Online Program

Pat Summitt Definite Dozen Leadership Program



Program Overview

Coach Pat Summitt’s Definite Dozen, a profound model for success, is designed to educate and inspire adult lifelong learners on leadership and success.

Learn the leadership principles and wisdom of legendary University of Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt.

1. Respect yourself and others.

2. Take full responsibility.

3. Develop and demonstrate loyalty.

4. Learn to be a great communicator.

5. Discipline yourself so no one else has to.

6. Make hard work your passion.

7. Don’t just work hard, work smart.

8. Put the team before yourself.

9. Make winning an attitude.

10. Be a competitor.

11. Change is a must.

12. Handle success like you handle failure.

Coach Summitt won 1,098 games and eight NCAA national titles as Lady Vols coach (1974-2012).

Learn how to apply the Definite Dozen leadership principles to your own personal life and career.

The program includes thought-provoking “knowledge checks” and questions for reflection that you can answer in the downloadable workbook.

Program Details

You’ll enjoy a self-paced online approach featuring each Definite Dozen principle. You’ll also view embedded video clips of Coach Summitt and on-screen leaders and associates of Summitt presenting her principles as well as thought-provoking “knowledge checks” and questions for reflection that you can answer in the downloadable companion workbook.

If you aspire to be an effective leader, you may have pondered the question, “Are we born to be leaders, or can we develop the capacities we need in our life experience to lead effectively?” Coach Summitt believed leadership and the peak performance skills required to lead effectively could be developed and continuously improved. 

Join us as we unpack Coach Summitt’s Definite Dozen—the guiding principles that she saw as fundamental to leadership excellence.

Fee: $399

Want to enroll your work team in the program? Group rates are available. Call 865-974-0150 or email professionaled@utk.edu for details.

Coach Pat Summitt

The Definite Dozen is ultimately about paying attention to basics, those things that enable you to achieve a larger, more profound goal.

Register Today

Register anytime and begin the self-paced, module-by-module approach featuring Coach Pat Summitt’s Definite Dozen.