Donna Fishter is Purdue Soccer's leadership consultant and team architect. Her primary roles are to guide team culture, provide leadership training, and help athletes manage their performance on the field. She also assists in key areas of personal development and coaching the coaches.
Empowering athletes to become strong human beings is Fishter's primary focus. The beliefs and behaviors of athletes, especially what they believe about themselves, can be transformational. Winning is a habit, a lifestyle. When coaches help athletes “win in life” this has a huge impact on performance and culture.
Fishter coached soccer for over 25 years at the youth, high school and college levels. She spent 13 years at University of Central Florida and helped build UCF into a top-25 program. The main catalyst for this success was intentional focus on the intrinsic side of the game. In 2013, Fishter shifted away from the x’s and o’s and devoted 100% of her time to consulting with teams across the country. Through intense focus on leadership, culture, and connection, she has helped coaches and athletes build foundational strategies to achieve greatness. Fishter wants every team and every person she encounters to find sustained success in life and game.
Fishter is a founding member and certified leadership coach with the John Maxwell Coaching Team. John C. Maxwell is an internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, and author who has sold more than 13 million books. Every year he speaks to Fortune 500 companies, international government leaders, and organizations as diverse as the United States Military Academy at West Point, the National Football League and ambassadors at the United Nations.
In 2020, Fishter was named the No. 2 UCF Athletics Assistant Coach of All-Time. She has been an instructor for U.S. Soccer Federation education courses and is a regular presenter at the United Soccer Coaches Convention. In 2021, Fishter teamed up with #SoccerChat, who hosts the “Dose of Donna Fishter” occasional podcasts. She resides in Orlando, Florida.
To learn more about Donna and her work visit: DonnaFishter.com or follow her on X and Instagram @DonnaFishter.
Empowering athletes to become strong human beings is Fishter's primary focus. The beliefs and behaviors of athletes, especially what they believe about themselves, can be transformational. Winning is a habit, a lifestyle. When coaches help athletes “win in life” this has a huge impact on performance and culture.
Fishter coached soccer for over 25 years at the youth, high school and college levels. She spent 13 years at University of Central Florida and helped build UCF into a top-25 program. The main catalyst for this success was intentional focus on the intrinsic side of the game. In 2013, Fishter shifted away from the x’s and o’s and devoted 100% of her time to consulting with teams across the country. Through intense focus on leadership, culture, and connection, she has helped coaches and athletes build foundational strategies to achieve greatness. Fishter wants every team and every person she encounters to find sustained success in life and game.
Fishter is a founding member and certified leadership coach with the John Maxwell Coaching Team. John C. Maxwell is an internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, and author who has sold more than 13 million books. Every year he speaks to Fortune 500 companies, international government leaders, and organizations as diverse as the United States Military Academy at West Point, the National Football League and ambassadors at the United Nations.
In 2020, Fishter was named the No. 2 UCF Athletics Assistant Coach of All-Time. She has been an instructor for U.S. Soccer Federation education courses and is a regular presenter at the United Soccer Coaches Convention. In 2021, Fishter teamed up with #SoccerChat, who hosts the “Dose of Donna Fishter” occasional podcasts. She resides in Orlando, Florida.
To learn more about Donna and her work visit: DonnaFishter.com or follow her on X and Instagram @DonnaFishter.