What does it take to keep getting better when you're already one of the best in the world? For Coach Dawn Staley, the answer has as much to do with how you think as how you play.
A four-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time national champion, Dawn has spent more than three decades at the highest levels of women's basketball, first as a player and now as head coach of the University of South Carolina. She describes herself as the ultimate compartmentalizer, but becoming a better leader required her to learn when to set aside the instincts that had made her successful.
In this episode of Grey Matter, Dawn joins Consello Founder, Chairman and CEO Declan Kelly to discuss the losses that still stay with her, the difficult feedback that changed her approach to coaching, and why learning to understand the people you lead is essential to sustained success.
In this conversation, Dawn discusses:
•Why the losses stay with her longer than the victories
•What a bad basketball game reveals about a player's mindset
•The role of pressure and disappointment in her development
•Knowing when a team needs intensity, joy, softness, or composure
•Her routines for clearing her head before a big game
About Consello
Consello is an Advisory and Investing Platform with offices in New York, Miami, Atlanta, Dublin, Belfast, London, Brussels and Abu Dhabi.
Consello’s distinct advisory practices provide the complete strategic counsel today’s leaders need to grow and transform their organizations. Consello’s advisory expertise spans Corporate Advisory; M&A; Management Consulting; Talent; and Sports and Entertainment. Dedicated teams operate in each practice, led by a leadership group with deep operational experience across industries, business growth stages and market cycles and with an expansive set of global corporate relationships.
Consello’s investment business, Consello Capital, identifies high-potential mid-market companies and invests capital and expertise to transform their growth.
About Grey Matter Host Declan Kelly
Declan Kelly is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Consello, one of the world's most influential boutique advisory firms. A trusted advisor to dozens of CEOs leading the world's top companies, Mr. Kelly has built or run four global consulting companies over the last three decades prior to founding Consello. Mr. Kelly also served in government as US Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland during the Obama administration.
