
Unlocking the Mindset of a Champion | Shane O'Sullivan
About this episode
Today's guest is Shane O'Sullivan – an Executive, Leadership and Performance Coach at Inspiring Excellence, a company that focuses on empowering organizations and their people to achieve sustainable high performance. Shane has worked with some of the best in the world, training high performance principles and mindset skills essential to revealing one’s potential. Some of Shane’s clients include Fortune 50 Leaders, Multinational Corporations, CEO’s and Professional Athletes. In addition to his work as a performance coach he competed at the highest level of Ireland's national sport of Hurling for 20 years. Throughout his storied career he won numerous national honors and competed in Ireland’s most iconic sporting events, the All-Ireland Hurling Finals.
Today we’ll dive into some of the things he’s learned about performance, excellence, and success both on and off the field.
In this wide ranging and heartfelt conversation Shane will share:
- Key insights for performing at a high level
- Some of his favorite coaching techniques for unlocking the potential of his clients
- The types of mindsets and beliefs that can foster success and fulfillment
- What he learned from his dad during the time he was alive, and in his death, about living well and what really matters
- The role of compassion and kindness in high performance environments
- Keys to resilience in the face of challenges and adversity
- Finding the courage to live an authentic life, true to one's self
- And more!
More about Shane O'Sullivan
Shane’s work as a coach focuses on the principles of high performance and mindset training with Inspiring Excellence, the organization he leads. Inspiring Excellence has conducted work across 5 continents, in over 30 of the worlds major cities and with some of the worlds leading organizations. You can learn more about Shane’s work at inspiringexcellence.ie or you can connect by following him on LinkedIn.
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