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Navigating Sports Business with AJ Maestas
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Gain exclusive insight into the professional and personal worlds of high-level executives in sports and entertainment as we host top decision-makers in the industry to discuss emerging topics, their business, careers, and personal life stories.
From collegiate conference commissioners to professional sports team executives and owners, to CMOs and leading marketers at global brands, Maestas takes listeners inside the lives of key people making a major impact on the sports and entertainment industry.
Patti Phillips – CEO of Women Leaders in College Sports – shares some interesting statistics on diversity in college sports, and what she and her organization are doing to improve those numbers.
She and AJ discuss the factors that lead to hiring decisions at the Athletic Director level, and the cultural biases that tend to impact those decisions.
Details
2:10 – Reasons for the lack of diversity in college athletics
16:05 – The hiring funnel
35:25 – Zone of Possibility, Patti’s TED Talk
39:35 – Rapid Fire Questions
Books:
- Mindset by Carol Dweck
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Cues by Vanessa Van Edwards
- Impact Player by Liz Wiseman
- High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard
- The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
Studies:
- Orchestrating Impartiality: the Impact of “Blind” Auditions on Female Musicians
- Can Blind Hiring Improve Workplace Diversity?
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Join Navigate Founder, AJ Maestas, as he talks with key decision-makers from the sports and entertainment industry about emerging trends, business, their career path, business insights, personal stories, and more.
From collegiate conference commissioners to team owners and executives to CMOs of global brands, Maestas takes listeners inside the lives of the people driving today’s sports and entertainment industry.
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