A Global Series · Brighton Chapter · Senior Leaders Only

A World Cup Winner.
A long campaign.
One working lunch.

A working lunch with Andy Gomarsall MBE — England scrum-half, 2003 Rugby World Cup winner, and the man who rebuilt his career twice over before doing the same in business. The room: principals and decision-makers. The question: how do you hold your nerve, and your standards, across a season that doesn't end on the final whistle?

Date

4 September 2026

Venue

Harbour Hotel

Seats

Sixty

Andy Gomarsall MBE

England Scrum-Half · 2003 World Cup Winner · Circular-Economy Executive

'03

Rugby World Cup Winner, England

'07

Recalled — World Cup Final Run

No. 9

Scrum-Half · The Decision-Router

n2s

From Pitch to Boardroom

A career defined not by the highlight reel but by what happened between the highlights — the setbacks, the recoveries, the standards held under the loudest stadiums. The detail is for the room. This is the case study.

01 / The Idea

Not a talk.
A working lunch.

Elite sport as the lens

We use a career built under the highest pressure as a lens on leadership — the decisions, the recoveries, the standards that hold when everything is on the line. The sport is the case study. What it reveals about your business is the point.

ii.

The room is the asset

Sixty senior decision-makers, curated. Not a networking event — a members' intelligence club. The value isn't only on the stage; it's who you're seated beside, and the conversation that pressure-tested thinking sparks across the tables.

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Diagnostic, not motivational

You won't leave with a highlight reel and a warm feeling. You'll leave with a sharper read on where the pressure points sit in your own leadership — drawn out in the room, in real time, by people who've operated at the top.

What we explore

How do you hold your nerve — and your standards — across a long campaign that doesn't end on the final whistle? That's the kind of question we work through.

What you take away

The full thinking lands in the room, on the day. This page is the overview — the lunch is where the lessons live.

02 / The Crossover

He didn't retire from performance.
He changed the arena.

From No. 9 to the boardroom

Gomarsall now leads as an executive in the circular economy — at n2s, turning IT waste into measurable value. He has made the move our room is living: from one high-pressure arena into another.

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He has been on both sides

World Cup winner, then operator. That's what makes the translation credible rather than theoretical — he's not drawing analogies from the outside, he's lived the crossover from pitch to P&L.

iii.

Why this is worth your afternoon

The detail — the habits, the decision rules, the recoveries — is what we get into over lunch. What you can expect: candour, not clichés, and a conversation calibrated to the people in the room.

Liam Mooney, Andy Gomarsall MBE and Justin Fitzpatrick recording the podcast — On the record · Justin Fitzpatrick, Andy Gomarsall MBE & Liam Mooney

03 / The Record

A career defined by the reset.

Selected Record

What follows is not a CV. It is a record of dropping out and fighting back — the data from which the lunch's frameworks are drawn.

2003 Rugby World Cup Winner — England Gold

2007 Recalled to the squad — England reach the World Cup Final Final

Intl England Scrum-Half · 35 caps, 1996–2008 Cap

Club Powergen Cup winner — Wasps (1999) & Gloucester (2003) XV

2004 Appointed MBE — for services to rugby Hon

Now Executive Director, n2s — circular economy / IT lifecycle Biz

04 / Logistics

The room. The rules. The asks.

Date & Time

Friday, 4 September 2026

12:30 — 15:30 BST

Venue

Harbour Hotel, Brighton

64 Kings Road, Brighton, BN1 1NA

Format

Working lunch · curated peer room

Three-hour seated session — not a panel, not a Q&A

Capacity

Sixty seats. No more.

Allocated by application; the room is the asset

Attendee Standard

Principal · Founder · Capital Allocator

A curated room of senior decision-makers. The value of the room is protected by who is not in it

The Series

One chapter of a global series

Brighton is part of The Business End's leadership-intelligence series — run to the same operating rules throughout: structured prep, 48-hour follow-up, full peer audit

— Reserve Your Seat —

Sixty seats. One afternoon.
The decision is yours.

Allocations close when the room is full. Sixty seats, allocated by fit — not first-come.

£100 Member

£130 Non-Member

Reserve a Seat

Hosted By

Justin Fitzpatrick · Andy Gomarsall MBE · Liam Mooney

The Business End

Partner With This Room

Sixty senior decision-makers. One sponsor's name in front of them.

We're inviting a small number of founding partners to align with the Brighton chapter — and the series behind it. If your brand belongs in front of this calibre of room, the conversation starts here.

Enquire About Partnership

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A World Cup Winner. A long campaign. One working lunch.