Ryan Looks Back at the Past 6 Months with Swift Kick
Dear Swift Kick Family, After 6 outstanding, fun and interesting months with you all, it’s finally time for me to retire. These past 6 months have been an absolute pleasure, and with this came several memories I will cherish forever. Being a part of #TeamHuman has been both eye-opening and life-changing for me, and I […]
Bu-Bye 2017 Hu-Low 2018: An Inside Look at the Future of Swift Kick
After 96 programs, 230,000 miles, and countless hugs given, the Swift Kick team is calling it a wrap on 2017. In 2004, I started Swift Kick with the goal of making it a world-class leadership training company. Nothing about the past 13 years has been smooth sailing. But 2017 was our best year ever – […]
Q4 Retreat: How to Build Your Own Swift Kick
September 18, 2017 set the date for yet another amazing Swift Kick team retreat day for the beginning of Q4! This quarter brought forth even more amazing and crazy memories from the Swift Kick family that I will happily share with you. For this quarterly retreat, the theme that Sabina and Melissa had devised was […]
3 Reasons I Started Journaling Again
Dear Diary, Here we go again. There have been quite a few times in my life that I started journaling, then very quickly gave up or forgot about you as a way to process and document what is going on in my life. Sometimes, I didn’t know what to write or who I was “talking” […]
How to Run the BEST Team Meetings, Without Boring Your Team
Raise your hand if you’ve experienced meetings that were a waste of time. Raise your hand if you’ve experienced the chaos that happens without meetings. Meetings – they are necessary, but only useful when done right. At some of my previous jobs, there weren’t any meetings in place. There was mass confusion and it made […]
Are You Smarter than a Swift Kicker?: How to Host an ‘Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader’ Themed Retreat
July 10th, 2017 marked the day of the Swift Kick Q3 retreat! With that date also came me, Ryan Lingle, the “noob” to Swift Kick. Upon arriving at the SKHQ address, I was immediately confused. I got out of my Uber, looked around at all of the buildings and thought to myself, “Well it’s a […]
The Vision for Swift Kick 2.0
George Bernard Shaw once said, “Progress is impossible without change.” At Swift Kick, we have some big, audacious goals around helping leaders better lead their teams and engage their members. After 14 years of training leaders, we knew a few things needed to change to help us reach our bigger vision. As we look ahead […]
New Intern Ryan Lingle Striving for New Human Heights
It was super sad to say goodbye to interns Dee and Sami. But not all is lost! Why? Because we are super pumped to welcome our newest intern, Ryan Lingle, to the Swift Kick team. Ryan is a rising senior at Penn State Dubois. He is majoring in I.S.T. He loves pizza and baby blue. […]
What Is Your Morning Routine?
If your morning routine involves reaching for your phone, welcome to the club and STOP IT. Some of the most successful (and wealthiest) people in the world get in a full workout, read a book (or a big part of one) and meditate before they even look at a screen for the first time. If you […]
Sami Reflects on Her Year as a Swift Kick Intern
Dear Swift Kick Family, It brings me a mixture of great pleasure and sadness to say that I am finally moving on from the Swift Kick team. Honestly, I cannot believe that I have been on the team for a whole year!! I just couldn’t get enough of you all. The experiences, friendships, and knowledge […]