The Grit Factor in Leadership

Leadership isn't revealed when everything goes according to plan. It's revealed when everything doesn't.

Whether you're leading a company, coaching a team, raising a family, or simply striving to become the best version of yourself, the principles of exceptional leadership remain remarkably consistent.

In The G.R.I.T. Factor in Leadership: Leadership Lessons from the Golf Course, championship golf coach and five-time CEO Jeff Van Straten joins forces with NBA Hall of Famer, entrepreneur, leadership coach, and bestselling author Sidney Moncrief to share eighteen timeless leadership principles forged through decades of experience at the highest levels of business, sports, and personal development.

Drawing from championship golf, executive leadership, and elite athletic performance, Jeff and Sidney demonstrate how the same principles that build winning teams also build thriving organizations, stronger families, and lives of lasting impact.

Centered around the G.R.I.T. framework, Getting Better Each Day, Resilience, Intentionality, and Tenacity, this book provides practical tools for navigating adversity, making better decisions under pressure, developing resilient teams, leading with humility, and inspiring others to achieve more than they thought possible.

Each chapter blends compelling stories, leadership insights, practical takeaways, and reflection questions that challenge readers to immediately apply these principles in their own lives.

Golf is the classroom.

Leadership is the lesson.

Whether you're an executive, entrepreneur, coach, educator, athlete, parent, or aspiring leader, The G.R.I.T. Factor in Leadership will equip you to lead with greater clarity, stronger character, and unwavering purpose-on the course, in the boardroom, and wherever people are counting on you.

Author: Jeff Van Straten,Sidney Moncrief
Publisher: Ebooks2go Inc
Published: 09/01/2026
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d
ISBN: 9781545767047

About the Author
Straten, Jeff Van: - Jeff Van Straten is an executive coach, five-time CEO, and lifelong student of leadership. Early in his career, he discovered that the golf course is one of the world's best classrooms. He serves on multiple boards and is an accomplished golf coach who has spent more than two decades developing resilient leaders and disciplined competitors. With a BBA from the University of Wisconsin- Madison and an MBA from Northeastern University, he has guided five companies through financial and cultural turnarounds.In parallel to his executive career, Jeff is an award-winning golf coach who has built championship programs and mentored high-performing high school, NCAA, and professional athletes. He has applied the same leadership principles of continuous improvement, resilience, intentionality, and tenacity both in the boardroom and on the golf course, showing how great leadership is forged in quiet, daily habits just as much as the high-stakes decisions. For over four decades he has guided organizations, boards, and emerging leaders through growth, crisis, and transformation. Jeff integrates lessons from competitive golf with battle-tested executive principles to help leaders build clarity, resilience, and emotional discipline. Today, Jeff uses his G.R.I.T. framework to coach founders, executives, and young professionals, equipping them to lead with confidence and clarity when the stakes are at their highest.Jeff splits his time between Wisconsin and Arizona, where he continues to coach, consult, and advise executives and golfers committed to high performance, strong culture, and meaningful results. Through this unique perspective, the aim of this book is to help others discover how leadership principles used by business executives can significantly improve success in other endeavors as well.www.JeffVanStraten.comMoncrief, Sidney: - Coach Moncrief is a lifetime entrepreneur with over thirty-five years of business start-up experience. His celebrated basketball career has earned him induction into the James Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. As the managing partner of Moncrief One Team, he specializes in people development, team enhancement, leadership, career readiness, and emotional intelligence, empowering individuals and organizations to adapt, grow, and lead with empathy and resilience. His journey-from leading teams on the basketball court to founding over six companies and serving on the boards of Fortune 500 firms-reflects a lifelong commitment to evolving and helping others do the same. Sidney is also the author of fourteen books, including Your Passport to Reinventing You and Reinventing You-No Risk, No Reward, in which he shares practical strategies for personal and professional renewal.www.SidneyMoncrief.com