Ultimately, it’s what we do when no one is watching that tells our story.
Be it in sports, business, parenting, or any number of other aspects of our life, we are blessed with an innate amount of God-given talent. It could be physical strength, a penchant for numbers, or inexhaustible patience—these were gifts we were given. The cards we were dealt. We don’t control it.
What we do control is what we do with that talent. How do we (and those around us) cultivate and develop that talent, if at all? Championship teams aren’t always the most talented, and the most successful among us aren’t always the most naturally gifted. Why is this?
In short, the answer lies not in what we do when the cameras are on, profits are up, or things are coming easy. It’s what we do behind closed doors. It’s what we do when no one is watching that can turn a walk-on into a scholarship athlete, an All-Star into a Hall of Famer, & an intern into a CEO.
The natural-born prodigy can be awe-inspiring and fun to watch, but that’s not what we’re here for. We can’t learn from roll-out-of-bed-and-do-amazing-things greatness. You don’t learn from success. You learn from the path taken to achieve it and the scar tissue built up along the way.
No One is Watching explores the balance between the cards you’re dealt & how you play them.
“A man’s character is his fate.”
-Heraclites
“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”
-John Wooden
Billy Ryan
Billy spent 15 years in Major League Baseball as an executive, leader, evaluator & developer of elite talent. In that time he helped individuals & teams evolve from humble beginnings to the pinnacle of the profession. After leaving the world of professional sports, he joined an early-stage startup and helped navigate unique challenges & explosive growth on the way to reaching Unicorn status. Fortunate enough to cross paths with remarkable people in and outside the world of sports, he has learned some valuable lessons along the way; the most important being: humble yourself and never stop learning. At No One Is Watching, Billy embraces that philosophy and draws from his personal and professional experience to explore leadership, elite performance, culture, & growth, often through the prism of sport.