Co-Active for Sport leaders

Judgment arrives first. Before you have all the information. Before you know the full story. It is not a flaw. It is human. But if it is all we have, we stop growing. And so does everyone around us. In this episode, I explore curiosity as a deliberate choice. Not a personality trait. Not something you either have or you do not. A shift you can make in any moment that changes everything about what...

Questions shape every interaction we have. With our kids, our teams, our partners. But most of the time, we ask questions that close people down instead of opening them up. In this episode, I break down the difference between yes/no questions, why questions, open questions, and powerful questions.  I explore Daniel Kahneman's System 1 and System 2 thinking, and why real behavior change only h...

Most of us know the feeling. You pour yourself into something. You care deeply. You do the work. And somewhere along the way, you realize there is a quiet disconnection between who you are and what you are doing every day. I know that feeling from the inside. I built a company called Beyond Pulse for seven years. The mission was real. I believed in it completely. And still, the distance between th...

I never thought I was running a critical inner voice. I was just moving too fast to hear it. Then I went through Co-Active training. Hundreds of hours of coaches coaching coaches. You can't hide behind the theory when someone is always sitting across from you, paying attention. And somewhere in those sessions, I heard it. The saboteur. And everything changed. In this episode, I walk through w...

I never thought I was a bad listener. I just had no idea what real listening actually was. For 30 years, I was at Stage 1 without knowing it. Unconsciously incompetent. You don't know what you don't know. In this episode, I walk through the Co-Active framework that changed how I show up with athletes. Four stages of learning. Three levels of listening. And what it actually looks like on...

Most sport leaders are trained to perform. To plan, execute, and deliver results. But somewhere between the scoreboard and the locker room, something gets lost -- the human doing the leading. This is the first episode of Co-Active for Sport Leaders, a series that follows the Co-Active coaching model as a guide for sport leaders who want to lead from the inside out. Not just manage performance, but...