Intellectual Athlete (IA) is a creative ecosystem merging and redefining the boundaries of sport, creativity, and identity cultivation. Creative Studio, bespoke curriculum, publication, global community, and human development platform.
Intellectual Athlete’s are the Olympians of the human race, who envision what they cannot see. In the words of Virgil Abloh, this is mentorship by existence.
LIFE IS THE CURRICULUM
Our curriculum, services, and offerings were born out of the necessity for a higher standard of excellence in leadership, pedagogical learning methods and frameworks, and human-centered approach geared towards elevating our highest potential. To learn about ourselves, we must first learn about the world around us. Most are focused on building products, IA builds holistic people, teams, and their dreams.
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This bespoke course provides a masterclass of universal skills of Practice Mode that can be applied to any background, discipline, project, or profession. Imagine the mamba mentality, flow theory, and scientific method combined.
Starting with mindset and leadership, you’ll learn the ability to strategically create greater alignment with your internal and external environment. We’ll utilize play, study, focus, and mastering failure as testing grounds learning.
By embracing imperfection, we’ll build elite athlete level confidence in taking risks through meticulous and customizable processes ultimately gaining your own definition of success and a clear path forward.
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This unparalleled sources the mastery, philosophy, and terminology of shooting a basketball as a guide for consistent habits of repeatable and self-defined success over time.
Our arc is our fingerprint, the measure of how we are approaching our goals through detailed preparation to champion any goals amidst life’s adversity.
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A second brain to improve blind spots, strategy, and perspective to better lead the company, team, or organization you coach, teach, or manage. For talent, pro-athletes, founders, executives, and/or student athletes - we understand the ins and outs of organizing goals for the bigger picture.
Iron sharpens iron speaks to great leaders seeking accountability, feedback, and a reference points to improve their skills.
We’ll utilize 4 P’s to better connect with intrinsic and extrinsic motivators.
Recommended time frames for mindful and intentional growth.
3-month /6-month / 12-month
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Excellence, winning, success are all great - from D1 and overseas championships, unicorn startups, and world-class ad agencies we have seen what it takes to create value in big time settings.
Our mission is to represent those creating culture, in rooms and spaces where they might not have access. We embody an authentically diverse, equitable, and inclusive global perspective.
We understand importance of creating sustainable foundations starting with the intangibles and an unmatched feel for cultivating relationships, loyalty, and trust.
We succeed because we don’t believe in failure.
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Empathy is the beginning of leadership, which starts with great listening, followed by collaboration towards achievable solutions and outcomes. We’ll craft a plan of improvement that surpasses your limits while maintaining balance.
“It’s not where you take things from, it’s where you take them to.”
- Jean Luc Godard
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Intellectual Athlete is a global innovator in sports performance, talent conceptualization, leadership mindset and development, and non-traditional education models of the future.
Our presence has touched over 25 countries, several continents, and thousands of individuals. Our pulse on culture over time has given us an advantage as a bridge between worlds.
Interdisciplinary studio for in-house, collaborative, and community-centered projects.
This is the IA lifestyle, scientific method, our mamba mentality, our forever flow state.