John Clendenin
John is President of Athletic Motivation Institute where he is responsible for the coordination and management of the company’s activities in professional and amateur sports operations, Sports Psychology consulting, Motivational Speaking, Workshops and Business Effectiveness. He is currently researching leadership issues in professional and enhanced level amateur sports.

John is well known in the business community. He has addressed thousands of people while public-speaking, delivering conference keynotes, and developing workshops for business professionals and the government. He has presented at many universities including Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford in the areas of Quality, Benchmarking, Manufacturing competitiveness, Supply Chain Optimization and Business Process Management. He was selected for the 1995 and 1998 editions of Who's Who in the World and the 1998 edition of Who's Who in Science and Engineering. He is Chief Executive Officer of ICLogistics, an Internet start-up.

John's background includes 15 years as an executive at Xerox Corporation, and a career in the United States Marine Corps where he was a Field Grade Officer in Telecommunications Management. He joined the Reserves after 12 years on active duty. Activated during Operation Desert Storm, he was responsible for casualty and family assistance in the 1st Marine Corps District. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in February 1995 after 24 years of service.

His avocation as a sports psychologist began after several years of competition in national and international athletics. Athletic Motivation Institute, AMI was founded in 1979. Since then he has worked with Olympic teams, individual athletes, educators and business professionals in the area of performance management, motivation and goal setting. In New York, John contracted with the City of Rochester to operate the 3 on 3 Jumpin' Jack Basketball Tournaments. He has managed teams in the United States basketball League ( USBL ) as owner / President of the Treasure Coast Tropics. He is on the faculty of the Sports University and taught the “Business of Sports” while a senior faculty member of the Harvard Business School.

John has graduate degrees in Psychology, Communications Engineering and Business Administration. Active in the community, John is on the board of the Harvard Business School Club of Rochester and City Fresh Foods in Boston, as well as the past chairman and member of the 7th Judicial District Advisory Panel. He has been a member of the Training and Technology Roundtable for the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Quality Workforce Task Force for the U.S. Department of Labor. He served as the Commissioner for Quality on the County C.A.S.E. Commission. John was a candidate for the U.S. Congress in 1994. He lives in Remsen, New York with his wife Bonnie. They have three grown children, Trevor, Stacy and Ryan.