Meet Almon Gunter.
Built to Perform. Driven to Impact.
From competing among the fastest athletes in the world to developing leaders, teams, athletes, and organizations, Almon Gunter has spent his life studying what separates potential from performance.
World-class speed started the journey. Developing people became the mission.
From World-Class Speed
to World-Class Impact.
Almon Gunter knows what it takes to perform when the pressure is real.
As a two-time U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier and former world-class sprinter, Almon competed among the fastest athletes in the world in the 200 meters.
At that level, talent alone isn’t enough. Performance demands preparation, discipline, focus, consistency, resilience, and the mental toughness to execute when the pressure is at its highest.
Those lessons shaped far more than Almon’s athletic career. They became the foundation for how he approaches leadership, business, mentoring, culture, and personal performance.
Elite competition taught Almon that the performance everyone sees is built through the work most people never see.
What Elite Competition Teaches You.
The principles Almon learned as an elite athlete continue to shape the work he does with people and organizations today.
Preparation
You don’t rise to the occasion without first preparing for it.
Discipline
Results are built through the choices you make long before anyone is watching.
Mental Toughness
Pressure, adversity, setbacks, and uncertainty reveal how prepared your mindset really is.
Consistency
Excellence isn’t one extraordinary effort. It’s doing the right things again and again.
More Than 25 Years
Developing People.
The track gave Almon the principles. Experience taught him how to apply them everywhere else.
For more than 25 years, Almon has taken the lessons learned through elite competition and applied them to leadership, culture, mentoring, teamwork, mindset, and personal performance.
Through AGE3, he has worked with leaders, teams, athletes, universities, businesses, and major organizations to help people raise their standard, strengthen their mindset, and perform with greater purpose.
His work isn’t about trying to turn everyone into an elite athlete. It’s about helping people understand that many of the principles required to perform at an elite level — discipline, preparation, resilience, accountability, focus, and consistency — apply everywhere.
Connecting Sports, Business
and Life.
High-performance principles don’t belong only on the track, field, or court.
Almon’s strength is his ability to translate those principles into clear, practical lessons people can use in the real world. His message connects because the fundamentals of performance don’t change when the arena does.
Business Leaders
Teams & Organizations
Athletes & Coaches
Students & Universities
Emerging Leaders
Author. Mentor. Coach.
Builder of People.
Speaking is only one part of Almon’s work. His larger mission is helping people recognize their potential and develop the discipline, mindset, and tools required to do something with it.
Author
Turning decades of experience into practical lessons on leadership, teamwork, culture, mentoring, focus, mental toughness, and resilience.
Mentor
Investing experience, perspective, encouragement, and hard-earned lessons into the development of others.
Coach
Helping people identify what is holding them back, strengthen what moves them forward, and execute at a higher level.
Speaker
Bringing energy, storytelling, experience, and practical tools together to create messages audiences can actually use.
Seven Books.
One Commitment to Growth.
Almon is the author of seven books exploring the principles at the center of his life’s work — leadership, teamwork, culture, mentoring, focus, mental toughness, resilience, and what it takes to keep moving forward.
His books aren’t designed simply to be read. They’re built around ideas, language, and principles people can apply to the way they lead, work, compete, and live.
Championship Habits Create Championship Results.
Almon’s message is built on discipline, preparation, accountability, resilience, and the daily habits required to perform at a high level consistently.
You don’t become a champion when the spotlight comes on. You build championship habits long before it does.
Every Day Is Game Day.
It’s more than a phrase. It’s the philosophy behind Almon’s approach to performance and life.
Performance isn’t something you turn on when the spotlight hits. It’s built through discipline, preparation, character, mindset, and consistency when no one is watching.
Every day is an opportunity to prepare better, lead better, respond better, and become better.
Bring the Almon Gunter Experience
to Your Organization.
Whether you’re looking to strengthen leadership, elevate culture, improve mindset, develop your people, or challenge your team to execute at a higher level, AGE3 delivers experiences designed to create impact that lasts beyond the event.
Contact AGE3Every Day Is Game Day.
Almon's Path to Purpose
January 1983
Florida Junior College
Torn hamstring. Doctors said he'd never compete again as a sprinter in track & field
MArch 1983
Florida Junior College
Ran fastest 200 meters to date post injury
1995
Florida State University
Started career in corporate; hung-up track spikes
January 1991
University of Florida
UF Indoor Track & Field Meet. First time competing in six years. Won open 400M
June 1991
Helsinki, Finland
Left to compete internationally for the first time. Competed in seven countries.
July 1991
Stockholm, Sweden
Ran 13th fastest time in the world for 200M; Qualified for 1992 US Olympic Trials
June 1991-1996
Competed Internationally
US Olympic Trials were held in 1992. Then off to Europe to compete internationally. Represented the USA in 15 countries and ran in 7 different Olympic stadiums around the world.
February 1998
Gunter-Gunter, Inc.
Started Gunter-Gunter Inc, a consulting and motivational company
January 2002
Core character development
Created a character development curriculum consisting of 15 modular workbooks for students.
January 2003
Almon Gunter Motivates, Inc.
Gunter-Gunter Inc. rebrands to Almon Gunter Motivates, Inc.
August 2004
Focus on the final seconds
Launched first motivational book, a how-to book on achieving both mental and physical fitness success in life.
2007
Carli lloyd
Started training Carli on speed, agility, and mental toughness
2008
USA olympic women soccer
USA Women Soccer wins Gold Medal. Carli scores winning goal in overtime.
March 2009
Focus to wins
Wrote a second book, Focus to Win, a how-to book on building a strong foundation for success.
September 2014
Essence of Teamwork
Wrote a third book, Essence of Teamwork, a how-to book on working, playing, and winning as a team.
2015
Carli lloyd and derrick henry
USA Women's Soccer Team wins FIFA World Cup. Carli Lloyd wins Golden Boot Award and client Derrick Henry wins Heisman Trophy.
2018
Almon Gunter Experience (AGE) powered by astoryo
Created AGE to help individuals to discover their purpose and maximize their potential.
October 2019
Lead with your life
Wrote a fourth book, Lead With Your Life, a how-to book on the principles needed to inspire the people you lead each day.
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