For Greg Carvel, Head Coach of the NCAA Championship hockey team at UMass, the math for creating a high-performance team is simple: People provide character, character creates culture, and culture wins championships. Coach Carvel joined Willy Walker on the Walker Webcast to share how he took one of the worst programs in the country and made it the best, what did he do to recruit top talent, and how he is able to stay on top with so many players heading to the NHL.
Greg begins by discussing how culture is critical to style, and he stresses the importance of being humble and letting others praise your virtues. More details from the discussion include:
• The “journey from worst to first”
• Persevering in the national semi-final game when Covid infiltrated their team
• How leadership trickles down
• Why Carvel prioritizes character over hockey skills when recruiting
• The UMass hockey team’s core values and why connections are the most important
• How the success of the team depends on the character of each individual teammate
• Why behavior is the special ingredient that sets their team apart
• How being authentic and vulnerable shaped their team culture
• Carvel takes questions from the audience
• Walker & Dunlop Chairman and CEO Willy Walker shares his closing remarks
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Greg Carvel became head hockey coach of fledgling UMass in 2016. After a terrible 5-win season his first year, Carvel got the Minutemen to post 17 wins in year two, their highest total since 2010. After the season Carvel was given a contract extension through the 2022-23 season. Three years later, the team played for the national championship, and in 2021, won the NCAA Division 1 men’s hockey title.
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