Coaching U Podcast with Coach Brendan Suhr

Don Yaeger, award-winning keynote speaker, business leadership coach, and nine-time New York Times Best-selling author talked to Coach Brendan Suhr about the legendary UCLA Coach John Wooden, insights he’s learned after years of knowing Coach Wooden, his latest project with John Maxwell, & much more! Don Yaeger has fashioned a career as one of America’s most provocative thought leaders. As a speaker, he has worked with audiences as diverse as Fortune 500 companies and cancer survivor groups, where he shares his personal story. He is primarily sought to discuss lessons on achieving Greatness, learned from first-hand experiences with some of the greatest sports legends in the world. Additionally, Don has been retained by companies and organizations to coach their leaders, management teams and employees on building a culture of greatness by looking at Great Teams in sports and discerning the business lessons we can learn from them. Follow @DonYaeger

Tom Perrin, management consultant and former assistant coach talks to Coach Brendan Suhr about how he first got into coaching and how that led to his current consulting work, coaching through relationships, continuous learning and more! Tom has been a management consultant for the past 12 years. He provides leadership and management-development services to clients in a wide variety of fields, including finance, healthcare, manufacturing, construction and higher education. Tom also consults with college and professional sport teams, and he spent June 2010 in South Africa working with the U.S. Men’s Soccer Team at the World Cup as their sport psychologist. Tom holds a Ph.D. in sport psychology from the University of Virginia. Prior to his transition to consulting, Tom served as an assistant men’s basketball coach at the college level for 18 years, 15 of those at the University of Virginia (1982-1997). Following this experience, Tom spent two years working as an advance scout for the Indiana Pacers in the National Basketball Association (1997-1999). Learn more about Tom and Perrin & Associates at http://perrinandassociates.com

Kevin Eastman, former LA Clippers VP of Basketball Operations & original Co-Founder of Coaching U talks with Coach Brendan Suhr about retiring from coaching and leaving the Clippers, his next chapter speaking to teams and companies, thoughts on coaching today & more! Check out his website KevinEastmanBasketball.com Follow @KevinEastman !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs'); Click below to listen or Subscribe on iTunes

Tom Perrin, management consultant and former assistant coach talks to Coach Brendan Suhr about how he first got into coaching and how that led to his current consulting work, coaching through relationships, continuous learning and more! Tom has been a management consultant for the past 12 years. He provides leadership and management-development services to clients in a wide variety of fields, including finance, healthcare, manufacturing, construction and higher education. Tom also consults with college and professional sport teams, and he spent June 2010 in South Africa working with the U.S. Men’s Soccer Team at the World Cup as their sport psychologist. Tom holds a Ph.D. in sport psychology from the University of Virginia. Prior to his transition to consulting, Tom served as an assistant men’s basketball coach at the college level for 18 years, 15 of those at the University of Virginia (1982-1997). Following this experience, Tom spent two years working as an advance scout for the Indiana Pacers in the National Basketball Association (1997-1999). Learn more about Tom and Perrin & Associates at http://perrinandassociates.com

Kevin Eastman, former LA Clippers VP of Basketball Operations & original Co-Founder of Coaching U talks with Coach Brendan Suhr about retiring from coaching and leaving the Clippers, his next chapter speaking to teams and companies, thoughts on coaching today & more! Check out his website KevinEastmanBasketball.com Follow @KevinEastman

The legendary Hall of Fame Coach Bob Hurley, St. Anthony’s (NJ), joins Coach Brendan Suhr on the latest Coaching U Podcast to talk about investing in your players on & off the court, keys to influencing players, coaching kids in the 21st century, how he continues to learn & much much more!! Coach Hurley has amassed 27 state championships and more than 1000 wins in 39 years as a coach. Hurley is just the tenth coach in high school history to win 1000 games, with five of his teams having gone undefeated. In 2010 he was the third high school coach in history to be formally inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Hurley is the father of Bobby Hurley, a former All-American point guard at Duke and the head basketball coach at Arizona State, and Dan Hurley, who coaches at the University of Rhode Island. For more information on Coach Hurley visit St. Anthony’s online!

The legendary Hall of Fame Coach Bob Hurley, St. Anthony’s (NJ), joins Coach Brendan Suhr on the latest Coaching U Podcast to talk about investing in your players on & off the court, keys to influencing players, coaching kids in the 21st century, how he continues to learn & much much more!! Coach Hurley has amassed 27 state championships and more than 1000 wins in 39 years as a coach. Hurley is just the tenth coach in high school history to win 1000 games, with five of his teams having gone undefeated. In 2010 he was the third high school coach in history to be formally inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Hurley is the father of Bobby Hurley, a former All-American point guard at Duke and the head basketball coach at Arizona State, and Dan Hurley, who coaches at the University of Rhode Island.

Joe Abunassar, basketball skill and performance training coach and founder of Impact Basketball joins Coach Brendan Suhr on our latest Coaching U LIVE 2016 Podcast talking about the latest on player development today, how coaches can stay on the cutting edge, taking players to the next level & more! Joe began his illustrious career coaching alongside legendary Hall of Fame coach Bob Knight at Indiana and Wyoming Universities, which included 2 Big-Ten Championships and a Final Four appearance.His early group of clients included Kevin Garnett, Chauncey Billups, Tyronn Lue, Al Harrington, Tayshaun Prince, and Dahntay Jones who would all go on to have very successful and lengthy NBA careers while continuing to train with Joe. He then started IMG Basketball Academy in Sarasota, Florida which is now a nationally recognized high school and youth team basketball program. In 2006, Joe founded Impact Basketball in Las Vegas, Nevada and Los Angeles, California now training over 200 NBA professionals, men’s and women’s national teams, McDonalds and NCAA All-Americans, foreign professionals, as well as numerous talented youth players from all over the world participating in Impact Youth Summer Training Camps and Impact Academy. We’ve partnered with Impact Basketball to enable more coaches to become Impact Certified with a special $100 OFF offer if you use discount code ‘CoachU20’ For more information read below or visit ImpactBball.com/Certified For more information visit ImpactBball.com/Certified

Joe Abunassar, basketball skill and performance training coach and founder of Impact Basketball joins Coach Brendan Suhr on our latest Coaching U LIVE 2016 Podcast talking about the latest on player development today, how coaches can stay on the cutting edge, taking players to the next level & more! Joe began his illustrious career coaching alongside legendary Hall of Fame coach Bob Knight at Indiana and Wyoming Universities, which included 2 Big-Ten Championships and a Final Four appearance.His early group of clients included Kevin Garnett, Chauncey Billups, Tyronn Lue, Al Harrington, Tayshaun Prince, and Dahntay Jones who would all go on to have very successful and lengthy NBA careers while continuing to train with Joe. He then started IMG Basketball Academy in Sarasota, Florida which is now a nationally recognized high school and youth team basketball program. In 2006, Joe founded Impact Basketball in Las Vegas, Nevada and Los Angeles, California now training over 200 NBA professionals, men’s and women’s national teams, McDonalds and NCAA All-Americans, foreign professionals, as well as numerous talented youth players from all over the world participating in Impact Youth Summer Training Camps and Impact Academy. We’ve partnered with Impact Basketball to enable more coaches to become Impact Certified with a special $100 OFF offer if you use discount code ‘CoachU20’ For more information read below or visit ImpactBball.com/Certified

Lennie Acuff, Head Coach of Alabama-Huntsville joins Coach Brendan Suhr on the latest Coaching U Podcast to talk about sharing his unique ideas on basketball with Power 5 & NBA coaches, networking to learn, how he continues to evolve and grow his coaching philosophy & more! Acuff is one of the BEST clinicians in the game today and will deliver some of the most impactful & unique content you will ever hear in person! ONLY at Coaching U LIVE 2016! Under Acuff the Chargers have enjoyed 17 winning seasons, appeared in the Gulf South Conference tournament 16 times, won eight GSC regular season titles, captured two GSC tournament championships, and earned nine trips to the NCAA tournament. For his efforts, Acuff has been named the NABC District Coach of the Year four times (2000, 2011, 2012, and 2013), and he has been honored as the GSC Coach of the Year a conference-record eight times! Follow @CoachAcuff !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');

Lennie Acuff, Head Coach of Alabama-Huntsville joins Coach Brendan Suhr on the latest Coaching U Podcast to talk about sharing his unique ideas on basketball with Power 5 & NBA coaches, networking to learn, how he continues to evolve and grow his coaching philosophy & more! Acuff is one of the BEST clinicians in the game today and will deliver some of the most impactful & unique content you will ever hear in person! ONLY at Coaching U LIVE 2016! Under Acuff the Chargers have enjoyed 17 winning seasons, appeared in the Gulf South Conference tournament 16 times, won eight GSC regular season titles, captured two GSC tournament championships, and earned nine trips to the NCAA tournament. For his efforts, Acuff has been named the NABC District Coach of the Year four times (2000, 2011, 2012, and 2013), and he has been honored as the GSC Coach of the Year a conference-record eight times! Follow @CoachAcuff

Tony Bennett, Head Coach of the University of Virginia Cavaliers joins Coach Brendan Suhr on the latest edition of the Coaching U podcast to talk about players transitioning to coaching, how his dad helped shaped what kind of coach he is today, where he goes to continue learning as a coach and more!

Tony Bennett, Head Coach of the University of Virginia Cavaliers joins Coach Brendan Suhr on the latest edition of the Coaching U podcast to talk about players transitioning to coaching, how his dad helped shaped what kind of coach he is today, where he goes to continue learning as a coach and more!

Dr. Tim Elmore,founder and president of Growing Leaders, an Atlanta- based non-profit organization created to develop emerging leaders joins our Coaching U LIVE 2015 Podcast Series with Coach Brendan Suhr to talk about coaching millennials, the iY Generation & much more! Tim trains high school and college students with the skills they need to become servant leaders at school, work home and the community. Since founding Growing Leaders, he has spoken to more than 300,000 students, faculty and staff on hundreds of campuses across the country, including Stanford University, Duke University, the University of South Carolina, the University of North Carolina, Florida State University, and Baylor University. Tim has also provided leadership training and resources for the National FFA Organization, and multiple athletic programs including, the University of Alabama, Auburn University, the University of Texas and the San Francisco Giants. From the classroom to the boardroom, Tim is a dynamic communicator who uses principles, images and stories to strengthen leaders. He teaches leadership for corporations such as Chick-fil-A, Inc., The Home Depot, American Eagle Outfitters, and Cox Communications among others. He has also taught courses on leadership and mentoring at nine universities and graduate schools across the U.S. Committed to developing young leaders on every continent of the world, Elmore also has shared his insights in more than 30 countries — including India, Russia, China, and Australia, among others. Tim has written more than 25 books, including the best-selling Habitudes: Images that Form Leadership Habits and Attitudes®, Life Giving Mentors, Nurturing the Leader Within Your Child, and Generation iY: Our Last Chance to Save Their Future. Recognized as a thought leader on the emerging generation, Tim has been quoted in articles on Generation Y and generational diversity in the workplace in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Investor’s Business Daily, Huffington Post, the Atlanta Business Chronicle, TLNT.com and Portfolio.com. Follow @TimElmore !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');

Dr. Tim Elmore,founder and president of Growing Leaders, an Atlanta- based non-profit organization created to develop emerging leaders joins our Coaching U LIVE 2015 Podcast Series with Coach Brendan Suhr to talk about coaching millennials, the iY Generation & much more! Tim trains high school and college students with the skills they need to become servant leaders at school, work home and the community. Since founding Growing Leaders, he has spoken to more than 300,000 students, faculty and staff on hundreds of campuses across the country, including Stanford University, Duke University, the University of South Carolina, the University of North Carolina, Florida State University, and Baylor University. Tim has also provided leadership training and resources for the National FFA Organization, and multiple athletic programs including, the University of Alabama, Auburn University, the University of Texas and the San Francisco Giants. From the classroom to the boardroom, Tim is a dynamic communicator who uses principles, images and stories to strengthen leaders. He teaches leadership for corporations such as Chick-fil-A, Inc., The Home Depot, American Eagle Outfitters, and Cox Communications among others. He has also taught courses on leadership and mentoring at nine universities and graduate schools across the U.S. Committed to developing young leaders on every continent of the world, Elmore also has shared his insights in more than 30 countries — including India, Russia, China, and Australia, among others. Tim has written more than 25 books, including the best-selling Habitudes: Images that Form Leadership Habits and Attitudes®, Life Giving Mentors, Nurturing the Leader Within Your Child, and Generation iY: Our Last Chance to Save Their Future. Recognized as a thought leader on the emerging generation, Tim has been quoted in articles on Generation Y and generational diversity in the workplace in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Investor’s Business Daily, Huffington Post, the Atlanta Business Chronicle, TLNT.com and Portfolio.com. Follow @TimElmore