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Letter From Founder and CEO, Andrew Trimble, on the Acquisition by Teamworks

Andrew Trimble, Kairos CEO, expands on why joining forces with Teamworks accelerates innovation for pro customers globally. It is with great pleasure and excitement that myself and Gareth share some news with you today. We are delighted to inform you that Kairos has been acquired by Teamworks, the renowned leader in the sports industry. As […]

Kairos is Now Part of Teamworks

Teamworks Acquires Kairos Teamworks Acquires Kairos Teamworks’ acquisition of Kairos represents a significant investment in the Professional Sports market.  DURHAM, NC – [January 17, 2024] – Teamworks, an enterprise SaaS company serving elite sports and tactical organisations globally, has announced the acquisition of Kairos, a communication and messaging software for professional sports. This acquisition is […]

Kairos Year Review: 365 Days Spent Powering the Team Operations & Communication of Elite Teams Globally Kairos Year Review In 2023, our mission to revolutionise the world of Team Operations and Communication was inspired by helping elite teams secure wins and achieve success day in, day out. With a primary emphasis on innovation and fostering […]

How Kairos is Adding Value To A Global eSports Brand

Guild Esports to use Kairos Moving Forward How can a Communications and Operations app add value to a global eSports brand? In an effort to consolidate the loyalty and staying power of eSports enthusiasts worldwide, Guildrecognised the need to improve and professionalise the communication and operationprocesses that impact their athletes on a day-to-day basis. The […]

How Kairos Helps Teams Competing in Major Tournaments

How Kairos Helps Teams Competing in Major Tournaments The Rugby World Cup is set to take place in France from 8 September through to 28 October 2023. Falling on a year where the sport will celebrate 200 years since the initial inception of the game, teams around the world are well into crucial preparations. With […]

Equestrian Sports NZ consolidate operations with Kairos

Equestrian Sports NZ consolidate operations with Kairos Equestrian Sports New Zealand have chosen to implement Kairos into their high performance and pathway programs in what is a very exciting development for the organisation. Organisations like ESNZ face many logistical challenges with a dispersed athlete and staff group, both domestically and abroad, and a high level […]

Eredivisie Champions Choose Kairos as their Team Operations Provider

Eredivisie Champions Choose Kairos as their Team Operations Provider Feyenoord, one of the most established clubs in European Football have opted for Kairos as their team operations and communications provider. The first Dutch club to win both the European Cup and UEFA Cup, now boasts 16 league titles – including their first league title since […]

Kairos Announced as Headline Sponsor for Training Ground Guru Live

Kairos Announced as Headline Sponsor for Training Ground Guru Live We are proud to share Kairos as the Headline Sponsor for the Training Ground Guru Live event in October 2023. Back in 2017, Simon Austin set up Training Ground Guru to shine a light on the work going on behind the scenes in professional football. […]

How Kairos Delivers on a Professional and Personal Level for Operations Staff Running Youth Academies

How Kairos Delivers on a Professional and Personal Level for Operations Staff Running Youth Academies Running a successful youth academy is hugely challenging…  Operations staff are in charge of streamlining safeguarding processes which can be complex and time-consuming. Often involving multiple stakeholders and various procedures across several different apps and devices. Kairos helps the operations […]

Basketball New Zealand to Centralise Scheduling and Communication with Kairos

Basketball Governing Body to Centralise Scheduling and Communication with Kairos.

Kairos Announce Latest Premier League Signing

Premier League Powerhouse, Aston Villa, to use Kairos for Internal Communication, Scheduling and Planning. It can be daunting for operations staff to consider, never mind implement new technologies. The pressure on the decision maker increases when the environment is an elite sports organisation, with so much at stake. Operations staff have to consider how the […]

FC Business Showcase Kairos as ‘The Club Solution’

FC Business Recognise Kairos as the Club Solution A recent piece on Kairos in the FC Business Magazine 👊

Philadelphia Union join Kairos for Internal Communications

Philadelphia Union join Kairos for Internal Communications Kairos welcome 2023 with new MLS signing 👊 The MLS Eastern Conference Champions, Philadelphia Union, have chosen Kairos to digitally transform the club’s internal communications ahead of the 2023 season.  The Union had a historic season in 2022, topping the Eastern Conference points table and successfully navigating the play-offs […]

Kairos in multi-language – more than just a box tick…

Kairos in multi-language – more than just a box tick… In 2022, we had a huge increase in the amount of teams globally switching from other providers and opting to use Kairos as their communications and operations platform. This encouraged our team to delve into the why behind the reasoning of some of the biggest […]

Leaders in Sport x Kairos: Where Strategy Meets Execution

Leaders in Sport x Kairos: Where Strategy Meets Execution We took some time to reflect on the key takeaways from our Masterclass at the Leaders in Sport Performance Summit! Check it out below 🔥 Yesterday, at the Leaders in Sport event in Twickenham we hosted a masterclass session engaging with some of the brightest minds […]

Kerry GAA x Kairos

How All-Ireland Champions use Kairos 📱 Our latest case study explores the importance of using Kairos in the county setup for recent All-Ireland Champions, Kerry GAA. GAA players are familiar with the grit, resilience and discipline required from the sport. Those who have the privilege of playing club and county know all too well what […]

Kairos Achieve Bronze Award from Diversity Mark

Kairos achieves Diversity Mark accreditation which will see the company take the relevant steps in transforming workplace culture and attitudes.

WhatsApp or Kairos?

3 elements that make Kairos more effective than WhatsApp for elite sports The rapid evolution of sports technology over the last decade has seen a new era of accessibility for teams at amateur levels right through to international champions. This revolution has ushered in GPS tracking, dietary monitoring, every kind of data gathering you can imagine. […]

Ulster Rugby: Case Study

Ulster Rugby: Case Study We recently caught up with staff and players at Ulster Rugby to hear about their experience with Kairos to date and how exactly the platform has contributed to a culture of high performance and the day-to-day running of the club.  Kairos provides elite sport teams with a platform that drives ownership […]

Kairos & ZoneIn

Learn more about the latest Kairos & ZoneIn integration below 👇 The two will now offer unparalleled control of athlete nutrition alongside streamlined team operations & communications platform… Our latest integration with the ZoneIn nutrition management platform will allow Kairos to offer staff and athletes everywhere next level autonomy of the moments that matter, maximizing […]

Cultural Excellence – Webinar

Building Effective Culture is more complex now than ever. With busier fixture lists, ever-increasing pressure to maximise every minute of staff/player available time – now is the time to consider best practices in how to efficiently build a culture of clarity, empowerment, and inclusivity – which ultimately drives an environment of high performance and success. […]

Planning Excellence webinar

Speakers Joe SchmidtDirector of Rugby and High Performance @World Rugby New Zealand born Joe Schmidt is best known as Head Coach of the Ireland men’s national rugby team from 2016 – 2019. As Ireland’s most successful Head Coach ever, he won three Six Nations’, a Grand Slam, and the team were ranked 1 in the […]

Safeguarding best practice in elite sports

Safeguarding in football has recently been thrust back into the spotlight following the findings of the Sheldon report, published on 17th March 2021. Although the report suggested “mistakes were still made”, football as a sport has come a fair way since the launch of the FA’s child protection policy in May 2000. Safeguarding frameworks are now […]

The Importance of Streamlined Communication in Elite Sport

Elite sports teams are complex. The success of a team will often depend on how well a collection of unique individuals with specific individual goals and targets, can form successful relationships, on and off the field. To achieve peak performance, teams must act cohesively and they must be adaptable to a constantly changing environment. To […]

Paul O’Connell on effective coaching and his time in France

Kairos co-founder and CEO Andrew Trimble recently caught up with former Irish International rugby player and current coach, Paul O’Connell. They talked about getting coaching balance between the ‘magical’ and the scientific, the styles of some of the greats, and the lessons learned when Paul left Ireland to coach in Paris. Paul is well known […]

Keeping ahead of unexpected rule changes

While everyone is trying to adapt to these new and challenging times, for some sports it is not just the pandemic posing challenges for them but also new rule variations. For a variety of reasons, sporting rules are in a constant state of flux and evolution at present. With recent examples such as VAR in […]

Learnings from the Bundesliga’s return

Elite level sport is slowly returning after the COVID-19 crisis, but in a very different form with games behind closed doors and truncated fixture schedules to get the current 2019-20 season finished. A few weeks ago, we looked at how the world of Elite Sport would look in this new landscape. Germany’s Bundesliga has led […]

The world of elite sport post Covid-19

It goes without saying that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of uncertainty in the elite sports world. Major international sports events like the Olympics, The Euros and Copa America were all moved to 2021 and almost all major national sports leagues have been postponed, or, in the case of top level sport in […]

The role of diet & nutrition in sports performance

It is no secret that in the modern world of elite sports, nutrition has become a vital variable that can influence the performance of an athlete. It is not by chance that we often read about athletes’ strict eating regimen. Whether it is the intensive keto diet LeBron James used to lose weight, or Michael […]

Periodisation: a systematic planning of athletic training

Periodisation is the long-term systematic planning and division to maximise performance to coincide with important competitions of the season and involves structuring the annual training plan into phases. Utilising a periodised training approach for sports also enables better management of performance variables such as load, intensity, fatigue and recovery. A well-structured periodisation program can enable […]

The 4 benefits of strength training for sports performance

Strength training has increasingly become more popular as an additional method for athletes to improve performance in their sport. Whether it is golfers, triathletes or basketball players, the modern sports science community almost unanimously agrees that all athletes can benefit from some degree of strength training. Not so long ago, the common wisdom was that athletes just […]

Tackling the stigma of mental health in athletes

AN INCREASINGLY NEEDED CONVERSATION An important, yet often neglected topic of discussion in the world of elite sports, is the mental health of athletes. It is often easy to forget that despite all the accolades, prestige and fame, professional athletes are nonetheless human beings, and like everyone else, can experience a variety of events that can […]

The sportsman flow: a psychological approach to the zone

“ Man, I don’t know, I was just in the zone…” Every athlete has said these words at least once after a particularly successful event. For basketball players, there are “nothing-but-net” games, for tennis champions some tournaments just become streaks of “down-the-line” winners. As a golfer, I’ve had days where my ball and the green […]

Henderson’s road to the 2019 Rugby World Cup

The 2019 Rugby World Cup will be held in Asia, outside the traditional heartland of rugby union. This September, the world’s best 21 teams will fly to Japan to defend their colours and become the trophy-winning nation. Amongst this year’s teams is Ireland, and amongst its delegation, Ulster Rugby captain Iain Henderson. The rugby star […]

One golfer’s quest for the Claret Jug

Can an outsider, coming into form at the right time upset all the odds?  On Thursday, 156 players will tee off to compete in the oldest tournament in golf history, the legendary Open Championship. Historically held in England or Scotland, the Northern Irish town of Portrush will be hosting the major tournament this year, for […]

Wimbledon: how do the world’s greatest tennis players prepare to excel on grass court?

11:30am, July 15th 2018- watched by several million people, Serb tennis legend Novak Djokovic has just defeated 6-foot-8 Kevin Anderson on the most renowned grass court in the world. Novak is no stranger to victory, especially in slam tournaments, but there is something special about this win… This is not only the culmination of a phenomenal […]

Managing school and the pool: meet Elena Wassen

Today, hundreds of thousands of young elite athletes throughout the world strive to be successful both in their sport and in the classroom. It can be quite challenging for teenagers and young adults to find the right balance between education, personal life and sports. Even the most dedicated young person will eventually have to make […]

The new era of elite sports performance

Sports legends: that’s what we call sports professionals like Michael Phelps, Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, Mia Hamm, Tom Brady, Usain Bolt, and Michael Jordan. These athletes do not just play a sport; they are the face of their respective sports, a source of inspiration for present and future generations, the reason why many kids spend […]

From boots to suits

70 caps for Ireland, 229 for Ulster (still the most capped Ulster player ever) and more tries than one could count in a Rugby career: Andrew Trimble’s record speaks for itself. The Coleraine born rugby child prodigy has animated crowds from Ravenhill stadium in Belfast, to Soldier Field in Chicago to the Stade de France, […]