Janssen Peak Performance

About Jeff Janssen

For over a decade, top sports coaches and business leaders have turned to Jeff Janssen to help them develop effective leaders, build high- performance teams, and create highly committed people. Not only has Jeff’s work contributed to winning numerous NCAA National Championships, he has also helped Fortune 500 companies maximize performance, productivity, and profits in the highly competitive corporate arena.

Janssen is the chief architect and lead instructor for comprehensive Leadership Academies at North Carolina, Stanford, Pittsburgh, Yale, and Illinois. Like GE’s famed leadership development program at Crotonville, the comprehensive Leadership Academies set the standard for leadership development and have positioned Jeff as the world’s top expert on leadership in sports.

Jeff began his career at the University of Arizona as one of the nation’s first and only full-time Peak Performance Coaches for a college athletic department. Over eight years at Arizona, Jeff’s innovative work on leadership, team building, and peak performance led to numerous National Championships and Final Four appearances in a variety of sports. Jeff was also instrumental in the department receiving the NCAA’s inaugural “Program of Excellence” Award for having one of the nation’s best personal development programs.

Based on his successes at Arizona, Jeff wrote the book Championship Team Building. The ground breaking book shows leaders how to build cohesive, high- performance teams that are compelled to achieve common goals. The book has received rave reviews from both sports coaches and business managers alike.

Because of Janssen’s proven track record, numerous coaches across the nation have sought out Jeff to speak to and consult with their teams. Jeff has delivered programs at many of the nation’s top programs including Stanford, Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Arizona, Florida State, LSU, Maryland, Colorado, Wisconsin, North Carolina State, and dozens of other colleges.

It didn’t take long for Fortune 500 companies like FedEx Corp., New York Life, and Raytheon to discover that the same peak performance principles Jeff was using to help sports teams win national championships could also be applied to help them gain a sustainable competitive advantage. So in 1997, Jeff formed his own consulting and training company, Janssen Peak Performance, Inc. to provide programs to a wide range of companies and sports teams seeking his expertise and assistance.

In 2000, Jeff and a colleague interviewed many of sports most successful and respected coaches including Mike Krzyzewski, Pat Summitt, Roy Williams, and others in an effort to discover their secrets of success. Their in-depth research and analysis led to the writing of The Seven Secrets of Successful Coaches™ and created an effective leadership model which Jeff uses in his programs today. The proven model shows leaders of all kinds how to help their people maximize their potential.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Marquette University, Jeff obtained his masters from the University of Arizona in Sports Psychology. He is a member of the National Speakers Association, ASTD, and several coaches’ associations.

Jeff lives in the Raleigh/Durham area in Cary, North Carolina with his lovely wife and business partner Kristi. They have a son Ryan and daughter Jill. The Janssens enjoy spending quality family time, traveling, eating at great restaurants, reading, and playing and watching sports of all kinds.

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