Steve Magness

Executive Coach

Performance coach and author of Do Hard Things. He has worked with pro teams, executives, entrepreneurs, artists, and elite athletes.

Magness earned degrees from Houston and George Mason. He has coached pro teams, leaders, founders, artists, and top athletes. [2]

He wrote Do Hard Things. [1]

Do Hard Things joins coaching experience with research in psychology, neuroscience, and physiology. The book applies its case about toughness to both sport and work. [1]

Magness has coached and written about performance. That mix gives his views weight. Yet much of his experience comes from sport. A work team has other stakes and forms of power. Trust him on how people perform and train. Then test the move to work. [1] [2]

1
Steve Magness, Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness (New York: HarperOne, 2022).
2
Steve Magness, “About,” personal site, accessed September 2, 2026.
https://www.stevemagness.com/about/