The Sports Initiative Podcast

Jordan Gardner is the Chairman and co-owner of Danish Football Club FC Helsingor. Also a minor shareholder in the English Championship side, Swansea City, Jordan specialises in operational challenges of owning and running a football team full time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cameron Campbell is the Lead U18's coach at Rangers FC. Focusing on assisting players with their jump from the Professional Development Phase into the Professional game, Cameron also spends his time looking for innovative tactics and methodology to support the players. Coming from an academic background, Cameron is able to provide a level of critical thinking to an industry that usually hires ex professional players for his type of role. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Christian Day is a retired Rugby player who played for Sale Sharks, Stade Francais and Northampton Saints. A lock, Christian played with some of the greatest rugby players of his generation including Jason Robinson, George North and Sebastian Chabal. His current role is as Head of Player affairs at the Rugby Players Association. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Caleb Cousens is the CEO at Adamas Esports training and performance. One of the fastest growing industry's in the sports, E sports is projected to turnover 1.8 Billion in 2022. At Adamas, Caleb focuses on supporting teams and individuals athletes to increase their well being and performance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dave Kline is a former employee of Bridgewater and Moody's Analytics. Dave specialises in teaching leaders how to build efficient and productive teams. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peter Motzenbecker is a Technical Soccer Director in the Boston area. Formally a coach for Juventus, Peter now supports coaches in their professional development. He is also a regular contributor to the twitter Sunday Share movement where he discusses coaches philosophical ideals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alex Sarama is the Lead basketball coach at the Pallecanestro College. Alex is one of the first basketball coaches n the world to fully adopt an Ecological Dynamics & Transformational Coaching approach. This approach is comes from academic research and is derived from the constraint based philosophy. Prior to this role he also worked for NBA Europe and has worked in 35+ countries around the globe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Episode 100 we take a look back at some of our fantastic guests and revisit some fascinating topics from all aspects of the sporting world. Thank you all for your listening and engagement over these last 100 episodes and here is to many many more!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Johnathan Davies is a well travelled football coach who has travelled he world coaching after switching from teaching to coaching. Currently he works at Slavia Prague as U12 Lead coach and has recently worked on updating the coaching methodology at the club using templates from Seattle Sounders and West Ham United. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeff Stanek is an associate scout for an MLB franchise. Previously a coach at the Division 1 and Juco level, now focuses on the assessment and projection of players at the high school and college ages. He also runs the Figure it out baseball website which provides free tools and material for athlete development. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.