Coach Reed Maltbie Coach / Author / TEDx Speaker / Sport Executive

Coach Reed is the Executive Director of STAR Soccer Club – a 500 player club in Cincinnati, OH.  He is also CEO and Co-Founder of reBoot, LLC. – a digital consignment shop for soccer gear.  When he is not manning his daily duties for STAR and reBoot, he is a speaker for Changing the Game Project - which is focused on returning youth sports to the children and providing the most influential adults in their lives, parents and coaches, with the information and resources needed to make sports a positive, healthy, and rewarding experience. Coach Reed also trains parents, coaches and youth sports leaders on creating unrivaled team and club cultures, developing high-performance communication protocols, and managing a process-based competitive environment through his own Youth Sports Training Center – Beyond the Game. A former elite level athlete himself, Coach Reed has been coaching for 26 years and has two Master’s Degrees – one in Sport Behavior & Performance and one in Early Childhood Education. His experience and educational background in addition to his 2015 TEDx Talk (Echoes Beyond the Game) have made him an internationally known expert in the youth sports field. He has been a guest on dozens of radio shows and podcasts including Sirius XM FC and ESPN Radio to discuss the hot button issues in youth sports today. Coach Reed also writes and presents online training/webinars for Amplified Soccer Magazine, SoccerNation.com, SoccerParenting.com, The Player Development Project, and The National Soccer Coaches Association of America among others. Be on the lookout for his soon to be released book Echo: The undeniable impact of effective communication. You can can find him on Twitter @coach_reed and on his websitewww.coachreed.com.