Biography of Tom Flick

Tom Flick has tackled the business world with the same passion, focus and spirit that earned him honors as a collegiate and professional quarterback. His achievement and experience in the highly competitive worlds of professional sports and corporate America give Tom a keen insight into success. Honeywell, Herman Miller, Touchstone Energy and the U.S. Dept. of Treasury are just a few of the leading organizations that have looked to Tom to help them meet the challenges of an ever-changing business environment.

As a Rose Bowl quarterback for the Washington Huskies, Tom was voted Team Captain, "Most Inspirational," Pac-10 Conference "Player of the Year" and enjoyed seven successful years as a quarterback in the NFL.

Today he is a dynamic, highly sought after speaker who has delivered over 2500 presentations since 1989, to a client list that includes Safeco Insurance, Dell Computers, CHRISTUS Health, NAPA Auto Parts, FleetBoston Financial, Stanford Medical Center, The Opryland Hotel and the US Navy and countless educational organizations, to name a few.

Tom's exceptional ability to communicate clear business solutions with humor, wit and razor-sharp insight is why he is in such high demand. His passion for raising employee morale, improving customer service, increasing teamwork and communication, managing change and developing more effective leaders is achieved by his unique gift to connect with the listeners heart as well as their head and habits.

Achieving long term results and exceeding client expectations have allowed him to serve leading companies in financial, health, technology, educational, manufacturing, and service fields. As President of his own communications company and consulting group, Tom understands that people, not programs, help organizations change and grow. Meeting the challenges of today's business environment requires a committed workforce and providing solutions that allow people to become peak performers both personally and professionally increases success and achievements and experience in the impacts the bottom line.

Tom's highly competitive worlds of professional sports and corporate America give him a keen insight into success.

Most Requested Topics:

Living Leadership: It starts and ends with leadership that invests in people. The organizations that thrive in today’s competitive world understand that leadership, from top to bottom, drives the bottom-line. Tom Flick, in business and professional sports has seen how a clear view of the “goal line” empowers ordinary people to do the extraordinary. Leaders create winning attitudes, confidence and extraordinary belief systems that produce consistent winning results. As an NFL quarterback for seven seasons, Tom understands the power of great leadership. This go-ahead program will assist your people in their abilities to lead themselves and others to get extraordinary things done. These times of transition require leaders with vision and energy to sustain hope and build a better way. Leaders model the way through personal example and dedicated execution. Leaders build confidence that even the biggest challenges can be met. Leaders go first, strengthening the commitment to the long-term future and inspiring a shared vision—and vision is the force that invents the future. Leaders aren’t born, but made everyday. The goal of a leader is to help people think more highly of themselves, creating contagious “can do” attitudes. Whether you’re in the private or public sector, employee or volunteer, on the front lines or senior echelon, Tom will help you develop your capacity to lead others to new heights. This presentation isn’t about leaders per se. It is about leadership from top to bottom and how ordinary people exercise it--and in the process can break through to an extraordinary future.

Teamwork: The Winning Edge: Increase success…individually and as part of a team. Create the winning environment and have the sum of your group exceed your best expectations. Unity and commitment are among the time-honored principles of team success. With broad corporate and NFL experience in team development, Tom shows how to awaken your slumbering morale, sharpen team vision and secure strong performances company wide. Today’s business environment requires a committed, cohesive workforce. Moving people from a position of compliance, to one of commitment is a powerful business advantage. Organizations need to continually develop people’s potential into obtaining peak performance in the workplace. Tom Flick will provide your organization with the tools to achieve their full potential and focus and prioritize their time effectively to produce the highest quality and professional work effort. Your employees will be motivated, energized, focused, and better prepared to meet the challenges of an ever-changing business world. om Flick provides effective solutions to bring people together that allow individuals to become synergistic teams, which increase success. Energize your team with fresh insights into essential winning business principles through Teamwork: The Winning Edge.

The Heart of a Champion: Achieving results through people--your people--is your competitive advantage. Challenging situations with emotions running high has become the norm in business today and certainly nothing new for Tom Flick. Relating his NFL and corporate experiences, Tom demonstrates how personal vision can power performance in the face of adversity. This riveting session exposes the core issues we all confront during these moments of truth, and how we can grow stronger in the process. Tom Flick is a high achiever. Tom understands the power of focus, competency and perseverance, which makes him uniquely qualified to speak to the business community. Tom’s experience in the highly competitive worlds of professional sports and corporate America gives him a keen insight and perspective into success. The Heart of a Champion goes beyond athletics into the real world of living. Through insightful application of psychology, philosophy and life experience, Tom demonstrates how personal vision can power performance and shares how the valuable lessons and skills learned as a professional athlete can be applied to everyday living. Directly affect the results you achieve in business and your personal life by playing the game of your life—where the clock is always running and there are no time-outs. The Heart of a Champion…it’s beating in you!