About
Mike Van Hoozer is an expert in the psychology of human performance and serves as a leadership expert and peak performance coach to business leaders, entrepreneurs, and elite amateur and professional athletes helping them reach their potential in sports, business, and life. He is a passionate and insightful communicator who has dedicated his life to making an impact in the lives of other people. Mike excels at helping individuals and organizations reach their maximum potential through speaking, coaching, and consulting. His client list includes small startup businesses, Fortune 50 companies, churches, non-profit organizations, executives, entrepreneurs, and amateur and professional athletes and performers.
In sports, he works as a peak performance coach to high school, college, and professional athletes, coaches, and teams including NBA, NFL, and MLB players including members of the 2005 World Series’ Houston Astros team helping them develop focus, mental toughness, confidence, and improved mental recovery time as well as guiding them through career development and transitions. He also created and led the “Developing Leaders in Sports and Life” leadership development program for student athletes at Rice University for 6 years impacting some of the top athletes across all sports at Rice. He is now delivering a similar program for emerging and experienced leaders for select students at Baylor University in collaboration with the Division of Student Life. He also leads and coaches the Van Hoozer Basketball Academy, a high school and college prep basketball program that develops leaders on and off the court.
In business, he serves as a consultant and an executive and life coach to high potential and high performing business leaders and entrepreneurs on the topics of leadership, effectiveness, performance, productivity, and balance. Mike has coached and counseled over a 1000 people including business executives and entrepreneurs in the areas of executive leadership, business development, career transitions, and personal life strategies. He also serves as a coach for executive MBA students and senior faculty and leaders at the college level including Rice University. He has taught as an adjunct faculty member at Baylor University speaking on the topics of organizational and human performance and leadership development. He also collaborated with the Office of Student Life to create a leadership development program, which he is currently delivering to emerging and experienced student leaders at Baylor.
As an author, Mike has written several best-selling books and been a contributing author to several other books for Pearson Publishing and Insight Publishing. He has been published in Fortune magazine and Information Week as well as several online e-zines including CNET. Mike was selected as one of the thought leaders to be published in Accenture’s 2003 Human Performance Insights Year in Review, the firm’s global annual publication to clients that highlights the top articles of the past year. His latest book is entitled Moments: Making Your Life Count For What Matters Most.
Personally, Mike is an endurance athlete and recently had his best running year achieving 4 PRs and qualifying for the Boston Marathon, which has been a lifelong goal. Mike has been married to his wife Gina for 27 years and is the “Coach” of his own Van Hoozer basketball team of 5 boys. He also serves as an Executive Board Member for the Katy ISD Education Foundation Board and is a former Board Chairman and Advisory Board member of Child Advocates, a private, non-profit organization that finds safe, permanent, and loving homes for abused and neglected children. He is the Founder and President of Van Hoozer and Associates, a leadership and peak performance think tank and idea studio.