Speakers

Grant Couch graduated from Lehigh University in 1971 with an MBA and a BS in Mechanical Engineering and worked in the financial services industry at a number of Wall Street firms.  He retired from full-time work in the financial industry in 2008 as the President & COO of Countrywide Securities Corp and moved to Boulder in 2008 to be the CEO of Louisville-based Sounds True until 2010.  He retired in 2015 as the Chairman of the Bank of Manhattan and Manhattan Bancorp.  Grant is currently a member of the investment committee of a Colorado-based company, Impact technology VC Fund, and he serves on the Board of Zen Peacemakers International.  Grant is also a Zen teacher.

My talk will center upon how people, in general, can improve their abilities to learn (and remember) new information.  While this unique methodology is not new, most people do not recognize the power it has for their daily lives. What I present combines the innate human traits we all possess, plus the sports psychology strategies that elite university athletes bring to their sports.