William B. Cole Consultants founder and CEO Bill Cole, MS, MA is an internationally and nationally recognized peak performance mind coach. He is a Wall Of Fame Honoree, a hall of fame tennis player, an award-winning scholar-athlete, published book author and articles author, and has coached at the highest levels of major-league pro sports, big-time college athletics and corporate America.
Bill's multifaceted career has taken him into the worlds of business, politics, professional speaking, training, education, sports, journalism, writing, music, coaching, psychotherapy, the media and entertainment.
Known as the Mental Game Coach™, Bill has traveled the world coaching high performers in pressure-cooker sports situations as varied as the Baseball College World Series, Wimbledon, the US Open and Davis Cup.
Bill is a prolific author, and has published over 360 articles, training manuals, assessment instruments and audio products on peak performance, motivation, self-development, leadership, the paradox of success, mental toughness, workplace productivity, sales and customer service, team-building, leadership, achievement, mental training, sports psychology, speaking and coaching.
His ability to find practical wisdom from his life's stresses, opportunities, challenges and successes make him eminently qualified to help others handle their stress and to strive toward peak performance and personal achievement. The depth of his experiences and accomplishments allow him to bring invaluably creative means of helping people solve the challenges they face in their personal and professional lives, as he has done in his life.
Bill was the first person in the world to be awarded a Bachelor of Science (with honors) in Sport Psychology. As an undergraduate at SUNY-Buffalo, he was awarded the Albert Zeigler Award for academic excellence, and as a graduating senior, he won the Clifford R. Furnas Award as a University Scholar-Athlete. Bill has been one of the most innovative writers and practitioners of the mental game of sports since the mid 1970's.
He holds a Master of Science in Physical Education with specialization in sport psychology from California State University-Fullerton, and was inducted into Psi Chi, The National Honor Society In Psychology. Bill is also a member of The American College of Sports Medicine. Bill is also a graduate of Santa Clara University with a Master of Arts degree in counseling psychology. That degree included formal academic and clinical training. Bill has done additional graduate studies in clinical psychology at the Western Graduate School of Psychology and in psychology at the University of California-Santa Cruz. He received post-graduate training in clinical and medical hypnosis. He brings an outstanding, eclectic and well-rounded academic, clinical, research, educational and multidisciplinary approach to his work. Bill taught college for 15 years in New York and California, including stress management, human development and teacher education.
Experiences as an academic counselor at the college level, as a school counselor in an alternative high school, as a psychiatric recreation leader at a state mental hospital and as a psychotherapist in the outpatient division of a large mental health agency allow Bill to bring a wealth of stress management methods and approaches to his clients. He has counseled troubled youth, couples, gang members, psychotics, drug and alcohol addicts, runaways, the homeless, convicted felons, road-ragers and neurotics.
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