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Lead with Clarity. Coach Response. Build a Program That Holds Under Pressure.
This clinic is built for coaches and athletic leaders who want more than motivation and more than theory. It is designed to help you create stronger standards, align your staff, and give your athletes a practical framework for responding to mistakes, adversity, pressure, and change.
Through The R Factor ®, The Performance Pathway™, and Relentless Leadership, you will learn how to lead culture with more intention, coach behavior with more consistency, and build a program that performs better because it responds better. The goal is not just to help your team compete harder. The goal is to help your people think better, communicate better, and execute better when it matters most.
What This Clinic Will Help You Do
The value of this clinic is not just what you will hear. It is what you will be able to apply when you get back to your team, your staff, and your season. These are the leadership and culture outcomes this day is designed to strengthen.
1. Coach Response, Not Just Performance
Learn how to teach athletes and staff to manage The R Factor® so mistakes, pressure, adversity, and momentum swings do not control behavior.
2. Build a Culture Athletes Can Feel
Create standards that go beyond posters and slogans so your athletes experience discipline, accountability, and ownership every day.
3. Align Your Staff Around One Language
Give your coaches and support staff a shared framework for leadership, correction, accountability, and response.
4. Develop Better Leaders Inside Your Program
Help athletes and coaches take ownership of their 20 Square Feet and become cultural multipliers in the locker room, weight room, practice, and competition.
5. Raise Standards Without Losing Trust
Learn how to combine strong relationships with high expectations so your people feel challenged, supported, and accountable.
6. Perform Better Under Pressure
Equip your program with practical tools for handling mistakes, setbacks, change, and adversity with more discipline and composure.
Register for The R Factor ® Coaches Clinic on June 11th!
The Value for Your Team and Program
Who This Clinic Was Built For
This clinic is for athletic leaders whose success depends on more than strategy and talent. If your role requires you to set standards, influence behavior, develop leaders, and build a culture that holds under pressure, this experience was built for you.
Workshop Details:
This is a focused half-day experience built to give you practical value without pulling you away for multiple days. You will leave with tools you can apply immediately with your athletes, staff, and program.
Date: Thursday, June 11th, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM ET – 1:00 PM ET
Price: $340.00 (Group Rate: $250.00 for 3+ Attendees)
Facilitated By: Andy Hills & Tony DeCenzo
Venue: Akron Zips InfoCision Stadium (Level 5)
375 E. Exchange St
Akron, OH 44304
Learn The Focus 3 Frameworks Behind Better Response and Better Results
This half-day clinic brings the core Focus 3 frameworks into the real work of athletics. You will leave with practical tools, shared language, and leadership systems you can use to strengthen culture, improve consistency, and help your people respond better when it matters most.
E + R = O
Learn how E+R=O applies to competition, coaching, communication, and adversity so your athletes and staff understand how response shapes outcomes.
Own Your 20 Square Feet
Learn how to take ownership of what you control and teach your people to do the same so energy stays on execution and responsibility.
Discipline vs. Default
Learn how to identify default behavior in yourself and your team and replace it with more intentional, disciplined action.
No BCD
Learn how blaming, complaining, and defensiveness damage culture, trust, and performance and how to lead people toward resolution and resilience.
The Performance Pathway™
Learn how leadership creates culture, culture drives behavior, and behavior produces results so you can build your program more intentionally.
Relentless Leadership
Learn how to build trust and achieve results through character, competence, connection, clarity, accountability, and support.
Bring Your Staff. Strengthen Your Culture.
Culture gets stronger when the people leading it are aligned. Bring your coaches, coordinators, and support staff so your program can build a common language for discipline, accountability, and response. When more of your leaders hear the same message and apply the same tools, it becomes easier to reinforce standards, coach behavior, and build the kind of consistency that lasts.
Seats are limited, and this is your chance to get in the room with other serious coaches and sports leaders. Group Rates (3+) are available for $250.00 per seat.
Coaches Clinic – U. of Akron
$340.00
Sign Up By June 10th, 2026
A one-time leadership and culture workshop for athletic leaders who want to win on and off the field.
About the Workshop:
Thursday, June 11th, 2026
9:00 AM ET – 1:00 PM ET
Akron Zips InfoCision Stadium
Tony DeCenzo & Andy Hills
Meet Your Facilitators
Tony DeCenzo
As a veteran of the U.S. Navy SEAL Teams, Tony brings a unique experience and mindset to both Focus 3 and our clients. Working at the highest level of Special Operations Command, he was responsible for training, leading, and operating with some of the most talented and driven people that America has to offer. Tony’s military career provided him the opportunity to travel to dozens of countries and interact with people from all around the world. His blend of emotional intelligence and mental toughness makes him an exceptional addition to Focus 3.
A lifelong student and athlete, Tony has a deep passion for understanding how the mental & physical dynamics of individual behavior impact team culture & performance.
Andy Hills
Andy is committed to exceptional performance and is passionate about elite teams. With over 14 years of service as a Navy SEAL, Andy has developed and refined core competencies in leadership, culture development, teamwork, communication, decision-making, and resilience. He has led and participated in numerous high-risk, high-impact, and politically sensitive missions that consistently delivered exceptional results.
Upon transitioning from the SEAL Teams, Andy applied the leadership skills and principles he learned from one of the highest performing organizations in the world to his role as COO of a successful commodities trading business. In this position, he helped create a winning culture that drove the organization to achieve exceptional results.