ABOUT US
CHAMPIONS MADE HERE
The Story of Inner Champion Consulting
THE STORY OF INNER CHAMPION CONSULTING
As a college coach at UCLA, the University of Arizona, the University of Hawaii and San Jose State, I helped hundreds of athletes achieve their dreams of playing to their best of their ability on the football playing field. After I left coaching, I still felt the need to help athletes. Now, having run a successful consulting business for over 17 years, I still am drawn to helping the athlete. As you know, once a pro and/or college athlete, always an athlete or in other words a “jock”. We carry the fundamental characteristics of athletic success into every situation where we are challenged.
What are these characteristics of success?
1. Belief
2. Passion
3. Hard work/Relentlesness
4. Overcoming adversity
5. Team work
6. Game planning
7. Positive attitude
8. Positive attitude
9. Positive attitude
Knowing that these elements of success made you and I highly successful athletes, I learned that every characteristic also transfers to being a success in business. But something is missing for you and I – A COACH.
That is where I and my team come in, we help you use the same characteristics that you used as an athlete and HELP YOU REACH YOU BUSINESS DREAMS.
WHAT IS AN INNER CHAMPION?
Do you remember the time when you felt your heart, passion, and drive were all connected towards a goal - and you achieved SUCCESS? This is what it feels like to be an INNER CHAMPION, it is the convergence of you heart (NEED) and body (WANT) to reach a dream.
So many times we reach for something, but we don't have a true commitment. We want to be successful but we are missing the inner drive. To put it simply, WE WANT SUCCESS BUT WE DON'T NEED TO SUCCESS. An INNER CHAMPION has the WANT + NEED.
Mike Flores
Founder and President/Head Coach of INNER CHAMPION CONSULTING, providing executive coaching and leadership training to upper level executives in sports, corporate and non-profit sectors, including strategy consultant to two Division I Athletic Directors. Mike worked in university athletics for 15 years, as an assistant football coach/recruiting coordinator at UCLA, University of Hawaii, San Jose State University and University of Arizona, and as an administrator at University of Arizona and Cal State University Dominguez Hills. He has also worked as government and community relations consultant to Fortune 100 Companies.
Mike attended UCLA on a football scholarship where he was the starting quarterback. He attended Santa Monica College and was an All-American Football quarterback. He is a graduate of UCLA with a B.S. degree in Kinesiology. He is also a graduate of CTI, Coaches Training International, and has completed his hours for certification as an Executive Coach. He is a Certified Trainer for National Consortium of Academics & Sports (NCAS), now called Institute for Sport and Social Justice. He also is a graduate of the Ignatian Spiritual Formation Program, Loyola Institute of Spirituality, in Orange, California.
Mike has held various leadership roles in his extensive community involvement including serving as Vice President of the UCLA Alumni Association, UCLA Alumni Association Board Member, Past President and Board Chair of the East LA Boy’s and Girl’s Club. He also served on the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Advisory Board and is Past Chair of the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame Committee. Mike is fully bilingual (English/Spanish).
