About Scott Miller:
I’m a leadership and teamwork coach with over 20 years of experience helping highly effective teams do outstanding work. I’ve led a team of parachute test jumpers, managed volunteers at a tiger sanctuary, and supported teams of exceptional instructors and coaches.
During my 16-year career as a professional skydiver, I made more than 8,000 skydives and developed a proprietary training program that set the standard for advanced training in the sport. I personally trained over 3,000 civilian and military skydivers at over 40 parachute centers around the world.
As chief test jumper for a leading parachute manufacturer, I spent several years leading a team of professional parachute test pilots—highly experienced skydivers who performed demanding R&D and QA testing on civilian and military parachute equipment.
I had the honor of teaming up with a group of world champion skydivers to create Flight-1, a project which grew into the sport’s foremost provider of parachute flight training with over 40 coaches based at parachute centers worldwide.
The skydiving world is amazing. But I was also curious about the world outside of skydiving. That inspired me to go looking for new adventures and new ways to be of service. I found what I was looking for at a small wildlife sanctuary in North Carolina.
I joined the staff of Carolina Tiger Rescue, a nonprofit wildlife sanctuary that provides a safe home for lions, tigers, and other wild cats, many of them rescued from situations of abuse and neglect. As the sanctuary’s Volunteer Coordinator, I managed a team of over 100 volunteers who played crucial roles in caring for over 60 animals at the sanctuary.
At Carolina Tiger Rescue I guided tours and trained volunteers, telling the stories of the amazing animals in our care. It was fun and rewarding, but very different from the type of teaching that I did as a skydiving instructor. That difference helped me realize something important.
I love teaching.
That is what led me to the LSAT, the Law School Admission Test.
After earning a top 1% score on the (LSAT) I joined Manhattan Prep, a New York-based test prep company, as an instructor and tutor. I soon became an Instructor Trainer and was later promoted to Manager of Training Programs. In this role I guided our team of expert instructor trainers, each of whom had years of teaching experience combined with 99th percentile scores on the LSAT, GMAT, or GRE.
One of my Manhattan Prep colleagues, Matt Maxwell, piqued my interest in leadership coaching. Matt is a certified professional coach and the author of How to Hold a Cockroach: A book for those who are free and don’t know it. If the title grabs your attention, check out the book. It’s a good read.
Inspired by Matt, I pivoted from the LSAT to coaching, completing a training and certification course with the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and earning a certification through the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
Today, as a leadership and teamwork coach, I help people-focused leaders build outstanding teams. I help highly effective teams do outstanding work. I also help people navigate major career and life transitions. As you can see, I’ve navigated a few myself. I enjoy helping people decide what the next chapter of their life will look like.
When I’m not coaching my own clients, I spend some of my time working as a Lead Coach in The College Board’s Teamship program. Teamship helps high school students build valuable teamwork and problem-solving skills while solving real problems for real businesses. Along with coaching students who participate in the program, my work with Teamship includes captaining our Coaching Institute. In this role, I support teams of expert Lead Coaches as they train educators from across the country to coach their own students through Teamship.
