What Eliud Kipchoge can teach us about Leadership.

9 Spetember 2025

It’s estimated that globally, fewer than 1% of people have ever completed a marathon. That’s roughly between 800,000 and 8 million individuals.

And here’s my son, Daniel - with the only human to run one in under 2 hours, Eliud Kipchoge.

For decades, experts said it couldn’t be done.
Until it was.

Roger Bannister ran the first sub 4 minute mile.
JFK & NASA put a man on the moon.
Kipchoge broke the 2-hour marathon.

In each case, the breakthrough happened in the mind before it happened in the world.

Belief came first.
Proof followed.

What was unthinkable becomes the new benchmark.

I’ve seen this in my own career too - when scaling up a local business:
✅ Our first six-figure deal
✅ Our first seven-figure deal
✅ $5m annual recurring
✅ $10m annual recurring

Each breakthrough felt like the new limit - until we pushed past it.

I see it in the leaders I coach:

Landing that “impossible” client.
Transforming a culture that feels stuck.
Securing that long-awaited promotion.
Turning around a team that’s lost its way.
Building trust where it had broken down.


It always starts with belief.
The future is created in the mind before it shows up in reality.