Finding Intangibles. Interview With Evan Burk
Episode description
Rob chats with Evan Burk, a former NFL and college football coach. Coach Burk has spent nearly two decades coaching elite athletes and leaders within top sports organisations to bring teams together, overcome adversity, and elevate high performers to achieve at their highest level. He uses his unique football coaching background to educate and inspire leaders, high performers, and teams for corporate clients and organisations by teaching the principles and practices learned from coaching teams at the highest levels of football.
In 2022, Evan Burk released his first book, Finding Intangibles, in which he helps organisations identify the hidden traits that drive elite performers and championship teams.
Evan is a speaker, author and podcast host educating audiences on leadership, high performance, and culture.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Evan has progressed from a 4th grade football coach, on to a high school coach and onwards to coach at SMU and to the Miami Dolphins and UCLA. He has coached at every level of college football.
- Evan had to prepare himself and gather knowledge to present as authentic and professional during his experiences as a college coach. Over time the experiences add up and you can combat perceptions of inexperience and ward off effectively any occurrences of imposter syndrome.
- During his time at the NFL he felt under utilised and became elevated to a much more important role by voicing his dissatisfaction. These lows inform the highs that occur further down the line.
- “Intangibles” are things like work ethic, drive, being a good teammate, being likeable, passion, high personal standards and other character based immeasurables.
- Evans main focus is now coaching and developing people out of the sporting arena. He now teaches people to be more resilient and self developing personally and within organisations.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I think when I started at 19 years old I didn’t quite understand what the rigorous path would be in accessing these highest levels of college and professional sports.’ - Evan
‘You’re saying to me that you are admitting that because of your journey there were people there with a greater depth of technical knowledge of the game than you, but you, by being authentic, brought something else to the table which was genuinely you.’ – Rob
‘It can be tough at the moment but I have definitely experienced a lot of those depths as you have said, along the journey.’ – Evan
‘All of these unseen traits and I think that a lot of times coaching in particular we overlook these things because they can’t be measured.’ – Evan
‘People should value previous success over previous experience. This is also true in life and especially the corporate hiring practice.’ - Evan
GUEST RESOURCES
Podcast: The Highest Level with Evan Burk.
Website: https://www.coachevanburk.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachevanburk/
https://www.instagram.com/coachevanburk/
https://twitter.com/coachevanburk
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCii7hfJhUGm2T8gzk6DQKnw
VALUABLE RESOURCES
ABOUT THE HOST
Rob Ryles is a UEFA A licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, USA and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience
Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from a number of highly successful managers and coaches.
The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.
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