The Great Coaches: Leadership & Life

Todays episode is on the topic of Communication, and it features audio quotes from 16 Great Coaches. If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

Our Great Coach on this show is Brenda Kirkpatrick Brown. Brenda is a former College Basketball player and Head Coach at the University of North Carolina. Brenda was an assistant for 10 years at Georgia Tech, Charlotte and Florida before becoming head coach at UNC Asheville in 2012. In her 8 years at UNC the team won back-to-back Big South Conference Tournament crowns in 2016 and 2017, an elite 8t...

Todays episode is on the topic of Psychological Safety , and it features audio quotes from 7 Great Coaches. If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at thegreatcoachespodcast@gmail.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

If you would like to send us any feedback or join in our live webinars, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at thegreatcoachespodcast@gmail.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Our Great Coach on this episode is soccer coach Beverly Priestman. Bev grew up in England where she completed a bachelor's degree in science and football from Liverpool Univers...

Todays episode is on the topic of Self Belief, and it features audio quotes from 18 Great Coaches. If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Danny Kerry. Danny is an English international field hockey coach Danny became the head coach of the Great Britain women's national field hockey team in 2003, eventually leading them to a Bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics, a 2015 EuroHockey Championship and a Gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. In 2016 he awarded the FIH Coach of the Year, and in 2017 received a...

Todays episode is on the topic of Coaching Philosophy, and it features audio quotes from 16 Great Coaches. If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

Our Great Coach on this episode is the Vince Lombardi. Vince Lombardi was an American Football coach who is best remembered as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers in the 1960’s, where he led the team to 5 National Football League championships, including the first ever Superbowl in 1966. He finished his coaching career in the NFL with a winning % of 74, and a post season winning rate of 90%. H...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Tim Jankovich a former player and now basketball coach. As a player he was one of the winningest players in Kansas State history. In each of his seasons at KSU, his team ranked in the National top-20 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. He has been a College Assistant or Head Coach for 38 years and in that time his teams have won seven regular season conference c...

Todays episode is on the topic of Vision, and it features audio quotes from 12 Great Coaches. If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Rod Macqueen. Rod is an Australian Rugby Union Coach. Rod started coaching in the 1980’s before taking over the NSW Waratahs in 1991. From there he went on to become the inaugural coach for the Brumbies in the newly formed Super Rugby competition. In 1997 he was appointed as the Head Coach of the Australian Wallabies, and the team goes on to win the 1999 World Cu...

Todays episode is on the topic of Learning , and it features audio quotes from 11 coaches that we have interviewed on the podcast. Join our Patreon community and help us build one of the worlds great leadership libraries at www.patreon.com/GreatCoaches If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, pleas...

Our Great Coach on this episode is English cricket coach Kevin Sharp. Kevin Sharp is an English cricket coach and a former first-class cricketer . He played 432 professional games and scored nearly ten thousand first-class runs. After retirement, he became a batting coach at his former team Yorkshire where he helped to develop a number of players who have gone on to represent England including the...

Todays episode is on the topic of Values, and it features audio quotes from 22 coaches that we have interviewed on the podcast. If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast....

Our Great Coach on this episode is Sue Enquist. Sue played softball at UCLA from 1975 to 1978. She was a part of the team that won the 1978 Women's College World Series and became UCLA's first All-American softball player. In 1980 she transitioned into coaching and retired with a career winning percentage of 83. As a coach her teams won 10 national championships, and her produced 65 All-Americans...

Todays episode is on the topic of Culture, and it features audio quotes from 20 Great Coaches that we have interviewed on the podcast. If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at thegreatcoachespodcast@gmail.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted o...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Indian National Badminton Coach, Pullela Gopichand. As a player Gopichand won his first National Badminton Championship title in 1996, and went on to win the title five times in a row, until 2000. In 1999 he won the Toulouse open championship in France and the Scottish open championship. And then in 2001 he won the prestigious All England Open Badminton Champions...

Todays episode is on the topic of Resilience and is brought to you by the world record holding Australian cricket coach John Buchanan. If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Bill Sweetenham. Bill is an Australian swimming coach, who first started training athletes in the 1970’s in the rural Australian town of Mount Isa. His coaching career progressed quickly and he coached at his first Olympics in 1976, and was then Head Coach for Australia at the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games, as well as the 1982 and 1986 Commonwealth Games team...

Todays episode is brought to you by the world record holding Australian cricket coach John Buchanan. And it is on the theme of authenticity , which I experience as the desire to be my true, genuine self; but at the same time, in a way that is consistent with the role I have to fulfill and the values of the group that I am part of. It’s a tension that I often reflect on when I have decide how...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Dan Hughes. Dan is an American Basketball coach with over 40 years experience. He started his career as a head coach in 1978, ultimately coaching in the WNBA for 20 years with stops at Charlotte, Cleveland, San Antonio and Seattle. He has coached the second-most games in the leagues history (598) and is tied for third in victories with 286. He has twice coached t...

In celebration of International Womens Day we decided to do an episode that features some of the Great Female Coaches that we have interviewed. It features wisdom and leadership advise from 14 Great Coaches, that is applicable to all of us.  If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please cont...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Alyson Annan. Alyson is a Australian field hockey player who represented her country 228 times and won gold medals at the 1996 and 2000 Sydney Olympics. She transitioned into coaching in 2003, and she led the Netherlands women team to a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil and a gold medal at 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as well as gold medals at t...

In late July 2021, I had the opportunity to interview Justin, he was very generous with his time and we had an hour together while he was on tour with the team with the West Indies. It also soon after the first reports of discomfort about his intense style had emerged from some of the players via the media. When we finished the interview, we talked a little about intensity, about what it meant and...

Our Great Coach on this show is Rodger Schmidt. Rodger is a former a Curling champion and now coach. He was the European men's curling champion in 1985 and two-time German men's curling champion in 1987 and 1992. In 1994 he founded the "Rodger Schmidt Curling Academy" based in Switzerland. From this base he has coached at 5 Olympics and multiple World championships, leading the National teams of 8...