Dean Whellams, founder and principal of Team Elite Performance, is a sought-after leadership and performance coach who regularly works with teams and individuals to increase self-awareness, develop corporate culture, and improve team performance. Emergenetics is a foundational component of all of Dean’s coaching and mentoring. He is a licensed Emergenetics trainer.

Corporate Training

Over 20 years as a corporate leadership trainer, Dean has mentored groups and individuals, working alongside teammates to strengthen team bonds, boost emotional intelligence and enhance company cultures.

Dean has developed customized approaches to enhancing internal team communication and applied his methods on focused initiatives. For example, over his 15 years with Q&D Construction, he led the project management team in refining the delivery of client services and field leaders on maintaining a positive and successful safety culture.

Youth Leadership Training

Dean has spent 7 years as a master trainer for a national leadership training organization. He oversaw the development and leads he delivery of the 2-day immersive training courses for adults/youth.

Sports Performance

A sports performance coach with multiple NCAA Division I teams, Dean helps individual players develop goals and map out plans to achieve them. His training method includes mental preparation, shared truths and experiences, and personal commitment to oneself and one’s team.

Educational Speaker

As a youth- and educator-leadership coach, Dean works with staff and students in high schools around the country as a facilitator and inspiring speaker for Learning for Living’s Breaking Down the Walls, a program that helps educators and students create and maintain a positive school culture. Three times each summer, Dean leads a week-long Rotary Club youth camp for hundreds of high-school students who leave with expanding world views and deeper insight into their potential as human beings.

Gary is an instructor, mentor and partner in Team Elite Performance. We are developing a biography for him, so watch this space!

Colton grew up in Newbury Park, CA. From the moment he could walk he was an athlete, competing in every sport imaginable. He gravitated toward baseball as he continued to play it at the Division 1 level (University of San Diego) and all the way up to the professional level with the Minnesota Twins organization. Graduating with a BA in Psychology, Colton has always been fascinated with how and why people interact in our world. He has translated that curiosity into training and connecting with motivated individuals and teams across the country.

He is a battle-tested and motivated leader who simply wants to help others find their truest form of self-expression. He believes the key to a successful life is through a high level of self-awareness and vulnerable communication. The desire to work and share with others is what gets him out of bed every morning and he cannot wait to work with you.

A California native, Troy’s high school career included two gold medals won with the 16U and 18U USA Baseball Teams. Pitching for his school, he earned four varsity letters, playing for National Hall of Fame Coach, Steve Vickery. Troy was the team’s four-year pitching ace, breaking a school record with 313 strikeouts and helped lead the team to four CIF Championship games. In college, he played for the University of San Diego Toreros alongside fellow Team Elite Performance Instructor Colton Waltner, and he finished his sports career playing professionally for the Atlanta Braves. Today he works with Team Elite Performance at selected engagements, and has a career in sales for the Cintas Corporation.

Troy’s years of experience in the locker room, combined with his experience in the business world, give him a broad perspective on team-building. Troy is obsessed with driving peak performance and cultivating championship cultures.