The SportsGrad Podcast #244: Event Management at Cricket Australia with Katie Staniforth
Meet Katie Staniforth, the former Early Childhood Teacher turned event extraordinaire, and current Senior Event Director at Cricket Australia. Katie’s experience spans, Super Rugby, the London 2012 Olympics, NRL, the ICC T20 World Cup and Cricket Australia.
In her role at CA she works with the internal teams, the State & Territory associations, and the venues to put on International Test, ODI and T20 Cricket in Australia. In other words, she’s part of the glue that pulls the match together.
This episode is a recording of the Masterclass Katie gave exclusive to the SportsGrad Community. If you want a taste for the events and content only available to Members, this is it.
If you’re wondering why SportsGrad Member have such success finding jobs at the biggest organisations in sport, it’s because of content and connections like these.
In this episode we cover:
(0:00) - Introduction
(2:23) - Community update
(9:55) - Masterclass begins
(11:58) - Katie’s current role at CA
(13:19) - Her career journey
(17:38) - An introduction to Event Operations
(22:30) - What an Event Ops team looks like
(24:58) - How Katie goes about match specific planning
(37:23) - The internal touchpoints for an Events team
(40:49) - What goes into safety at major events
(44:19) - An insight into Product
(46:53) An insight into Experience
(49:40) - Some of Katie’s favourite experiences to work on
(51:05) - The ins and outs of the Ops team
(55:49) - The end result
(57:45) - A look at match day timings
(1:04:32) - Katie’s best tips to succeed as an Event Manager
(1:08:09) - Q&A
Additional episodes you might enjoy:
#24: Lina Staropoli (Cricket Australia) - How to get outstanding global experience in sport
#225: Jack Lloyd and Harrison Orchard (ICC Men's T20 World Cup) - T20 World Cup Tournament Time jobs
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