Welcome to The Long Win
The Long Win is a practical framework and philosophy to help us reframe success in our organisations, sports clubs, schools, public life and personal lives more meaningfully.
This website is a space to share thinking, ideas, stories and practical resources to accompany the revised second edition of The Long Win published in May 2024 – and I hope a place to help you bring Long Win Thinking into your personal and professional world.
Cath Bishop, Author
My name is Cath Bishop and I am the author of The Long Win. This book is the culmination of my experiences as an Olympic rower, former conflict diplomat and now a leadership and culture coach working with organisations across business, sport and education to reimagine and redefine success to help us achieve more in the long-term and reshape how we pursue success.
My Top 10 Long Win Stories from Paris 2024
The athletes at Paris 2024 really showed how their concepts of what it means to be an athlete are echoing what I wrote about in The Long Win – and no surprises, it’s an approach that is good for both sporting performance and personal thriving.
Download the PDF below to read my favourite ‘Long Win’ moments from the Paris Olympics:
A series of Articles for The Guardian about Paris 2024
- Great Britain’s brilliant para-rowers can inspire on and off the water in Paris
- Women’s parity in sport has a long way to go despite positive Paris signs
- Power, technique, pacing, tactics: Team GB rowers got it right
- Adam Peaty’s Olympic spirit shows winning does not mean coming first
- British rowers look liberated and set for Olympic resurgence in Paris
Radio 4 Today Programme - 14th August 2024
An interview with Cath Bishop.
YouTube Podcast
Here’s a podcast where I discuss the timeliness of the second edition of ‘The Long Win’ coming out this summer.
About Cath
Cath draws on careers as an Olympic rower and conflict diplomat, combined with her experience of working with a wide range of organisations across sectors to raise performance, transform cultures and develop effective leadership and teams.
About The Long Win
Cath published The Long Win: The Search for a Better Way to Succeed in October 2020 drawing together her personal and professional experiences across Olympic sport, international diplomacy, and working with organisations to coach and develop leadership and culture.
Long Win Thinking
The Long Win offers a different way of thinking and pursuing success, that is not just about ticking a new set of boxes but about a new philosophy and approach for our personal and professional lives. The book contains lots of questions and some tools to support you.
Testimonials
Applying The Long Win
Contact Me
If you’d like to get in touch about working with me, either to discuss a ‘Long Win’ speech, workshop, book discussion or other Long Win Thinking collaboration, please let me know more.
Professional Associations
Advisor to The True Athlete Project (www.thetrueathleteproject.org)
Co-host of Inside Out Culture Podcast
Inside Out Culture (buzzsprout.com)
Inside Out Culture on Apple Podcasts
Trustee of Love Rowing Charity
(www.loverowing.org)