The Spirit of a Team: Successful CEOs and Coaches Share Their Strategy for Achieving Excellence Hardcover – May 24, 2025

Coach Lee Owens (Ashland University, Ohio State University, and Massillon High School), has been writing this book for the past forty-five years. During his coaching career, he had the opportunity to take over six struggling high school and college football teams. Each time the challenge was different, but the message was the same. He told each team they would be champions, and each time it happened. The blueprint for achieving team excellence works in the locker room, but it can also work in the boardroom. Motivating a team of football players is no different from motivating a team of salespeople or motivating your team at home.The Spirit of a Team gives readers real-life examples of how actual CEOs, coaches, and players used these skills to achieve success in the biggest arenas of business and sport. Lee Owens and Larry Phillips sat down with multiple individuals who exemplify leadership. Read the stories of:Carl Johnson: Warren Equity Partners— Partner, Head of OperationsLarry Kehres: Mount Union Head Football CoachCharlie Frye: NFL & College Football Coach, Cleveland Browns QuarterbackLuke Fickell: Head Football Coach, Wisconsin BadgersSteve Clinkscale: NFL Coach, Los Angeles ChargersDwight Schar: Founder NVRNate Moore: Head Football Coach, Massillon High SchoolMatt LaFleur: Head Football Coach, Green Bay PackersMatt Kaulig: Executive Chairman, Kaulig Companies/LeafFilterDan Niss: President, Charter Next GenerationSue Ramsey: Motivational Speaker, 2013 Division II Basketball National ChampionTheir stories are not only inspiring, but also a validation of the building blocks to team excellence that The Spirit of a Team outlines, mixed with Coach Lee Owens’s twenty-six years of coaching experience and Larry Phillips’s thirty-five years of journalistic insights. Read more