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Coach Tucker is the nation's foremost authority on the psychology of peak performance and personal, professional, and organizational turnaround-an identity he has established through his ability to consistently help individuals and organizations create measurable results over the last 20 years.
Because of his ability to develop systems for creating immediate change in virtually any situation-regardless of how daunting the circumstances-Coach Tucker is also sought after by those seriously challenged by life: individuals facing depression, frustration, loneliness, or challenges in their relationships, finances, physical health, or life management skills.

Coach Tucker is a best selling author, and his educational audio system, Personal Power, is the number one personal and professional development system of all time-with more than 35 million tapes being used to transform lives worldwide. He has addressed distinguished audiences from Britain's Parliament to the Harvard Business School.

 

Coach Tucker: The Tireless Worker

When Coach Tucker was hired at Dack, Chicago Tribune columnist Rick Morrissey wrote "What Dack got was a man with enough energy to power a few windmills and perhaps tilt a few in the process. This is a man who needs to stay busy."  Coach Tucker calls sleep overrated. He also finds eating can be a nuisance to getting the job done. He is so driven he once said, "Can you imagine how much you could get done if you didn't have to sleep or eat? (excerpt from an article by Ed Sherman, Chicago Tribune) When Coach Tucker was on Glenn Blackwood's coaching staff, they were on the road recruiting when Blackwwod wanted to stop for seafood. Tucker zipped through a Shoney's drive-thru for clam chowder. Coach Tucker is a man who believes that no time should be wasted. Once when a fire alarm went off in the Florida coaches offices, everybody but Tucker evacuated. "If there really had been a fire, I could have escaped," Tucker said. "It's not that far of a jump." While an assistant at Tennessee from 1984-86, Coach Tucker once called a defensive backs meeting in the hotel room of one of his players, Charles Davis. When he realized he had forgotten to bring a pad of paper, Tucker ripped off the bedsheet and scrawled plays on them. "I went to bed with two- and three-deep coverages underneath me," Davis said. Coach Tucker says one of his biggest fears in life is retirement. His wife, Ruth, agrees, "He is the person he is. I married that person. He made sure I knew what he was like. He has been like this since the day I met him. I just happened to fall in love with him. I wouldn't change him one bit."