Providing Insights on Leadership and Success. Coach Bechler is a John Maxwell Leadership Team Member.
Michael Kelly is Vice President of Athletics at the University of South Florida. Prior to taking the reins of the Bulls athletic department, he was the Chief Operating Officer for the College Football Playoffs.
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Chrissi Rawak is Director of Athletics at the University of Delaware. Prior to her arrival at Delaware, she spent more than a decade at the University of Michigan where she served as the Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director. She was also a varsity swimmer at Michigan.
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Eric Platte is the Vice President of Ticket Sales for the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks. He has been with the Hawks since 2010 when he graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Supply Chain Management. Eric is highly regarded for his innovative ideas for workplace culture and leadership training. Eric believes that leaders drive culture, culture drives people, and people drives business.
Jerod Ward was the #1 high school basketball player in the country in 1994. As the top recruit, he could choose to play college ball anywhere and he chose The University of Michigan. Multiple knee surgeries kept him from achieving his NBA dream but he still had a solid four year career for the Wolverines helping them beat Duke three straight years, win the National Invitational Tournament and the Big Ten Tournament. Jerod then went on to have a long career playing professional basketball worldwide. Jerod now travels across the country as a professional speaker. He has even been on stage for a Tedx Talk presenting on the topic of EATing Adversity. Even though he is retired from playing basketball, Jerod still stays close to the game he loves as he works as a college basketball analyst with networks including ESPN, FOX Sports. Jerod lives in Sarasota, Florida with his wife Tricia and daughter Violet.
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Glenn “Shemy” Schembechler serves as the President of GES Advisory Company. Shemy has spent the majority of his life and professional career in the football industry, growing up as the son of legendary coach Glenn E. “Bo” Schembechler. He has evaluated talent for such high-level programs as the University of Michigan, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Chicago Bears, the Washington Redskins, and the Seattle Seahawks. In addition to his father, Shemy has studied under accomplished coaches Gary Moeller, Lloyd Carr, Marty Schottenheimer, and Joe Gibbs. They have all had an indelible impact on his career, and his ability to scout and recommend prospects. Shemy has been a part of many championship and playoff teams, and has been able to evaluate or recommend players that have gone on to Pro Bowl careers (Charles Woodson, Ian Gold and Tom Brady, respectively), as well as inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame (Joe Montana, Marcus Allen, and Derrick Thomas, respectively).
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Bruce Lund has trained thousands of professionals all over the country as a business professor, career author, speaker, and sales trainer for more than a decade. Bruce has one basic belief that trained people consistently outperform untrained people. Because of this belief, Bruce founded the widely popular 90-Day Sales Manager™ coaching program that specializes in sales onboarding and entrepreneur training. It is essentially the P90x of sales training. He was formerly a vice-president for Micheal Burt Enterprises.
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March Madness is upon us and people are getting ready to fill out those pesky brackets. We love this time of year because of the drama and possibilities that exist when Davids meet Goliaths. Will this finally be the year that a 16-seed defeats a 1-seed? Who will make it to the Final Four? What team will become the Cinderella story of the story? Who will be cutting down the nets when “One Shining Moment” is playing on CBS? Who will be the underdogs you will be rooting for?
“It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.” (Zig Ziglar)An Ohio State student and University of Michigan student were taking a graduate school entrance exam.
Afterward, the proctor called both of them into an office and proceeded to tell them that they both missed only one question on the test, but that the Michigan student was receiving an “A” and that the Ohio State student would fail.