Jamie McManus & Steve Payne

Jamie is an NLP Trainer. With over 30 years of coaching experience in eliciting high performance, He specialises in empowering athletes, professionals, executives and alternative education provision students to unlock their potential and achieve championship-level performance in sports, business, and life. 

As the founder of 1st Legion Gym and UniqMinds Alternative Education Provision, Jamie's mission is to guide individuals toward excellence by removing interference and maximizing their capabilities. His expertise in performance coaching, combined with my credentials as an ANLP Certified NLP Trainer and Accredited Executive Coach, enables him to bring diverse perspectives and transformative strategies to every challenge. 

In his current role, he focuses on developing champions through tailored coaching techniques and deep insights into combat sports and mindset training. Leveraging his background as a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt and former British Professional Muay Thai Champion, he helps clients build resilience, focus, and confidence. Coaching world-champion athletes and professionals, he integrates neuro-linguistic programming and sports-specific methodologies to drive sustainable growth and peak performance.

Steve is a professional coach, published author, keynote speaker and one of very few certified Master Trainers of NLP in the world.

He trained as an actor at the prestigious Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and spent 10-years 'treading the boards' before moving into business.

Steve sits on the training and accreditation panel for the Association for Neuro Linguistic Programming.

Today Steve specialises in values alignment, leadership and public speaking coaching. 

He is co-author of the critically acclaimed book, My 31 Practices, published by LID Publishing.