The Great Coaches: Leadership & Life

Our Great Coach on this episode is Malcolm Blight.Malcolm is a former Australian Rules Football player and coach, who is the only person in the game’s history to win the Brownlow, Magarey, and Coleman medals. As a coach he has led multiple teams, notably winning back-to-back premierships with Adelaide in 1997 and 1998. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996 and was elevated to Legend status in 2017Interviewing Malcolm was a great highlight for us, he was one of the people we wrote on our dream list when we started the podcast.This was a wonderful conversation, and I hope you enjoy it as we did.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Todays episode is on the topic of Feedback, and it features audio quotes from 14 coaches that we have interviewed on the podcast.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Mike Candrea.Mike is a Softball coach who after 36 years leading the University of Arizona has retired as one of the most respected coaches of Any sport in the USA. He is the all-time winningest coach in college softball history and ranked fourth of any coach in any NCAA sport with 1,674 wins. His teams have won 8 Women's College World Series and 11× Pac 12 or 10 Regular Season titles. In addition, he led Team USA to 2004 Olympic Gold medal and the 2008 silver medal. And In 2017 he was inducted into the USA Softball Hall of FameMike is a wise and generous person who openly shares the many lessons he has taken from the extreme highs and lows he has experienced in his life.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Natasha Adair.Natasha is a former All American High School player and now Head Coach.Following a successful playing career, she transitioned into coaching and spent 14 years as an Assistant before becoming a Head Coach for the first time with the College of Charleston in 2012. From there she moved to Georgetown where she turned around the program and earned a WNIT invitation.She then moved to Delaware where she led the team to three Colonial Athletic Association titles and their first NCAA Tournament appearance in nearly a decade. In 2022 she was announced as the new coach for Arizona State who compete in the Pac 12.She has also served as an Assistant coach for gold medal winning USA Youth teams at World Cups.Natasha is an articulate and deeply committed coach who in her words is more focused on the living trophies in her care as opposed to the Big trophies they are pursuing.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Todays episode is on the topic of Behaviours, and it features audio quotes from 13 coaches that we have interviewed on the podcast.Join our Patreon community and help us build one of the worlds great leadership libraries at www.patreon.com/GreatCoachesIf you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at thegreatcoachespodcast@gmail.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Ricky Stuart.Ricky is a former Rugby League player who won 3 premierships with the Canberra Raiders as well as representing both New South Wales and Australia.As a Coach he has led Australia, the NSW State of Origin Team, the Sydney Roosters who he led to a Premiership in 2002, and is now the Head Coach of his beloved Canberra Raiders. Ricky as had a long and celebrated career which includes being the only person to win the Dally M Player of the Year award and the Daly M Coach of the Year award. He has also started the Ricky Stuart Foundation to help both families and people living with Autism.Ricky is a passionate and principled leader who balances the ability to be honest and forthright, but at the same time exhibit the type of deep care that helps builds character and changes lives.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Todays episode is on the topic of Mentors, and it features audio quotes from 11 coaches that we have interviewed on the podcast.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Dean Vickerman.Dean is an Australian professional basketball coach and former player, who is currently the head coach of Melbourne United in the Australian National Basketball League.He started his coaching career in 1997, progressing through roles across Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Between 2007 and 2012, he served as an assistant coach for the New Zealand Breakers helping them win 3 championships in a row. In 2013, he became head coach of the New Zealand Breakers. And in the 2014–15 season, he guided the Breakers to their fourth NBL Championship in five years.In March 2017, Dean was appointed head coach of Melbourne United and a year later they won the NBL Championship. And in 2018 and again in 2019 he was voted NBL Coach of the Year.Some of the highights for me were: The way Dean talks about the things that can destabilize a team if not addressed.Question: Which led me to reflect on what might be the potentially unaddressed issues percolating below the surface with my team?The way he describes the teams trademarks and in particular why it’s important that they try to make someone else in the team better at each practice. Question: Which challenged me to think how I am incorporating selflessness into my work practices?And the power of trust which he illustrated through the story of there is 1.7 seconds left on the clock in a championship game to illustrate this. Question: Trust is often mentioned as the currency which fuels high performing teams, and after listening to Dean I reflected on what more I can to develop it?If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Great Coach on this episode is Tricia Cullop. Tricia is a former basketball player and now coach. As a player, she was a High School All-American in 1989, and at Purdue University was part of the team that that won the school’s first ever Big Ten championship in 1991. After stints as an Assistant coach at Radford, Long Beach State, and Xavier, she was appointed Head Coach of the University of Toledo women's basketball team in 2008. She has led Toledo to three MAC regular-season championships and one MAC tournament championship. She was named MAC coach of the Year in 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2022. And also in 2022, was the Carol Eckman Award winner, for coaching integrity in women's college basketball. Tricia has a passion for coaching in a way that builds a deeper connection not only within her team but across the community it represents. This really was a terrific interview, and I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In celebration of International Women’s Day we decided to do an episode that features some of the Great Female Coaches that we have interviewed talking about Empowerment.A topic that so many of our guests talk about in the context of preparing women, for the choices that they will either make for themselves or influence in others.We chose this as a topic as it is one that frequently comes up around our dinner tables; whether discussing the groups assigned in school sports classes, society’s views around clothing or the roles that we all play at home and work.It's also a topic that comes up around boardroom or meeting room tables that we sit and work at.We both have daughters, and so putting this episode together gave us chance to reflect on what we are learning as parents, podcasts hosts; managers and leaders ourselves about this topic. and we hope you enjoy it and get the same sense of reflection that we did.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.