Shane Battier

Lessons from Legends on Achieving Peak Performance and Sustained Success

What makes a leader transcendent? What traits do superstars possess that the average person only dreams about? What separates the all-time greats from everyone else?

Over the course of a 35-year basketball odyssey, Shane Battier has been blessed to play for numerous Hall of Fame Coaches and play with a handful of the greatest players and teams basketball has produced. From his front-row seat to some of the greatest legends in sports, he’s learned what to takes to achieve peak performance and sustained success.

In this presentation, Battier provides key insights into what made names like Mike Kryzyewski, Hubie Brown, and Eric Spoelstra first-ballot Hall of Fame coaches. He explores what made legendary front office executives like Jerry West and Pat Riley one-of-a-kind. He also explains the traits that separate surefire Hall of Fame players – like LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, Pau Gasol, and Yao Ming – from rest of the NBA.

These surprisingly simple and accessible traits will illuminate a path of improvement – no matter your playing field. With insight and enthusiasm, Battier provides audiences with championship-proven strategies for cultivating greatness – from activating purpose through mission-driven leadership to tapping into your emotional intelligence, and harnessing resilience.

Lessons From the Intersection of Technology and Sports

While statistics have always been a huge part of professional sports, a focus-shift occurred in recent years: the traditional measurements of athletic success have increasingly been surpassed by more analytical approaches. From Major League Baseball’s sabermetrics to the use of data analysis by a growing number of NBA teams, Shane Battier breaks down how athletes can leverage every point of data available to achieve success, even if they do not live up to many of the traditional metrics. Audiences will learn:

• How tech industry trends have intersected with professional athletics, and what every athlete should know if they want to fine-tune their abilities
• Strategic takeaways any organization can use to mine the data available to them in order to improve on key performance indicators
• The technology available, from wearables to digital analytics, to improve athletic performance

The Art of the Intangible

He can’t jump very high. He’s not very fast. In fact, he fails the ‘eyeball’ test in nearly every basketball category. And yet, Shane Battier has proved to be invaluable to every team he has ever suited up for. In this impassioned and inspiring presentation, Battier shares with audiences the ways in which he believes sacrifice, ownership, embracing failure, championship professionalism, and a Hunger Games mentality contribute to the powerful and significant intersection of art and commerce. A genuine team player, he knows that champions are often made when no one is looking and encourages audience members to always do what it takes for the team to succeed—whether their efforts receive recognition or not. Stats don’t always tell the story of value, and Battier is living proof.

Strategy and Resilience: Overcoming Obstacles and Facing Challenge

What can I control? How do my passion and distinguished skills add value to my organization? In the face of discouragement and desolation, these are some of the questions that Shane Battier often asked himself in his endeavors toward success. He shares his personal story with audiences and expounds on how factors such as dedication, resilience and tenacity ultimately rendered Battier an invaluable member of championship winning teams. Deemed the “No-Stats All-Star” by best-selling author Michael Lewis in a New York Times Magazine cover story, audience members are emboldened to apply Battier’s strategy, vision and leadership skills in their own professional careers in this thought-provoking and impactful presentation.