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Adam Kreek

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I help leaders do hard things—without becoming hard on themselves or the people around them.

I’m an Olympic Gold Medalist, executive performance coach, and founder of Values Driven Achievement. My work focuses on increasing leadership capacity under pressure: raising standards, strengthening decision-making, and building sustainable performance across work, life, and self.

I coach CEOs, founders, and senior leaders who carry real responsibility. Together, we build practical systems for clarity, accountability, and energy—so high performance doesn’t come at the cost of burnout or fractured relationships.

I’ve rowed across an ocean, survived a capsize in the Bermuda Triangle, and coached executives across North America. I believe standards matte
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The 3 Leadership Pain Points We Keep Hearing (and the Practical Fixes That Actually Help)

Over the last four months of coaching conversations, three themes have shown up on repeat. Different industries. Different roles. Same friction. If your brain feels like it has 47 browser tabs open and one of them is playing music… keep reading. Confidentiality note: The examples below are anonymized and blended into composites. Details are changed […]

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Most leadership programs teach men how to decide, drive, and deliver. Very few teach them how to hold. And yet, containment—the capacity to remain gro Read more of this blog post »
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“Recover intelligently. Ensure your downtime allows for consistent uptime. Recover as hard as you work.”
Adam Kreek, The Responsibility Ethic: 12 Strategies Exceptional People Use to Do the Work and Make Success Happen

“Leadership is the ability to turn your vision into reality by enlisting the help and winning the hearts of others. It's time to share leadership. It's time to win–together.”
Adam Kreek, The Responsibility Ethic: 12 Strategies Exceptional People Use to Do the Work and Make Success Happen

“If you set, pursue, and achieve healthy goals, you will get into that satisfying space where hard work is easy–and even fun”
Adam Kreek, The Responsibility Ethic: 12 Strategies Exceptional People Use to Do the Work and Make Success Happen

“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”
John Wooden

“The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some of the most stressful times of their lives. What if companies took this unhappy collision of life events seriously? They could offer Gottman’s intervention as a benefit for every newly married, or newly pregnant, employee.”
John Medina, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”
Edward Abbey

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
John A. Shedd

“Start with the end in mind. ”
Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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