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❓ What does it mean that my coaching is influenced from the ballroom to the boardroom? 💃 Today we are in the historic and very beautiful surroundings of the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool, the home of ballroom dancing and somewhere I've been coming to since the late 1980s to dance. We're here to watch two of my new coaching clients who are world champion dancers and working on the strength of their partnership in an intensive and challenging sport. 🏆 Mildred and I retired as dancesport competitors just over ten years ago after representing England seven times at World and European Championships. I am eternally grateful for every step of the journey we took together. 🌍 Travelling round the world, training in Italy and pitting ourselves against the very best, we learned about the sacrifices and compromises you need to make in order to be not just "very good", but "amongst the very best in the world" at what you do. It's a completely different mindset, as Ruth Gotian, Ed.D., M.S. brilliantly articulates in her bestseller "The Success Factor". ⚖ For us that sacrifice was to compromise career progression and pay, to forgo holidays for a decade, to live in a tiny flat so that we could put every penny into pursuing our goals, to learn to overcome the many failures and go again in the pursuit of success. We shared an ambition to defy the doubters and prove that we could achieve great things without sponsors, without a trust fund, without anything other than what we could create for ourselves. 🚀 Today people see that inner drive in both of us. And this is where it came from. A commitment to realise our maximum potential as dancers, which grew us so much as people and shaped who we both are today. 💃 The video below is a show we created in our retirement year of 2013. I hope that sharing something of our secret double life might help you understand better the people we are today. https://lnkd.in/eE_B_MAP #ballroomdancing #dancesport #highperformance #performancecoaching #coaching #theunlockmoment
Gary Crotaz and Mildred (Ming) Yuan: Ballroom Showdance at Caorle, Italy 2013
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This is very inspirational Dr Gary Crotaz, PhD ACC! And it is wonderful to see you both floating around the ballroom. So light and beautiful yet so precise. Something that can only be achieved through dedication, passion and plenty of determination!
Kendra Kraus
3mo
I've never seen that show. Cool to look back on. Good luck to your couple and enjoy the competition.
Louise Jackson
3mo
Oh my goodness. I have known and worked with you both and have such respect for your skills and expertise. But whilst I knew you both whilst you were dancing, I have never seen you dance before. It explains so much about who you both are and your dedication and commitment. So inspiring!
Executive Coach, Leadership Development Facilitator, Thought Partner, Business Development
3moThank you for sharing Dr Gary Crotaz, PhD ACC. With a child in competitive dance, I have just the tiniest glimpse into what it takes to do what you and Ming did. Fabulous