About Us

Who We Are

EMPHASIZE is a Training, Performance & Consulting company. Based in Los Angeles, we understand what highly successful individuals & organizations need to maximize success.

Working with large corporations, titans in the entertainment world, top level sports teams & athletes, we at EMPHASIZE  continue to attract clients who need to consistently deliver extraordinary results.  

We specialize in delivering the most comprehensive understanding on how to most efficiently develop individuals and teams in areas like leadership, management & communication.

Training

EMPHASIZE works with the most instrumental pioneers within an enterprise.  Those special individuals that directly affect the most people, because we have seen firsthand, that when a person of influence in a leadership role improves themselves, the whole organization shifts. 

Our M.O, (modus operandi), the catalyst that drives & connects everything we do, the overall true motivation & desire is to help people get out of their own way.

Because not only are people in their own way, but they don’t know they are & that’s far more impactful on their life, career, company, corporation & team.

 

Performance

We are captivated by Performance & all things that make it possible.

Understanding exactly how to achieve extraordinary results, either Individually or through a team is vitally important.  We have a passion & dedication to cutting edge knowledge in the field of human potential & self understanding that continues to drive us in everything we do.

EMPHASIZE is founded upon a clear understanding of performance.  We make it our business to go beyond simple development. 

With over two decades of experience successfully understanding what it takes to help elite people accentuate their talent & remove their limitations. 

Consulting

What separates the very best coaches in the world is the ability to help reduce unnecessary distractions. Over-thinking is the modern disease.

In the highly competitive world of corporate business & professional sports, many people still make the mistake of over complicating what it takes to achieve consistent competitive advantages in their chosen field.  

EMPHASIZE are leaders in the area of true self development & understanding.  

We focus on the critical elements & principles needed to maximize performance, whilst building a culture of continued improvement.

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Our Team

EMPHASIZE TRAINING PERFORMANCE & CONSULTING
Dave Marsh

Dave Marsh

Lisa Alexandra

Lisa Alexandra

Jon Hopland

Jon Hopland

Doug Norby

Doug Norby

Anthony Cockings

Anthony Cockings

Carlene Angela

Carlene Angela

Confidence

Employing insightful, innovative & proven training philosophies
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Trust

Instilling the importance of personal & team improvement.
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Improvement

Facilitating top management & leaders in performance strategy

Above the curve

Achieve consistent competitive advantages

Our Mission at EMPHASIZE

Why we do what we do:

We at EMPHASIZE love evolution and in particular, personal development.  It consumes our entire existence.  

Whether you are a large corporation, a multi-franchise sports team or individual, no matter which way you break it down, it always comes back to the same equation, when people improve, everything improves.

Our mission is to deliver comprehensive yet simple training & guidance that significantly affects overall performance.

We are specialists in breaking things down to the simplest most important factors.

We at EMPHASIZE are the best in the business at clarifying the most important areas for advancement, whilst delivering the most innovative training, coaching and facilitating methods available. 

Talent is not enough, neither is work ethic.  Without correct evaluation, knowledge and correctly applied purpose, companies or individuals easily misplace focus and lose sight of their crucial strategical advantages.

Our Work

Working with CEO’s & presidents of major corporations, in addition to players from the PGA & European Tour, athletes from the Los Angeles dodgers & EPL soccer clubs, heads of movie studios, A-list actors, movie stars & company personnel at all levels.

 

This has given us valuable insights into the key similarities between the highest level achievers & what it takes to succeed. We understand how to help a client let go of limitations & fulfill their potential. Our expertise in delivering customized solutions to a range of fields leaves us stronger & more capable of assisting you in your own pursuit of greatness.

Becoming extraordinary

Talent is not enough, neither is work ethic

Training

Training isn’t something you did, it’s something you DO.  Once you understand how much you can directly benefit from a correct training program you will never stop learning. 

Where most coaches and trainers continuously fail in their mythology is that they don’t understand this simple yet valuable explanation:

“The mediocre teacher tells, the good teacher explains, the superior teacher demonstrates, but the great teacher inspires”.

Performing under pressure

The world of professional sports & business have been closely linked for many years & the parallels are growing increasingly similar. Performance excellence is not just isolated to any one endeavor, rather, the pressure or the stress to succeed, can be just as intense in the boardroom as it is on the gridiron or the green. 

There is, however, a huge advantage to understanding how both the sporting & business worlds connect– especially in areas where individuals consistently need to produce results & furthermore, are judged on them.  Understanding performance psychology & how to effectively deal with pressure are critical factors in training mental skills.

Solving problems

Understanding the correct ways to address, evaluate & subsequently solve problems will have a dramatic effect on the way a person feels about their life both professional & personal. 

Many of the problems individuals try to resolve, in many cases, are initially misunderstood because they are met with an already preconditioned agenda. Freedom to perform & to maximize accomplishments is only possible when an individual correctly perceives how to use their own attention wisely & productively.

Understanding relationships

We don’t talk about relationships.  We help you build them.  Whether that’s internally within your corporation or team, or with your valuable clients.  

In this information age, effective communication is actually becoming more difficult.  Learning how to listen and to correctly understand what’s required before taking action, are two extremely underrated skills in human performance.

 

Corporate strengths

We come together with your best and brightest pioneers, to combine our knowledge, with your strengths,
so that you’re successful long after we’ve left

Leadership

Developing leadership skills is essential for building strength inside an organization, whilst inspiring those around you.

Improving understanding in critical areas will always result in improved performance in both personal & team results.

It doesn’t have to be complicated, but it does need to be correctly understood & implemented.

Communication

There are a number of significant mistakes that many leaders make in even the most straightforward communication.

Whether that’s communicating with their own team or with the clients, misunderstanding how to communicate is costing you in a variety of areas– especially in efficiency, morale, motivation & in many cases overall profit.

Teamwork

Does everybody in your organization know why they are engaged in a particular task?

Elite performance & execution is dramatically improved when individuals and teams are clear on main objectives.

True teamwork incorporates all other skills, from leadership, improved communication, to laying out clear strategies.  Don’t leave things to chance.

Results

Results improve when clear leadership, communication & teamwork are correctly understood & implemented.
The importance of developing these characteristics on a consistent basis is paramount on being able to execute a given task.
Helping individuals recognize their own strengths & weaknesses impacts everyone they subsequently coming to contact with.

Sports performance

EMPHASIZE understands the critical elements & principles needed to maximize development and produce results

Focus

Its no coincidence that the best performers have the most precise & clear focus when engaged in their occupation.  Understanding exactly what focus is & how it can be developed is crucial to performance.
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Calmness

Calmness comes when we investigate what makes us negative, angry or simply disturbs us. To perform at the highest level consistently is far more likely with calmness as our ally.

Fear

Fear seriously impacts performance. All negativities are so interconnected, that if you truly learn about one of them, how it controls and uses you, you can begin to be released from others at the same time.
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Truth

How do you awaken to something real inside of you, something beyond thought & mental images, something that can help you understand how to unlock your true potential, so when you absolutely need to perform, nothings holding you back.

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Bridge the gap

Bringing together extraordinary improvement is only possible when we combine a series of factors including the right coaches. EMPHASIZE training performance & consulting helps you bridge the gap between potential & reality.

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