Irish high performance boxing coach Billy Walsh, whose contract is controversially currently up for renewal, is one of the most successful sports coaches in our history with his boxing teams winning seven Olympic medals at the last two games alone. 

Later this week he’ll outline to attendees at the inaugural Bord Gais Energy Leadership Conference at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, the leadership lessons business can learn from high performance sport. 

This morning, he spoke to Vincent Wall on Business Breakfast who asked him about whether it's part of being a good leader to know when it's time to go.

He responded: "I think that's key to all good leaders, they know where their time is up. They know when it's time to move on.

"For their own motivation, sometimes you need you need a stimulus as well, you might want a bigger challenges or a greater challenges. Knowing that time is key.

"Or they're in a position where they can do this standing this on their head, it's easy, it's too easy maybe, I need to go for bigger challenges."

He finished by stating that he wouldn't like to go until after Rio if that was in his control.

He also spoke about the crossover between elite sporting performance and business: "Funny about high performance teams is that the higher you raise the bar, the higher they will try to achieve. Consistently, once you have achieved something, is then they push the bar up further."

You can listen to his interview here: