Don Yaeger was the longtime Associate Editor of Sports Illustrated and today is a keynote speaker, 11-time New York Times best-selling author, and host of Corporate Competitor Podcast: How Sports Shaped Today’s Executives.

As a speaker, he has worked with audiences as diverse as Fortune 500 companies, associations, and leadership forums regarding his studies of personal and team high performance. He has written 30+ books with, among others, Hall of Fame running back Walter Payton, UCLA basketball Coach John Wooden, baseball legends John Smoltz and Tug McGraw, and football stars Warrick Dunn and Michael Oher (featured in the movie The Blind Side).

He teamed with Brian Kilmeade to pen NYT best-sellers “George Washington’s Secret Six,” “Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates,” and “Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans.”

Check out Don’s interviews with Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian, Ritz Carlton Co-Founder Horst Schulze, and Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.