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

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