The Field Guide for Coaches and Leaders: Leading Yourself, Your People, Culture

Are you sure you know how to lead the people in front of you right now?Maybe you are a coach who has never been taught to hold a locker room together once the season gets hard. Maybe you are a player who just got handed a title, captain, without anyone showing you what that actually requires. Maybe you are a few years into leading and still feel like you are guessing. Maybe you used to know exactly what you were doing, and somewhere along the way, you stopped being sure.The ELEVATE Field Guide for Coaches and Leaders comes from two decades spent on the field, on the sideline, in the classroom, and in the gym, coaching, teaching, and building a career across nearly every level of athletics. It is built on one idea: leadership is not about your system or your record. It is about the person on the receiving end of it.The guide is organized around three things every leader has to get right, themselves, their people, and the culture they build around them. Real stories, names changed, mistakes included, no polished highlight reel. It introduces Two Laps, a simple practice for building the kind of relationship that makes people willing to follow you, and it does not pretend leadership is a personality trait instead of a skill you can actually build.This is not a book you read once and shelve. It is a field guide, meant to be dog-eared, returned to, and carried into the next hard conversation you are not sure how to have.If you are still in the work, this is for you.