Applying elite sport science principles to elevate leadership, performance, culture, and wellbeing in organisations.
Khalil Rener BSc, MSc — Performance Sport Scientist from Loughborough University with 10+ years’ experience supporting over 100 organisations through consulting, training, and 1-to-1 support.
Some of our client results
ROI of £250:1
From our organisational development and wellbeing strategy for a health tech org., doubling in-year sales in 3 months.
25% +
Increase in employees’ sense of organisational support for a global professional services company, through our leadership training program.
99% +
Of our 1000s of feedback respondents would recommend our training and workshops to others.
22x
Improvement in staff mental and physical wellbeing, for a large global fiduciary service org., struggling with low staff wellbeing scores, after training & continuous support for 150+ Wellbeing Champions.
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New, Mid and Senior Leader programmes run across 12 months for 200+ global managers. Bespoke curriculums. Deeper consulting, 1-to-1s and training for specific departments.
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Needed to understand wellbeing needs across 60 business units in 100+ countries. We created a traffic-light benchmarking tool that gave leaders localised, incentivised data. The result? Clear actions that enabled units to move up the scale.
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Designed division-specific strategies across 18 countries, aligned to their “Sound Mind, Sound Body” ethos. We supported implementation to ensure results weren’t just on paper but lived in practice.
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Supported Loughborough University’s Student Union’s new CEO and strategy launch with change management consultancy. With a leaner team and bigger ambitions, we worked to align staff, build trust, and get everyone on the same side—ensuring energy and buy-in for the next phase of growth.
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Developed a tailored wellbeing strategy for 15,000 staff across 300 stores, head office, supply chain, and central kitchen. This drove stronger wellbeing scores and improved Net Promoter Scores (NPS).
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Localised and tailored wellbeing support for manufacturing teams across seven countries, including Egypt, USA, UK, and China—ensuring global strategy translated to local impact.
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Built a whole-school wellbeing strategy guided by data and KPIs, covering teachers, non-faculty staff, students, and parents—embedding wellbeing into every layer of school life. Sustained results.
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Trained over 150 global Wellbeing Champions and provided on going support over 4 years. 22x in measured staff wellbeing and 25% increase in perception of org. support.
Services
How Clients Typically Work With Me: Most clients start with a short call to explore how I can support them. Usually they come with a specific challenge around leadership, culture, performance or wellbeing that they want to refine based on data, feedback, or emerging priorities. From there, support can range from a one-off workshop or leadership programme to a series of training sessions, one-to-one support for leaders, or a fully data-driven strategy. Most clients choose to work together over time—typically through a minimum of quarterly partnerships—so we can create meaningful, measurable improvements rather than one-off, tick-box initiatives.
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Leadership & Culture Consulting
Teams come to me because they want to move from good to great. Other times organisations know something isn’t quite working — a team feels flat, communication isn’t flowing, or the business is entering a period of change.
I work directly with leaders and management teams to strengthen the people side of performance.
Typical areas of support include:
Navigating organisational change or growth
Strengthening team culture and alignment
Improving communication and collaboration
Addressing disengagement or low morale
Clarifying expectations, roles, and standards
Supporting leaders to build high-trust, high-performance teams
Drawing on principles from performance sport and organisational psychology, I help leaders make the right moves to create environments where teams can thrive.
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I help organisations understand how their people are really doing — and what will make the biggest difference to performance, culture, and wellbeing.
My process combines employee data, industry insights, and practical action planning to build wellbeing strategies that actually work.
My approach includes:
Assessing the current state – gathering data on areas such as mental health, physical activity, sleep, nutrition, sense of belonging, psychological safety, and manager support.
Benchmarking and insights – analysing results and, where possible, comparing them with industry data to identify key opportunities.
Awareness and engagement – helping teams understand the business context for wellbeing and how it supports both health and performance.
Strategy and action planning – designing targeted initiatives such as policies, training, wellbeing champions, and leadership support.
Implementation support – working with organisations to roll out initiatives effectively.
Re-measurement and refinement – tracking progress and continuously improving the strategy over time.
The goal is simple: create environments where people feel supported, perform well, and enjoy the work they do.
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All workshops are tailored to the audience and based on need. Run virtually or in person.
Supporting new, emerging, and senior leaders to build high-performing, healthy teams.
Leading high-performance teams
Emotional intelligence for leaders
Communication that builds trust and clarity
Managing conflict and difficult conversations
Leading through change and uncertainty
Creating psychologically safe environments
Setting clear expectations, standards and accountability
Coaching and developing others
Preventing burnout while maintaining performance
Supporting team wellbeing as a leader
Retaining and engaging Gen Z staff
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All workshops are tailored to the audience and based on need. Run virtually or in person.
Workplace WellbeingPractical, evidence-based sessions that help people practically boost their energy, mental health and performance. Science based, very practical, with a clear business context.
Wellbeing Champion training
Wellbeing training for managers
Managing stress and pressure at work
Building resilience and adaptability
Integrating physical activity into busy lives
Sleep, recovery and sustainable performance
Mental health awareness and support at work
Preventing burnout in high-demand environments
Men’s mental health in the workplace
Supporting neurodiversity at work (with specialist partners)
Menopause awareness and workplace support (with specialist partners)
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All workshops are tailored to the audience and based on need. Run virtually or in person.
Helping teams align around purpose, expectations and ways of working.
Creating high-trust, high-accountability team cultures
Building shared values and team norms
Clarifying roles, expectations and standards
Improving collaboration and communication
Team resilience during busy or high-pressure periods
Onboarding and integrating new teams effectively
Boosting engagement and ownership
Resetting culture during growth or change
Bespoke team building days
About Ridgeflow Performance and Khalil Rener
At Ridgeflow Performance (formerly Rener Wellbeing), I help organisations, teams, and leaders build cultures where people actually want to show up, support and push each other to be better, and sustainably smash their goals.
Founded by Khalil Rener, BSc, MSc—a top-tier sports scientist, leadership consultant, and performance coach—Ridgeflow Performance takes the principles of elite sports and applies them to the workplace. Khalil’s journey includes a Sports and Exercise Science BSc (Hons) and Sport Management MSc with Distinction from Loughborough University (#1 university in the world for sports-related subjects), coaching at pro rugby club Leicester Tigers, international sports development, leading multi-million pound international summer camps, and six years running Rener Wellbeing. He’s worked with global teams, the NHS, startups, charities, and thousands of leaders—helping them create workplaces where people thrive, perform at their best, and actually enjoy working together.
We’re a small, high-impact team, and we only take on a select few clients at a time. If you’re serious about building a high-performing, no-BS, driven team, let’s talk.
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