ABOUT
A career at companies serving brands and people.
Tom's career has allowed him to serve others and build trusting relationships that inspire great thinking.
MISSION
To provide coaching that empowers you to build the performance of your best brand. We do this through a powerful partnership centered on making meaningful change on the field and throughout life.
As a former NCAA DIII student-athlete, Tom’s able to combine his passion for college athletics with his professional experiences to share insights that can be applied to all leaders.
His experience spans companies like Disney, Time Inc./Sports Illustrated, Saatchi & Saatchi, IMG, and smaller, more entrepreneurial companies like My Sports Dreams.
He draws on these experiences to enhance personal, professional, and organizational leadership. Through collaboration and engagement, he inspires a learning mindset of empathy, creativity, acceptance, and fearlessness.
He's a Certified Professional Coach. He uses the principles and tools of the Core Energy Coaching™ process and Energy Leadership as the foundation for unlocking clarity and purpose to produce real leadership growth and performance. Along with the TTI Success Insights portfolio of assessments, he helps individuals and teams understand behavior and motivational tendencies to unlock communication effectiveness, productivity and ultimately performance.
testimonials
“Over the past few years, I have had the pleasure of bringing Tom to our campus to work with our staff and coaches on how they can enhance their leadership development. Through a series of individual and group workshops, and attitudinal and behavioral assessments, Tom engaged our staff through open and insightful dialogue and examination of skills and principles they could apply to themselves, their teams and in their personal lives. He understands the importance of leadership development and the role it plays in collegiate athletics and certainly here in the culture of Black Hills State athletics.”
— Jhett Albers, Former Director of Athletics, Black Hills State University
“We enjoyed having Tom as a main presenter at our Student-Athlete Leadership Conference. Our women and men got a lot out of his personal branding and empathy / culture sessions. He related well to our attendees and kept them engaged."
— Chuck Yrigoyen, Commissioner, American Rivers Conference
“Tom provided insightful and refreshing workshop topics over two days for our joint ECC-CACC SAAC Leadership Conference. His ability to engage the SAAC representatives in thoughtful and interactive sessions was apparent. The sessions were approachable and relevant to these student-athletes, and important to their individual and group growth there and as they return to their schools. I would gladly recommend Tom if you want inspiration for your SAAC’s and student-athletes..”
— Bob Dranoff, Commissioner, East Coast Conference, NCAA DII
Tom did an amazing job with our student-athletes. He presents his material in a way that's engaging and relatable. Our student-athletes walked away with an increased knowledge and the tools to make a meaningful impact. 100% recommend!
— Kaitlin Leach, Deputy Director of Athletics, Director, Student-Athlete Welfare, & SWA, Vassar College
“Given the challenging times we are in, we decided this was an opportune time to provide leadership learning for our student-athletes. We invited Tom to lead a series of leadership workshops for our SAAC members over a few months. He has an engaging and vulnerable manner, which made our student-athletes feel comfortable and participatory.
Because it was our first time doing this, we were curious about how they would respond to each of the sessions, which included “how they show up every day”, “building their leadership brand” and “how empathy impacts culture”. Tom created an interactive, thought provoking program that got our student athletes talking and thinking about themselves and their leadership style.
The student athletes came away with usable strategies and insights about themselves that they could implement with their teams right away. The results and comments from our post workshop series showed that leadership, a growth mindset and empathy topped the charts of skills they could see applicable to themselves and their teammates.
And there were some comments from the survey which were enlightening:
“It was the greatest impact because learning how to really show up to a practice or daily life helps you in a lot of aspects and when it comes to being a leader with leading by example.”
Also…another comment:
“He inspired me to start a journey of self-improvement.”
I’m so glad we had Tom bring his program to our campus. If you are looking to inspire your student-athletes on a journey of self-discovery to improve their performance in and out of competition and in life, Tom can make a real impact. “
— Jennifer Enke, Associate Athletic Director/Senior Woman Administrator/Compliance Director, Alfred State College
“It was a pleasure to have Tom address our SAAC group during our Student-Athlete Leadership Conference. He shared with them how they could build their own self-awareness as leaders by introducing them to Energy Leadership. After taking the ELI assessment and follow-up session, they reviewed their report results and discovered the impact of their perceptions and attitudes about their various experiences had on how they show up in competition and in life. It was eye-opening for our student-athletes and realized they had understanding about how to change these attitudes. This was powerful.”
— Sarah Twiggs, Assistant Commissioner, Landmark Conference
“Tom has been an integral part of our establishment of Centre’s Student-Athlete Leadership Development Series. I have appreciated his insights, ideas and continuing creativity that add to the growth of our initiative, so important to Centre Athletics and our student-athletes. As one of our core speakers, he addresses our student-athletes with authenticity, refreshing leadership ideas and allows them to engage with each other in an active learning environment. He is an asset to our program as it continues to evolve. I’d recommend him if you’re looking to enhance leadership opportunities for your athletic program.”
— Gina Nicoletti, Associate Athletic Director, Centre College
