The Leander Trust Library at the Leander Club in Henley-on-Thames is proud to present to you Cath Bishop, Olympian and author of the book The Long Win. The evening is a special collaboration between Love Rowing, where Cath is a Trustee, and the Leander Trust with all proceeds shared between the two charities. A finger buffet will be served in the beautiful club house.

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 by applying The Long Win approach. In sport, for example, Cath works as an independent advisor to British Gymnastics on their culture change journey since the Whyte Review. She also writes monthly opinion pieces on culture in sport for the Guardian!

The Long Win was acclaimed as one of the Financial Times’ Best Business Books of 2020 and one of the Daily Mail’s best sports books of 2020 – few (if any) books have ever featured on these two lists simultaneously! Cath revised the book for a second edition (published in May 2024), The Long Win: There’s More to Success than you Think, updating and refreshing the core stories and adding a chapter with short stories of leaders putting The Long Win into practice.

The Leander Trust is a registered charity (No. 284631) to advance the education of young people and their physical education by providing facilities – including grant awards – to enable and encourage rowing and sculling; and to help by providing facilities for recreation for those who need such facilities because of their youth, social or economic circumstances. A short presentation will be held to illustrate the benefit of the Trust.

Love Rowing is a registered charity (No. 1179845) to transform lives through rowing. Love Rowing funds rowing programmes for everyone across the UK. Our projects bring more disabled people and more young people from deprived areas of the UK into the sport. Rowing improves physical and mental well being, and opens the doors to new life chances.