How Intentional Relationships Can Help Your Team Culture

Being a leader is a huge responsibility. With this great responsibility comes the importance of understanding why relationships matter. They matter in sports, and they matter in life. The best coaches and most admired teammates in the public eye have devoted their craft of leadership around building relationships with their teams, peers, assistant coaches, and[…]

Stepping Up To The Plate

A year after a fantastic 9-1 start en route to a 15-5 season, the Walter Johnson Varsity boys baseball team began this season with an unexpected 1-3 record accompanied by poor body language and little enthusiasm. During their strong 2016 campaign the team began their season going through a modified version of Lead ‘Em Up[…]

Staff Spotlight – Adam Bradley

Adam Bradley Position: President and Founder  After years of serving local high school teams with weekly leadership and character development sessions, Adam decided to share these powerful lessons with coaches across the world (Lead ‘Em Up has been used by coaches and teams in almost 40 states and 6 countries). In addition to his continued work[…]

Staff Spotlight – Kyle Elmendorf

Position: Director of Business Development & Marketing Joined Lead ‘Em Up March 2017 Kyle lives in St. Louis with his wife Angie and his two boys Brenner and Layton Kyle joins the Lead ‘Em Up team with a passion for working with and impacting young people. Kyle is the varsity girls basketball coach at Orchard[…]

Lead ‘Em Up Update

Coaches & Players, It’s been a fun and impactful 18-months since we rolled Lead ‘Em Up out to market. We wanted to take a moment and share a summary of our growth and some new enhancements coming to our curriculum later this year. Through the first 18-months we’ve seen Lead ‘Em Up: be used by[…]

Self-Control

I won’t let myself go there…   Self-Control – Coaching Notes: Game Name: Overload game on Overload printable coaches guide It’s Time To Win: In addition to formulating a plan to attack difficult situations, the possibilities of you showing self-control improve if you can avoid the situation in the first place. One way to help[…]