09.06.2014 - By Positive Coaching Alliance
Joe Ehrmann ([@JoeEhrmann76](https://twitter.com/JoeEhrmann76)), a PCA National Advisory Board Member and winner of PCA's Ronald L. Jensen Award for Lifetime Achievement, is a former NFL Pro Bowl defensive lineman, founder of Coach For America and author of *InSide Out Coaching*. Ehrmann gained additional prominence when *Parade Magazine* dubbed him “the most important coach in America” for his unorthodox, but highly effective, coaching at Gilman School in the Baltimore area. Ehrmann was also the subject of *Season of Life* by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Marx.
Ehrmann was asked to advise the NFL on the Ray Rice domestic abuse controversy. He joined PCA Senior Marketing Communications and Content Manager David Jacobson ([@CoachDaveJake](https://twitter.com/CoachDaveJake)) for a conversation, heard here, covering his work with the NFL around these issues and the role youth and high school sports can play in preventing gender violence.