Coaches, does this sound familiar?
Your team's leadership fluctuates from season to season
Players hesitate to hold each other accountable
You're stretched thin, with little time for leadership development
Communicating leadership concepts to your athletes feels like an uphill battle
Graduating seniors leave a leadership vacuum in your program
If you nodded to any of these, you're not alone. These are common challenges that can hold back even the most talented teams. But here's the good news: we can help you solve them.
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Time-Efficient: Develop leaders without sacrificing valuable practice time
Measurable Impact: Use our tools to quantify leadership's effect on performance
Sustainable Success: Create a repeatable process for cultivating leaders year after year
Enhanced Team Culture: Build a consistent, high-performance environment
Improved Communication: Foster open dialogue and effective conflict resolution
Player Empowerment: Watch your athletes take ownership of team success
Coach's Toolkit: Gain expert-crafted frameworks for ongoing leadership development
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“Leadership is infleunce. Nothing more and nothing less.” - John Maxwell
Learn more about the science of influence and how you can shape a the culture of your team in a way that will lead to high-performance from a Psychological Warfare Officer’s perspecitve on sports and competition.
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Our coaches believe the single most important characteristic necessary to build a winning program is leadership among the student-athletes. - Dick Baddour UNC Athletic director
“Not one time in 35 years did I witness a team become a champion without great leadership coming from within the team. It was players leading players. - Dave Hart
“We lost due to a lack of good leaders on the field” - Nick Saban after loss vs Ohio State in the national championship game
“The defining characteristic of every championship team is leadership. Leadership isn’t a different maker, it is the difference maker. Talent will get you about 7 or 8 wins. Discipline pushes it to 9 wins maybe. But when you add leadership, that’s when the magic happens”- Urban Meyer
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“I wanted to thank you for taking the time to talk with me these past few weeks. The information you gave to me was insightful and eye opening. I was able to apply the knowledge right away in an easy to use manner and then recap everything the very next week. The tools you gave me will say with me as I continue to grow as a person. Concepts and ideas that showed me a whole new way to look at leadership will set me up for success. I cannot wait to continue to grow utilizing everything you have given me. Thank you again for your time.” - Emma Johnson D1 Lacrosse
“Ben brought an outside perspective to our sport club student athletes at their educational kick off workshop this fall. I would recommend him for various leadership discussions however the one that hit home most for me was how to work with a club through the tough things they face (storming phase) so I can help them be a successful team.”
- Marissa Canter, Longwood University AD of Campus Recreation
“I would recommend Ben Smith to sport groups who are trying to change a mind set of a team, if you truly want to learn about how to change your team I would really listen to him.”
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“Ben Smith is a fantastic public speaker. He was really dedicated to what he was talking about and I really enjoyed the interaction he had with the audience. “
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