"Every Day Matters",
2022 Commencement Address
Lead faculty member of coaching and high performance at Boston College and author of four books. Cathy Utzschneider, Ed.D., M.A., M.B.A, is the founder of MOVE!, the goal-setting methodology and certification for professionals -- executives, athletes, coaches, doctors, and professors.
Rooted in physical goals, the method helps people achieve professional and personal goals with PACE: Perspective, Achievement, Calm, and ultimately Excellence.
"MOVE! has helped me achieve promotions, strengthen teams, and run marathons." - Francesca Dominici, Ph.D., Professor at Harvard University and co-director of the Harvard Data Science Initiatives.
"MOVE! is better than The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People." - Dr. Inez Kelleher, Orthopedic Surgeon.
Rooted in physical goals, the method helps people achieve professional and personal goals with PACE: Perspective, Achievement, Calm, and ultimately Excellence.
"MOVE! has helped me achieve promotions, strengthen teams, and run marathons." - Francesca Dominici, Ph.D., Professor at Harvard University and co-director of the Harvard Data Science Initiatives.
"MOVE! is better than The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People." - Dr. Inez Kelleher, Orthopedic Surgeon.
Age group bronze medalist (far right), 2017, World Aquathlon Championships
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2014 National Age Group Champion, 3K
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MOVE! coaching and goal achievement focus on achieving athletic goals with life balance. In athletics, MOVE! has produced over 75 national age-group champions, 6 world age-group record-holders, 18 Olympians and Olympic Trials runners, 16 Boston Marathon age group winners and dozens of personal bests in the Boston Marathon. Many people have used the method for professional goals as well -- everything from achieving sales goals, creating businesses, earning promotions, and strengthening team performances, to writing books.
Cathy has won nine USATF national age group championships, a silver medal at the Nike World Masters Games, and a gold medal at the North American World Regional Championships. Beginning with sponsorship from New Balance, she achieved a No. 5 world age-group ranking in the mile in 2005. She began swimming in 2014 and has medaled in various National Aquathlon Championships representing Team USA. She won the age-group bronze medal in the National World Aquathlon Championships in 2017 and in 2019, Cathy finished second in her age group in the Barbados 1.5K swim. In 2019, she was inducted into the Phillips Andover Athletics Hall of Honor. In 2022, she won a Woman of Influence award by WISE, Women In Sports and Events.
Professor, writer, and speaker on goal achievement, Cathy is the author of MOVE!: How Women Can Achieve Athletic Goals At Any Age (2011), Mastering Running (2014), Mastering The Half Marathon (2014), and High Performance in Midlife (2020). In 2011, she wrote the marathon training book for John Hancock, the Boston Marathon sponsor. She has been lead faculty of sports leadership and coaching for high performance at Boston College and also a columnist for National Masters News since 2006. She frequently speaks to professionals and organizations, including colleges, hospitals, and Fortune 1000 Leadership Conferences. She is Communications Advisor for USATF Masters Track and is also on the board of New England Sports for Women.
Cathy has won nine USATF national age group championships, a silver medal at the Nike World Masters Games, and a gold medal at the North American World Regional Championships. Beginning with sponsorship from New Balance, she achieved a No. 5 world age-group ranking in the mile in 2005. She began swimming in 2014 and has medaled in various National Aquathlon Championships representing Team USA. She won the age-group bronze medal in the National World Aquathlon Championships in 2017 and in 2019, Cathy finished second in her age group in the Barbados 1.5K swim. In 2019, she was inducted into the Phillips Andover Athletics Hall of Honor. In 2022, she won a Woman of Influence award by WISE, Women In Sports and Events.
Professor, writer, and speaker on goal achievement, Cathy is the author of MOVE!: How Women Can Achieve Athletic Goals At Any Age (2011), Mastering Running (2014), Mastering The Half Marathon (2014), and High Performance in Midlife (2020). In 2011, she wrote the marathon training book for John Hancock, the Boston Marathon sponsor. She has been lead faculty of sports leadership and coaching for high performance at Boston College and also a columnist for National Masters News since 2006. She frequently speaks to professionals and organizations, including colleges, hospitals, and Fortune 1000 Leadership Conferences. She is Communications Advisor for USATF Masters Track and is also on the board of New England Sports for Women.
Cathy graduated with high honors in English from Middlebury College and went on to earn a master’s degree in health science, an M.B.A. and an Ed.D. in physiology and performance from Boston University. Her doctoral dissertation compared national- and world-class masters runners who started running at a young age to those who started after 30.
She is certified as a coach by USATF (Level 1), U.S. Masters Swimming (Levels 1-3), International Sports Sciences Association (Strength and Conditioning) and by the Burdenko Water Training (Levels 1-3).
Cathy is married with two adult children and lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
She is certified as a coach by USATF (Level 1), U.S. Masters Swimming (Levels 1-3), International Sports Sciences Association (Strength and Conditioning) and by the Burdenko Water Training (Levels 1-3).
Cathy is married with two adult children and lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.