Kollman Gearhart is a motivational coach and former athlete. Growing up he was given the nickname "Big Teddy Bear" BTB due to being overweight. He was troubled by a childhood marked by his mother's addiction, and mental health challenges to then losing 100 pounds in 13 months after graduating High School and becoming a Scholarship Division 1 college tennis player. His podcast The BTB Project releases 2 episodes a week and has been streamed in over 26 countries after being launched in January 2023.

Welcome to the BTB Project (Built to Be Project): Empowering listeners to discover their purpose and live their best lives, regardless of circumstances. As a former athlete and motivational coach, Kollman spent the last 20 years inspiring thousands through his story, helping individuals, teams, and organizations achieve their true potential. 

His journey has been shaped by various individuals of EVO who believed in him and supported him along the way. Mentors like Scott Ford who coached Kollman as a Junior in Colorado tennis helped him navigate his sports performance with tennis and master the art of how to use his eyes on the court/flow state. Scotts' impact is profound. Now as a coach and through 'The BTB Project', Kollman pays it forward by offering support and inspiration to others on their paths to success through the project podcast.

Through 'The BTB Project' and EVO Sports Collective, he connects with individuals who resonate with his story and message of resilience. Whether it's through Leading interviews for EVO Masters Series, speaking engagements, coaching sessions, or podcast interviews, we come together with a shared goal of overcoming adversity, striving towards growth and individual alignment to become the strongest versions of ourselves, and achieving personal growth.

Prepare to be inspired by featured guests from various fields, including athletics, business, entrepreneurship, science, fitness, and nutrition. Remember, the impossible is nothing. Together, we will strive to become 1% better with each episode.

Tyler is the dynamic host of our bi-monthly coaching labs, a unique forum where athletes receive personalized guidance from our founders to overcome current challenges and address concerns. With a passion for empowering coaches, athletes, and administrators, Tyler Pazik is dedicated to elevating success in competitive environments.

His expertise extends to supporting elite professionals, college-aged students, athletes, top business executives, and organizations. Tyler's primary focus revolves around fostering Confidence, Leadership, and Communication skills among the individuals and groups he collaborates with.

Tyler's extensive experience includes working with sports teams within and outside the Power 5 conferences, Fortune 500 Companies, military professionals, a Heisman Trophy winner, and USA National Teams.

Guided by the principles of peak performance, Tyler firmly believes that consistent behavior yields consistent results, and this behavior must be continually refined and actualized over time. Beyond words, Tyler exemplifies his commitment by clinching the first position in his age group at a challenging 100 Mile Ultra Marathon. He maintains a lifestyle of continuous self-improvement through participation in triathlons, marathons, and other races nationwide. Additionally, he indulges in rock climbing, downhill mountain biking, and snowboarding in his current place of residence.

“Delivering projects that centre the community in the process and bring diverse project partners generate sustainable and innovative solutions to tackle some of the most critical and complex issues. Building trusting relationships and collective opportunities for innovation matter!” -Dena Kae Beno, Principal, TRES Community Solutions Ltd.

TRES Community Solutions Ltd., a community development, planning and strategic management consultancy is a social purpose business that generates collaborative, cross-sectoral, co-design solutions to generate collective impact to address complex social, health, community, and organizational challenges through:

• Strategic project, fund, and communications management
• Policy research and community-based action development and implementation planning,
• Cross-sectoral facilitation, engagement, and co-design processes to transform systems and generate sustainable change,  
• Socio-technology user design, systems planning, and project design, and
• Organization and community development with a strong focus on community-based action and capacity building

TRES works alongside diverse communities and organizations across the private, public, and community sectors to generate built, social and technology solutions to address some of the most complex challenges we are navigating in this fast-paced, ever-changing world. Some examples include:

• Expanding virtual and integrated health care hubs across five communities,
• Providing systems planning, user design experience, and social design insights to collectively advance a socio-technology co-design of a coordinated access and information system with 22 communities across Metro Vancouver to address vulnerability and homelessness and access to housing, services and supports,
• Facilitating the feasibility study, concept planning, and multisectoral partnership engagement to fund and deliver a built food hub centre, integrated health and service hub for youth, and state-of-the art aquatic facility that includes complementary health and community service spaces,
•  Leading facilitation with three communities to develop a community action framework for strong community action through co-design processes to inform community action and collective capacity building to mobilize cross-sectoral actions that generate housing, health, and community support solutions and support for vulnerable individuals and families.
• Mobilizing a healthy and restorative community dialogue process that informs municipal planning, strategic infrastructure development, and community social development that is focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion through the activation of a socio-cultural and economic development approach.  

Dena Kae Beno, Principal, TRES Community Solutions Ltd., firmly believes in the power of bringing diverse communities together in a supported manner to build trust, power sharing, and common purpose-as it can be one of the strongest drivers for lasting change, prosperity, and resiliency.