Leaders Worth Knowing Podcast

The Legends Co-President on the multi-leader model, and the Atlanta Hawks’ CMO on the meaning of authentic leadership. Hello and welcome to Leaders and how they lead, the podcast that brings all manner of sporting CEOs into the Leaders studio to ask them how they manage – and to nudge and nurdle them into thinking deeper about what they do on a day-to-day basis. This week’s guest is Mike Tomon, Co-President and COO at premium experiences and sports sales hothouse Legends, which was founded in 2008 through a ground-breaking partnership between the New York Yankees and the Dallas Cowboys. Tomon joined the company in 2014, having previously played a key commercial role in AEG’s Global Partnerships team.  Tomon leads global operations for Legends, including domestic and international revenue generation and growth across the company’s 360-degree service solution platform, which spans planning, sales, partnerships, merchandise, hospitality, and technology solutions for some of the biggest brands in sports and entertainment.   Beginning at 28:03, the episode also includes insights on leadership from EVP and CMO of Atlanta Hawks, Melissa Proctor.  The fifth edition of Leaders Sport Business Summit Abu Dhabi returns on 1st and 2nd March. To find out more and register your interest, please visit https://leadersinsport.com/sport-business/leaders-events/the-sport-business-summit-abu-dhabi/

The CEO of the ATP Tour, CEO and Founder of Noah Media Group and the director of ‘No Woman, No Try’ join the monthly live chat show.In February’s episode, recorded live from IMG Studios, the business of tennis first takes centre stage (court). Massimo Calvelli, CEO of the ATP Tour joins the show in our ‘Big Interview’ to discuss the emergence of a new generation of players, finding a new generation of fans and the new generation of leadership on the men’s professional circuit.And following the launch of Netflix’s new tennis series ‘Break Point, the panel segment (from 35:11) goes behind-the-scenes on the wave of sports documentaries and originals currently finding their way to a screen near you; examining the pros and cons, challenges of access, creative process and hard economics of storytelling. The panel consists of our hosts David Cushnan and Cameron Macdonald, and experts ‘No Woman, No Try’ director Victoria Rush and John McKenna, CEO and Co-Founder of Noah Media Group, the production company behind the likes of '14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible'; 'Arsene Wenger: Invincible'; and 'Finding Jack Charlton'. To watch the broadcast in video, you can visit https://www.linkedin.com/posts/leaders-executive-sport-ltd-_leaders-live-the-big-interview-with-massimo-activity-7029463746674622465-cTu0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktopOn 1st and 2nd March, we are partnering with Abu Dhabi Sports Council to bring you The Leaders Sport Business Summit Abu Dhabi. To find out more and register your interest, please visit https://leadersinsport.com/sport-business/leaders-events/the-sport-business-summit-abu-dhabi-2/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA_P6dBhD1ARIsAAGI7HCCGlj9q3PpsJp0X-G1UXjQClMECIBUGKu50cyCYuuOA9IuDFwFkagaAv6HEALw_wcB

The President and CEO of the US governing body for Olympic skiing and snowboarding joins Editor-at-Large James Emmett in the Leaders studio.Welcome back to Leaders and How They Lead, the podcast series that looks at what it means to be a leader in the sports industry.The series explores a range of leaders’ perspectives from a range of different organisations; pressing them on what makes them tick; how they think they manage (upwards and downwards); how they handle failure and conflict; how they communicate strategic vision; how they develop people; and how they lead to win – whatever ‘win’ means.This episode features Sophie Goldschmidt. Goldschmidt began her sporting journey as an aspiring tennis player while attending college in the US; following an injury, she began a role as a Sports Marketing Manager at sportwear giant Adidas in 1999, managing their tennis ambassadorship programme. In the decade following her four years at Adidas, she served as VP of Sponsorship & Marketing at the WTA, MD of EMEA at the NBA, and began a role as Chief Commercial & Marketing Officer at England Rugby. In the years since leaving her role at England Rugby, her senior leadership roles have included stints as Group Managing Director at CSM Sport & Entertainment and CEO of World Surf League, before moving to her current role as President and CEO at US Ski & Snowboard in October 2021.The fifth edition of Leaders Sport Business Summit Abu Dhabi returns on 1st and 2nd March. To find out more and register your interest, please visit https://leadersinsport.com/sport-business/leaders-events/the-sport-business-summit-abu-dhabi/

Leaders bring you a conversation with the Commissioner of one of esports’ biggest leagues and an interview snippet with record-breaking cricketer Sir Alastair Cook.Welcome back to Leaders and How They Lead, the podcast series that looks at what it means to be a leader in the sports industry.The series explores a range of leaders’ perspectives from a range of different organisations; pressing them on what makes them tick; how they think they manage (upwards and downwards); how they handle failure and conflict; how they communicate strategic vision; how they develop people; and how they lead to win – whatever ‘win’ means.The first guest of the season is Alexander Inglot. Inglot began his career as a corporate commercial lawyer in City of London prior to moving to Mexico to work in Marketing and Communications for Atlante FC. He later returned to the United Kingdom to work as a Senior Consultant at JTA (with clients including Manchester United and AETLC), then later as Director of Communications at Sportradar AG. Following a period of balancing a role as a European Player Representative at the ATP Tour with his current role as Commissioner of the ESL Pro League, he chose to depart from the former in 2021.Beginning at 28:22, the episode also includes insights on leadership from British cricket legend Alastair Cook. In a snippet from an interview recorded at our fourth Leaders Sport Business Summit Abu Dhabi, Cook discusses his leadership style, the importance of resilience and how to guide a team through crises and challenges. The fifth edition of Leaders Sport Business Summit Abu Dhabi returns on 1st and 2nd March. Please visit https://leadersinsport.com/sport-business/leaders-events/the-sport-business-summit-abu-dhabi/ to find out more and register your interest.

Seven League's CEO and SailGP's Chief Content Officer come to IMG studios to offer expert insight into what to expect from the sports industry in 2023.Leaders Live, produced in partnership with IMG, is our studio talk show on hot button issues facing the industry, featuring interviews with leaders from across and beyond sport. January's episode offers the ultimate start-of-year guide on what to expect, what might surprise and what’s vital in the global sports industry over the next 12 months.Joining the show this episode are two of the industry’s leading thinkersLeaders Live, produced in partnership with IMG, is our studio talk show on hot button issues facing the industry, featuring interviews with leaders from across and beyond sport. In this episode, we offer you the ultimate start-of-year guide on what to expect, what might surprise and what’s vital in the global sports industry over the next 12 months. To view the broadcast in video, please visit: https://www.linkedin.com/video/live/urn:li:ugcPost:7019316504055701504/Joining Wiltshire is Melissa Lawton. Throughout her 20-year career in Content and Production, Lawton has worked as Head of Live Content (Red Bull TV) at Red Bull Media House and Head of Production at Meta, and now holds the title of Chief Content Officer at SailGP.On 1st and 2nd March, we are partnering with Abu Dhabi Sports Council to bring you The Leaders Sport Business Summit Abu Dhabi. To find out more and register your interest, please visit https://leadersinsport.com/sport-business/leaders-events/the-sport-business-summit-abu-dhabi-2/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA_P6dBhD1ARIsAAGI7HCCGlj9q3PpsJp0X-G1UXjQClMECIBUGKu50cyCYuuOA9IuDFwFkagaAv6HEALw_wcB

NFL Head of Europe and UK Brett Gosper, World Cup bid specialists John Zerafa and Nick Varley, and EDI expert Edleen John join the monthly live chat show.Monthly sports business chat show Leaders Live returns for episode 3 from IMG Studios with a big interview with the NFL and a deep dive (from 23:37) on what the FIFA World Cup - and the Olympics for that matter - could be.Gosper, the former CEO of World Rugby, gives his end-of-year reflections on the league’s growing global status and the International Series, including that remarkable debut in Germany, as well as giving a peak behind the curtain into the NFL's owners meetings.Meanwhile, as the final rounds of possibly the most controversial World Cup ever staged play out in Qatar, the tournament - and other major international sports events - goes under the microscope. With new FIFA stipulations around human rights coming into play for future hosts, the World Cup is only likely to get more political, and as it enters an expanded, multi-country host era, with the USA, Canada and Mexico poised to host in 2026 and a variety of multi-nation bids in the works for 2030, our studio guests look at how it could and should be positioned as a milestone social and commercial moment for players, brands, fans and governments alike.

Live at our Black History Month pop-up event, we spoke to two trailblazers in the Black British community.Leaders in EDI is a monthly series covering news, views, comments and debates happening across the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion space. It also shines a spotlight on the progress being made and the challenges being faced in EDI across sport.In this episode, recorded live at our Black History Month event in October (which we deemed ‘Black Futures’), Leaders' Cameron Macdonald was joined by Liseli Sitali, Sky Sports’ Head of Marketing (and Founder and Host of the In Her Corner podcast) and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Team GB Captain and Sprinter. Throughout the panel, starting from 17:35, the trio discuss the ins and outs of empowerment in the place of work for the Black British community. From the importance of mentors to finding the right way to integrate allyship, the discussion aimed to look at the journeys of the two panellists through their professional lives in order to impart key takeaways for listeners to implement in their own.The Leaders in EDI podcast is part of the Leaders Meet: Diversity Series, delivered in partnership with Meta, which provides a platform for executives within sport to come together to drive diversity across the industry, accelerate the pace of change and inspire the next generation of executives, through thought-leadership events and digital forums. To find out more about the Leaders Meet: Diversity series, please visit https://info.leadersinsport.com/l/856843/2021-04-21/hfhrj.Note: This is a live podcast recording, so there may be some very slight audio distortion in the panel segment, but this should not take away from your listening experience.

Live on the Podcast stage at Leaders Week London, the future of sport (in a strict 7-minute format). In this live recording of the Leaders Sport Business Podcast, which took place in September at the Leaders Sport Business Summit in front of a live audience, three guests present their vision on the future of sport, under the pressure of a strict 7-minute timer.  On the roster: LaLiga Global Network’s Keegan Pierce, presenting the future of how we think of rights holders; Ashwin Limaye, Chief Product Officer at AI tech company Magnifi, presenting the future of how we watch sports; Jonathan Brown, Senior Managing Director of Risk, Forensics & Compliance at consulting firm Ankura, presenting the future of how we govern sports. After each gave their 7-minute presentation, the trio sat down for a Q&A with Leaders' James Emmett and Jade Amies, where to discuss the transformational breakthroughs in recent years, the biggest risks sport in facing in coming years, and how this hypothetical future can become reality. 

4SE Material now has its own channel, where this episode has been reuploaded. Please search "4SE Material" wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe for more audio-documentaries like this one.We investigate the significance of the first hip-hop ambassadorship story, and how that has contributed to the rise of the hip-hop genre and the popularity of streetwear. 4SE Material is a podcast series in which we explore some of the many stories at the intersection of four key pillars: sport, entertainment, lifestyle and culture.In this episode, Leaders' Jade Amies explores the world of hip-hop, sportswear, streetwear, and where they overlap. How does sportswear and hip hop tie into the rise of the streetwear aesthetic? What role did ambassadorship deals play? And there any pitfalls of these deals for either party?Throughout the episode, we seek to answer these questions with the help of three experts: To help us understand hip-hop culture and its history we spoke to Dr Todd Boyd aka Notorious PhD, the Katherine and Frank Price Endowed Chair for the Study of Race & Popular Culture and Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the USC School of Cinematic Arts; to explore the impact of well-selected ambassadorships we have Broderick Hicks, Senior VP and Head of EMEA at Wasserman; and to offer an informed perspective on fashion, streetwear, and how fashion executitives think, we spoke to we approached Minal Malik, Fashion Entrepreneur and Fashion Marketing Lecturer at London of College.This podcast is brought to you by 4SE, in association with our founding partners, Constellation Brands and Nielsen, and in collaboration with Leaders’ sister companies SportTechie and Sports Business Journal. 4SE is a collection of social and content experiences for leaders seeking to explore the growing intersection between those four pillars, and create opportunities to align and collaborate. Our pilot event experience took place with a select group of executives from sport and entertainment back in May. It’s set to become an annual fixture every year, with our big launch to take place in May 2023 in New York City. For more information, please visit https://4-se.com/.

We’re first joined at IMG Studios by the CEO of New Zealand Rugby Commercial, and then by the CEO of Queensbury Promotions, Head of BT Sport Boxing and Pay Per View & IMG Media VP Michael Ridout for a Big Interview, and then a deep-dive on the worlds of boxing and MMA.Leaders Live, our monthly, topical broadcast, is back for season two – and now we’re in partnership with IMG, with a brand new home at IMG Studios. Leaders Live is our studio talk show on hot button issues facing the industry, featuring interviews with leaders from across and beyond sport.During part one and for our Big Interview, we’ll hear from the most senior commercial executive at the most famous rugby brand in the world, Richard Thomas. As CEO of New Zealand Rugby Commercial, Richard will tune in to share his perspective on the challenges being tackled in rugby union at the moment, some actionable insights on leadership, plus a look ahead to Saturday's Rugby World Cup Final featuring the Black Ferns.For part two and for our Deep Dive segment, from 24.30, we'll turn our attention to fightsports and their fans and against the backdrop of an increasingly competitive sports universe. We’ll be joined by George Warren, CEO of Queensberry Promotions; Head of BT Sport Boxing and Pay Per View, Louisa Clark; and IMG Media Vice President Michael Ridout to examine how MMA became a competitor on the global stage and how boxing has adapted to the ever changing media landscape. Why do the business aspects of both sports gather so much attention online and how have both sports utilised social media to build individual superstars and create compelling narratives that become must see events? To watch the broadcast in video form, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/posts/leaders-executive-sport-ltd-_leaders-live-the-big-interview-with-new-activity-6996486071043661824-Ibq6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop