High Performance Leadership & Mental Toughness Coach; Founder & CEO at Matt Phillips Leadership Coaching; Author of "Discovery: How to Become a Champion in Business and Life"

Denver, CO, USA
Live Event: $10,000 - $20,000 Virtual Event: $5,000 - $10,000 More Fee Info

Matt Phillips Biography

Matt Phillips is a high performance leadership and mental toughness coach, speaker, author, and the founder and CEO of Matt Phillips Leadership Coaching and Pro Athlete Advantage. Phillips combines experience as a professional athlete and corporate leader to support business leaders and athletes in developing mental toughness. His work includes keynote speaking, team workshops, and one-on-one coaching, focusing on leadership development and performance improvement.

Phillips's background includes playing professional baseball in Austria's Bundesliga and Division I college baseball at Creighton University. He also spent more than 15 years in corporate roles in operations, accounting, finance, and business development with Fortune 500 companies in the United States and Europe. During his corporate career, Phillips recognized the importance of mindset in achieving professional success, which led him to specialize in mental toughness coaching.

As the founder of Pro Athlete Advantage, Phillips has worked with professional, collegiate, and high school athletes across the United States, including those affiliated with the Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs. He teaches athletes and coaches strategies to overcome mental barriers, supporting performance both on and off the field. His methodology, including the five-step process "Ignite Your Mindset," integrates principles from elite sports and business leadership to help individuals build effective habits and achieve measurable results.

Phillips is the author of several books, including "Discovery: How to Become a Champion in Business and Life," "Unleash Your Winning Environment," and "Unleash Your Mental Toughness." He hosts "The Matt Phillips Podcast for Sales Leaders," a resource for sales managers and executives focused on leadership and sales performance. Through speeches, workshops, and his podcast, Phillips provides practical strategies for emerging managers and senior executives, emphasizing that mental toughness is essential for leadership success.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/30/2026.

Matt Phillips Speaking Topics

  • The 3 Secrets to High Performance Leadership (That Will Help Ensure You Show Up as Your Best Self Each and Every Day)

    Let’s face it, leadership and working with a team can be challenging! Making sure you and your team are using their time wisely, continuously re-prioritizing (then having to do it again), constant meetings, hiring, firing, hitting deadlines, performance management, and on and on. It can be exhausting and stressful…but there’s hope.

    In order to break through, maintain your focus, and show up as the best leader no matter the situation, it all comes down to the 3 Secrets to High Performance Leadership that Matt will discuss in this talk. As a former pro athlete and corporate leader, Matt has experienced first-hand challenges that leadership can throw at us, and he’ll show you how to shift your perspective and challenge you to do things differently, all so you can go from good to great and make your life easier along the way. Specifically, Matt will cover how:

    • Speed matters in leadership, but not how you think. -You need to look where you want to go, but you had better be careful where you look…learn the brain science behind this one critical concept.
    • Shifting this one perspective will unlock your leadership potential and make your life easier.

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Matt Phillips is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The 3 Secrets to High Performance Leadership (That Will Help Ensure You Show Up as Your Best Self Each and Every Day). The estimated speaking fee range to book Matt Phillips for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Matt Phillips generally travels from Denver, CO, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Sean Glaze, Michael Bernoff, Ryan Avery, Eric Boles and Jim Davidson. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Matt Phillips for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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