Sport Team FUNDAMENTALS help coaches in competitive pre-collegiate athletics achieve excellence with integrity.

Shape Team Culture for Optimal Performance

Acclimatizing Culture Framework helps you to:

Balance Demandingness and Responsiveness to create Collective Safety and Confidence that are needed for your team to reach the summit — to achieve Excellence with Integrity.

Our approach also gives you the tools when you need them the most on your journey from season start to season summit.

Base to Summit Package

Helps you to focus on:

Pre-Season: Visualizing our what (goals) by how: our culture norms and expectations.

In-Season: Dialogue is the antidote, and adjustment is perfection as we continuously adjust to balance demandingness and responsiveness within our team culture.

Season Summit: Separate preferences from requirements: strength is found in our unity as we pull forward all the learning, growth, and capacity developed from the journey and go ALL-IN for our summit goals.

Post-Season: Win or lose, the journey to any summit is a journey with the potential for individual and collective transformation, so we bring closure to this journey, and use the learning gained to help in future journeys to future summits.

High School Sport Culture Survey

Supports optimal performance by:

Using data as a tool through implementation that is safe, fair, and balanced for all stakeholders.

Providing actionable insights for strengthening team culture and performance.

Sample Summary Report (extract)

Sport Team FUNDAMENTALS are delivered in partnership with The Robert D. and Billie Ray Center at Drake University.

To find out more, call 515-271-1910.

Sport Team FUNDAMENTALS are built with and for coaches

The workouts and the tools in this package take our field work in the most trying and pressure-filled environments of collegiate athletics and calibrate them to meet the needs and circumstances of pre-collegiate athletics.

  The Excellence with Integrity Culture Development work has been transformational for our program, helping me shape our team culture with precision. The assessments provide clear insights into where our team stands, and working with the Institute has allowed me to turn that feedback into targeted actions that truly make a difference. ... the guidance I’ve received has not only optimized our team culture but has also made me a better coach. 

Women's Lacrosse Division I Collegiate Coach

 Matt Davidson was a trusted guide helping our team shape the uncommon culture needed to win our first ever Men’s Soccer National Championship in 2022.

Matt and the Institute’s Excellence with Integrity Tools and Assessments remain an essential part of building our team culture to achieve excellence with integrity. 

Ian McIntyre

Head Coach

SU Men’s Soccer

Contact our team (315-692-8054) to put our solutions to work for you.