Tough Enough

Dr. John Baird is an executive leadership coach and co-founder of Velocity Coaching Group. He brings forty years of experience training elite performers, including twenty-five years advising senior leaders at Apple such as Steve Jobs and Tim Cook. He is the Wall Street Journal bestselling co-author of Leading with Heart and a former Outstanding Professor at San Jose State University. He lives in San Jose, California.With Matt Hunter, he is the co-author of Tough Enough.Matt Hunter is an executive leadership coach and former entrepreneur. With fifteen years of experience founding and leading companies – including cofounding Turnstyle (acquired by Yelp) and serving as CEO of Founders Pledge – he currently coaches CEOs of high-growth companies and elite NBA athletes. His work integrates diverse training from Stanford, the Harvard Negotiation Project and various psychological disciplines. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.With John Baird, he is the author of Tough Enough.

Takes both old and new leadership tactics and transforms them into strategies to use in crises . . . It is a testament to Baird and Hunter’s lucrative experience in the business realm and the role they play in shaping great leaders