Adam Walne -Managing Director

Purpose-driven creative leader with a strong passion for designing impactful services that create meaningful, lasting change - particularly for those who need it most.

With over a decade in elite sport as a professional rugby league player, I’ve developed the resilience, leadership, and strategic mindset needed to build high-impact organisations. 

As Managing Director of Real Life Education, I am deeply committed to empowering disadvantaged and vulnerable children and young people through a unique, holistic model of support. 

By combining sport, physical activity, therapeutic insight, education and mentoring, I’ve designed programmes that address the whole person - emotionally, socially, physically and academically.

Drawing on my own experiences, I’ve seen how positive mentorship, structure, and resilience-building can truly transform lives. 

My work is dedicated to helping young people overcome barriers, build confidence and unlock life-changing opportunities. 

At RLE, we don’t just prepare them for exams we prepare them for real life.

Whether it's helping individuals improve their health and fitness or empowering young people to rewrite their futures, my mission is the same - to deliver outcomes that matter and create meaningful, lasting social value.