THE DECISION MATRIX

Lorum Ipson

For the athlete considering a move

How to Use This?

This will take you through the Quadrants dec

Introducing The Quadrants

  • Performance

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  • Mental

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  • Emotional

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  • Personal

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Your Inner Lens

Mental

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The Mind

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Even the Greats Train their Emotions

CHOOSE YOUR PATH

Dive into The Integrated Athlete’s Emotional Intelligence Coaching Experience — designed for elite athletes and teams who want to perform freely, lead powerfully, and live in emotional alignment.

WORKSHOPS

  • Short, sharp, and powerful. These live sessions are designed to introduce core emotional intelligence concepts and immediately apply them in the athlete’s world.

    • 90-120 Minute experiences

    • Virtual or In-Person

    • Each session is interactive, practical, and designed to help athletes immediately apply what they learn.

  • 1. The Inner Game: Emotions as a Performance Edge
    Learn how understanding your emotional patterns directly impacts in-game focus, leadership, and recovery.

    2. Fear, Focus, and Flow
    Explore how to identify fear responses vs. flow states—and how to regulate back to alignment during high-stakes moments.

    3. Emotional Recovery: Post-Game Decompression
    What do you do with the emotional weight of a win, loss, or personal mistake? Learn rituals for emotional processing that reset your nervous system and prevent burnout.

    4. The Leadership Locker Room: EQ for Captains and Veterans
    Develop emotional tools that help captains and team leaders lead with authority, empathy, and clarity—on and off the field.

    5. Team Chemistry Through EQ
    Break down the emotional blocks that hold back cohesion and connection. Build tools for trust, communication, and real support between teammates

GROUP COACHING

  • A curated group experience for athletes ready to deepen self-awareness, navigate the internal game, and build emotional fluency alongside others walking the same path— as a team or in a mixed cohort.

    • 3-month experience

    • 4 x 60-minute live virtual sessions a month

    • Weekly Check-Ins & accountability

    • Peer Integration Exercises

    • Private communication channel for support + practice

    • Awareness: Identifying emotions & triggers under pressure

    • Ownership: Regulating responses during competition

    • Connection: Leading with empathy, not ego

    • Recovery: Processing wins, losses, and transitions

    • Deeper team trust and cohesion

    • Language to talk about the things that usually stay hidden

1:1 COACHING

  • This is for the athlete who wants to go all-in on the internal work. We walk with you through the highs, the lows, and the long seasons — building the emotional systems, your purpose & identity, mindset capacity, and personal rhythm that allow you to stay grounded and clear.

  • Choose from: 4, 6, or 12-month containers | Personalized whole-person guidance

    What it looks like:

    • Bi-weekly or monthly 1:1 calls (custom cadence)

    • Real-time support during high-stakes moments

    • Deep-dive mapping of emotional triggers, performance patterns, recovery blocks

    • Alignment strategies across life domains: sport, family, identity, purpose

    • Full access to tools, templates, and session recordings

    • Ongoing support between sessions (voice/text/email)

    • You feel stuck, heavy, or reactive and don’t know why

    • You’re successful on paper but disconnected internally

    • You’re craving a space to speak truth, find clarity, and reset

    • You want to lead your team, family, and future with integrity

What Is This Really?

This isn’t therapy.
This isn’t mindset coaching.
This isn’t another motivational talk that fades by morning.

This is emotional strength and awareness training for elite performers.

It’s a space to name what’s real—and work with it and through it.

The fear that shows up before a big game.
The shame that follows the high and lows of a season.
The hurt that happens when you are passed over or excluded.
The pressure you carry that no one else sees.

It’s the emotional game you’ve never been taught to train.
But it’s the one that separates athletes evolving in the new world of sports where the margins are razor thin between performing and failing.

In this work, we get honest. We get clear. We integrate.

Emotional integration allows you to show up in the most important moments to be totally present and free—on and off the field.

Grounded. Powerful. Real. Transformative.

This training builds the internal capacity to meet the external pressure. You'll develop deeper self-awareness, sharpened focus, stronger relationships, and the resilience to stay grounded—no matter what the scoreboard says.

When your inner world is aligned, your performance follows.
This is what separates the top 1% of athletes from the rest.

The top 1% master more than the physical.
They train what’s underneath it all.

What You’ll Gain

  • Make faster decisions. Stay grounded in chaos. Train your mind to recognize noise and return to truth in the heat of the moment.

  • Don’t just bounce back—come back stronger. Learn how to emotionally recover from loss, injury, frustration, or criticism in real time.

  • Whether you’re a quiet leader or the vocal one, you’ll gain the emotional tools to influence, align, and lead in a way that actually connects.

  • Move from burnt out to locked in. Learn how to manage emotional fatigue, protect your energy, and show up present in both life and sport.

  • Create deeper trust with teammates, coaches, family—and yourself. Because connection fuels performance, not the other way around.

Why Do This Work?

  • of what separates high performing individuals apart from others with similar experience is emotional intelligence

    Harvard

  • of athletes who received emotional intelligence training reported increased performance and greater resilience under stress.

    Journal of Sports Science and Medicine

  • of athletes who engaged in support groups reported less burnout and greater satisfaction with their performance.

    Journal of Applied Sport Psychology

  • of elite athletes with high EQ reported stronger coach/athlete trust and communication.

    Frontiers of Psychology

  • of emotionally educated athletes showed improved regulation and reduced anxiety during competition.

    Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology

VIEW THE RESEARCH

  • Pro athletes navigating the pressures of pro sports on and off the field 

  • Rising stars feeling the pressure and expectations to always be ‘on’

  • Veterans who want to finish strong—with integrity and influence

  • Captains and team leaders navigating locker room tension, pressure and team dynamics

  • Athletes recovering from injury, burnout, or emotional fatigue or navigating transition

IS THIS FOR ME?

Hear It From Others

  • "I would highly encourage you to dive into this work. This is transformational, impactful, and influential for you as an individual, but also with those you live life with."

    Ben Zobrist ⍟
    Former MLB World Series MVP & 3x All Star

  • “I thought coming here they'd give us a list of things to do and not to do, and what I really got was more insight into my behaviors and how to cope with fear and shame and those things that keep me from being a better leader."

    Dan Alexander ⍟
    Former NFL Athlete

  • "This has given me a greater understanding of who I am and how that relates to the world around me."

    Matt Murton ⍟
    Former MLB Athlete

 FAQs

  • 100%. No information is shared outside this container. This is a safe space for growth.

  • No. We prioritize safety. Share only what feels right to you.

  • Yes. This isn’t about “powering through.” It’s about mastering your inner game in a way that actually lasts.

  • That’s exactly why this was built. We meet you where you are—no pressure, no shame.

  • No. This is EQ training with coaching and education.

  • All of them. The principles of emotional performance apply across every arena.

  • 1 live virtual session/week + 10–20 minutes daily of practice/reflection. Built to fit within a pro schedule.

  • Yes. All offerings are designed with the athlete’s schedule and rhythm in mind. It’s designed for in-the-game application. You won’t fall behind—you’ll get ahead.

  • Yes. You can upgrade to include 1:1 coaching. Many athletes do.

  • Yes. Emotional regulation improves reaction time, clarity, focus, and leadership. It’s a competitive edge and advantage.

  • Both. Workshops are great for team or staff environments. Group and 1:1 are for individual athletes looking to go deeper.