Steve Arnold is the author of Born to Lead: Trailblazer, Mentor & Life Coach.  

Arnold wasn't supposed to be a success. He was raised in a single-family home on the wrong side of town and faced obstacles at every turn. He starred in basketball and football at Warren G. Harding High School and went on to even greater success at Ohio Dominican.

Upon graduation, he tried his hand at several jobs before landing a position as a liquor agent for the state of Ohio, a job he performed for thirty years. 

Sports was embedded in Steve's DNA, though. He matriculated to the coaching ranks, serving as an assistant coach in both basketball and football at his alma mater.  It required him to work from sunup to sundown and beyond. Arnold never flinched, though. Sports and guiding young lives were his passion.

He spent almost forty years directing the fortunes of student-athletes in Warren, Ohio.  As the first African American head basketball coach at Warren G. Harding High School, his teams won 191 games in ten seasons and never had a losing campaign. 

When the football program fell on hard times, Athletic Director Paul Trina asked him to cross over and take the reins of the Raider football team in 2012. It wasn’t an easy transition. Nonetheless, the Raiders finished 9-2 in his first season, and Arnold guided the team to multiple playoff appearances. Twelve years later, he retired in 2023 as the second-longest-tenured head football coach in Harding history and with a 69-55 record. 

Born to Lead, co-authored by Gerald L. Guy, is his amazing life story.