ON Point

As the Olympics continue, we are reminded of something easy to forget when watching the medal ceremonies. No one reaches the podium alone. Success is ALWAYS a team sport. Behind every winning performance is a team. Coaches who push. Teammates who compete. Families who sacrifice and support. People who prop up and prepare the athlete long before the medal arrives. Elite performance is built behind the scenes…in the unseen work, in the long hours, in the failures, in the resilience, in the...

Athletes train for four years for one moment. That’s one of the things that has always struck me about the Olympics. Four years of preparation, discipline, and sacrifice… for a performance that may last only seconds or minutes. And even then, nothing is guaranteed. Injuries happen.Conditions change.Plans don’t unfold the way they were drawn up. I’ve lived this as a coach—the moment always comes, and it rarely looks the way you expected. The athletes who succeed aren’t the ones with perfect...

Last week was a heavy travel week—three cities in four days. We were able to finish it off in Denver, spending time with a client, a potential future partner, and carving out a couple of days together to do our own version of  team building . Great coffee. Long conversations. Dinners out. Plenty of laughter. And the simple gift of catching up. We spend much of the fall, winter, and spring doing this work with executive and leadership teams...creating space for strategy, setting priorities and...