Making The Play with Dave Briglio

This week’s chat will show us how to go where people want to grow, with boundary-pushing ideas, behaviors, strategies, and programs. My guest will be Lou Bergholz, Founder of Edgework Consulting, who also co-authored the book “Re-Designing Youth Sport – Change The Game” (featured in Episode 14).

Edgework specializes in helping individuals, teams and organizations to achieve next-level performance and impact. They do this through research, training, facilitation and coaching. They listen first to understand their clients’ context and desired outcomes, to learn about how things work "inside" each organization. They then leverage their "outside" expertise, to create solutions based on each client’s unique reality.
Edgework works with a wide range of organizations, from corporte to non-profit. Edgework’s clients include: MIT Sloan, Tuck School of Business, Cornerstone Research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Acadian Asset Management, Indigo AG, Good Sports, the International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps, Grassroot Soccer, Play Rugby USA, Up2Us Sports and the Serioius Fun Network.
As part of Lou’s responsiblities for Edgework, he is in charge of its “Knowledge Lab,” which is dedicated to aggregating the most cutting edge research across a wide range of topics related to human development and performance. Lou’s areas of interest include: resilience, trauma-informed practices, and high performing teams.
In this episode, you’ll hear…
•How to find that line between learning and panic, and move past the doubt
•The importance of high-impact shifts to mindset, knowledge, skills, and organizational structure and what the research says about how significant behaviour change happens
•The importance of strong relationships to transform organizations and communities

This week’s show will focus on how to avoid miscommunication at home, work or play. And I’m very excited to chat on that topic with Rebecca Klein Scott and Keith Scott, owners of TALLsmall Productions. This husband-wife duo lead communications workshops and speaking engagements for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to family owned businesses and everything in between along with business and public speaking coaching.
TALLsmall Productions is a nod to their heights - Rebecca is 5 foot 2 inches and Keith is 6 foot 9 inches – and as they like to say, “small tweaks make TALL differences” in our lives.
TALLsmall has interactive courses cover such topics as networking to get noticed, communicating across generational divides, sales training, body language, conflict resolution and media training. What attracted me to Rebecca and Keith was their post on LinkedIn entitled, “Parents Said, Kids Said: One Family Sets Ground Rules for Communication”. A very good read.
Rebecca and Keith know first hand, in each of those settings, that the blame game solves nothing. Neither do long-winded conversations. We needed to be clear and establish simple rules. But if it was that easy to do, we’d all be doing it. So get ready to hear their five tips, which are a mix of what they teach in boardrooms and learned the hard way in their dining room, including by asking their 4 kids for their two cents.
In this episode, you’ll hear…
•Self-Talk: Small Tweaks to make a Tall Difference
•Communicating with Civility & Professionalism: Make it Contagious
•Tools that work: “avoid clutter”, “allow fences”, “look in the mirror”, and more.

This week I’m very excited to chat with Dr. Jerry Lynch, author of “The Way of The Champion” “Coaching With Heart”, and other books that will change the way you view life. Seriously. They will. Dr. Lynch has been recognized as one of the top five in his profession nationwide.
While most would consider him simply a sports psychologist, Dr. Lynch is a coach, mentor and teacher who guides and coaches athletes and parents to explore the meaning and purpose of sport, as a powerful vehicle to help us understand the mental-emotional-spiritual components of the athletic game and how they apply to the bigger game, LIFE.
He has worked with men's and women's basketball, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, golf and other sports at the universities of North Carolina, Duke, Maryland, California, Syracuse, Stanford, Harvard and Middlebury and continues to work with several teams and parent groups nationally. Several of his clients have participated in various summer and winter Olympic Games. Most recently, he has established a consultancy with Steve Kerr, head coach of the World Champion Golden State Warriors. In the past 30 years alone, he has been part of 54 Final Four and 36 National Championship at the collegiate and professional levels.
Dr. Lynch has a deep calling, where his success is not measured by "making a living" but by "making a difference" in the athletic and personal lives of others. He helps us to understand how sport is a microcosmic classroom for helping athletes, coaches and parents develop crucial capacities to love, respect and care for each other while simultaneously learning to enhance the spiritual elements of courage, commitment, compassion, patience, perseverance, sacrifice, integrity, trust, belief and selflessness: the values essential to extraordinary performance in athletics and life.
Using an unconventional approach, he combines Eastern thought, Native American tradition, Christian mysticism and western psychology to help coaches, parents and their athletes to create confidence, mental toughness, inspiration and empowerment for competitive events and to better navigate the unchartered waters of sports, parenting and life.
In this episode, you’ll hear…
•How to do what you love best, more often, through The Way of The Champion
•Adopting a Samurai mindset, and expect nothing – and get far more from Life
•Lessons on embracing adversity, dealing with fatigue and “self-doubt”
•What real leadership is, and how to let yours grow and serve

This week, the discussion will be a 2-part discussion with Lindsey Munday, Head Coach of the USC Women’s Lacrosse Team, and Halley Quillinan Griggs, Women’s Editor for Inside Lacrosse Magazine (ILWomen). Lindsey is one of the most accomplished collegiate women’s lacrosse players in the history of the sport, and Halley, a former Team USA Player as well, is also an on camera analyst and reporter to Lax Sports Network, ESPN and the NCAA.com. Together they will discuss the college recruiting process and recent Division-I Rule changes, and how they offer young women chances to grow and receive skills that transcend sports.

In this episode, you’ll hear…
•The lacrosse recruiting process – now, 2016, and 5-10 yrs ago.
•The benefits and pitfalls as it applies to all collegiate sports – D1, 2, 3, NAIA, JV/Club...
•What a should student athlete expect to have the opportunity to earn from all of this
•The differences in emphasis at each level (Youth, Club, High School) for parents, players and coaches to understand
•Adversity: some the amazing stories that are in the recent issue of Inside Lacrosse

This week, the discussion will be a 2-part discussion with Lindsey Munday, Head Coach of the USC Women’s Lacrosse Team, and Halley Quillinan Griggs, Women’s Editor for Inside Lacrosse Magazine (ILWomen). Lindsey is one of the most accomplished collegiate women’s lacrosse players in the history of the sport, and Halley, a former Team USA Player as well, is also an on camera analyst and reporter to Lax Sports Network, ESPN and the NCAA.com. Together they will discuss the college recruiting process and recent Division-I Rule changes, and how they offer young women chances to grow and receive skills that transcend sports.

In this episode, you’ll hear…
•The lacrosse recruiting process – now, 2016, and 5-10 yrs ago.
•The benefits and pitfalls as it applies to all collegiate sports – D1, 2, 3, NAIA, JV/Club...
•What a should student athlete expect to have the opportunity to earn from all of this
•The differences in emphasis at each level (Youth, Club, High School) for parents, players and coaches to understand
•Adversity: some the amazing stories that are in the recent issue of Inside Lacrosse

This week, I’m very pround to be able to continue the discussion on young entrepreneurs who have started Cut To The Case, which implements innovative technologies to increase transparency, accountability, and reporting among sexual assaults.
PremikaPandia is a senior studying Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Kendall Furbee is a junior at the University of Illinois studying materials science and engineering.
With Cut to the Case, they are currently working on implementing a rape kit tracking system to assist all of the necessary stakeholders (DNA labs, law enforcement, medical professionals, attorneys) in their individual tasks as well as keep the victim informed on the status of their evidence. They have also developed a web application to increase reporting rates of sexual assault and harassment on campus and in businesses.

In this episode, you’ll hear…
•More in-depth discussions on how start-up company incubators such as iVenture are doing more than creating businesses – they are creating leaders whose work provides profits to far more people than the owners.
•What the college experience is providing, and how that measures up to what students want.
•What young entrepreneurs and college students want from the work place, and what changes they feel would benefit all of us.

Mentoring: Rushing Content, Past Context

This week, the discussion will be with Lance Loya, Author, Coach and Speaker. Lance is the world’s preeminent authority on the good teammate mindset. He specializes in getting individuals to shift into the We Gear, changing their focus from me to we! A college basketball coach turned author, advocate, and professional speaker, he is known for his enthusiastic personality and his passion for transforming teambusters into teammates.
Lance is a rare two-time recipient of the prestigious Schoenfeld Award for Sportsmanship, Character, and Ethics, as presented by the Collegiate Basketball Officials Association. For more than 20 years, he operated youth sports camps. Hundreds of kids attended his wildly popular “Be A Good Teammate” basketball camp every summer, where they were taught daily that good teammates care, share, and listen. As a former intercollegiate student-athlete, Lance was an academic All-American. He holds an undergraduate degree in theatre and a master’s degree in sports management.

•What it really means to be a good teammate
•How everyone is part of team in some capacity
•What coaches and educators should be placing the most emphasis on when they work with young athletes.
•How to shift gears in your life & put your WE ahead of your ME.

Having overcome her own challenges in school, Sarah Garr passionately believes in the need to create inclusive, innovative school communities that support and celebrate all learners. An essential component of any school culture is strong, open and trusting relationships between students, staff, parents and community members. In the midst of an ever-changing educational landscape and with transformations in curriculum and instruction, a strength based school approach is integral in supporting the growth of students and staff.

•The Non-Negotiables: Essential Elements of a Successful School Community
•A Strength Based Approach to Education: Kindness, Compassion & Joy
•The Future of Education: Preparing students for the world beyond the classroom.
•Getting Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable: How to embrace, support and facilitate change.

This week, the discussion will be with two wonderful young, inspired college entrepreneurs from Dave’s Alma Matter, Therapalz Co-Founders Fiona Kalensky and Isak Massman. Fiona and Isak have used their personal stories that include loved ones with dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease to create a Heart-Centered business using the engineering and business skills they are developing in college. They recognized the need to develop an affordable, non-pharmaceutical intervention in periods of high stress. Through listening and collecting stories from caregivers and their loved ones with Alzheimer's, Fiona and Isak have created a product that truly brings peace and happiness to people.

As family members, they have seen their loved ones go through fluctuations in mood, varying day-to-day and even hour-to-hour. They have seen the difficulties of aging first-hand. Isak saw three of his grandparents struggle with memory disorders throughout his childhood and more specifically, watched his grandmother cope with the difficulties of dementia, and then Alzheimer’s. Growing up, Fiona took care of her great aunt every Sunday and saw her loved ones make the difficult transition from at-home living to nursing home, to hospice.

•How college students can transform a normal curriculum and college experience in the most rewarding type of work
•What it’s like to have the support and encouragement to go beyond students and into entrepreneurs.
•Innovation and inspiration – what college programs can be the catalyst for the next generation of leader.