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Joshua Medcalf

  • Performance Psychology Expert
  • Authority on Transformational Leadership
  • President and Founder, Train to be CLUTCH

After asking the question, “What would I do if money didn’t matter?” Joshua Medcalf dropped out of his Masters program at Duke University, skipped scholarships to law school, and moved across the country into a homeless shelter to serve people. Today he is the president and founder of Train to be CLUTCH, whose focus is a heart's first approach to leadership, life skills and mental training. He has written three highly acclaimed books: Burn Your Goals: The Counter Cultural Approach to Achieving Your Greatest Potential, Train to be CLUTCH 101; and An Impractical Guide to Transformational Leadership. Joshua has the unique position of mentoring highly talented millennials as well as baby boomers with decades of invaluable experience, and he is able to share case studies and the latest scientific research on maximizing human performance in a multi-generational workplace through engaging and unbelievable stories.

 
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Talks & Conversations with Joshua Medcalf
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The Future of Leadership

Issues covered include:

  • Bridging the gap between millennials and the more experienced workforce.
  • The do what I say, not what I do model, is broken and will not work anymore.
  • How to inspire and lead millennials
  • Young people need models, not critics. (John Wooden)
  • Why mission driven companies consistently out perform their competition
  • How to become a transformational leader rather than a transactional one

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Developing True Mental Toughness

Issues covered include:

  • How to attract the best and brightest to your company
  • How to create a nordstrom and apple like fan base
  • How to use your job to develop true mental toughness
  • How to become the type of person everyone wants on their team

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Tapping Your Personal Greatness

Issues covered include:

  • How to leverage any situation, no matter how bleak, as an incredible opportunity to develop the personal characteristics important to you.
  • How to create an organization that people love to work at and customers love to shop at.
  • Simple ways to create brand ambassadors that can't stop raving about your company.
  • How to leverage social media, create content people love to share, and turn fans into consumers.

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The New Psychology of Success

Issues covered include:

  • Goals do not drive results, the process does.
  • Creating and living out a compelling mission.
  • The greatest companies are mission driven not goal driven.
  • When you focus on 100% controllables you actually raise the level of accountability in your organization.
  • Focusing on goals that are outside of our control increase pressure, decrease confidence, and make people miserable in the process.

Books by Joshua Medcalf
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