How to Scale Strategy in a Sports Setting

In this unique Just Go Play podcast episode, Taryn Lipschitz and Daryl Devonish bring back Matt Young, Michael O'Donnell, Eva Havaris, and Stan Peake to discuss How to Scale Strategy in a Sports Setting.

Hear the collective experience and insight across all levels of sport - from club to COC - and the challenges and opportunities endured including:

What are the critical elements to gain buy-in from all stakeholders, employees, and volunteers within an organization How to identify the gaps and opportunities in an organization What the process for change will and can look like  

Matt Young brings over two decades as a franchisor in the allied health care sector coaching adults, athletes, graduates & children. Matt has been tasked to architect the Activation & Accountability Framework for the largest amateur sports federation in the world. He is the lead architect on the Physical Literacy for Communities framework that’s been rolled out across Canada. Matt is a Vancouver Top 40U40 and Canadian Top 40U40 business excellence award winner. Passionate about giving back, Matt has raised over $6M (and counting) for community charity.

Michael O'Donnell was a golf professional turned Canadian Master coach. He realized his passion was helping other coaches and was hired by American Golf Corporation to manage the largest golf instruction program where coaching was at the core of the consumer experience. Mike then joined Nike Golf managing the sports marketing department. Over 7 years ago, he was recruited to the PGA of America to focus on strategic development of programs and initiatives to strengthen participation and growth in the game.

Eva Havaris has over 15 years of executive leadership in the Canadian sports industry at the national level with both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. She is a lifelong champion of sport having participated in the sport system as an athlete, coach, administrator, and volunteer with experience at the Club, PSO, NSO, Pro sports, USports/CCAA, COC/CPC across five sports (Taekwondo, Equestrian, Ringette, Soccer, Rugby). Eva is the creator of Leadership Mindset by Design, which provides consultation to leaders committed to reconnecting with their greatness and applying a healthy-minded leadership approach to transform the workplace and the teams they lead.

Stan Peake has over 23 years of entrepreneurship and leadership experience as an executive coach and facilitator. Stan is also certified in cultural transformation tools, has a graduate education in values-based leadership from Royal Roads University, and executive education in sales leadership from Queens University. Stan is also a 6-time author, including 4 bestsellers on sales, entrepreneurship, and success. 

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