Greg has been a Fast Pitch Softball Coach and Instructor for
nearly 30 years. His teams regularly qualified for Nationals
including Junior Olympic Nationals where they competed against
the top teams from around the nation.
He has helped over thirty players obtain athletic
scholarships at NCAA and NAIA collegiate level. And in each
of the years from 2000 to the present, one or more of the
pitchers who take lessons from Greg has pitched a perfect
game, creating the tag line —
“They teach you to pitch, we teach
you to pitch perfectly.”
In addition to his years as a coach Greg has
worked in the fields of Construction Management, the Restaurant
Industry, Database Programming, Information Technology Management,
Web Design, has been an Instructor, a Coach and Speaker.
After leaving the corporate world in 2004 Greg
joined his wife Linda in her very successful home based business
that does over two million a month in retail volume. By applying
the techniques of the “change-process” and “It’s
not fair” they were able to triple their income in one
year.
Greg and Linda have been married for over 33
years and have three children, Schandra, Nathan and Schayne.
During his many years as a coach and private instructor Greg
taught his players the strategies necessary to successfully
navigate "The Change-Process". Whether it was an
8 year old learning to pitch for the first time or a collegiate
player adjusting her skills to play at the collegiate level;
to improve, all players have one thing in common - to be successful
they have to navigate the changes that are necessary to reach
their goal.
While working with his players Greg noticed
the same concepts he taught his players to assist them in
navigating "The Change-Process" were also present
in the corporate world where he worked as a Director of Information
Technology. These concepts were also present in the non-profit
groups Greg worked with. The concepts needed to successfully
navigate "The Change-Process" are not peculiar to
sports, but are universal and applied to any company, group
or individual pursuing a goal.
Greg’s presentations include Keynotes and Trainings
on the topics of “It’s Not Fair” and “Navigating
the Change-Process”.
“It’s Not Fair”:
"It's Not Fair" deals with how powerful fairness
is in our decision making process. In fact it is so powerful
that we often make decisions based on “fairness”
never realizing that the decision has moved us away from our
intended goal. The presentation teaches participants first,
how to identify when they are using “fairness”
to justify a decision that is moving them away from their
goals; and secondly Greg provides strategies to empower us
to use “fairness” as a motivator to transform
ourselves and all those who are a part of the goal.
“Navigating the Change-Process”:
“Navigating the Change-Process” deals why individuals
often fail to manage the changes that are necessary to reach
an individual or company goal. Any time we set a goal we are
saying we want to move from where we are, Point "A",
to where we want to be Point "B" and this always
involves change. The failure to reach our goals often has
less to do with our abilities and whether the goals is attainable,
and more to do with a person's failure to manage "The
Change-Process".
The presentation uses stories from Greg’s
players to outline each concept that is needed to successfully
navigate "The Change-Process". The stories, often
humorous and poignant, penetrate the mental defenses most
audience members have. Once the player’s story has been
shared a similar example from business is related to each
concept. This presentation process not only aids the participants
in understanding, but the stories are so powerful and vivid
that retention, and thus application, is extremely high.
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