Created by ALTIS in partnership with Les Spellman and Danny Foley, the Team Speed Coach Certification is the industry benchmark for applied speed education.
SECURE YOUR PLACE FOR FALL 2026
The next Team Speed Coach Certification cohort begins this October. Join coaches from around the world for six months of guided learning, discussion, and application.
Over six months starting October 19th, you'll progress through a structured curriculum led by Stu McMillan, Danny Foley, and Les Spellman, with Meg Young facilitating cohort learning and live synthesis calls.
Each month combines systems thinking, on-field application, and health-performance integration through focused lessons, practical examples, and real coaching case studies. You'll join twice-monthly live coaching calls, engage in discussion with coaches from around the world, and apply what you learn directly within your own environment.
Throughout the program, you'll also gain access to the growing Team Speed Living Library—a continually expanding archive of presentations, case studies, and applied coaching resources that continues to grow with every cohort.
By the end of the program, you'll have developed a connected framework for assessing athletes, making better coaching decisions, designing more effective speed programs, and building a repeatable team speed system that fits your sport and context.
WHAT THIS CERTIFICATION IS ABOUT
The Team Speed Coach Certification is a three-level professional pathway for coaches in team sport.
Created by ALTIS in partnership with Les Spellman and Danny Foley, the Team Speed Coach Certification sets a new benchmark for applied speed education. It gives coaches a clear structure for thinking about speed, developing it in real environments, and supporting it through the health–performance interface.
The Team Speed Coach Certification is built as a progressive pathway that develops depth, applied skill, and professional readiness. The curriculum expands step by step, guiding coaches from foundational concepts through to advanced application and professional readiness.
The pathway includes three progressive levels, each designed to help you build depth, applied skill, and professional readiness:
- Level I – System Foundations
- Level II – System Expansion
- Level III – Certified Team Speed Coach
It brings together a structured curriculum, the ongoing connection of a community, and the support of guided mentorship.
Each week includes 3-4 short, focused lessons from ALTIS, Les Spellman, and Danny Foley, bi-monthly live calls, peer pods, and access to the expanding Team Speed Living Library of event footage, case studies, and applied examples.
Enrollment opens twice per year, with limited spaces in each cohort to support meaningful interaction, mentorship, and community.
Coaches who complete Level I earn The Team Speed Coach – Level I Certification, forming the base of the full pathway.
There’s a real gap in applied education for coaches in team sport. We have plenty of information, but not enough structure for how to think, how to apply it on the field, and how to connect it to the health–performance interface.
That’s why Les Spellman, Danny Foley, and I built the Team Speed Coach Certification. It gives coaches a clear pathway to develop a complete team-speed system and apply it with confidence in their own environment.
- Stuart McMillan, CEO, ALTIS
What you’ll develop
The certification is structured through a six-month guided learning period built around short, focused lessons, practical application, and bi-monthly live calls.
Across each week, you learn through three connected perspectives:
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ALTIS – how to think: systems, biomechanics, and the relationships that shape performance.
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Les Spellman – how to apply it: drills, progressions, and programming designed for real team environments.
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Danny Foley – how to sustain it: fascia, movement quality, and the health–performance interface.
You also gain access to the evolving Team Speed Living Library: event footage, case studies, and applied examples that expand with each new addition.
When you understand the structures that relay force, the patterns that hold athletes together, and the health–performance interface, you coach speed with more confidence.
This certification puts that lens beside the systems work from ALTIS and the applied progressions from Les, so coaches can see the full picture.
- Danny Foley
LEVEL 1 - SYSTEMS FOUNDATIONS - OVERVIEW
You want clarity.
- You want a model you can explain.
- You want your field work, weight room, and health decisions aligned.
- You want to make weekly adjustments with confidence.
You want a system.
The Team Speed Coach Certification is built to help you develop that system. It sits at the intersection of a course, a membership, and a mentorship.
- You move through a structured six-month curriculum.
- You move through it with a cohort.
- You stay connected through live calls and discussion.
- And you learn directly from coaches who show you how they think through real problems.
Over six months, you build a complete team-speed model that fits your environment.
- You now understand how to see acceleration, max velocity, deceleration, and change of direction.
- You understand how to place them inside a week.
- You connect readiness, tissue health, and workload to speed development.
- You make more informed decisions when athletes respond well — and when they don’t.
By the end, rather than collecting drills, you’re managing a system.
A lot of coaches understand the concepts behind speed, but struggle to turn those ideas into repeatable on-field systems.
This certification shows you how to make that jump by connecting the model to drills, progressions, and sessions that fit your environment.
- Les Spellman, Founder - Spellman Performance
WHAT YOU EXPERIENCE
Each month, you move through one clear theme.
Weeks 1–3
Every week you receive:
- One focused lesson on systems and decision-making
- One applied field progression and session example
- One health and readiness integration
- Written breakdowns and practical coaching tasks
Week 4
- You join a live synthesis call.
- You ask questions.
- You hear how other coaches are applying the material.
- You refine your thinking.
Across six months, that becomes:
- 54 core video lessons [10–40 minutes each]
- 54+ written lessons
- Field-ready session structures
- Practical tools you can apply immediately
You’re supported, you’re challenged, and you’re connected.
LIVING LIBRARY
You also gain access to a Living Library that begins with 50+ hours of presentations and continues to grow.
Your six months conclude. Your access remains.
- You keep the material.
- You keep the library.
- You keep the relationships.
CURRENT Cohort Perspectives
"The ALTIS Team Speed Course is an educational resource that extends far beyond expert programming in improving speed & change of direction for your sport. Insights into systems thinking, profiling, movement quality assessment and health diagnostics and monitoring all add to this as a complete package when looking for support in picking apart the complexities of improving speed for your sport. I highly recommend."
— Tom Tombleson, Head of Athletic Development, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
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