"Coaching is the collaborative partnership that results in implementation, completion and success." - Coach Steve Dailey - Nationally known Business Coach
Upon graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science from Colorado State University, Steve Dailey launched his first career as a professional swimming coach. During what he calls a "laboratory experience in human performance, psychology and motivation" he built "feeder" programs for aspiring national level swimmers in Colorado, Oklahoma, Illinois, South Carolina and Texas.
Though rewarding, swimming offered limited financial opportunity so Steve followed his entrepreneurial urgings to launch a business in the field of Sports and Recreation management. Starting with less than $200, he grew that business to a multimillion-dollar enterprise in only 2 years. Leveraging team building skills, organization development insights and coaching techniques learned on the pool deck, his business grew to serve tens of thousands of customers and employ over 300 people annually.
This success was soon recognized in the local business community as other entrepreneurs began to request Steve's insight on business building strategies. Responding to this interest, he began to market services as a "Business Development Coach" noting that coaching high level athletes and coaching goal-focused business people had many parallels. Soon, the concept attracted entrepreneurs and business leaders from a wide variety of marketplace segments, business models and stages of growth. Through the process, Steve rapidly honed an array of essential achievement principles that positively influenced success in virtually every business environment. Not incidental to this broad exposure were lessons learned in observing both "best practices" and "lethal errors" in leadership, sales and marketing, strategic business development, human resource management and motivation, financial planning, career advancement, predicting and responding to business trends, corporate ethics and innovation.
As the technology "boom" rumbled to the forefront of the marketplace, Steve then narrowed his niche to coaching early stage technology companies. His coaching model offered valuable input, collaboration and direction to eager executive teams, the new executive talent they were attracting and the venture capital companies that were funding them; all in maximizing opportunities in an extraordinarily fast paced time in business history. Again, more insight was gained - this time in defining critical factors that influence success and failure in high velocity/high risk business environments.
Most recently, Steve has focused his passion for coaching in developing high-yield achievement systems for Sales Professionals, Business Executives and Entrepreneurs that include web-based tools, leading edge coaching methods and executive "coach mentoring" programs where business leaders learn to be effective coaches to their own teams.
Coaching Philosophy
Over 20 years practicing the "art and science of coaching" Steve has truly been on the leading edge of the development of business coaching as a profession. His philosophies have helped shape other professional coaches and coach teams, as well as the success trajectory of the hundreds of clients he has served. The essence of Steve's approach to coaching can be defined by his emphasis on "achievement" and - as he says - "placing business inside of life rather than life inside of business."
Steve says, "True achievement is attained only through the experiences one has in producing tangible results, developing new habits and learning to leverage a broad scope of resources toward a specific intent. A coach's value is defined by the degree to which these attributes are built into their clients as permanent, reusable tools."
Personal
Steve resides in the beautiful hill country of Austin, Texas. He thoroughly embraces the second half of life as the "better half" and as such is an avid Master's Swimmer, goes backpacking and camping at every opportunity, has journeyed thousands of miles on his road bike and serves a local Boy Scout Troop as Assistant Scoutmaster.