Steve Rudolph
Whether in the boardroom or in the wilderness, Steve has been helping teams and organizations achieve meaningful goals for eighteen years. He joined the Next Level Performance Group as Adjunct Faculty in 1998 and has been a Senior Trainer at the firm since 2003. His passion is customizing leadership and coaching processes that close performance gaps in an organization. Believing there’s nothing as practical as a good theory, Steve links evolving behavioral coaching research with the pragmatism of delivering measurable business results.
Some of Steve’s regular clients have included: Exxon, U.S. Air Force, Skyview Charter School; Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Concord Charter School, North Central Michigan College, FMC Corporation, and The Mediation Institute in Prescott, Arizona. He is currently delivering a long term Performance Coaching initiative to front line managers in one of our clients in the retail industry.
When Steve facilitates situational leadership conversations, he draws on his diverse background as a restaurant owner, senior instructor for the Pacific Crest Outward Bound, educational consultant, and college professor. Across the profit and non-profit sectors, he has helped groups achieve specific and desired business results.
His methods to enhance team performance include: skillful discussion practice, experiential activities, customized business simulations, and reflective learning processes.
Steve earned his B.A. in Secondary Education at Prescott College, and his M.A. in Human and Organizational Development at The Fielding Institute. Steve is currently an adjunct faculty member at North Central Michigan College in Petoskey, Michigan teaching Outdoor Leadership. In his spare time-when he seeks an even greater challenge than working with corporate executives, he teaches beginners kayaking, rock climbing, ice climbing, and mountaineering.
Steve was a former coach and guide for the United States Disabled Ski Team, participating in two World Games for the Disabled. He coaches cross country skiing, youth soccer and Tae Kwon Do. He lives north of Traverse City, Michigan with his wife and two children. If you want to make Steve blush-and hear an amazing survival story-ask Steve what he was doing on a Russian cargo ship on Lake Superior in 1982.
