How do you take talent from good to great to world-class? It’s a question we posed across a broad cross section of elite coaches, teachers and instructors in this fascinating session from the 2015 Leaders Performance Summit in New York. On stage that afternoon were:

-Dr Dehra Harris, Medical Director & Asst. Professor Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis

-Lt Col Jeff Orr, F-16 Pilot Instructor at the US Air Force

-Risa Steinberg, Faculty and Associate Director of Dance at The Juilliard School

-David Marsh, Head Coach of the US women’s Olympic team at the 2016 Games

Moderator Steve Gera got the ball rolling with the question of taking talent along the journey to world-class and managed to elicit four very different answers that provoked deep reflection from each.

Further topics that afternoon included:

-The science of [coaching] interventions.

-Recalibrating goals with students.

-Ways to become a better coach.

-Fighting a loss of coaching confidence.