Speaker, Executive Coaching, Learning Specialist for Sales & Presentations, Team Building, Special Learning Events & Training for both Business Teams & Sports Teams - NCAA, Professional Athletes.• Designed and delivered customized training programs to companies in team sizes ranging from 2 to 50 key executives across the US. Programs range from 1 day in-house events, multi-day retreats, to 4 to 6 month engagements that work both with teams and individuals. • Clients include: Accenture, Robert W. Baird Company, Starbucks Seattle, BMW of Chicago, The Private Bank/CIBC, Blue Cross Blue Shield of IL, RD Williams & Company, Culver Military Academy, Jaguar Chicagoland Dealers. Charles Schwab. • 2108: Completed a successful consulting engagement with a Private Oil & Gas Company, Oklahoma, in 2018, with 5 board members on teambuilding, performance coaching, and more trusting, productive functional interactions and better daily planning attitude and stress management as primary goals. • 2017-18: Retained to create and execute business relationship development events for The Private Bank of IL for 25 clients and prospects of the Illinois Commercial Banking Group. Employed a Mental Edge workshop with a golf short game clinic to achieve performance optimization, specific tactics to increase effective focus, problem solving, and resiliency. Resulted in a 2nd engagement with the greater CIBC management team in 2018.

Private practice & contributing to: The United States Coast Guard Charleston, SC Command-Control Center, and the College of Charleston Athletic Department’s Cougar Sports teams,Including Men’s & Women’s Golf, Softball and Baseball team student-athletes & coaches. Several professional Tour golfers. Human Performance training is a REAL GAME CHANGER!

· Weekly interview segment, “Joe Knows Golf,” on “For the Love of the Game with Uncle Buck,” NBC Sports Radio, Phoenix AZ, November 2017 - April 2018. · “Mindset Training Techniques of High Performers in MLB and Pro Golf – and anything else in life!” Led discussion on mental training and optimum performance in competition with MLB stars Tim Raines and Ryne Sandberg, Chicago Golf Show, February 2017.· “Mindsets Beget Skill Sets: The new frontiers in brain science learning and performance – and impact of Real Golf,” process and book. A private Country Club, Palm Desert, CA November 2016. · “Mindsets Beget Skill Sets: The new frontiers in brain science learning and performance – and impact of Real Golf, process and book. University Club & Union League Club, Chicago, March 2016. · Authored and published REAL GOLF: Taking Your Best Game to the Course, November 2013. Approaching 5000 copies sold to date. · Monthly column “The Mental Edge,” the Chicago District Golfer magazine, 2005 – 2008.

Expert Coach: Premier Golf Learning Services to Business Executive Men and Women. Speaking, Seminars and Workshps - Providing PGA-Tour level coaching, and specialized, differentiated learning-relationship-building experiences for business teams and key clients and prospects. - How you learn and play golf mirrors how you learn and perform in business. - My services travel across the country or globe. Our Academy is based on Chicago's North Shore. Greater Chicago area as well as corporate/professional events across US.· Sold and served over $1.7M in individual golf instructional lessons, clinics and camps to PGATour/LPGA Tour/Canadian Tour competitors, amateur adults, collegiate, high school and junior golfers. · Developed and coached several newly-declared Tour Professionals Judson Choate to win the Hairshark Pro-Am, Las Vegas, February 2018. And, Mike Van Sickle who qualified for the US OPEN.· Coached clients to over 44 club championships across the US: from Ocean Reef Club FL, Exmoor CC (12), Desert Forest Club AZ, Indian Hill Club, Skokie CC, The Glen Club, The Dunes Club IN, Bob O’Link, Glenview Club, The Glen Club.· Produced 20 instructional video tutorials and over 36 podcasts. · Developed high school boys and girls into NCAA collegiate golfers using customized, interactive blend of mental game, skill technique and competitive context training programs. · High school development programs produced 13 NCAA team invitations to Dartmouth, Kentucky, Val-paraiso, Hamilton, Holy Cross, DePaw, Middlebury, Northern Illinois, Wooster, Northern Michigan, Regis, Southern Illinois, and Methodist University.

· Led a team of 18 student athletes and two assistant coaches to establish a viable three-tiered program: Developmental squad, Junior Varsity Team and Varsity Team. · Became the winningest high school golf coach in Illinois IHSA history by winning the Team State Championships Class 1A, back-to-back in 2011 and 2012, and runner-up in 2013 and 2014. · Mentored and coached 2 individual State Champions on those teams.

· Built the largest green-grass lesson program in the Midwest over a 22 year period – as its Co-Founder/CEO.· Led the marketing, sales and servicing of over $18M in golf instructional services to amateur adults, children, and competition players.· Hired, trained, and led a staff ranging from 5 to 24 seasonally, each year.· Coached 19 players that ascended local, regional and national junior golf arenas to earn entry onto NCAA collegiate golf teams 11 to D1, remainder D2 & D3.