Then

Now

Coach Steve was raised with five brothers in what used to be known as a “traditional” two-parent family in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  He served two years in the U.S. Army infantry, including a year in Vietnam where he was wounded in action and awarded the Purple Heart.  Later, he attended college in Minnesota and California and worked several years in sales management for a Minnesota radio network.  His ten-year marriage ended in a 1984 divorce.

For the next fifteen years, the coach was in the front-line trenches of tackling the demands of work and family as a fulltime single parent of his two young sons.  Meanwhile, he created the Steve Horner Corporation specializing in advertising, marketing, public relations, and employee training.

In 1995, Coach Steve put his nine-step system for successful single parenting to paper and then, as a published author, began work as a corporate work-and-family coach helping other hard-working families discover an effective balance with the demands of work and family.  The timely and important topic of his training camps, tackling work and family, has allowed the coach to host his own radio program on top-rated stations in Minneapolis and Phoenix.  The coach has been the featured guest on dozens of local and national radio and TV programs including the nationally-syndicated Gayle King Show.  Gayle is now the senior editor for Oprah Magazine.  And, Larry Schwartz, associate producer of the Maury Povich program, said, “I’ve booked Coach Steve on national radio and TV and he hasn’t disappointed me yet.  He stands proudly and speaks well for what he believes in.”

Over the years Coach Steve has served as (or, is serving as):

·         Chamber of Commerce member;

·         Rotary Club member;

·         Child-care liaison to the state for the Dakota County (Minnesota’s second largest)   Human Services Advisory Board;

·         Boys teen soccer and baseball coach (won city championships);

·         Inner-city mentor;

·         Youth religion teacher;

·         Church lector/usher/Loaves and Fishes volunteer;

·         Veterans Administration volunteer;

·         Parenting mentor to prison and workhouse inmates.

The coach enjoys his work as a writer, speaker, community volunteer, participates in sports and other outdoor activities.  “My level of success isn’t measured by the amount of money I make,” the coach says.  “Rather, the ability to pay my bills and have the time to do the things I enjoy most in life.”