Comprehensive Team Performance Coaching

Mental Mettle Coaching offers transformative team performance coaching designed to elevate collective potential across diverse professional environments. Our holistic approach supports athletic teams, coaching staffs, educational groups, administrative teams, and work groups by developing mental toughness, enhancing communication, and building a culture of accountability and resilience. We understand that high-performing teams require more than technical skills—they need a unified mindset that embraces challenges, supports individual growth, and drives collective success. Through personalized coaching strategies, we help teams of all types unlock their full potential, foster positive team dynamics, and create sustainable performance improvements that extend far beyond the immediate professional context.

Team Coaching Topics

Live Your "100"

In this introductory session, I share my story to inspire young athletes to learn to control what they can and strive to improve each day. This session will introduce them to coaching but they will have much less participation than in other sessions.

Turning dreams into habits

Players will learn to use their current dreams as motivation for developing daily habits that will result in confidence and eventually success.

Mindset

Players will learn to identify their current mindset, fixed or growth, and learn to make positive adjustments for improvement.

Experiential Learning

In this session players will focus on the values behind past positive experiences.  After recalling a past experience they will share positive memories in order to find commonalities throughout the team.

The 2 wolves

Players will analyze and discuss the positive and negative voices we all hear.  Upon recognizing the driving forces behind those voices players will discuss and learn how to control which voices they focus on.

Developing an attitude for gratitude

Players will learn the advantages of developing a lifestyle of gratitude.

Team Toxins

In this session, players will learn to understand and combat the attitudes and personality traits that will arise, and possibly harm a team, during competition.

Handle your business

Players will discuss all that has been learned and be challenged to take ownership of their own abilities and responsibilities.

Matt helped foster a gritty mindset within these girls and encouraged them to take responsibility for their words and actions.   He helped this record-breaking team elevate their status from great to special…Hard work is our flex!

Joni Nightingale

Deer Creek-Mackinaw Junior High School
Head Girls Basketball Coach

The Mental Edge

"The Mental Edge" is your go-to resource for unlocking peak performance through mental resilience and strategic mindset training with stories containing valuable insights, practical tips, and expert advice tailored for athletes, coaches, and parents alike. Explore techniques to enhance focus, build confidence, and overcome adversity, empowering you to excel in sports and life.

Hope as a High-Performance Skill: How to Build Mental Toughness Before Life Falls Apart
Hope isn’t just a feeling you get when things are going well. It is a mental and spiritual skill you can deliberately build long before life blindsides you. That is one of the biggest themes in Episode 132 of The Mental Mettle Podcast, “The Power of Hope with Derek Gordon,” and it has huge implications for athletes, coaches, parents, and anyone trying to stay resilient in a chaotic world.
The Power of Positive Team Culture: How Winning Environments Shape Student-Athletes for Life
When it comes to building successful sports programs, the scoreboard rarely tells the whole story. The true legacy of a coach or team isn’t just in championships or records – but in the habits, values, and growth mindsets that athletes take into the world.
Sleep: The Hidden Edge for Athletic Performance
One of the most impactful topics explored in Episode 125 of the Mental Mettle Podcast is the science—and overlooked power—of sleep for elite performance. As a coach who’s experienced firsthand the mental and physical toll of sleep issues, Coach Matt Thomann dives deep into how quality rest is not just for recovery, but a true superpower for athletic and cognitive growth.​