{"id":56846,"date":"2025-01-30T11:52:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T03:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/?post_type=all_speakers&#038;p=56846"},"modified":"2026-03-18T02:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:47:52","slug":"paul-ferris","status":"publish","type":"all_speakers","link":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/speakers\/paul-ferris\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ferris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Paul Ferris is the CEO and Co-Founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/speedflex.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/speedflex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speedflex<\/a>. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Before entering the leisure industry, Paul spent 18 years working in professional sport. Five as a professional footballer for Newcastle United where he was the club\u2019s youngest ever debutant in 1982. After injury ended his playing career he returned to Newcastle United in 1993 and enjoyed a highly successful career as the club\u2019s Physiotherapist. He left professional football and in 2007 was called the bar. After qualifying as a barrister he once again returned to Newcastle United as the Head of Sports Medicine as part of Alan Shearer&#8217;s management team. Paul is also a bestselling and multi-award winning author of two memoirs. The Boy on the Shed (2018), and The Magic in the Tin (2022). His third book, Once Upon a Toon, will be published by Bloomsbury on May 8th, &nbsp;2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul is also a speaker at <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/europe\/\">Beyond Activ Europe<\/a> in Madrid, Spain and <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/asia\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/asia\/\">Beyond Activ Asia<\/a> in Bangkok, Thailand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Ferris is the CEO and Co-Founder of Speedflex. Before entering the leisure industry, Paul spent 18 years working in professional sport. Five as a professional footballer for Newcastle United where he was the club\u2019s youngest ever debutant in 1982. After injury ended his playing career he returned to Newcastle United in 1993 and enjoyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":70878,"template":"","speakers-type":[64,85,82,81,79],"class_list":["post-56846","all_speakers","type-all_speakers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speakers-type-2025-emea-speaker","speakers-type-2026-americas-speakers","speakers-type-2026-asia-speakers","speakers-type-2026-europe-speakers","speakers-type-2026-world-speaker"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/all_speakers\/56846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/all_speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/all_speakers"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"speakers-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondactiv.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers-type?post=56846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}