Bring It In | The Future of Work, Jobs, and Education

What happens when you get involved with 115 championship-winning teams, consult 12 Hall of Fame coaches, found one of the most elite performance consultancy agencies, earn doctorates in psychology and philosophy, and write over a dozen best-selling books? Well, you write another book, about the best bits you’ve learned so far. Dr. Lynch has worked together with coaches and athletes like Steve Kerr...

Of all the motivational buzzwords out there, the term ‘character’ is thrown around a lot. Hiring managers looking for people with ‘high character,’ managers say that random exercises ‘build character,’ so on and so forth. But what does character actually look like? What does it mean? Coach Melissa Kutcher knows the importance of character. It’s how she led the University of Denver Women’s Gymnasti...

Any time you look to the news today, it seems that things are pretty bleak: struggling workers and businesses, inflating cost of living, political strife. But to quote our guest, Joe De Sana, “It could be worse.” Joe is the CEO and Founder of Spartan Race , the premiere obstacle course group in the nation. Joe has been a lifelong entrepreneur, from starting a pool cleaning business as a teen, to a...

Managing a team is always challenging. Balancing the individual needs of each member, with the greater objectives of the group is never easy, especially for a workforce where burnout is at a record high. Coach Jeff Graba is the Head Women’s Coach of the Auburn Tigers Gymnastics Program, who also coaches gymnastics all-stars such as Caitlin Atkinson , Samantha Cerio , Derrian Gobourne , Cassie Stev...

"The answer to filling a skills gap or for upskilling for the future is not always going to be another degree." There’s approximately 4,000 degree granting institutions across the United States , offering hundreds of thousands of different credentials. Each of these institutions offer the promise of secure and fulfilling employment after graduation, but in a rapidly changing working landscape, how...

The U.S. Women’s National Soccer team boasts one of the most impressive dynasties in all of sports, with numerous World Cup Wins, Olympic Gold Medals, and more under their belts. Many elite players such as Mia Hamm , Allie Long , Crystal Dunn , and Jessica McDonald all went through the same Soccer program at the University of North Carolina under the leadership of today’s guest, Anson Dorrance . C...

Hundreds of institutions, both online and offline, claim to offer quality educational experiences and expose you to the best learning techniques available. According to Barbara Oakley, most of these groups are nothing more than scams. For the past 30 years Barbara has focused all of her research on the relationship between neuroscience and social behavior. Published in outlets such as the National...

March Madness is always a time to see individual talent shine on the hardwood, but at the end of the day, it’s always a team that comes together to win the day. And behind every great team is a great coach. Todd Simon has been the Head Coach for the Southern Utah University Thunderbirds since 2016. He has consistently broken school records for wins, points, and more, leading the Thunderbirds to th...

The restaurant industry is one of the biggest providers of jobs in America, employing over 15.6 million Americans and had an economic impact of over $2 trillion pre-COVID. These employees give millions of others amazing dining experiences year in and out, and many can find lifelong careers in this lucrative industry. So, why are so many young people told “Be careful in school, otherwise you’ll end...

The American restaurant industry employs approximately 15.6 million people, about 1 in 10 Americans . When COVID hit and decimated the hospitality industry, it also damaged one of America’s reliable sources of jobs for our workforce. In an era where big tech companies talk about innovating the most, the humble restaurant arguably had to innovate the most during the height of the pandemic in order...

Imagine being one of the most decorated and elite swimmers ever. You retire, but after a while, you decide to come back, and the first words your coach says to you is “You need to learn how to swim again.” That’s exactly what Dara Torres went through, right before she proceeded to win a medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics , her 12th career medal. Boasting one of the longest careers in Olympic swimm...

Football is the American passion, but in many cases, it’s more than just a sport: it’s literally life or death. Acclaimed sports writer Kent Babb witnessed how football and the great coaches that emerge from the sport, help save lives in some of the most impoverished communities across the country. Kent has been a longstanding sports writer for The Washington Post and his work was included three t...

“Games are won and lost in practice.” To a lot of people, the pandemic was a show stopping almost world ending event that threw everything into chaos. However, for some people the pandemic was a “forced timeout,” and what do you do in a timeout? You adjust, you re-strategize, you rest, and you rethink your goals. For Paul Epstein, when the pandemic hit, he knew exactly what to do. Prior to the pan...

If you don’t think that culture is a big deal for your organization, then why do 60% of employees who leave a full-time job say it had nothing to do with the pay? Why are rates of burnout hitting new all-time high levels? Why are some industry leaders and coaches creating whole movements about building good culture? Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton are some of the world's premier experts on buildi...

Sports are kind of a big deal. Not just among the pro leagues across the world, organized sports are also where a lot of future members of the workforce meet coaches and teammates for the first time. Like our K-12 educational system, organized athletics are a massive influence on future members of our workforce. Despite this, 70% of kids drop out of organized sports because sports culture has take...

There are millions of institutions, programs, supplements, and hacks that claim to help you learn better. Among all this noise though, no one’s really answering a very simple question: how do we learn? What actually works? Joshua Eyler is probably one of the best-suited scholars in the world to answer these question. He’s the author of How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective Col...

What do we mean when we say “hitting our limit?” Especially in a time when reports of burnout are hitting record high for workers across the globe, it’s never been more important for employees and employers to understand how to effectively and safely push themselves. Today’s guest, Alex Hutchinson , has a bold idea. In his book “ Endure ” Alex claims that hitting your limit and giving up is always...

At 1Huddle, we know practice needs to be challenging, it requires feedback, and it needs to be as real world as possible. Unfortunately, not a lot of managers and folks in charge of upskilling people believe that. But, this is a perfect episode for them to listen to with our guest Guy “Bus” Snodgrass , former TOPGUN instructor who shares his take on how to best implement challenging practice. With...

Is it possible to learn anything? Maybe, but only if you’re really young, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” as the saying goes, right? As an author, speaker, and academic for institutions such as NYU , the Canadian Centre for Architecture , and the Design Trust for Public Space , Tom Vanderbilt wanted to understand why so many adults simply stop trying to learn new things. Vanderbilt was ins...

It’s no secret that a lot of managers and leaders out there are struggling to get the most out of their people. Between a changing workforce, technology constantly changing the nature of jobs, and the effects of the COVID pandemic still being felt, it’s difficult to lead a cohesive, focused, and fired up team. Coach Aliceann Wilber, though, has nearly perfected this craft. Being the first and only...

The big question employers everywhere, from small size mom-and-pop shops to global enterprises, are struggling with is “how do we attract and keep talented workers?” There are a lot of different and important factors, such as wages, having safe COVID policies, remote work, culture, but one thing very few people are talking about is even in such a serious time, making the effort to make a workplace...

Despite many employers complaining about not being able to find talent during “The Great Resignation,” there’s one group of our nation's population that is more than ready to tackle any kind of job, our veterans. However, amongst all the flag waving, the “thank you for your servicing,” and patriotic social media posts on holidays, the jobless rate for all veterans rose to 6.5% across 2020 (for ref...

In the early 2010s, a study was conducted across the U.S. to get a sense of the levels of poverty in the nation. Staggeringly, in the supposed “wealthiest nation on Earth,” 1.5 million households were living on $2.00 a day, including over 3 million children. These were families where people had jobs, often multiple jobs, working their hardest and longest, and still were unable to escape from this...

We’ve talked a lot about the importance of culture in the workplace, but what exactly is culture? How does it impact your company? Why is it such a make-or-break part of your company? Geoff Smart, Chairman and Founder of ghSMART and 3X Forbes Winner of Best Management Consulting Firm in its segment, has made developing a winning culture the foundation of his business. According to a Gallup study p...

If you Google the word ‘talent’ and click the news tab, hundreds of articles pop up about the tightest labor market in people's lifetime. This environment has been changing hiring practices, starting wages, and caused many companies to send out desperate cries for new workers, hoping to find talented individuals to fill the gap. However, many employers are still unsatisfied with the amount of qual...