Over 30 years of standing in front of a group
and getting them to move together.
Steve has coached youth sports for over three decades and spent his career reading other people's numbers. Both jobs come down to the same thing: work out what is really going on, then get everybody pointed the same way.
Speaking reel
What he talks about
The through-line is the village: nobody builds anything worth having alone, and the job of the person in charge is to make the group around them work.
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Building the village around a team
The players are a third of it. The parents and the other coaches decide what a season actually feels like.
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Leading people who are not paid to be there
Volunteers cannot be managed. They can be led, and the difference is most of the job.
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Some days just are not your day
What to do when it is going badly, on a field and everywhere else.
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Reading the numbers, calling the play
A career as a CPA next to over 30 years as a coach, and why they turned out to be the same skill.
The last talk of a season, El Segundo 14U All-Stars.
Rooms this lands in
Coaching organizations
League nights, coach clinics, and preseason meetings where volunteers get handed a team and very little else.
Business and founder groups
Where a room of owners wants the leadership content without the leadership jargon.
Parent and school nights
The conversation nobody schedules: what parents actually owe a team, and what they do not.
Not every room is a ballroom
Some of it happens on a conference stage. A lot of it happens on a field, in a clubhouse, or standing in front of a set of bleachers. The material works in both.
Got a date in mind?
Tell Steve about the room, the audience and the date, and he will tell you what he would do with it.