Rejoining EO this year is Kusal Goonewardena, Founder and Director of Elite Akademy Sports Medicine. Since 1999, Kusal has worked with athletes and teams, travelling around the world, and providing his athletes with the utmost care. He provides the most up-to-date techniques to prevent injury, provide rapid recovery if injured, and enhance performance and win.
He founded the Vigor Sports Medicine Clinics in Melbourne which are the only orthopaedic teaching schools for overseas-trained physiotherapists in Australia. A keen lecturer and mentor, he has personally helped over 1000 physiotherapists to shape their careers in sports physiotherapy.
He has released three books, namely, “3 Minute Workouts”, “Back Pain – Rebuild, Recover, Revitalise” and “Natural Healing – Quiet and Calm”.
Q: Can you give a brief background about you, your family and your business?
I am married with 3 beautiful children. My wife and I love family time, which we have found to be the keystone to our success, thus far. I have been in the health & well-being space for more than 20 years. My business delivers clinical expertise, courses, mentoring, academies and research in sports medicine.
Q: What inspired you to be an entrepreneur?
I was 8 or 9 at the time, I had read an Archie comic where one of the characters was selling lemonade at a stand. This piqued my interest. We were living in Oman at the time, and as soon as we returned to Sri Lanka I wanted to create a stall to sell King Coconut juice.
Q: What do you enjoy most about being an entrepreneur?
Full control. All outcomes are based on my decisions.
Q: What are the biggest challenges you have faced as an entrepreneur?
It’s learning that extraneous factors cannot be controlled, and it doesn’t matter.
Q: Why did you decide to join EO?
Community networks with like-minded individuals have helped transform me, my family and the community I am engaged with over the years. Rejoining EO is about connecting with that again.
Q: Can you share a golden nugget that you learned from another entrepreneur or mentor in the past?
At the end of the day, the long day of your life, at your funeral, people won’t be talking about your boats, the planes you owned or how many houses you had. They will talk about one thing and one thing only, how much they loved you and how much you loved them. So the key then is to live a life of love. - John Spence (Friend, Mentor and TED Speaker)