Tom Flick

Following his successes as an NFL quarterback, Rose Bowl Champion, Pac-10 Conference “Player of the Year”; Tom Flick now applies his winning ways as a dynamic and highly sought-after speaker to companies that include Microsoft, Marriott, Starbucks, Merrill Lynch, Ritz-Carlton Hotels, Shell Oil, Boeing, NAPA Auto Parts, Safeco Insurance and the US Army Rangers.

Tom draws on his exceptional ability to communicate clear business solutions with humor, wit and razor-sharp insight as he addresses over 70,000 men and women each year on high performance strategies for leadership, teamwork, change, and personal growth.  With a gift for connecting with listeners’ hearts as well as their heads and habits, Tom helps create more effective leaders.

Serving leading companies in financial, health, technology, educational, manufacturing, and service fields,  Tom expertly helps organizations define their vision, raise employee morale, improve customer service, increase teamwork and communication skills, help manage change more effectively, and develop leaders and leadership teams.

As President of Tom Flick Communications and Outlook 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 impacts the bottom line.  Tom Flick’s achievements and experience in the highly competitive worlds of professional sports and corporate America give him a keen insight into success.

Presentation Topics

Living Leadership - Leading People to Excellence I

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 best leaders aren’t interested in having their way, but finding the best way. They prefer not the spotlight, but rather to lead the applause. 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.

• Develop the "self" and the organization will follow
• Seeing the goal line: clarity and purpose
• Mentor and multiply: extending your vision for years to come
• Call your signals loud and clear
• Putting passionate people in charge
• Going first with courage and integrity
• Develop deeper appreciation for the talents, passions and diversities that co-workers possess.
• Effectively relate, inside with your people and outside with your clients.
• Awaken your slumbering morale into a giant strength

Leading Legacy Teams - Achieving Top Team Performance

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.

Aligning our culture and competencies with the strategies needed for today’s business environment requires teamwork, trust, respect and a sense of purpose. Tom 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 Leading Legacy Teams.

• Sharpen team vision: your game plan for success
• Communication: making your huddles work
• Create the winning environment
• The three critical components to effective teaming
• Identify the strengths needed on your team
• Apply powerful tools in personal awareness and communicating with others
• The New Synergy: when the sum of your team exceeds your highest expectations
• Transform individual talents into "The power of WE!"
• Staying in the game plan

Get to Your "Go" Side - Release Your Brakes — Accelerate Your Growth

Great competitors draw on the power of change. Change is really an opportunity for growth. Looking to increase sales or productivity? That’s positive proactive change…change you want to keep. You cannot only change what you do, but you can improve the way you do things that you don’t change. Get to Your "Go" Side provides personnel with the practical behaviors, attitudes, skills and confidence to navigate organizational and personal change safely, creatively and productively.

Change is essential for growth and embraced change can guarantee success. Yet change for change sake just doesn’t cut it. Change calls forth the very best of great competitors, teams and organizations who move forward confidently in the face of transformation. Changing the status quo takes courage. If we are not growing, we are going in the other direction and nobody is associated with a dying company for long.

Change, as they say, is a journey and yet seeing the top of the mountain and climbing the mountain are different. As wonderful as past experience has been, the future holds even greater knowledge and expression. While it may be true that most people don’t like change, we don't have to fight transition. Let's go there together, without fear. Take advantage of the opportunities change creates and make your reaction "Change-Positive."

• Successfully setting the stage for change.
• Release your brakes — accelerate your growth.
• 4 keys to successful change.
• Review your films and learn from your losses.
• Invest Heavily in the "Now."
• Who and what do we want to become?
• Living the change with courage.
• It is not what happens…it is how we respond to what happens.
• Creating belief systems that allow others to be successful.
• Understand the stages of change and how to support yourself and others in times of transition. 

Heart of a Champion - Maximizing Human Performance

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. As President of Outlook Consulting Group and with over 2,500 platform presentations, 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.