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Tony Dungy      

Former NFL Player & Former Head Coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Tony Dungy is a former professional football player and coach who became the first African American head coach to win the Super Bowl. After playing college ball for the University of Minnesota, Dungy played three seasons in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers and San Francisco 49ers. Beginning his coaching career in 1980, Dungy went on to serve as head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and later the Indianapolis Colts. He guided the Colts to a Super Bowl victory in 2007.

Dungy and his wife, Lauren, are the parents of seven children. Since stepping down as head coach of the Colts, Dungy has worked as an analyst for NBC's "Football Night in America." In addition, Dungy, a committed Christian, has remained active in a number of charitable causes, including Big Brothers and Big Sisters and the Prison Crusade Ministry.

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Motivating the Spirit

Tony Dungy’s life is informed by an unswerving dedication to his faith. Dungy shares with audiences his understanding of how community service, sacrifice and commitment—both on the field and off—result in successes that don’t always end up in box scores.

Diversity On the Field and Off

When the Indianapolis Colts won the 2007 Super Bowl, former head coach Tony Dungy became the first African-American coach to win a Super Bowl. Dungy describes how to manage teams comprised of individuals from differing backgrounds and how to successfully draw on the strengths of those dissimilar backgrounds to form closely bonded teams and organizations.

Leading Successful Teams

Adversity: It’s a fact of both your personal and professional lives. But the real measure of any individual or organization is how adversity is overcome. Super Bowl Champion Indianapolis Colts former head coach Tony Dungy shows you how to respond to adversity in a way that results in an organization’s ability to successfully realize goals and succeed.

Motivating for Success

Reaching goals both on the field and off requires commitment, discipline and the ability to envision outcomes that result in success. Tony Dungy, the man who coached the world champion Indianapolis Colts to their first Super Bowl victory, gives audiences a system by which they can motivate themselves and their teams to accomplish goals they never before thought possible.

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