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Purple Patch Podcast

97 Tom Andrews - Leadership, Vision, and Navigating Big Moments of Change in Business and Athletics

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

4.8647 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Tom Andrews is founder of TJA Leadership - a leadership strategy firm that works with some of the largest corporations and executives in big moments of change.

His vast and varied list of clients includes Starbucks, SoulCycle, American Express, Kohls, and many more.

In this dynamic interview, Matt and Tom discuss the undeniable parallels and intersections between performance in athletics and that in the business world as it pertains to Excellence, Leadership, Vision, Teamwork and Navigating Change.

  • Why is it critically important to have a mission and vision for an organization and team?
  • What makes a great team?
  • What characteristics make a great coach or leader?
  • What is the definition of leadership?
  • How does a company and/or team navigate change and transition?

This one may be for the business-minded, but because of the undeniable correlation between sports performance and business leadership, anyone who seeks improvement in a coaching or team dynamic will certainly benefit.

TJA Leadership Resources:

TJA Leadership website

TJA Leaderhip Instagram

 

Purple Patch Resources:

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0:00.0

I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and

0:05.8

educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential,

0:11.5

you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere

0:17.2

integrate sport into life. And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. This is, as ever your

0:24.1

host, Matt Dixon. And welcome to 2020. A new year ahead. This year, it's a big year. I hope for you,

0:33.3

and I know for Purple Patch. Yep, we are finally ready to open up the Purple Patch Performance Center in San Francisco.

0:43.4

It's coming in the next month or two.

0:46.0

And we feel like it's going to be a special place, a home for our San Francisco-based athletes and coaching team,

0:52.8

a destination for our Purple Patch friends and

0:55.1

performance enthusiasts from around the world to come and visit.

0:58.4

And perhaps most interestingly, to you guys, the listeners, a production factory for

1:03.1

educational content. Yes, inside the performance center, we have a production studio to generate

1:09.6

educational content for athletes, coaches,

1:12.8

and enthusiasts. And the reason for that, well, education, that word, education, has always been

1:19.7

massively important to myself and all at Purple Patch. And the center, quite frankly, is going to

1:25.6

radically increase our ability to deliver high-quality

1:28.9

education to you.

1:30.7

From myself, yep, I'll have a bit of pontification to do, but also many experts in their

1:36.8

fields who share a passion for education in the performance space.

1:41.2

Now, you guys that are listening, what does it have to do to me?

1:44.0

Well, great things ahead, but also

1:45.8

a little bit of an FYI. We're going to be hiring. Not quite a lot of spaces to fill. So for you

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