Andrej Lemanis is a former professional basketball player and now coach.

As a player he won the Australian National championship with the South East Melbourne Magic in 1992. He then transitioned into coaching holding various assistant roles until he was appointed head coach of the New Zealand Breakers in 2005. That team would ultimately go on to win 3 consecutive Championships, helping Andrej to be appointed to as the Australian Men’s coach in 2013. He would go on to take the Australian team from a world ranking of 11 to 3, its highest ever and go to become the winningest national coach ever. He is presently the coach of Altria Chiba in the Japan league.

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Today’s Episode is on the topic of Chasing Influence.

And I am joined for the discussion by my friend Murray Noble who is the President of the Melbourne Baseball club and Dr Troy Urdhal who has just written a terrific book called Chasing Influence. The books is half story and half reflection on his learning as an educator and coach, with a deep-rooted passion for inspiring positive change in the lives of others. Troy has a doctorate in Educational Leadership and boasts over two decades of experience in leadership and coaching in the U.S.

Troy's details are:

Substack: www.chasing-influence.com

X: @TroyUrdahl

X: @chaseinfluence

email: troyurdahl@chasing-influence.com

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Our Great Coach on this episode is Glenn Pocknall

Glenn is a cricket coach with over 20 years experience at the elite level. He started coaching in 2002, learning through coaching youth representative teams.

He eventually joined the Wellington Firebirds in the New Zealand National league as an Assistant coach. He then went to England, Ireland and the Netherlands to gather international experience and in eventually returned to New Zealand and became the Wellington Head Coach. In that role he led the team to win all 3 domestic titles, Ford Trophy (50over) in 2019, Plunket Shield (four day) in 2020 and back-to-back Super Smash (t20) titles in 2020 and 2021. In 2021 he was given his first chance to lead the New Zealand National team in a T20 series.

Glenn has a deep commitment to self development and the craft of coaching and in this gem of an interview

some of the key highlights were:

• The story of how he wrote a 10 year vision for himself that led him from being a factory worker to eventually coaching the NZ cricket team.
• The way he uses routines and imagery to help combat negative self talk with athletes.
• And The answer he gives around tryng not to give feedback but instead just to listen, and why this is difficult as the leader but can also be so powerful.

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Today’s episode focuses on the topic of Legendary Coaches and I am joined for the discussion by Dr David Turner at Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching at ARU in Cambridge in the UK, and Valorie Kondos Field, universally known as Ms Val. Both have been on the podcast before Dr David in his role as a leading academic on coaching and Ms Val as a Great Coach. Ms Val led the t UCLA gymnastics team from 1991 to 2019, collecting the seven national Championships along the way and she now leads the course “Transformative Coaching. Introduction to Philosophies of Coaching and Leadership” at UCLA.

I have been looking forward to getting Dr David and Ms Val together for a long time now to talk about the Great Coaches they lecture on in their programs and today is a master class in what they have learnt on their teaching journeys.

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Sir Matt Busby was the Head Coach or as they say in Soccer, Manager, for Manchester United from 1945 until 1969.

He was the first manager of an English team to win the European Cup which he did in 1968. As a player he won the FA cup with Manchester City and as Manager, won it twice. He also won the League title on 5 occasions. But as you will hear in this podcast, it’s not necessarily the titles that make him a Great Coach.

It’s the way he helped Manchester rebuild after the second world war. And then, the way he and his team responded to the tragic events of 1958. When the team were traveling home from a European Cup match when their plane crashed on the runway. In total 23 people died, including 8 Manchester United payers, while 2 other players were injured so badly they never played again.

Matt Busby died in 1994, and in this episode, I am going to create a posthumous discussion with him based on his words as read by a voice actor. I used 3 books to create this discussion, 2 of which he wrote.

Sir Matt Busby by Patrick Barclay

Soccer At The Top: My Life in Football by Matt Busby

Matt Busby My Story as told to David R. Jack

This episode was challenging to put together, but it was also fascinating given the present state of his beloved Manchester United in 2024 season and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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Todays episode is on Emotional Control

And I am joined for the discussion by 3 Dr’s.

Dr. Michael Mantell who among many things has been the Chief Psychologist for San Diego’s Children’s Hospital and the San Diego Police Department, as well as working with elite athletes.

Website:

https://drmichaelmantell.com/

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichaelmantell

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/drmichaelmantell/

Email:

drmantell@me.com

Dr. Darin Davidson, an Orthopedic surgeon who also coaches professionals in high demand, high pressure environments.

Website:

www.darindavidson.com

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/darin-davidson-md-mhsc-frcsc-1478a974

Email:

darin@darindavidson.com

And Dr. Brendan Meany a sport and performance psychology, whose work focuses on optimizing individual and group performance

Website:

UpDocYoga.com

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-meany-edd-54a99393/

Email:

brendanmeany44@gmail.com

Together they are known as the performance doctors and pool their talents to help teams and individuals improve their emotional control.

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Linn Dunn is an American basketball coach.

She coached for 25 seasons at the college level, winning 447 games and going to the NCAA championships on 7 occasions. She then went on to be first coach and GM of the Seattle Storm in the WNBA, bringing superstars Lauren Jackson and Sue Bird into the team. In 2009 she was then appointed head coach of the Indiana Fever, and in 2012 that team go on to win the WNBA championship.

She has also coached at the Olympics and World Championships with the USA women's team. Has been named coach of the year on 4 occasions and is a member of seven different athletic halls of fame.

At 74 years of age she has now returned to the Indiana Fever as the GM.

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In this podcast we explore the Leadership traits that we have found from analyzing the transcripts of the 200+ Great Coaches we have interviewed.

If you would like to test your leadership against theres you can take our free, anonymous diagnostic here: https://thegreatcoachespodcast.com/survey-intro/

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