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Media Biography
Kurt's first and fourth books became best sellers within the first month - so quickly there wasn't any reviews posted as yet!!!
Please note: Kurt Krueger did all this while teaching pretty much full time for the Los Angeles Unified School District in Ghetto schools over a 47 year time period. He has retired from LAUSD June 2016, to pursue his consulting/training business full time. Since retiring, he has published 4 books!
A native of Los Angeles, Kurt A. Krueger lives what he teaches and teaches what he lives. While at the University of Colorado (CU-Boulder), he set 3 school records and coached the Water Polo Club that went undefeated in 1968. He has won 16 medals in four International Senior Olympic (ISO) swim championships. Krueger has taught Peak Performance Practices (PPP) around the world for elite athletes/coaches, performing artists, business people, educators/students, etc. His goal is to have everyone physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually fit throughout the 21st Century. Mr. Krueger was an All-American swimmer and Hall of Fame for water polo at Los Angeles Valley College, and he also coached numerous world-record holders; he was a member of Glendale College and Cal St. Uni. - Los Angeles faculties of Psychology and/or Physical Education.
He is an internationally published author of nearly 50 articles for professional journals and magazines people and nature photographer, Keynote lecturer and corporate consultant/trainer. He has been interviewed on TV/Radio/Internet/newspapers on four continents.
He has been invited to speak about Peak Performance Practices on five continents. Mr. Krueger’s interest in PPP developed when he met a Master of these sciences in 1974. His integrative learning was tested three years later when he was a passenger on a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane hijacked by the Japanese Red Army terrorists. Mr. Krueger used a PPP concentration technique he’d been practicing and found his mind relaxed and focused at the height of the crisis – the first coach passenger to speak with hijackers and first off the plane.
Returning to America, Mr. Krueger taught history and government at an inner-city ghetto school — Crenshaw High in Los Angeles. His mental control was again tested there when threatened by students carrying a drawn gun, or other weapons. He peacefully settled the incidents by verbally demanding the weapons, or disarming them using self defense techniques that he later taught to teachers. His clarity and ease in an intense situation once again amazed Mr. Krueger and others. Fellow teachers recognized his ability to cope with crisis situations and requested that he instruct them in Stress Management techniques. This ultimately led to a series of highly successful presentations in Southern California culminating with a program at the United Nations in New York City and one at Oxford University’s Medical School (UK).
Concurrently, Mr. Krueger also began training athletes for Peak Performance. It developed into a ‘systems’ program to strengthen a person’s body, mind and spirit. The use of these techniques had enabled him to win numerous medals in the ISO. Examples of some high school students improvements after just three months or less using PPP:
Greg Denby, a high jumper with a personal best of 6’6", leapt 7’1";
Macarthur Osbourn went from a 2:01 880 yard runner to a 1:54;
Anita Sood, Arjuna Award winner of India, set eight National swimming records, and
Bejoy Jain, within 14 days of a workshop, set a National Junior Record then swam the English Channel faster than any other Asian.
Mr. Krueger co-founded the Institute of Sports Psychology in 1982 in Bombay and ultimately developed into an organization with four more offices in: London, Melbourne, Tokyo and Los Angeles. The following year he founded Success Systems International to develop programs and practices specific to companies and performing artists needs. Mr. Krueger has trained the Claremont Professional Football Club, W. Australia, which took second in the Grand Final that year. He has trained professionals and athletes of SIX different countries National teams. He has been asked to and did present programs for the United States Military Academy, Young Presidents Organization, IBM and other major corporations.
Mr. Krueger has presented at major international conferences such as, a keynote speech, Stress Management in Sports and Business, at the World Congress on Sports Psychology in Copenhagen; Fitness for the 21st Century at the Olympic Scientific Congress in Seoul; and Technology with a Heart workshop at the International Conference on Technology and Education in Brussels; and Strengthening Character at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education Recreation and Dance Conference in San Diego. He has been published nearly 50 times internationally in magazines and journals.
He is a National Board Certified Teacher in ‘secondary’ Physical Education and is active with Boy Scouts. Mr. Krueger served on the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Physical Education Advisory Board (2000-2014) and teaches Peak Performance Practices for Academics and Sports professional development classes/workshops. He is also currently involved in promoting Character Inclusion and the World Fest, www.theworldfestorganization.org. Read his Best Selling books, Winning Ways for Living on Amazon.
His love for education and uplifting humanity to an 'higher evolutionary path' created Using the Force, school assemblies and lectures for Middle School through Universities.
Using the Force Goals:
• To inspire student/athletes and teachers/coaches to use Peak Performance Practices to reach their potential - to strive to be “Superior Human Beings”
• To give an intellectual understanding AND a
• Direct experience of a few Peak Performance Practices AND
• Raise grade points at least one full grade, and sporting performances dramatically.
• Present two or more “tools” for attendees to become more of a Peak Performer in their daily life
• Offer a handout with a number of "tools" for further practice and evolution into being all they can be!
• Enhances curiosity and respect!
Institute of Sports Psychology and Success Systems International
www.SuccessSystemsInternational.net
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