Mike Krzyzewski
(Coach K)

En route to becoming perhaps the most accomplished basketball coach in history, Mike Krzyzewski, better known as Coach K, led the Duke University men’s basketball team to five NCAA Championships and Team USA to three Olympic gold medals. Other superlatives included the most Final Four appearances with 13, the most decades with Final Four appearances at five (1980s - 2020s) and 12-time National Coach of the Year honors. He is a co-founder of the Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics and serves as a professor of the Practice of Leadership at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke. The Coach K Center at Duke has directly influenced the leadership development of more than 6,500 MBA students and executives since 2004. Coach K also is founder and serves as board chair of the Emily Krzyzewski Center, a non-profit organization in Durham, North Carolina, named in honor of his mother. Since being established in 2006, the center has served more than 7,500 students with programs designed to build on the academic, career and leadership potential of students who are traditionally underrepresented in higher education. Coach K has been on the board of directors at the V Foundation since its beginning in 1993 and, together with his wife Mickie, hosts the V Foundation Wine Celebration, an annual event in Napa Valley that has raised tens of millions of dollars in the fight against cancer. Coach K is a master motivator, mapping out a clear game plan for achieving success with powerful strategies for building confidence, trust, communication and teamwork.