Coaches' Burnout. Players Underperform: How Toxic Culture Is Ruining Sports Teams

About the author:

Alex Bolowich is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant, founder of Elite Mental Performance, a private practice in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he specializes in helping competitive athletes mentally train for consistent high performance. He is also co-founder of Ibex Tactics, a performance psychology organization that increases team and organizational performance through enhanced human-human connection. If you are interested in any of his signature programs, use the link here! Enjoy the article below!

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Are You In A Toxic Culture? Find Out:

In modern-day American sports, with the rise of NIL in collegiate athletics, artificial intelligence for recruitment in professional sports, specialization in youth sectors, and quiet quitting in corporate America, creating a high-performance culture has never been more difficult for coaches and leaders across multiple domains. 

Without an understanding of the deeply layered and heavily dynamic structure that teams and organizations are, it's very easy for leaders to be blindsided by toxic developments within their culture. Luckily, every new (or more difficult) challenge always leads to the door of opportunity for a solution, and we've found one! 

In the article below Ben Foodman and Alex Bolowich get featured by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology on understanding toxic team culture and turning it into a high-performance machine. Click the link below and enjoy!

https://appliedsportpsych.org/blog/2025/09/understanding-toxic-culture-to-build-a-high-performance-culture/