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Beyond Platitudes: How True Goals Bring Real Satisfaction and Success to Ambition
Beyond Platitudes: How True Goals Bring Real Satisfaction and Success to Ambition

We’re told to aim high, dream big. We set ambitious goals—get the promotion, sell the company, win the medal. But when the thrill fades, we often ask, why doesn’t this feel as good as I thought it would?

Maybe it’s because the real target isn’t the achievement itself; it’s the feeling we think it will give us: pride, respect, confidence, or a little more peace. That’s the true goal.

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Ignite: The True Goal Principle

A bite-size read to ignite the idea of True Goals to share online and with colleagues.

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The Four Coaches: How a leader can change everything
The Four Coaches: How a leader can change everything

Coaches and leaders can have outsized, if not the most, impact on someone’s development in their career. This is my story, these are my coaches, and these are the lessons I learned.

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Because of his experience that includes founding and running an international non-profit organization, being a national high school champion, and being a three-time United States of America Olympian and Olympic Gold Medalist, Steve can entertain and inspire any crowd.

Innovation and
Community Impact

Steve co-founded and leads the international award-winning NGO, Classroom Champions. With millions of students across North America and the world, it allows hundreds of athletes to mentor schools through technology to improve student achievement and mental health. If you’re an educator - you can join a Classroom Champions webinar to learn more from the team.


Education

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the next frontier of education systems around the world. By providing students and teachers with the power of socially empowered SEL, communities are redefining what they expect from schools.


Olympic Gold

A 3-time American Olympian in 4-man bobsled, Steve and his team became the first Americans to win a World Championship title in 50 years in 2009. A year later, they won gold for the first time in 62 years for the U.S. at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. Chat with Steve about what it takes to push beyond the limit of what you knew was possible.

Sport

Steve served on the board of directors of the world’s largest Olympic Committee, the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, from 2015-2022. During his time as a Director, the organization experienced many challenges while also expanding inclusion to Paralympians, increasing direct athlete support, and winning an Olympic bid.