CHRIS VALLETTA

The books

Five books. One subject.

All five are leadership books. One body of work on leadership, written for five different readers.

Athletes Mean Business: The Skills Guide book cover

New release · October 2026

Athletes Mean Business

The Skills Guide

Every athlete is already in business. This guide takes ninety-six skills from twelve college sports, shows each one in a real moment of competition and a specific scene at work, and ties it to the leadership language employers use in interviews and performance reviews.

Inside: what to check before you sign an NIL deal, a self-assessment, twelve interview questions with answers built from a sport, and the resume and LinkedIn chapters. It is the idea behind AmplifyU, written for every athlete.

For student-athletes, former athletes starting a career, and the coaches, parents, and advisors who help them.

Wall art for your athlete: the ten leadership lessons on a personalized canvas.

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TEAM WORKS! The Gridiron Playbook for Building a Championship Business Team book cover

TEAM WORKS! The Gridiron Playbook for Building a Championship Business Team

For business leaders. Foreword by Donald Trump.

For families

Two of these books were written for my sons. HeartWork is the same lesson, one card a night.

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Chapter 10 of TEAM WORKS! is where the rope-holder idea lives, the one my high school offensive line coach handed me and I have taught ever since. Enter your email and the full chapter is yours to read, start to finish.

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A man who wrote two books teaching leadership to his own children, by name, is making the same argument the whole brand makes. Leadership is not a stage. It is who you are to the people counting on you.