Barry Jansen

High performance consultant with a passion for helping leaders and sports coaches increase team engagement, chemistry, performance, and results.

[Matt Ferreira, ChPC @matt_f90]

Second session for the 2025 @OntarioIsSoccer Technical Director Diploma💻 How can we better understand ourselves as a Coach & Leader🪞 Then adapt to who you are & your tendencies📈 Thank you to @jansenhr for leading the session!🙏
#BetterLeaders #PeopleFirst #AlwaysLearning

[Barry Jansen @jansenhr]

@joey1ye Congrats Joey! So happy for you and I know the program is in good hands with you at the helm!!

[Bioscience Association Manitoba @BioscienceMB]

🌟 Meet the Member: @jansenhr! 🌟

JansenHR is a premier human resource and leadership consulting firm based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. JansenHR offers a full suite of professional services designed to enhance performance and achieve outstanding results. https://t.co/qFbFg69v3M

[Barry Jansen @jansenhr]

Couldn’t be happier for these two great guys. Incredible coaches and human beings!

[Trevor Georgie @georgietrev]

Congratulations to Team Canada 🇨🇦 and Sea Dogs’ 2022 Memorial Cup Champs 🏆 Gardiner MacDougall 🥇and our Head Coach Travis Crickard 🥇

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

A manager trying to rouse his players…

Cortical arousal…a call for mental activation and physical intensity…

Mikel Arteta using words, sentences, phrases enveloped in tone, volume, rhythm, pause…trying to tap into memory, striving to evoke pain and pleasure, cautioning threat while willing reward. Motivation - to move towards and to move away from.

Mental activation…

The challenge for any coach is to recognise the cause of performance lapse. Do my players need to rise in intensity or do I need to cool the nervous system? Might a rise be true for one and a drop be true for another? Should this come from me or should this come from my players?

Questions…questions!

For me…pre-planned:

-individual mental frameworks
-a team mental framework

Then time for:

-players to group together to speak
-the coach to assert the tactical plan enveloped in those mental frameworks
-mini individual conversations

An all-in feel…an integrated approach.

Cortical arousal, narrative, and meaning in competitive sport are strange things. One player is best served in a state of physical dominance while another is best suited to a playful state akin to playing mate’s football.

Player one: dominant, relentless, strong
Player two: playful, focused, free

No hard, fast rules other than this - each and every player has their ideal mind and body state that helps them to anticipate, make decisions, co-ordinate their body, and execute at an appropriate physical intensity. And that state must be found and maintained in each and every game.

I love Mikel Arteta’s passion. I love his energy and his vibrancy. I also love the complexity of the human. With 11, 13, 15, 18 plauers all gawping at you, hanging on every word you say…you never quite know whether the content or the delivery is suited to everyone in the room…

…you never quite know…

And that’s what makes sports coaching so much fun and so intriguing. That no matter who you are and no matter what level you coach at…coaching is a decision-making process where even the very best and even the very famous are making a best guess most of the time.

A best guess most of the time…

[Barry Jansen @jansenhr]

@CraigSexton1 @FAIreland @FAICoachDev Congratulations my friend! Very happy for you! Looking forward to watching you succeed!

[Topher Scott @HockeyThinkTank]

This clip should be played in every preseason meeting in every sport on what not giving up on a play looks like.

[Konner Beste @KonnerBeste]

Love this illustration between motivation and discipline.

“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” —Elbert Hubbard

[Barry Jansen @jansenhr]

Well said @CoachCoriClose !

[Cori Close @CoachCoriClose]

Coaching people’s hearts and caring about the process over the outcome, doesn’t make you less competitive. But it does make you more committed! #CarRidesWithCori #EliteHABITS #UNCOMMON

[Barry Jansen @jansenhr]

That’s awesome @koricheverie ! What an experience.

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

Kori Cheverie drops the ceremonial puck in Halifax with Sidney Crosby and Drake Batherson taking the face-off!

[Barry Jansen @jansenhr]

Another congrats @koricheverie !

[Pittsburgh Penguins @penguins]

Yesterday, guest coach Kori Cheverie became the first woman behind the bench in a coaching capacity for the Penguins.

Coach Sullivan on Cheverie: "She has a good command of the game. She was very insightful, and I think our coaching staff were the benefactors of that."

[Barry Jansen @jansenhr]

Congrats @koricheverie !

[Pittsburgh Penguins @penguins]

From one coach to another.

Congratulations to @koricheverie on being named the head coach of Montreal's @thepwhlofficial team 👏

[Barry Jansen @jansenhr]

Congrats @koricheverie ! Very happy for you!

[Hockey Nova Scotia @HockeyNS]

BLUENOSERS BEHIND THE BENCH 🤝

Congrats to Spryfield’s @TroyRyanHockey and our own @koricheverie on being named as inaugural head coaches in the PWHL. 🏒

Troy will be the first head coach of @PWHL_Toronto, while Kori will lead @PWHL_Montreal. 👏

@thepwhlofficial | #nsproud

[Barry Jansen @jansenhr]

@NiallORegan29 @FAIreland Congratulations Niall! Well deserved and I’m looking forward to continuing our work together in coach development!

[Barry Jansen @jansenhr]

Thank you @1BCSoccer for the opportunity to work with a great group of coaches in your mentorship program last night. I hope everyone found value in the “Increased Self Awareness = Increased Effectiveness” session!

[Barry Jansen @jansenhr]

That is great news. Not only an excellent coach but an even nicer person. Well done @USAHockeyNTDP

[USA Hockey’s NTDP @USAHockeyNTDP]

Introducing Greg Moore, the 17th head coach of the NTDP! 🇺🇸

The former NTDP player and assistant coach returns to the bench, congrats Coach! 👏

[Wenatchee Wild @WHLwild_]

We've got our head coach 👀 Please help us welcome Kevin Constantine to the #WildFamily!

🔏 https://t.co/Bfe2nxxjWj

#RestoreTheRoarWHLstyle

[Barry Jansen @jansenhr]

That’s awesome news Kevin! Be great to catch up soon! Very happy for you.

[Kevin Reiter @KevinReiter35]

Ten years ago, @usahockey and the @USAHockeyNTDP took a chance on me and I will forever be grateful for the opportunity. Thanks to everyone in management, the coaches and my colleagues for preparing me for this next chapter in my journey. Can’t wait to get started at @umichhockey

[Barry Jansen @jansenhr]

Congrats @mlovehockey !! Knew it was just a matter of time! Very happy for you.

[Washington Capitals @Capitals]

The Washington Capitals have named Mitch Love as an assistant coach.

Love, who will primarily work with the Capitals' defensemen, will join assistant coach Scott Allen and goaltending coach Scott Murray on head coach Spencer Carbery's staff.

#ALLCAPS

[Barry Jansen @jansenhr]

This is awesome. Thanks for sharing this coach!

[Coach Kurt Webster @coachwebbb]

The back of TCU training shirts!