Jim Fannin

Jim Fannin is America’s ZoneCoach®, coaching more champions in sports, business, and life than anyone on earth for over 50 years. As one of the world’s foremost thought leaders, he is more than a life, business, or sports coach. He is a "change your life" coach. With the ONLY proven blueprint for attracting the Zone mindset, Fannin has helped transform millions of lives by providing proven tools and techniques to create simplicity, balance, and abundance.

In 1974, Fannin discovered five markers for “thinking like a champion” and attracting the peak performance mindset called the Zone in all aspects of life, business, and sports. They are Self-Discipline, Concentration, Optimism, Relaxation and Enjoyment. Collectively they form the acronym S.C.O.R.E.®, which is the cornerstone of Fannin’s teaching that unlocks one’s full potential.

Fannin has over 50 years of professional coaching, consulting, and public speaking experience. He has coached hundreds of professional athletes from 10 sports including members of the PGA and LPGA Tours, NBA, NFL, NHL, MLS, MLB, US Equestrian Association, World Series of Poker, and the Olympics. He has trained tens of thousands of individuals and hundreds of companies from 50 industries in peak performance. He’s been featured on ESPN, NBC, ABC, CBS, and Lifetime and published in the Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, Golf Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Fortune Small Business and hundreds of other respected newspapers and magazines.

As one of the foremost platform speakers in the world, Fannin has successfully presented over 2000 keynotes from 50-15,000 attendees. He will customize his message to fully engage your audience, while meeting your corporate theme or mission.

Fannin has addressed hundreds of major corporations, including Mitsubishi Electric, Navistar, Merrill Lynch, General Electric, IBM, Apple Computer, Transamerica, Allstate Insurance, New York Life, Life Technologies, BMO Bank Group, Northern Trust Bank, Domino’s Pizza, Carnation, Sports Illustrated, Blue Cross, Starwood Hotels, Silhouette Optical, Bertram Yacht, Miles Labs, Mercedes, Dominick’s Finer Foods, Toyota, Honda and Chrysler; and non-profits Worldview International Foundation, UAW Ford, YEO, YPO, YMCA, PGA of America, Children’s Memorial Hospital, Hugh O’Brien Foundation, Cancer Wellness House, and Boy’s Clubs of America, to name a few.

Today, Fannin divides his time between public speaking, writing, personal coaching (6500 coaching minutes per month via cell phone), corporate consulting, physical fitness, and travel. Fannin and his family live outside Chicago, IL.