Rick Jensen

BUILDING CHAMPIONS IN SPORTS AND BUSINESS

An author, presenter and world-class coach, Rick Jensen, Ph.D., is the founder of Dr. Rick Jensen's Performance Center and is an internationally recognized performance consultant and sport psychologist.

Dr. Jensen is the author of Drive to the Top: 5 Timeless Business Lessons Learned from Golf's Greatest Champions and Easier Said Than Done: The Undeniable, Tour-Tested Truths You Must Know (and Apply) to Finally Play to Your Potential on the Golf Course. In golf, his clients include more than 50 touring pros on the PGA, LPGA and Champions Tours. Dr. Jensen's clients have won a total of more than $65 million in career earnings and 199 tour victories. Fourteen of his clients have won at least one major championship and have combined to win a total of 33 majors.

As Player Development Consultant to the WTA Tour, Dr. Jensen trains tennis champions including winners of all four Grand Slam championships. Additionally, he has worked with champions from the worlds of Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League.  Dr. Jensen has served as a performance consultant to the PGA of America, the Women's Tennis Association, the Canadian PGA and the United States Olympic Training Center.

In the world of business, he consults with winners such as Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, UBS, Wells Fargo, Jackson, Grubb and Ellis, Colliers International, ADP, Hewlett Packard, American Express and NIKE Corporation.

Dr. Jensen served as a staff psychologist at the University of Florida where he received his Doctorate in Psychology with a specialization in Sport Psychology and Exercise Science.  He has been featured on ABC, ESPN, CNN, and the Golf Channel, and is also a contributing writer for the Majors of Golf Magazine, Golf Digest and GOLF Magazine.  

 

Sample Topics:  Presentations / Business Training

Dr. Rick Jensen offers a variety of presentations and training sessions based upon his first-hand knowledge of how the world's finest athletes achieve success against world-class competition.

The 7 Disciplines of Growth:  How Top Professionals Consistently Take their Business Outcomes to the Next Level

Are you looking to grow your revenue, your sales, your profitability or your client base? Reviewing case studies from the world of business, Dr. Jensen discusses how to implement The 7 Disciplines of Growth.  As you learn to maximize your growth efforts, you will be challenged to take a critical look at the mindset and behaviors that limit your business growth.

Additionally, Dr. Jensen will draw from his experiences with top performers within the world of professional sports in demonstrating what it takes to build repeatable and sustainable habits that lead to consistent growth. Dr. Jensen will help you: 

• Break Through Existing Non-Producing Growth Paradigms Position Your Practice for Growth
• Structuring Your Business for New Opportunities
• Differentiate Your Practice
• Structure Your Business around the Lifecycle Needs of A-Clients 
• Deliver a Unique Value Proposition 
• Maintain Consistent Contact with A-Clients and Prospects
• Develop Repeatable Client Service and Client Acquisition Systems

Getting Ahead in Times of Change

World-class athletes are constantly pursuing and managing change. As equipment, opponents and competitive conditions change, athletes and coaches must make the most of each new situation. In times of budget cuts, organizational restructuring and expanding technology, you must become a champion of change.

Dr. Jensen teaches you the essentials of managing change by drawing upon his extensive experience with coaching executives through major business transformations as well as his experience with changing top athletes' games for the better.

In this program you will:

• Learn to lead change, not react to it.
• Recognize individual and organizational responses to change.
• Overcome the barriers to effective change management.
• Apply the steps to getting ahead in times of change.
• Accelerate and sustain long-term changes.

 

Turn Your Team into a Winning Franchise

The Turn Your Team into a Winning Franchise program is designed to provide you with the essentials to building championship teams in the world of business. Top teams in sport recognize that winning does not happen by chance - it happens by design.

Business professionals at all levels must collaborate to ensure that the essentials to teamwork are alive and thriving throughout their business. By presenting performance strategies used by championship teams, Dr. Jensen will teach you how to build a high-performance culture, build winning franchises and motivate your team to be the best of the best.

This program includes all of the following topics:

• Learn the performance strategies used by winning franchises.
• Discover how winning coaches build, motivate, and reward teams.
• Gain insight into how you can foster world-class teamwork.
• Learn how to attract, recruit, and retain top TEAM players.

 

Run Through the Finish Line: How Top Performers Finish Strong Coming Down the Stretch 

As a year winds down, sales professionals and managers begin projecting whether or not they are going to hit their annual goals. Staying motivated and focused while finishing off the year becomes a must. Whether you are on track to reach your goals, ahead of pace, or in need of some good fortune to meet your goal, Dr. Jensen will provide you with what it takes to finish strong! 

Tiger Woods strives to "Run through the Finish Line" when finishing off a tournament. You can learn to do the same by following Dr. Jensen 3 keys to finishing strong: 

1) Fall in Love with the Opportunity 
2) Accelerate When Others Would Coast 
3) Execute a Clearly Defined Game Plan 

As he demonstrates how top sports performers master these three keys, Dr. Jensen will teach you how to think, act and perform as you "Run through the Finish Line."

 

When the Going Gets Tough, Play Like a Champion

Do you behave like a champion when the going gets tough? Unlike most people, champions have learned to stay engaged and perform at high levels under adversity? Rather than sticking their head in the sand and waiting for conditions to improve, champions view adversity through a lens of opportunity.

Get an insider's look at how top performers, in sports and business, manage their perception and behavior under the most difficult of circumstances. Learn the 3 steps to responding to adversity in a positive and productive way. Take the time to examine your personal tendencies, assess their effectiveness and discover new strategies for thriving under pressure.

This program includes:

• Understanding your personal reactions to pressure, stress, and adversity.
• Learning how peak performers respond effectively to difficult conditions.
• Practicing mental toughness strategies needed in times of adversity.
• Developing your action plan for playing like a champion under adversity.