Alan Stein, Jr.

Featuring new, never-before-shared stories, stats, and actionable strategies, this program is ideal for any organization looking to develop an unstoppable Next Play Mindset and improve their team’s performance, productivity, and output – and stay relevant in a constantly changing world.

High performance is not complicated. Prepare during the unseen hours, work toward mastery of the fundamentals, and make discipline decisions consistently.

But what happens when you do those things and still fall short? When you do everything in your power and still come up empty, miss your goal, or lose the game? How do you respond? How do you bounce back? How do you maintain optimism and confidence?

You develop a Next Play Mindset. You lean into the fact that what just happened isn’t nearly as important as what is happening right now – your Next Play.

This keynote is designed to show how reaching the top of your game doesn’t require more. It requires less, but better.

The Next Play Mindset is the ultimate guide for individuals and organizations who want to close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. (Oh, and the Next Play Mindset isn’t just a performance strategy – it’s a life strategy. One that helps you manage transitions, bounce back from adversity, stay centered, adapt quickly, reduce stress, and let go of resentment.)

NEXT PLAY
How to Focus on What Matters Most and Improve Performance, Productivity, and Fulfillment

Here are six ways the Next Play Mindset makes individuals and teams unstoppable:

1. Transition: Life is a series of transitions – some small, some massive. Whether you’re shifting from a tough meeting to a family dinner, or moving across the country to start a new chapter, a Next Play Mindset helps you let go of what’s behind you and fully invest in what’s ahead. You can’t control the past, but you can control how you show up now.

2. Resilience: Setbacks are inevitable, but suffering is optional. Resilience isn’t about avoiding adversity, it’s about responding to it with optimism and enthusiasm. Next Play means you acknowledge the stumble, learn from it, and move forward with renewed energy. You bounce back faster because you’re not stuck in a moment that already passed.

3. Being Present: Worry lives in the past and the future – peace lives in the now. The Next Play Mindset teaches you to leave the last moment behind (whether it was a win or a loss) and be fully engaged in the current one. That’s where performance, joy, and growth happen.

4. Adjustments: The best performers aren’t the most talented; they’re the most adaptable. Life throws curveballs. With a Next Play approach, you become a constant recalibrator – adjusting your mindset, your emotions, and your behavior to meet the moment as it is. That’s how you stay aligned and effective.

5. Lower Stress: Stress often comes from fighting what is. The Next Play Mindset encourages you to stop resisting reality and start responding to it. You don’t have to like every situation you’re in, but accepting it gives you the clarity and calm to take the next best step.

6. Forgiveness: Holding onto anger or bitterness is like dragging an anchor behind you – it slows everything down. Forgiveness isn’t about saying what happened was okay; it’s about deciding that your peace matters more than your pain. Next Play is the act of release. It frees you to move forward.

The number one investment you can make is the investment in yourself. To achieve a greater level of success, you must be intentional in developing yourself mentally, physically, and emotionally. If you want more, you must become more.

The number one investment you can make is the investment in yourself. To achieve a greater level of success, you must be intentional in developing yourself mentally, physically, and emotionally. If you want more, you must become more.

The key to raising your individual performance and expanding your contributions and significance lies in your ability to master these five fundamentals:

1. Self-Awareness

2. Passion

3. Discipline

4. Coachability

5. Confidence

This can only be achieved by closing Performance Gaps (the gap between what you know and what you do). In this powerful program, Alan teaches practical strategies to heighten self-awareness, create winning habits and routines, and improve productivity.

Regardless of title or tenure, attendees walk away with actionable steps to:

Align your habits with your core values and beliefs

Improve your Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and develop a true winner’s mindset

Learn to be present in the moment

Earn confidence while maintaining humility

Manage change and create a process for progress

This program is ideal for the player looking to improve individual performance and/or contributions to the team (company-wide events, all-hands meetings, teams, employees, and/or entrepreneurs).

How have some organizations been able to sustain unparalleled success while others are sporadic and inconsistent? Simple… it’s their leadership. A team will never outperform its leadership.

A leader’s primary job is to create an environment where people feel safe, included, appreciated, valued, respected, inspired, empowered, and challenged. Employees need to know they have the resources and support to star in their specific role and make a meaningful contribution to the team.

The key to raising your leadership performance and amplifying your impact and influence is a direct result of how well you master these five fundamentals:

1. Vision

2. Culture

3. Servanthood

4. Character

5. Empowerment

Successful leaders create the type of high-performing culture that drives long-term results. They have a firm grasp of their identity, they uphold high standards of excellence, and they foster an atmosphere of
collective accountability.

This program is vital for any leader who aspires to:

Become the leader for which you would want to work

Find, attract, hire, train, empower, support, and retain top talent

Build a winning culture by aligning organizational beliefs and behavior

Heighten Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to establish unparalleled trust, buy-in, and believe-in

Effectively coordinate everyone’s effort to produce astonishing results

This program is ideal for the coach looking to improve their leadership performance (C-level, executives, directors, managers, supervisors, emerging leaders).

The highest-performing organizations find and attract; train and develop; empower and support; and push and praise great people. They emphasize professional and personal development.

Elite teams promote shared ownership, individual responsibility, and collective accountability by clearly establishing each team member’s role, creating buy-in and believe-in with their role, and rewarding those that star in their role.

The key to raising organizational performance and building a winning culture is a result of how well your teams master these five fundamentals:

1. Belief

2. Unselfishness

3. Role Clarity

4. Communication

5. Cohesion

An organization’s leadership team has one primary job: to find out what each team member does well and best utilize that skill set for the team’s benefit. They understand the power of “what drives you needs to be
good for us, and what drives us needs to be good for you.” And they know that a motivated, happy, engaged team member directly affects other aspects of the business.

This program is a must-attend for any team that aspires to:

Want every team member to be consistently exceptional

Promote and emphasize the value of diversity, empathy, and inclusion

Eliminate entitlement, selfishness, and complacency

Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of communication

Develop competence and confidence through honest feedback

This program is ideal for the team looking to improve their organizational performance and culture. (company-wide events, all-hands meetings, teambuilding events, leaders, HR departments)

No matter what your sales system is or how rich your pipeline might be, if you’re not implementing the habits that elite performers use regularly, your ability to execute and close sales will always be limited. In other words… you (and your sales) will underperform.

Finding leads, qualifying leads, following up, and servicing clients depletes us of our two most precious resources – time and energy. Filled with stories, stats, and actionable steps, Alan will share how to maximize both time and energy, as well as teach strategies for what to control, what to let go, and how to trust the process. This program is critical for anyone who wants to improve his or her sales performance.

In this session, attendees will learn the most effective strategies to:

Shift your mindset from selling to solving

Become a world-class active listener (telling is not selling)

Consistently create quality touches (sales is a high-contact game)

Learn to care more about the prospect than making the sale

Develop unparalleled relationships

This program is ideal for sales teams and sales leaders looking to improve their sales performance. (annual sales meetings, sales training, sales leaders, sales representatives, sales support)

What do the most successful people do to continually get better?

Sustaining high performance in business and life boils down to the ability to develop strategies for leveling up three key areas:

PERFORM is about managing stress in the day to day

PIVOT is about avoiding stagnation in your current situation

PREVAIL is about beating burnout and making a lasting impact

Known for the actionable strategies and tools for achieving high performance in his signature program, Raise Your Game, Alan Stein, Jr. takes the next step with this program – teaching audiences how to remain there. Sustain Your Game offers a different approach: improve productivity, impact, results, and fulfillment… while simultaneously decreasing burnout, attrition, and stress.

Sustain Your Game will empower every attendee to:

Heighten clarity on your true purpose

Embrace ways to maximize the unseen hours

View accountability from your inner circle as a gift

Effectively improve emotional intelligence

Create standards and systems to sustain fulfillment

A Sneak Peek at Alan’s Virtual Programs

Alan’s customized virtual programs are an online version of his most popular in-person events. They are a practical way to share an impactful message, provide inspiration and actionable takeaways, and change individual/organizational behavior.

Unlike in-person events, virtual experiences can be played ‘on demand’ for maximum convenience and can also be utilized as frequent touch-points for teams and organizations.

Alan, a Certified Virtual Presenter, has delivered 100+ virtual experiences to organizations like Under Armour, UGG, Tripwire, University of Utah Men’s Basketball Team, and numerous franchise organizations.