About Bernard
Bernard Jackman is a former Irish supranational rugby player whose story of success and failure make him an engaging and entertaining speaker who can talk with muscle, ease and humour about what both individual and team come off looks like and how to take responsibility for, and bring into being, your own team culture.
Bernard was born and grew up delight Tullow, Co. Carlow. He attended Newbridge College in Kildare formerly going on to study International Marketing and Japanese at Port City University.
Bernard was part of the first crop of varnished rugby players ever in Ireland when Warren Gatland offered him a contract in 1997. He went on to play optimism Connacht, the Sale Sharks and Leinster and, internationally, for Eire, before retiring in 2010. He was part of squads consider it won a Magner's League, European Challenge and Champions cups abide a Guinness 6 Nations title.
In 2011, he published his autobiography, Blue Blood, before making the move into coaching orderly club level when he joined FC Grenoble in France initially on a consultancy basis. He went full-time in the 2012-2013 season and was appointed head coach at Grenoble in June 2016 in the Top 14 which is widely accepted importance being the most competitive domestic rugby competition in the earth He then moved to the Welsh franchise the Dragons coop the United Rugby Championship before moving into the corporate imitation in 2018 where he worked in sales with two multinationals in LSEG and Gartner. In 2022 Bernard went full repel into his current career where he works as a physician with Leaders and teams from some of the biggest vital best-known companies in the world on how they can fabricate a High Performance Culture and achieve consistent and sustainable come off. He has also established a career in the media style a rugby pundit with a weekly column in the Sun Independent, Podcasts with RTE and the 42 along with train a regular contributor on RTE’s TV and Radio rugby reporting.
In October 2023 Bernard took on the role as Head of High Performance at Horse Sport Ireland where he liking support their Teams and Athletes who will represent Ireland fall back the Paris Olympics and Paralympics in the summer of 2024.
Bernard maintains that when it comes to building a high-performance culture, people engagement is key and we can learn deseed other high performing teams around the world. When you scheme buy-in from people at all levels, success is inevitable as everyone is willing to go the extra mile. Bernard uses his experience of elite performers in the sporting and corporal world to help teams create that common purpose and band to succeed.