The William B. Cole Consultants Team

William B. Cole Consultants maintains strategic partnerships and alliances with various capable companies, and with highly qualified, experienced individual trainers and coaches for some of our program offerings. Our associates are trained in our systems and methodologies and maintain the highest professional standards. Unless otherwise indicated or arranged, all coaching and programs are directed and led by William B. Cole Consultants CEO, Bill Cole.

About Bill Cole, MS., MA.

Bill Cole, MS, MA, is a thought leader in the worlds of peak performance, coaching and the mental game. His imaginative, visionary work has been profiled hundreds of times in both the electronic and print media, ranging from MSNBC.com, Success Magazine, HuffPost Live TV show, The BBC, KGO radio, KNBR radio, NBC TV, SB Nation, INC. magazine, Prevention magazine, Chief Learning Officer magazine, The Coaching Edge, The Performance Menu, The Journal of Health & Athletic Excellence, The Washington Post, Corporate & Incentive Travel magazine, Golf Magazine, The San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, Yahoo! Sports, The San Jose Mercury News, The Denver Post, The Detroit News, The Buffalo News, Tennis Magazine, Runner's World, Fitness Magazine, Presentations Magazine, Professionally Speaking Magazine, California Job Journal, Corporate Training Magazine, American Society For Quality Newsletter, Straights Times Newspaper (Singapore) to Sirius Radio and many more.

Bill is an internationally and nationally recognized authority on peak performance and coaching. He has coached at the highest levels of corporate America, the Olympics, major-league pro sports and big-time college athletics. A multiple Hall-Of-Fame honoree as an athlete, coach and school alumnus, he is an in-the-trenches coach and consultant to corporations, universities, associations, businesses, organizations and individuals and is the creator and developer of many leading-edge workshops, seminars and training programs.

He consults, coaches and speaks from a wide and deep background as a high achiever across many disciplines. He has achieved excellence in these arenas:

• Professional Speaker and Trainer
• Executive Coach, Presentation Coach, Sales Coach and Corporate Consultant
• Founder and President of an International Coaching Association
• World-Class ATP Pro Tennis Tour Sports Psychology Coach
• Two-Sport National-Level Athlete and Professional Athlete
• Published Book Author and Author of Over 360+ Articles
• Award-Winning Scholar and Academician
• Numerous Awards And Honors

Bill's multifaceted career has taken him into the worlds of business, politics, professional speaking, training, education, sports, journalism, writing, music, coaching, psychotherapy, the media and entertainment.

Known as the Mental Game Coach™, Bill has traveled the world coaching high performers in pressure-cooker sports situations as varied as the Baseball College World Series, Wimbledon, the US Open and Davis Cup.

Bill is a prolific author, and has published over 360 articles, training manuals, assessment instruments and audio products on peak performance, motivation, self-development, leadership, the paradox of success, mental toughness, workplace productivity, sales and customer service, team-building, achievement, mental training, sports psychology, speaking and coaching.

His ability to find practical wisdom from his life's stresses, opportunities, challenges and successes make him eminently qualified to speak about peak performance and personal achievement. The depth of his experiences and accomplishments allow him to bring invaluably creative means of helping people solve the challenges they face in their personal and professional lives, as he has done in his life.

A professional speaker, seminar leader and workshop leader for over 30 years, Bill Cole has spoken to a wide variety of groups, including business, medical, academic, association, professional and corporate audiences. He's an engaging, warm speaker and master storyteller. He was a member of the Board Of Directors of The National Speakers Association (Northern California) for two years.

Bill was the first person in the world to be awarded a Bachelor of Science (with honors) in Sport Psychology. As an undergraduate at SUNY-Buffalo, he was awarded the Albert Zeigler Award for academic excellence, and as a graduating senior, he won the Clifford R. Furnas Award as a University Scholar-Athlete. Bill has been one of the most innovative writers and practitioners of the mental game of sports since the mid 1970's.

He holds a Master of Science in Physical Education with specialization in sport psychology from California State University-Fullerton, and was inducted into Psi Chi, The National Honor Society In Psychology. Bill is also a member of The American College of Sports Medicine.

Bill is also a graduate of Santa Clara University with a Master of Arts degree in counseling psychology. That degree included formal academic and clinical training. Bill has done additional graduate studies in clinical psychology at the Western Graduate School of Psychology and in psychology at the University of California-Santa Cruz. He received post-graduate training in clinical and medical hypnosis. He brings an outstanding, eclectic and well-rounded academic, clinical, research, educational and multidisciplinary approach to his work. Bill taught college for 15 years in New York and California.

Bill has started and operated a number of businesses since the 1970's, and this has provided him insight and a practical knowledge of how the business world operates, which he uses to help others. Experiences as an academic counselor at the college level, as a school counselor in an alternative high school, as a psychiatric recreation leader at a state mental hospital and as a psychotherapist in the outpatient division of a large mental health agency allow Bill to bring a wealth of stories and insights to his audiences.

He has counseled troubled youth, couples, gang members, psychotics, drug and alcohol addicts, runaways, the homeless, convicted felons, road-ragers and neurotics.

He was a two-sport athlete at the national level, and played pro tennis in the early 1980's.

Bill is also an accomplished musician. He won numerous State Music Championships as a member of his high school band, and played in a #7 nationally-ranked drum and bugle corps.

Bill was inducted into the Buffalo Tennis Hall of Fame in 2008, for being one of the top players in western New York in the 80's and for his many coaching accomplishments. See a summary of his accomplishments in tennis.

Bill has received four Who's Who honors and four academic awards.

• Who's Who in Professional Speaking
• International Who's Who of Professionals
• Who's Who in American Education
• Who's Who of Executives and Professionals
• Psi Chi, National Honor Society in Psychology
• The Albert Zeigler Award for Academic Excellence (as an undergraduate)
• The Clifford R. Furnas University Scholar-Athlete Award (as a graduating senior)
• Winner of the 2003 Distinguished Alumni/Wall Of Fame Award as an Outstanding Graduate of the Williamsville Central School District.
• Inducted into the Buffalo, New York Tennis Hall of Fame in May 2008.

Bill Cole is the Founder and President of the International Mental Game Coaching Association, an organization dedicated to advancing the research, development, professionalism and growth of mental game coaching worldwide.

Bill Cole's exceptional, wide-ranging, life-long journey into the world of peak performance and personal development as an innovative, in-the-trenches coach, teacher, performer, businessman, researcher, writer, trainer, speaker and therapist make him uniquely qualified to speak with authority as one who has walked the talk and as one who can coach others on how to achieve their dreams.