Tobin KnightHelp People Have Success
Life Coach · Author · Speaker · Chicago

Hi, welcome to my website. I'm here to help people have success.

I have spent more than thirty years studying people — what moves them forward and what keeps them stuck. If you keep doing the same things, you will keep getting the same results. I coach on a sliding scale, and if you are not happy with the results, you do not pay me.

Tobin Knight — life coach, author and speaker, Chicago Illinois

Tobin Knight — President & CEO, TBKK Corp

What I Believe

Three ideas I would give anyone

If I only had a few minutes with you, and never got another chance, these are the three things I would want you to carry out the door.

ONE

Love your neighbor

Treat him the way you want to be treated. That does not mean you must agree with him, or support his views. It means get along. Be civil. Respect him. And if he has harmed you — forgive him. The world does not need you to win every argument. It needs you to stay human in the middle of one.

TWO

Pray, and do not worry

God loves you. Peace to all mankind — plain, basic peace. And understand this clearly: we already have every resource and every dollar we need to solve the problems of America and the world. What we have lacked is not capital. It is will, and it is peace between us.

THREE

Learn something new each day

The Ten Commandments were given for us — not against us. Try to live by them; they help all of us. When we sin, it hurts God, the creator. So repent. Surrender. Then get up the next morning and learn one more thing than you knew the day before.

“When I was sixteen, God asked me in a dream, in a field beside the college I was attending, what I wanted. I woke straight up and told Him: help as many people as possible. Do whatever You must to me. Put whatever You need in me. Then I got up and walked away — like the prodigal son.”
Tobin Knight — age sixteen
The Books

Three books, written to be used

Not theory. I grew up as a college president’s son, and I have lived the sleepless years too. Each book came out of something I had to work out the hard way.

The End to Insomnia by Tobin Knight — book cover

The End to Insomnia

Lying awake at two in the morning is its own kind of loneliness. This book is about why sleep stops coming — and the practical way back to a night’s rest, without accepting exhaustion as your normal.

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Master the Game of College by Tobin Knight — book cover

Master the Game of College

Secrets and tips only a college president’s son knows. I grew up on the inside of a college — and I am telling families what the brochures never will.

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How to Play the Game of College and Win! by Tobin Knight — book cover

How to Play the Game of College and Win!

Getting in is the easy part. This is about the four years after — finishing well, staying out of unnecessary debt, and walking out as someone worth hiring.

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Coaching

Thirty years of studying what actually works

One-on-one coaching for people who are ready to stop repeating the same year over again.

WHAT I DO

Life & executive coaching

Mindset, clarity, and the daily habits underneath both. Negotiation, public speaking, business consulting, and commercial real estate when that is what you need. I have run companies and closed deals — this is not theory to me.

HOW I CHARGE

A sliding scale — and a promise

I work on a sliding scale. If you are not happy with the results, you do not pay me. If you earn under $70,000 and have a child — or are thinking of having one — and cannot afford the course, write to me and explain. I want to help.

FREE EACH MONTH

One session, given away

Every month I give one person a full sixty-minute one-on-one session at no cost. No catch and no pitch at the end. If that person should be you, tell me why.

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The Work Ahead

We Will Change the World

Not a slogan, and not a someday. I give away half of everything the course and the e-books earn — and this is the open ledger of where it goes.

Overview of the We Will Change the World initiative
CommitmentWhat It MeansWho It ReachesStatus
Give half50% of everything the video course and e-books earn goes back out to help America and the worldPeople in real needUnderway
The sliding scaleCoaching priced to what a person can actually pay — and free where a family is strugglingStudents & single parentsUnderway
One free hourOne full sixty-minute coaching session given away every single month, no cost and no catchOne person a monthUnderway
Charity in timeGather people willing to give hours, not only dollars — the resource we all still haveNeighbors & volunteersNext
Open the booksPublish where the money went, so anyone can check the arithmeticEveryoneAhead

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Life & Work

Family, artwork, and the road so far

The pictures behind the story.

Start where you are

You do not need permission, and you do not need to have it all figured out. Read the story, take one of the three ideas, and use it today.

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