Royal Engineers
Sapper spirit
Tess serves as a British Army Reserve Officer in the Corps of Royal Engineers, with command of a unit of up to 100 personnel. The Sappers' mantra — improvise, adapt and overcome — is the same one she brings to performance science.
Leadership
Courageous conversations
Featured on the Centre for Army Leadership's podcast, The Human Advantage, talking about being courageous in conversations — how honest dialogue builds stronger teams, in uniform and out of it.
On parade
Service and science
Military service sharpens exactly what elite sport and spaceflight demand: decision-making under fatigue, leadership when it counts, and calm in the chaos. It's the third arena — alongside the pitch and the launch pad — where human performance is everything.
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