About Don Spare
Don Spare is President of West Coast Recognition, a consulting organization helping leaders inspire engaged workers, motivate championship-type performance and drive cultures of excellence.
He is also a Senior Business Partner with MTM Recognition, a leader in award design, award manufacturing, creative communications, product sourcing, customer service, fulfillment and administration of some of the most successful reward and recognition programs in the industry.
Previous to his partnership with MTM, Mr. Spare was inducted into the Jostens Recognition Hall of Fame – an honor earned by only ten other recognition professionals in the 40-year history of the organization.
Prior to his business career, Mr. Spare was a first-team baseball All-America shortstop, inductee into his college athletic Hall of Fame, professional for the Kansas City Royals baseball organization and a college baseball coach, during which time he mentored numerous future big leaguers, including one Hall-of-Famer. He is a respected writer, speaker and trainer.
As the Arizona Diamondbacks were preparing for the 2011 baseball season, they were coming off a 2010 last-place finish in the National League West Division. Their new manager, Kirk Gibson, a two-time World Series Champion and former National League Most Valuable Player, was known as a no-nonsense competitor. To change the attitude and results for […]
When John McPhee (future Pulitzer Prize winning author of over 30 non-fiction books) met Bill Bradley (future Rhodes Scholar, Collegiate All-American, NBA Hall-of-Famer, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate), both were at the beginning of their careers. Mr. McPhee’s 1965 book A Sense of Where You Are, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball […]
