Leadership.Life.Legacy.
I help leaders and organizations develop people, strengthen teams, build cultures that perform under pressure, and lead with greater purpose at work and at home.
Drawing from 20 years of experience in the NFL as a player, Super Bowl champion, and executive, I bring real-world lessons in leadership, team building, relationships, resilience, accountability, and family to organizations ready to grow their people and their performance.
Background
- 20 years
- in the NFL as a player, captain and executive
- Super Bowl
- champion, and a two-time Walter Payton Man of the Year winner
- $320M+
- player investment stewarded as a club vice president
- 3,000
- students reached through Believe in U, the foundation I founded
Super Bowl champion.
February 2010. The seat that taught me what a locker room looks like when everyone in it is taken care of, and the one I have measured every other seat against since.
What I do.
I work with organizations and leaders through three primary offerings.
- Leadership and team development
- Helping organizations develop leaders, strengthen teams, improve communication, establish accountability, and build cultures that perform.
- Speaking
- Inspiring audiences through real-world leadership lessons from my journey in professional football and executive leadership.
- Leadership beyond the workplace
- Helping high-achieving professionals become more intentional in the areas that matter beyond their careers, particularly being a present parent and building a meaningful legacy.
My approach.
My approach is grounded in lessons learned through competition, championship environments, executive leadership, relationships, adversity and family.
Great leadership is not simply about what you accomplish. It is about:
- Who you develop.
- How you lead.
- How you show up.
- And what you leave behind.
I have told this story in locker rooms, league offices and boardrooms.
Keynotes and workshops on leadership, transition and building programs that last.
Every seat in the building.
Usama Young Advisory exists because most organizations know what they want their people to feel and have no idea how to build it. I have done that work at the league level and inside a franchise, and I bring the same playbook to teams, universities and companies that compete on talent.
My operating philosophy fits on one line: take care of the people and the winning follows.
Start with a conversation.
Thirty minutes, no deck. Tell me what you are trying to build and I will tell you whether I can help.