Leadership · Growth · Exit

The mindset that won you the game wins in business too.

Discipline, preparation, and resilience don't retire when the season ends. We help founders and executives translate what made them competitors into how they lead teams, grow companies, and build a next chapter worth playing for.

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150+
Leaders coached
3
Businesses built & sold
15
Mindset shifts, athlete to CEO

The Principles

What the locker room teaches the boardroom

Six habits every serious athlete builds — and what each one becomes once the arena changes from a field to a P&L.

  • Discipline

    The work you do when nobody's watching is the work that compounds on the balance sheet.

  • Preparation

    Championships are decided in practice. So are quarters — before anyone opens the deck.

  • Teamwork

    No one wins alone. Clear roles beat raw talent in every organization you'll ever build.

  • Resilience

    You will lose games. What matters is how fast your team resets for the next possession.

  • Play to Your Strengths

    Great coaches don't fix every weakness — they build the system around what you do best.

  • The Next Season

    Every career has a final whistle. The ones who plan for it get a second act, not an ending.

Cover of the book After the Game: Bridging the Gap from Winning Athlete to Thriving Entrepreneur, by Jay Dixon

The Book

After the Game

Bridging the Gap from Winning Athlete to Thriving Entrepreneur

The principles behind every engagement on this page started here — a book about what transfers from sport to business, and what it takes to build the next chapter once the game is over.

By Jay Dixon · Published by Forefront Books

Moments of career transition are moments of peril because they threaten our self-concept, in other words, our identity. In After the Game, Jay Dixon provides expert guidance for navigating these challenging transitions. A big part of his contribution is highlighting the hazard of identity threat, as so many successful people are blindsided by it. Beyond that he gives practical and informed advice on how to construct a new identity, fit for the future, from the strengths that led to success in the previous role. Whether you are leaving a career in sports, transitioning between companies or industries, or finally achieving that long-desired promotion, this book is indispensable reading for anyone experiencing significant career change.

Paul Ingram Kravis Professor of Business, Columbia Business School · 9× Award Winner in Teaching Excellence
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01 — Leadership Consulting

Build a championship team

Coach your leaders the way elite programs develop athletes.

Talent alone has never won a title. We work with executive teams the way a coaching staff works with a roster — defining roles, raising the standard, and building a culture where accountability is expected rather than enforced. The result is a leadership group that performs under pressure instead of tightening up in it.

  • Leadership assessment and one-on-one executive coaching cadence
  • Culture and standards workshop — defining how your team competes
  • Role clarity and accountability framework across the leadership bench
  • Performance-under-pressure coaching for high-stakes moments
  • Quarterly film review: what worked, what didn't, what changes
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02 — Growth Planning

Your business needs a playbook

A training regimen for the company, not just a target on a wall.

Nobody gets stronger by hoping. We build you a written game plan with a real training regimen behind it — the handful of plays that actually move revenue, the weekly reps that build the habit, and the scoreboard that tells you the truth. Momentum comes from stacking measurable wins, one season at a time.

  • Growth playbook: your 3–5 highest-leverage plays, written down
  • 90-day training blocks with weekly reps and clear owners
  • A scoreboard of 5–7 metrics that actually predict the outcome
  • Pricing, offer, and capacity review before you scale the load
  • Monthly coaching sessions to adjust the plan mid-season
Build My Game Plan
03 — Exit Planning

Life after the game

Leave on your terms — with purpose, legacy, and a next chapter already built.

Every athlete eventually plays a last game, and the ones who struggle aren't the ones who lost — they're the ones who never planned for the day after. Selling or stepping away from a business you built works exactly the same way. We prepare the company for a strong transition and, just as importantly, we prepare you for who you are once it's no longer yours.

  • Exit readiness assessment — the business and the owner, both
  • Value-building roadmap in the years before you go to market
  • Succession and leadership handoff so the team keeps winning
  • Coordination with your attorney, CPA, and wealth advisor
  • Your "next season" plan: identity, purpose, and what comes after
Start Planning My Exit

Leadership Academies

Most organizations don't need another speaker. They need the whole program built.

Custom, cohort-based leadership academies — designed, produced, and delivered end to end. We build the curriculum, source and book the talent, produce the materials, and run the room, so your team develops its next generation of leaders instead of managing an event.

Client Engagement

Leadership 2.0 Academy

Client: School Leaders · VEA Newport Beach, CA

A six-month executive leadership academy for a cohort of superintendents and senior district executives — an in-person boot camp, four program sessions, virtual networking, and a capstone with graduation.

Our scope

  • Designed the six-month curriculum and session structure
  • Sourced, engaged, and funded the keynote speaker
  • Produced all participant and facilitator materials
  • Ran the program on site through capstone and graduation

Keynote we engaged

George Mumford

Mindfulness coach to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant

Same structure, different content — the format runs for any organization building its senior bench.

What we build for you

  • Curriculum design — sessions, sequence, and learning outcomes
  • Speaker sourcing and booking, including marquee keynotes
  • Participant workbooks, facilitator guides, and slide decks
  • Venue, logistics, and on-site program management
  • Capstone projects, certification, and graduation
  • Cohort-based, six-month format — sized to your organization
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Results

What clients say

Real words from people who've been through the work.

  • We've grown 10x in 2 years and I'm on my path to the exit I planned for. Thank you.
    Joe D.Founder & Success Coach client
  • Leadership 2.0 was a great way to meet like-minded individuals and grow as a leader.
    Sean JacksonLeadership 2.0 Academy participant

About

Not a guru. A bench.

Success Coach is a team, not a personality. Depending on what your business needs, you get the people who have actually done that part — the psychology, the finance, the operating experience, the growth work — rather than one generalist stretched across all of it.

  • Harvard master's

    Psychology and organizational behaviour — the mindset and performance side of the work.

  • Top-school MBAs

    Finance, strategy, and structure, applied to your business instead of a case study.

  • Public sector leaders

    People who have run large, accountable organizations where the stakes are public.

  • Growth operators

    Practitioners who have built, scaled, and sold companies — not just advised on them.

The playbook we run

Our engagements apply the business and finance principles Jay lays out in the second section of After the Game — the same ground a top MBA program covers, pointed at your company rather than a case study.

  • Business structure & org design
  • Finance principles
  • Marketing
  • Branding
  • Targeted media
  • Events
  • Sales & go-to-market
  • Capital & exit strategy

Jay Dixon

Founder · Author of After the Game

  • Columbia Business School Certificate in Business Excellence
  • Three businesses built and sold

Next Season Starts Here

Let's talk about your next chapter

A 30-minute call, no pitch deck. Tell us where the business is, where you want it to go, and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team for it.

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