vikings – Mixed Ability Rugby Team

External Consultants

Nigel Cutts – Nigel is an author, coach and mentor with over 50 years business experience. His focus is on helping people grow their businesses quickly and with love at the centre of them. He is also founder of the Love at Work Foundation, on the advisory board of Strengthscope and of tri. He has many qualifications but it is his depth of experience (both life and business) that people find most useful.

The tri Group is composed of:
Trust Rugby International SCIO- a Scottish registered charity Reg Number SC041354
tri WorX CIC– a Community Interest Company Reg Number SC594804
tri Partnerships LLP – a Limited Liability Partnership Reg Number SO305847

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