Jim Murphy
Performance coach and author
Jim Murphy is a mental skills performance coach who works with professional athletes and leaders. He wrote Inner Excellence.
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Born in the United States
About Jim Murphy
Jim Murphy is a performance coach who specializes in mental skills for professional athletes and leaders. He played professional baseball in the Chicago Cubs organization, then coached with the Texas Rangers and at the Olympic Games. For his Masters Project in Coaching Science, he interviewed 39 Major League Baseball (MLB) general managers, field managers and coaches about building a championship team. That work became the book Dugout Wisdom. He has also coached leading golfers, including world champions and FedEx Cup champions. Murphy leads Inner Excellence retreats at locations around the world and is president of the Inner Excellence Freedom Project, which aims to build communities that ease spiritual and physical poverty. His book Inner Excellence has a revised edition released in 2020.