Sherri Coale
Sherri Coale Retires After 25 Years at The University of Oklahoma
Sherri Coale
Keynote Speaker
Hall of Fame Coach; Writer; Believer; Best-selling Amazon Author
From the high school sideline to the bright lights of major college basketball, Sherri Coale has a unique success story. In her twenty-five year career at the University of Oklahoma, she led her teams to 3 final fours, 19 straight NCAA tournament appearances, and multiple Big 12 championships. The Hall of Fame coach is a masterful storyteller and facilitator who has a gift for meeting people where they are and helping them get to where they want to go.
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Sherri Coale delivers something different. She grew up in a small town just north of the Red River where she fell in love with basketball, and the game became the vehicle for her life. After a short but stellar high school coaching career in Norman, Oklahoma that included two state championships, Coale made the historic jump across town to become the head women’s basketball coach at the University of Oklahoma at the age of thirty-one—with zero college coaching experience. Twenty-five years later, with three final four banners and a place in the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, she hung up her whistle to chase another life passion–speaking and writing. Her first book, Rooted to Rise—Redwood Legacies of Life-Anchoring People was released in the fall of 2022.
As a collegiate basketball coach, Sherri had the opportunity to stand on the grandest platforms: Final Four courts, Olympic Gold Medal stands, the Hall of Fame stage. Sharing what she’s learned, both from and with the people who made those platforms possible, as well as the insight she’s gained from her very full life outside the lines, she reaches a broad spectrum of audiences. Her unconventional journey continues to provide amazing fodder for inspiration, instruction, and insight.
Sherri is an observer, a thinker, a connector, and a teacher. She speaks on a variety of topics from confidence and collaboration to tenacity and teamwork to love and leadership–and all things around and in between. She is an engaging storyteller and yet what makes her unique is her ability to also be a facilitator with real time information that can tie broad concepts into the specific context of her audience. Sherri’s words will make people think and feel, and she will fuel conversations that will affect the way her listeners live and work.
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Sherri Coale Retires After 25 Years at The University of Oklahoma
Sherri Coale’s Speech Topics
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What Makes A Team Work: The Players
Ideas matter. Concepts matter. Plans of action matter. But people always matter more. Hall of Fame Coach Sherri Coale spent over three decades building teams that consistently out-teamed their competition. She uses the power of story to demonstrate what goes into creating a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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What Makes A Team Work: The Game Plan
Teams work when they are built and fueled purposefully when individual roles, goals, and objectives are clearly defined, and when group dynamics are prioritized. Collaborative environments that are intentionally constructed and maintained are the secret sauce of healthy organizations that consistently outperform their competitors. In this presentation, Sherri talks about the “how” behind the “what” that consistently drives teams to excel.
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What Makes A Team Work: The Goal
From the time we’re born until the time we die, we’re all chasing something. What are we running toward, and why? What happens if we don’t get it? What happens when we do? In a vicious what-have-you-done-for-me-lately world, there has to be more than what you get when you win. At every ingress and egress at the team facility at the University of Oklahoma where Sherri coached for 25 years were the words, “Leave Your Story Better Than You Found It.” They served as a reminder of the expectation that stretched beyond the lines of the court. Sherri shares how the power of purpose both fuels your performance and keeps you intact at the end.
Works by Sherri Coale
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