Tier 03 · Health Advisory Board
Tier 03 · Eric Cressey
Long-Term Athlete Development: What Elite Sport Knows That Corporate Wellness Doesn't
Elite sport invests in athletes over a 15-year horizon. Most corporate wellness invests over a 90-day pilot. This talk lays out the long-term-athlete-development framework Cressey uses with the Yankees and shows how the same principles apply to building durable, high-performing organizations.
Key takeaways
- 01The five-stage long-term-athlete-development model
- 02Why 'peak performance' thinking is the enemy of sustained performance
- 03The role of off-season — and why most professionals don't have one
- 04How elite organizations measure progress on horizons longer than the next quarter
- 05Lessons from the New York Yankees player-health system
- 06The leadership analog: building organizations on 15-year horizons
Sample agenda
- 0–10 min — The 90-day vs 15-year horizon
- 10–30 min — The five-stage development model
- 30–55 min — Inside the Yankees player-health system
- 55–75 min — The leadership analog
- 75–80 min — Q&A
Slide outline
- Slide 1 — Two horizons
- Slide 2 — The five-stage model
- Slide 3 — Why peak-performance thinking fails
- Slide 4 — The off-season problem
- Slide 5 — Yankees case study
- Slide 6 — Building organizations on 15-year horizons