Alan Stein Jr: From Being Kevin Durant's Strength Coach to Helping Power Executives Become Better Leaders
The first thing almost every interviewer asks Alan Stein Jr. about is coaching Kevin Durant. But what they gloss over is that it took two years of calls and faxes (remember those?) for Durant’s prep school, Montrose Academy, to bring him in as a strength and conditioning consultant, that this role was initially unpaid, and that he covered his own travel expenses. There’s also rarely a mention of all the unseen hours that Alan spent training general population clients and building up his basketball coaching business with DC-area high school players.
Alan applied the same level of diligence and persistence once he got the role at Montrose, and as he began to work at Nike elite camps. This experience gave him the confidence to start impacting teams and coaches, and eventually led to his transition into high performance coaching for companies and executives, which he balances with keynote speaking and authoring the best-selling books Raise Your Game and Sustain Your Game.
In this episode, Alan shares:
Learn more about Alan’s principles-driven coaching in his new book Sustain Your Game and follow him on Instagram.
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