About Bruce
Hello, my name is Bruce Babashan. If I had to sum up who I am in just a few words I would say “LEADER, COACH & CORNER-MAN.”
My life motto: “I will be with you till the end.”
I have coached, trained and built world champion level athletes…sometimes from the ground up! I have been a top national senior level executive search consultant and spent nearly fifteen years interviewing, knowing, learning from, consulting with, coaching and observing the most successful and talented coaches and executives anywhere in business today. I have served as the senior in-house coach and trainer, been a managing director, practice president and among the elite of one of the largest retained executive search firms in the world. I have built a highly successful consulting practice and now a search firm, as well. I know the psychology of success and the challenges, loneliness, responsibilities and rewards that come with leadership.
I believe in the hero’s journey. I believe in redemption and comebacks. I believe in greatness and the sacrifice that always precedes it. When I was younger I wanted to be “a star” but later discovered that my calling in life is not to shine personally but rather to shine through others. My personal greatness comes when I serve others as a mentor on their own hero’s journey. It is what I was born to do. It is how I contribute and how I can leave my mark. It is no coincidence I am in the executive search and team building business or why I am a boxing trainer. Can there be a higher calling? I thank God for making this my path.
I am an emotional man. I pour myself into my work, my business, my athletes, and my family and friends. My emotions are never far from the surface and I am quick to tears, quick to praise and quick to correct, when required. I am hard, very demanding but often use the word love as an expression of my feelings when speaking with my clients, fighters, friends and colleagues. I believe in God. I depend on God a great deal in my daily life. I am neither ashamed nor timid to admit my beliefs, however, I do not insist you share them.
By night I am a boxing coach. My fighters have fought for titles at every level.Last year I took one of my fighters to Mexico where we competed for the WBC Super-bantamweight World Championship title. I took two boys to the USA Olympic trials earlier this past year where one of our boys placed third and won a spot of the team. I coach The Georgetown University Boxing Team/Club in the National Collegiate Boxing Association. I have coached professionals looking to work their way up the ranks and amateurs looking to win “gold” in the 2012 Olympics. Currently, I am training a handful of select professional fighters and a large group of amateurs all with varying skill levels and potential. My own career in boxing was as a sparring partner….a hard way to be in the sport. I am still active in the ring but much less so as I have grown older.
I am a public speaker and working on my first book that I hope to have completed in the next year.
What else I have done: I was the starting catcher on my college baseball team and an assistant strength & conditioning coach at the University of Maryland. I have been a champion bodybuilder (heavyweight) and a competitive power-lifter. I have spent thousands of rounds in the boxing ring as an official sparring partner preparing fighters for their upcoming bouts. I hold a U.S. patent (pending). As a young man I owned and operated my own surf shop (SunQuest…that was for the girls).
I love to challenge and push myself to the limits of my capabilities. I get scared from time-to-time…but there is no bravery without fear.
I think that is pretty interesting….don’t you?
