Dr. Jim Loehr

Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder

Dr. Jim Loehr is a world-renowned performance psychologist, CEO of the Human Performance Institute, and author of 15 books including his most recent, The Power of Story. He also co-authored the national bestseller The Power of Full Engagement.

Dr. Loehr’s ground-breaking, science-based energy management training system has achieved world-wide recognition and has been chronicled in leading national publications including the Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, US News and World Report, Success, Fast Company and Omni. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Nightline with Ted Koppel, The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBS Morning News and the Oprah Winfrey Show.

At the core of his training system is the understanding that the stories we tell ourselves represent the single most powerful tool we have for managing energy and achieving any important mission in life. The right stories mobilize us to make tough values-based choices that lead to expanded growth and the wrong stories disengage us.

Dr. Loehr has worked with hundreds of world-class performers from the arenas of sport, business, medicine and law enforcement including Fortune 100 executives, FBI Hostage Rescue Teams, and military Special Forces. Corporate clients of the Institute represent hundreds of Fortune 500 companies including Procter & Gamble, The Estée Lauder Companies, Dell, FBI, GlaxoSmithKline, PepsiCo, and Citigroup Smith Barney. A sampling of his elite clients from the world of sport include: golfers Mark O’Meara and Justin Rose; tennis players Jim Courier, Monica Seles, and Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario; boxer Ray Mancini; hockey players Eric Lindros and Mike Richter; and Olympic gold medal speed skater Dan Jansen.

Dr. Loehr possesses a masters and doctorate in psychology, serves on several prestigious scientific boards and is a full member of the American Psychological Association, the American College of Sports Medicine, the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology.

 

Dr. Jack Groppel

Vice Chairman and Co-Founder

Dr. Jack Groppel is an internationally recognized authority and pioneer in the science of human performance, and an expert in fitness and nutrition. Dr. Groppel is an Adjunct Professor of Management at the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Dr. Groppel authored The Corporate Athlete book on achieving the pinnacle of corporate performance and co-authored The Corporate Athlete Advantage. He developed the Corporate Athlete® concept for his training program while serving as an associate professor of kinesiology and bioengineering at the University of Illinois helping both business executives and athletes increase performance levels. In 1992, he combined his program with Dr. Jim Loehr to form the Human Performance Institute, formerly LGE Performance Systems, Inc.

A Fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine, Dr. Groppel is also a Board certified nutritionist in the American College of Nutrition and a former Research Associate to the U.S. Olympic Training Center. He currently serves as Vice President on the National Board of Directors of the United States Professional Tennis Association. Dr. Groppel served as the Chairman of the National Sport Science Committee of the United States Tennis Association for 16 years.

 

Christopher J. Osorio

President

Chris Osorio serves as president of the Human Performance Institute overseeing company strategy, business development, and strategic alliances.

Chris has more than 25 years of experience in business and a masters degree in Organizational Development from Pepperdine University. He spent the first decade of his career in the investment banking business as a senior partner, general principal, author, and speaker. In 1988 he joined the Covey Leadership Center, at the time a new emerging training and development business. He spent the next decade with the Covey Leadership Center as a senior consultant, presenter, and in a variety of leadership roles as Covey, now Franklin-Covey, grew from $3 million to over $500 million in revenue.

Since joining the Human Performance Institute, Chris has provided strategic leadership, recruited key talent, and sparked a new era of significant growth.

 

Stephen M. R. Covey

Advisory Board Chairman

Stephen M. R. Covey took on his role as Advisory Board Chairman in 2003. He advises the Human Performance Institutes’ senior management on matters of strategy, product creation, market opportunities, and strategic alliances including global expansion.

Stephen is the former President and CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which under his tenure became the largest leadership development firm in the world. A Harvard MBA, he joined Covey Leadership Center as a client developer and quickly became national sales manager and then President and CEO. He personally led the strategy that propelled his father’s book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to become the number one influential business book of the 20th Century, according to CEO magazine.

Stephen has personally led consulting teams that implemented principle-centered leadership in numerous organizations including the Saturn division of General Motors, PepsiCo, Marriott International, Conoco, du Pont, Cummins Engine, Eli Lilly, Shell, and Occidental Petroleum.

 

Ray Smith

Keynote Speaker, Performance Coach

Widely regarded as one of the Navy’s most inspirational leaders, Rear Admiral Smith has spoken extensively on his leadership experiences to a wide range of audiences including corporate,
political, military, and civic leaders. A Navy SEAL for 31 years, he achieved extraordinary success through focused, participatory leadership. During his four-year tenure as Commander the 2300-men SEAL force, he raised personnel retention to a level three times the Navy average. As a Navy Captain, he led the Navy SEALs in Operation Desert Storm, conducting over 200 operations of strategic significance while incurring no casualties. Earlier in his career, Admiral Smith directed Navy SEAL training, generally considered to be the most challenging military training in the world.

Admiral Smith has been recognized in Newsweek, Fortune, Reader’s Digest, and on the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and CBS This Morning. He published two highly successful Navy SEAL manuals, one on nutrition and one on fitness. He was awarded the California Distinguished Service Award while a member of the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

Admiral Smith was responsible for developing the Navy’s first capability-based assessment process. He led 100 systems analysts in providing service-level recommendations directly to Chief of Naval Operations. Incorporating computer modeling and risk assessment, he provided Navy leadership with $36 billion in analysis-based savings over a six-year period.

Admiral Smith holds a Master of Science degree in Physical Oceanography from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Admiral Smith successfully completed the 350-mile Beast of the East Adventure Race in 1998 and 1999, finishing with his three Navy SEAL teammates in 9th place out of 34 teams.

Fred Harburg

Advisory Board Member
and Keynote Speaker

Fred Harburg is an Advisory Board member and a keynote speaker for Human Performance Institute. He is a managing partner for Venture Works, a leadership and strategy execution consultancy dedicated to high principles and high performance. He has a compelling personal history in highly demanding, high visibility, athletic, military, and corporate settings.

Fred served in the US Air Force as an officer, pilot, and he graduated from the Air Force Academy. He flew a variety of jet aircraft in both domestic and international missions some of which were in direct support of the White House.

During his business career Fred has served in several significant international business leadership roles as both an internal and external organizational architect for Fortune 100 companies including IBM, General Motors, Disney, and AT&T. Fred served as the Chief Learning Officer and President of Motorola University which at its peak had over 1,000 faculty and staff and operated from 20 campuses around the globe. Fred’s performance at Motorola was profi led in the November 2002 issue of “Chief Learning Officer Magazine”. In 2003, he was recruited to be Senior Vice President of Leadership and Learning at Fidelity Investments and served in that position for two years.

Fred speaks passionately from his experience that leaders make the difference, and organizations that intelligently cultivate and equip leaders to fully engage themselves and the energy of their people consistently outperform those that do not.

Fred holds an MBA from UCLA. He has served as a member of the Center for Effective Organizations Advisory Board at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. He is a member of the Chief Learning Officer Magazine Editorial Advisory Board, a publication for which he writes a bimonthly column on strategy. He also is a Senior Fellow for The Trinity Forum, and is Chairman of the Executive Education Advisory Board for Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.