About Steve

Born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Steve Thornton grew up in a middle-class home feeling most things in his life were pretty average.

At an early age, Steve somehow deeply realized he didn’t have to settle for mediocrity, and was determined to prove it so. Steve began to nurture this insatiable desire to achieve more than people expected of him.

Steve’s first conquest to breakthrough average results was competitive swimming, and he began at the back of the pack. Applying what he would later call “Principles of Success,” he became the undefeated champion of two events, the 50 meter freestyle and 50 meter butterfly; quite an impressive accomplishment for a former “average” athlete.

Eager to apply these principles in his professional career, Steve advanced quickly working for Arizona Public Service, when he also met Lori, the love of his life. Steve says Lori agreeing to marry him was the most important transaction and successful merger of his life! But it was the transition into family life that helped Steve realize the same “Principles for Success” he used in his career would also make his family life successful.

Spreading his entrepreneurial wings, Steve started his own real estate and investment business. Steve’s company quickly grew experiencing great financial success. Consistently, investors received 100 percent of their promised return, Steve’s proudest accomplishment. It was this success that gave Steve the confidence to take his next entrepreneurial leap.

Steve purchased one of 300 distributorships in the nation, and started from scratch. Within a year and a half, Steve’s company was producing over 80% of the entire national sales volume! Again and again, his success principles seemed to deliver results.

Increasingly taking on more challenging endeavors, Steve became involved with a struggling business he felt had untapped potential. Within four short years, Steve had taken the company international and into the profit zone.

Achieving financial prosperity and even a position as an international CEO, Steve was yet to be satisfied. He discovered his real calling and absolute passion in life was to help others achieve success in their lives. From that calling, Steve founded Expect Success Coaching & Training. He began teaching his success principles in workshops, trainings, and one on one coaching sessions, helping supervisors, managers, investors, real estate brokers and other business and sales professionals get better results from their businesses, finances, and personal lives.

Steve began to observe how some would achieve lasting success and others only fleeting. The difference became clear. To enjoy lasting success one must be able to recognize and breakthrough certain internal and external barriers - “Brick walls,” to their success. He watched how these barriers would keep people from being able to take action and use the success principles he had proven to work.

Steve began to work tirelessly, often collaborating with other professionals to develop his “Breakthrough Coaching Method,” a unique system of coaching and training that emphasizes targeting and uprooting negative behaviors and thought patterns that impede forward movement toward success.

Today, as part of Steve Thornton’s Intensive Success Program, thousands of people have broken through their “brick walls” to significantly increase their income and financial success! Even more impressive are the positive results people experience in the quality of their lives as a whole.

“Coaching is for people who are ready to make success a priority in their lives.” says Steve. “Once we understand, uproot and move past what’s holding us back, we can experience absolutely amazing results! None of us is born knowing how to be successful. We’ll train you and coach you all the way there. We’re completely dedicated to your success.”

Steve is a committed Christian, husband and father of two. His dedication to grow and apply his “Intensive Success Program” to all professional endeavors has led to his becoming one of the most highly sought-after Keynote Speakers and Coaches in the nation.

Steve Thornton is has become known as “America’s Breakthrough Coach”, and for one very good reason - his methods yield absolutely amazing results!