SportWorks PODCAST: Recent Episodes
SportWorks PODCAST Team
Dans cet épisode, Flora interviewe Ken Porchet - coach sportif depuis plus de 8 ans, étant passé par différents statuts; aujourd'hui formateur chez Fitspro et "coach de coaches" pour son entreprise Fundamentals.
On y parle débuts de carrière en salle, service client, mindset d'entrepreneur, contraintes financières, définition de son "why" et parcours de vie.
Un épisode inspirant et pratique pour tout coach installé ou en devenir!
Animatrice - Flora Wyss | Fiind.sport
Invités - Ken Porchet, Fundamentals
Équipe du Podcast - Luciane Chappuis | Production & Script / Gabor Zippenfenig | Technicien de studio
Avec des parcours de carrière qui dépassent rarement les 5 ans, un turnover important, la bousculade à l’entrée des formations pour faire de cette passion son métier face à des recruteurs qui cherchent sans cesse les showmen & showwomen de demain pour animer leurs cours ou coacher leurs clients …
Y a-t-il un équilibre entre ces deux mondes qui se cherchent… ? Quels sont les points de friction et comment aborder l’avenir dans le contexte actuel ?
Quel rôle tient l’humain au cœur du fitness de demain, quelles sont les attentes des futurs coachs ?
Alors que le sens au travail et la culture d’entreprise se font de plus en plus populaires, comment le secteur adapte-t-il son recrutement ?
Enfin, quels sont les points de connexion essentiels entre salles de sport, coachs et écoles de formation qui existent et ceux qui doivent être développés - à l’image de Fiind.sport qui se positionne comme le maillon manquant de la chaîne.
Un épisode passionnant qui vous fera mieux comprendre les dessous de la relation entre salles de sport et coachs, les challenges et les perspectives d’avenir.
Animatrice - Flora Wyss | Fiind.sport
Invités - Jochen Müller | Let’s Go Fitness, Frédéric Gall | FITSPRO), Hervé Wagneur | NonStop Gym.
Équipe du Podcast - Luciane Chappuis | Production & Script / Gabor Zippenfenig | Technicien de studio
Au long de cette discussion dynamique et bienveillante, Anne Sophie, Caroline, Flora M. et Flora W. déshabillent les clichés un à un, pour montrer le visage caché de cette pratique devenue mondialement connue - et parfois déformée.
Et si finalement "faire du Yoga", ce n'était pas simplement apprendre à prendre du temps pour soi, à se faire du bien et à vivre en accord avec ses valeurs et ses envies ? Et si, même en étant raide comme du bois, on pouvait atteindre les mêmes objectifs que ceux et celles qui se contorsionnent sur Instagram ?
Et si ... on laissait à chacun.e la liberté de construire sa propre pratique et appropriation du Yoga au quotidien ?
Nos 3 invitées donnent aussi des conseils très pratiques, trucs et astuces pour démarrer.
Nous vous attendons pour prolonger cette discussion sans langue de bois dans l'un des 4 studios mentionnés dans le podcast, et surtout... pour essayer VOTRE version du Yoga.
Animatrice - Flora Wyss | Fiind.sport
Invités - Anne Sophie - Kick.ass.s Studio Vevey | Caroline - Yoga Flame |Flora Mermet
Équipe du Podcast - Luciane Chappuis | Production & Script / Niall Wiley et Nethanel Brys | Technicien de studio
En partenariat avec Sportworks - communauté sportive regroupant les acteurs du sport international, basée à la maison du sport de Lausanne.
Sans transition, “aimer faire du sport, mission impossible ?”
En particulier, nous abordons les raisons qui vous font entrer dans les salles de sport, les studios, les boxs de crossfit, et les raisons qui vous en empêchent. Surtout, nous cherchons à déconstruire les clichés et parler sans filtre des prétendus sacrifices insoutenables que la société vous prie d’associer à une pratique régulière et à une vie saine.
Nous essayons aussi dans cet épisode de comprendre comment les salles de sport, chacune à leur manière, contribuent à cultiver un esprit de communauté et à vous engager dans une pratique bien-être. On vous a aussi prévu nos plus belles histoires d’adhérents pour pimenter le tout !
Un épisode riche et croustillant en anecdotes et en sourires (derrière le micro) qui vous donnera on l’espère la motivation pour vous (re) mettre au sport.
Animatrice - Flora Wyss | Fiind.sport
Invités - Michael Veillard | United Boxing (Renens) / Ismaël |Coach Santé (Lausanne/Vevey) / Lucile Lecocq | BEAT Fitness (Lausanne Gare)
Équipe du Podcast - Luciane Chappuis | Production & Script / Niall Wiley et Nethanel Brys | Technicien de studio
As the sports industry is very much based on multi-stakeholder collaboration and team-based relationships, this episode explores the responsibilities of individuals and organizations to build and nurture effective and yet harmonious teams.
Guests: Marie Reig Florensa
Born on the 18th June 1980 in Lleida, Spain. Although my real official name is Maria Reig Florensa, I like when people call me Marie, as, among other things, it reminds me of my childhood swimming coach, when he encouraged me to give my best.I am a humanist. I am fascinated by the stimulus to better understand what makes us humans, how we can make sense of the world around us to generate a positive impact on it, and how we could learn to work as a global team to build a more peaceful global society while striving to be at our best collectively. I passionately study the crossroads of leadership, human values, and creativity as tools for personal growth, positive social impact and positive company culture development. I am a multifaceted professional with a non-conventional career path; a self-made lifelong learner. Curiosity is my fuel, self-discipline, and constancy my secret weapons. To build a better world with every job assignment is my commitment. It took me 11 years to finish my human studies university degree. I continue studying everyday since. I earned my degree while working as a LIVE Broadcasting specialist around basketball courts, motorsports circuits and other sports competitions and sporting events. That led me to 3(almost obvious yet usually forgotten)fundamental insights: Observing sports events and competitions can help us to learn, reflect and understand the nature being human and working in teams in a unique and powerful way. There is extraordinary power in the being your authentic and courageous self in the here& now. We are all leaders. Respect is a boomerang. We have to give it to receive it. I started working when I was 14 years old as a radio presenter but it took me 22 years more to understand that actually I am gifted with communication. Along the years I have become a hybrid expert(problem solver)in the fields of culture, communication, and media with more than +20 years of experience in both mainstream global projects and local underground ones. The common denominator: to place positive human values at the core and co-learn and co-create along the way for the best possible result, 1+1=3.
· As Executive Coach help individuals and teams to play at the top of their game, better understanding issues & supporting them to develop their best self in alignment with their values. I thrill translating theory into practice allowing for engaging, memorable and easy to understand learning experiences. Working “tailor-made” for projects that enable fostering peer to peer co-learning moments and that make the most of the available talent and experience in the room make me feel like a child with a new toy. Thus “making things happen”, while taking into account diverse stakeholders needs and objectives, is where I have more fun with. I have learned that failure is the best teacher for success. “All the answers are to be found in the process". I am not afraid of uncertainty, as I have faith that giving my best and enjoying the way will drive us towards a successful result. I am a natural motivational and inspirational leader. I know by experience that if the team is united any situation can be navigated. “Leading from the Heart” is my actual field of study and research. As public speaker, I have been presented in majors events such as RARE LDN in London, Reinvention Creativity and Innovation Festival in Guayaquil (Ecuador), ADC Creative Week in Zürich, LivMundi Festival in Rio de Janeiro, CentraRSE National Sustainability Forum in Guatemala City, and REBELS AND RULERS Branding Festival in Bucharest, among others. If you see me around wearing a Basketball jersey it is because while standing on the corner of a Basketball court I came to the realization that it is the quality of interpersonal relationships what makes even "the impossible" possible.
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Gustavo Arellano, Diogo Jurema
Podcast Team: Diogo Jurema, Alexandra Volkova, Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Sarah Crumbach, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos.
Guests: Christoph Sauser
One of the top mountain bikers in the world, Christoph Sauser is a bronze medallist at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He is the founder of songo.info an association which aims to provide a safe space for children to play on bikes and create a long-term impact in Kayamandi, Stellenbosch, in South Africa. Today Christoph roasts his own coffee in Switzerland.
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Diogo Jurema, Donata Taddia
Podcast Team: Donata Taddia, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos, Diogo Jurema, Sarah Crumbach, Surbhi Kuwelker, Gustavo Arellano
Guests: Vladimir GRBIC
Former Serbian volleyball player, Valdmir Grbic is a member of the volleyball hall of fame and Olympic gold medallist in Sydney. Upon retirement, Grbic was invited for the FIVB Development Commission before he joined Volleyball’s first Athlete Commission as its Secretary. In parallel, he runs a grassroots camp in Serbia [https://www.facebook.com/kampvanjegrbica/] and is continuously committed to development through sports and education.
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Diogo Jurema, Sarah Crumbach
Podcast Team: Diogo Jurema, Alexandra Volkova, Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Sarah Crumbach, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos
Guests:
Andy HUNT has had a highly successful career across International Sport, business transformation and technology. He us currently CEO of Podium Analytics, a new International NGO focused on safety in sport and is a Non-Executive Director of England Hockey and Gloucester Rugby Club. Andy was until last year the CEO of World Sailing, the International Federation for the Sport of Sailing and had previously served as the CEO of the British Olympic Association and on the Board of the Organising Committee for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Andy has served on several advisory committees for ASOIF and the IOC in the areas of commercialisation of sport, eSports, sports data and digital exploitation.
Born in Bahrain, Hisham SHEHABI is shaping the future role of sports organizations in the Olympic industry, focusing on transforming their institutional capacities and processes to leverage trends in technology, innovation, and investments. Having competed at the Olympic Games, his Olympic journey continued at the International Olympic Committee where he led topics related to future trends in sports. As co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at N3XT Sports, he distributes his time between Olympic client relations, partnerships, and emerging markets, with a particular focus on Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
Hosts: Christiaan PAGE, Diogo JUREMA and Gustavo ARELLANO
Podcast Team: Alexandra Volkova, Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Sarah Crumbach, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos.
Guests:
Guest biosJérôme Meyer - ISCF Head of Olympic CoordinationJérôme Meyer is a three-time Sport Climbing World Cup winner, European Champion and four-time French Champion. He has also successfully navigated some of the most difficult rock climbs around the world.Jérôme joined the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) in 2009. He is currently Head of Olympic Coordination and was formerly Sports Director. He played a key role in the sport being added to the programme of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018. While he competing he was also President of the IFSC Athletes' Commission from its creation in 2004 to 2009, when he retired from competition following winning his European Championship title. Throughout his athletic career, Jérôme worked with a number of international sports climbing brands and was involved in the organisation of several competitions, while also writing for various magazines about the sport. While competing, Jérôme completed a MSc. in Management from the Ecole de Management de Lyon (France), which he obtained in 2008. Jérôme remains an outdoor enthusiast at heart, and believes that athletes’ skills are highly transferable in to work environment, therefore keeping those values as the leading elements when working on Climbing’s Olympic development.
Julien Debove - FIBA 3x3 Senior Communications ManagerAfter launching his own basketball magazine in his native France and working 5 years in communications at UEFA, Julien Debove joined FIBA in 2013 to help bring the new 3x3 basketball discipline from the streets to the Olympics. It took just 4 years. In charge of all things content from public relations to TV and social media, he’s responsible for making 3x3 one of the most talked-about new game in sports, watched on TV in more than 100 countries and number 1 on social media among all international sports federations in several categories. Debove lives in Bern, Switzerland, is married and the proud father of one. He enjoys mid-90’s hip-hop, fantasy sports, supports the Sacramento Kings and RC Lens and - when he doesn't have a basketball in his hands - can usually be spotted shooting an imaginary ball when stepping on a basketball court.
Hosts: Alexandra Volkova, Donatta Taddia
Podcast Team: Diogo Jurema, Christiaan Page, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Sarah Crumbach, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos, Gustavo Arellano.
Guests:
Joost van Hooijdonk - Independent sports broadcast consultant
Franck Choquard - Head of Content and Servicing at Eurovision Sport
Peer Seitz - HBS, Head of Infront Productions
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Alexandra Volkova, Gustavo Arellano
Podcast Team: Diogo Jurema, Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Sarah Crumbach, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos.
Guest:
Olya Abasolo Ovtchinnikova - ITA Education ManagerOlya is a Canadian Olympian who competed at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in the sport of fencing. Olya holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Concordia University in Canada and is in the process of completing a Master's Degree in Olympic Studies at the German Sport University of Cologne. Olya retired from sport in 2010 and joined the Canadian Olympic Committee in 2012 to work on Olympian marketing, legacy and education programs. In 2019, Olya accepted the position of Education Manager at the International Testing Agency (ITA). In charge of starting a brand new department at the ITA, her current priority is to support partner International Federations and Major Event Organizers with clean sport education programmes. In collaboration with the International Olympic Committee, the ITA recently ran educational workshops for athletes and coaches at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games.
Paul Greene - founder of Global Sports Advocates Paul J. Greene, the founder of Global Sports Advocates, is recognized by Who’s Who Legal and Chambers USA as one of the world’s leading sport lawyers. In 2019, he was named a Global Elite Thought Leader for sports law (one of only five from North America). Paul handles sports law matters around the world, including numerous hearings before the
international Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland – known as the “Supreme Court for sports law.” Paul has represented athletes from more than 20 countries and more than 30 different sports in hearings. Paul even represented an Olympic gold medal-winning horse. Paul is best known for his successful advocacy on behalf of athletes in high-profile matters, including his representation of Russian long jumper Darya Klishina before an ad hoc panel of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Rio at the 2016 Olympic Games. Greene prevailed on behalf of Klishina and overturned the IAAF’s decision to declare her ineligible. Klishina competed as the only member of the Russian athletics team at the Rio Olympics, and then won a silver medal at the 2017 IAAF World Championships. In the past year, Paul has again successfully handled some of the highest profile sports law matters in the world, including his representation of UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon
"Bones" Jones in his UFC arbitration and his hearing before the Nevada State Athletic Commission that allowed Jones to return to the Octagon and recapture his championship. He also just won a potentially landmark decision by establishing that beef contaminated with hormones was the likely source of American long jumper Jarrion Lawson’s positive test. Lawson was the first ever athlete to get a “No Fault” sanction from the Court of Arbitration for Sport for meat contamination. Paul is a frequent speaker and author on sports law matters and a professor of sports law who has lectured at law schools both in the U.S. and abroad.
Hosts: Christiaan Page and Alexandra Volkova
Podcast team: Diogo Jurema, Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Sarah Crumbach, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos.
What does sustainability mean nowadays in the world of sports?
While there is an overdose of information when discussing sustainability, and the term seems to be used superficially and lost its relevance, this episode aims to deconstruct what ‘sustainability’ means in the context of sports, make sense of all concepts and provide a framework for sports to engage strategically.
Guests: Neil Beecroft & Aileen McManamon
Neil Beecroft was responsible for sustainable development at UEFA EURO 2016 football tournament in France. Recently, he was Head of Sustainability for the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games.
As B Corp Leader, Neil encourages the way in which business innovation and sustainability can positively influence the organisational model of sports and the industry.
He is also Head of the Omega European Masters and is the CoFounder of the StartUp PuraWorka and the NGO Sport and Sustainability International (SandSI).
Aileen McManamon is the Founder and Managing Partner of 5T Sports Group, a global sports management firm and certified B Corp. Aileen founded 5T in 2008, focusing on future-proofing the sports industry identifying sustainable business practices, technology adoption and more integrated community engagement as the critical pathways to industry resilience.
She has worked with the Olympic Games, FIFA Women’s World Cup, MLB, MLS, MiLB, Tour de France and the NFL, and brands such as Microsoft, EA Games, Hewlett-Packard and Mercedes-Benz. She is one of the eight authors of the UN’s Sport for Climate Action Initiative. 5T also works with global brands bringing their environmental and social responsibility messaging forward through their sports partnerships. 5T is based in Vancouver and Chicago, with affiliate partners in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen and Lausanne.
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Diogo Jurema, Donata Taddia
Podcast Team: Diogo Jurema, Alexandra Volkova, Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Sarah Crumbach, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos.
Guests: Thubaelihle Sibanda & Paul Hunt
Thuba, a Zimbabwean national, is the Manager of Physical Active Youth Namibia and Head Coach for Namibia U23 Women’s Football Team. Integrated Sports and Life Skills Coordinator & Coordinator of Senior Education Programme, Adolescent and Youth Development consultant, Leadership training Consultant, passionate about youth and women football development, consider Sport for development a cause and a key ingredient towards creating the future we envisage. She has participated in TED talks and writes a blog called “This girl’s story” to inspire African girls to follow their dreams.
Paul is the Project Manager of the International Platform on Sport and Development, otherwise known as sportanddev, which he has worked on since 2012. It is the leading global hub and information source for those using sport to achieve social, economic and environmental objectives, providing an online resource for sport and development organisations to share knowledge, build a good practice, coordinate with others and create partnerships. It is part of the Swiss Academy for Development, a centre of excellence for sport and development. Alongside running sportanddev, the Swiss Academy for Development runs projects in Switzerland and internationally using sport and play to support children and young people to become healthy, educated and employed citizens.
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Diogo Jurema, Donata Taddia
Episode Team: Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos, Diogo Jurema, Sarah Crumbach, Surbhi Kuwelker, Gustavo Arellano, Alexandra Volkova, Donata Taddia
Guests:
Brendan Schwab has more than 25 years of leadership experience in the governance, business, legal, player relations and human rights aspects of elite sport at the global, regional and national levels. Appointed Executive Director of World Players in July 2015, he has united the world’s leading player associations who collectively represent 85,000 athletes to champion the dignity of the player and the humanity of sport.
Prior to joining World Players, Schwab played an instrumental role with FIFPRO, the world footballers association, in protecting the rights of professional footballers, especially within Asia and Oceania, serving in various capacities between 2007 and 2015 including as a board member, Vice President and Chairman of FIFPro Division Asia/Oceania.
He is a co-founder of the Australian Athletes’ Alliance (AAA) (2007), which represents eight-player unions and over 3,500 athletes in sports such as Australian football (AFL), basketball, rugby union, rugby league, cricket, netball and football. He also co-founded Professional Footballers Australia (PFA) in 1993, serving as its long-serving Chief Executive and General Counsel while advancing its progression and the reform of Australian football. In 2016, he was appointed as PFA Chair for a four-year term.
Schwab holds a Bachelor of Laws degree and a Master of Business Administration.
Anouk Vergé-Dépré finished 9th at her first Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. At 26 years and 8 years on the FIVB senior world tour, she has won 1 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals. She’s 4-time Swiss Champion and her highest rank in the world ranking has been #7. Anouk studies media, communication and economics. She’s committed to working for the International Beach Volleyball Players Association to help beach volleyball to grow as a sport and create the base to better market one of the best sports products worldwide.
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Diogo Jurema, Alexandra Volkova
Podcast Team: Diogo Jurema, Alexandra Volkova, Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Sarah Crumbach, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos.
Guest: Rebecca WARDELL
Born into a sheep farming family on New Zealand’s South Island, Rebecca Wardell’s Olympic inspiration came while watching the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Games.
Always a keen, talented and driven athlete, Wardell excelled in a host of sports at during her days at the Rangi RuRu Girls School. Athletics eventually won over, with Wardell initially focusing in on the 400m and 400m hurdle events. It’s in the long lap event that she represented New Zealand at both the World University Games (2001 and 2005) and 2003 World Championships. However, only when Wardell took her coach’s advice and turned to the heptathlon – the most physically and technically demanding event in athletics, if not all of sport – that she found her true athletic outlet.
In 2008, Wardell realised her childhood dream as she entered the Bird’s Nest arena to compete at the Beijing Olympic Games over two-day, seven-event discipline heptathlon competition.
After being beset with injuries that prevented her from competing at the London Games four years later, Rebecca retired from sports – but only as an athlete. Today she’s back in the Olympic arena, this time in her IOC role as the Games Coordination Senior Manager.
In 2018, she pressed pause on her promising professional career in sports operations to embark on an epic journey from Switzerland to New Zealand – all by bike.
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Torin Koos, Alexandra Volkova
Podcast Team: Diogo Jurema, Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Sarah Crumbach, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti.
Guest: Martijn van Westerop
Martijn’s purpose is to have a positive impact on people, in every life domain, personally and professionally, and support people and organisations to become sustainable performers. Martijn has a very broad interest and long for diversity; he operates in the sports industry, with large corporations, small businesses, in the educational sector and non-profit organizations; local and internationally; junior trainees as well as seasoned leaders. He is curious to help you find out what drives you (individually or as an organisation); how to manage your energy for that; and challenge you to take the necessary steps. All whist taking the environment into account. That makes him fulfill various roles: a coach, a program maker, a facilitator, a lecturer, a consultant, a presenter etc.
Hosts: Cristiaan Page, Diogo Jurema, Gustavo Arellano
Podcast Team: Donata Taddia, Pablo Rosetti, Surbhi Kuwelker, Torin Koos, Alexandra Volkova, Sarah Crumbach
Guests:
Niccolò Campriani
Student-Athlete. Worker. Volunteer. Coach.
Today we’re joined by the sports engineer and three-time Olympic gold medalist Nicole Campriani. After firing 400,000 rounds in preparation for his three consecutive Olympic Games performances, Nicole shot his last shot in the Rio 2016 50m individual air rifle event.
A consummate proponent of combining education with elite sport, Niccolo helped usher in a rise of top dual-career sport shooters. After arriving on the University of West Virginia campus, Niccolo helped make the USA’s National Collegiate system the preferred route of elite shooters — as evidenced by four of five Olympic gold medalist air riflists from London 2012 also having attended university in America.
A Sports Engineer by training, Niccolo worked for Ferrari to help enhance their high-performance sports department. He designed and developed his own air rifle — the same one he used while winning two gold medals at Rio 2016.
These days Niccolo lives in the Olympic capital city of Lausanne where investigates the latest trends in sports for the IOC as their Senior Sports Intelligence Manager while also coaching two emerging refugee athletes with hopes of competing in next year’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Torin Koos, Donata Taddia
Podcast Team: Diogo Jurema, Alexandra Volkova, Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Sarah Crumbach, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos.
Guests:
Giba
Giba is a Brazilian former professional volleyball player widely considered as one of the best volleyball players in the world. Giba is a multi-champion, two-time Olympic silver medalist in Beijing 2008 and London 2012, and gold medalist in Athens 2004.
Upon retirement from professional volleyball, in addition to several activities and projects, he joined the first FIVB Athlete Commission as its President leading a group of active and retired players in shaping career development programmes and consolidating the representation of players in the decision-making of volleyball’s international governing body. Giba is committed to promoting the values of volleyball around the world by sharing his experience to inspire new generations..
Hosts: Christiaan Page and Diogo Jurema
Episode Team: Donata Taddia, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos, Diogo Jurema, Sarah Crumbach, Surbhi Kuwelker, Gustavo Arellano
Guests:
Olivier Piron is a Project Managemet professional for over 20 years. For the last 10 years he has been using his experience in the world of sports. Before that, he managed large projects in the private sector.
Jeremy Cottino has a long experience in Project Management, from a consulting perspective, to the development and implementation of projects and definition methodologies in the sport industry. He is recently responsible for establishing a Project Management Office in a AS Monaco FC.
Hosts: Cristiaan Page, Diogo Jurema
Episode Team: Donata Taddia, Pablo Rosetti, Surbhi Kuwelker, Torin Koos, Alexandra Volkova
With the Covid-19 outbreak the SportWorks Podcast team has decided to do a special mini-series to showcase how sport workers are managing the crisis in their professional domains.
Our hosts Sarah and Alexandra have been calling our guests remotely, from their homes. They have reached out to professionals from around the globe so you can hear how sport workers are doing in the current situation.
How do athletes receive the news of the postponement of Olympic Games, how do they reorganise their life and training programme to stay fit, healthy and sane?
Emma Twigg
Rower from New Zealand. She is a single skull world champion and participated in the Beijing, London and Rio Olympic Games. After taking a break from rowing for a while to pursue her career in sport administration she came back to the sport in 2018 and qualified for the Tokyo Olympics.
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Sarah Crumbach and Alexandra Volkova
Podcast Team: Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos, Diogo Jurema
With the Covid-19 outbreak the SportWorks Podcast team has decided to do a special mini-series to showcase how sport workers are managing the crisis in their professional domains.
Our hosts Sarah and Alexandra have been calling our guests remotely, from their homes. They have reached out to professionals from around the globe so you can hear how sport workers are doing in the current situation.
In this episode Sarah and Alexandra talked to Peter Palencik, General Secretary of Slovakian Football Federation and asked him how Slovak Football Association managed the situation of European Qualifiers Play-off matches postponement and how they stayed connected with other national teams.
Peter PalencikGeneral Secretary of Slovak Football Association
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Sarah Crumbach and Alexandra Volkova
Podcast Team: Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos, Diogo Jurema
Guy Horne is managing director of H&A Media, company producing tailored sports media content for international federations, event rightsholders and brands. Clients include Swiss-Ski, International Canoe Federation, International Skating Union, FIBA, EBU, GAISF and their multi-sport games, UCI Tour of China and UCI Tour of Guangxi.
Prior to relocating to Switzerland in 2013, Guy had been based in Hong Kong for 23 years - 11 years with IEC in Sports and prior to that, 6 years with ISL Worldwide. He led the regional business acquisition through producing and creating a strong media identity for Asian volleyball, badminton, table tennis, rugby and the Asian Winter Games. Guy was a venue manager for the '98 FIFA World Cup; managed the commercial and technical programme for the Chinese national football teams who qualified for their first FIFA World Cup in 2002. During that period, the ISL team delivered the first pan-regional marketing programme for the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, generating in excess of USD110m for the Olympic Council of Asia.
Peter Stafford - Co-Founder & CEO of Mitchell Stafford Management (MSM), a strategic public relations and communications consultancy working in sport. Since relocating to Switzerland in 2009, Peter has been actively involved in international sport, leading projects and providing advisory services to clients in a number of areas. He has an extensive network of contacts and brings a wealth of experience working with senior executives in the development and implementation of strategic plans. Equipped with master’s degrees in business administration and sports law, as well as a degree in sport science, Peter puts this knowledge to use leading the business and operational side of MSM. Peter manages the MSM client accounts, working hand in hand with his creative colleagues to develop and implement the strategic vision.
Hosts: Christiaan Page and Alexandra Volkova
Episode Team: Donata Taddia, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos, Diogo Jurema, Sarah Crumbach, Surbhi Kuwelker, Gustavo Arellano
With the Covid-19 outbreak the SportWorks Podcast team has decided to do a special mini-series to showcase how sport workers are managing the crisis in their professional domains.
Our hosts Sarah and Alexandra have been calling our guests remotely, from their homes. They have reached out to professionals from around the globe so you can hear how sport workers are doing in the current situation.
This episode of our special series will give you insights from the football world of Mongolia. Sarah and Alexandra spoke to the Head of International Relations at the Mongolian Football Federation, Mongoljingoo Sodgerel, to discuss how this crisis has affected their daily activities and how they manage to work in this situation.
Mongoljingoo Sodgerel
Head of International Relations Department in Mongolian Football Federation
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Sarah Crumbach and Alexandra Volkova
Podcast Team: Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos, Diogo Jurema
Looking at the new reality of the current Coronavirus crisis through the eyes of SportWorkers from all around the world. From March 2020, most Sport Events cancelled or postponed, offices in lockdown, travelling is restricted. How does this affect sport professionals' daily work, income, livelihood? What are the challenges and opportunities of this crisis for the Sports World?
We continue with our mini-series during this Covid-19 outbreak. In these short episodes, we talk to sport business professionals and athletes from around the world. What challenges are they facing and what measures have they put in place to deal with this unprecedented situation and we hear insights directly from these industry-leading actors.
As a reminder, we are also working from home these days, so please accept our apologies if the audio quality is not up to our usual “Studio best”! Our hosts Sarah and Alexandra have been calling our guests from their homes, in different countries, making this a truly global mini-series.
Today we hear from Michael Flockhart, Founder of Sportstec International Development Agency based in South Africa. He gives insights about how “learners” in vulnerable communities have been affected by the lockdown and how Sportstec are trying to find ways to support coaches, educators and students with their Sport2Life Programme during these difficult times.
Michael FLOCKHARD:Directorof Sportstec, an International Development Agency based in South Africa. Sportstec is using sport as a vehicle to deliver social change interventions with public and private partners. When schools were closed in South Africa on 18 March, the Sportstec coaches were unable to continue their work with children around the country.
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Sarah Crumbach and Alexandra Volkova
Podcast Team: Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos, Diogo Jurema
With the Covid-19 outbreak, the SportWorks Podcast team has decided to do a special mini-series to showcase how SportWorkers are managing the crisis in their professional domains.
Our hosts Sarah and Alexandra have been calling our guests remotely, from their homes. They have reached out to professionals from around the globe so you can hear how SportWorkers are doing in the current situation.
In this episode, Sarah and Alexandra interviewed Mike Mobley, Associate Sports Communications Director at the University of Georgia Athletic Association. Mike shares with us how they received the news and what is going on with university sports in Georgia, USA, these days. Georgia University was closed from March 12th following the state shut down order.
Guest: Mike MOBLEYAssociate Sports Communications Director for the University of Georgia and oversees all media relations efforts surrounding the Bulldogs’ men’s basketball and women’s golf programs.
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Sarah Crumbach and Alexandra Volkova
Podcast Team: Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos, Diogo Jurema
With the Covid-19 outbreak the world, and with it the sporting world, as we know it, has been going through dramatic changes. Within just a few weeks from each other, almost all countries imposed quarantine, social distancing measures, closed their borders, schools and public gathering places. Many went into complete lock-down and sporting events from the grassroots level all the way up to the biggest tournaments in the world have been suspended until further notice. In light of these events, the SportWorks Podcast team has decided to do a special mini-series to showcase how SportWorkers and their activities were affected in different territories and domains. What challenges are they facing and what measures have they put in place to deal with this unprecedented situation?
As most of you we are working from home now and cannot enjoy our studio facilities. Our hosts Sarah and Alexandra have been calling our guests remotely, from their homes. They have reached out to different professionals from around the globe so you can hear how SportWorkers are doing in the current situation.
Episode EVENTS
The first episodes of our special series look at how the postponement of major sporting events such as the Tokyo Olympic Games and the UEFA Euro 2020 has affected organisers and agencies. Sarah and Alexandra talked to Catherine Maher, UEFA EURO 2020 Project Manager from the Scottish FA (Part I) and Anna BAGROVA from Match Hospitality Russia (Part II).
They give interesting insights into how the postponement of the events has affected their lives as sport professionals.
Cathering MAHER - Events Part I
UEFA EURO 2020 Project Manager from the Scottish Football Association. Glasgow will host 4 of EURO 2020 matches. And before the pandemic, the first match was scheduled for June 15th this year.
Anna BAGROVA - Events Part II
Sales Director of Match Hospitality Russia. Anna’s agency won all the rights for hospitality packages sales in Russia for EURO 2020 and the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. With the postponement of these two major sport events Anna and her team needed to come up with a strategy on how to manage the packages sold and what to do with the team that was specifically hired for this project.
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Sarah Crumbach and Alexandra Volkova
Podcast Team: Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos, Diogo Jurema
With the Covid-19 outbreak the world, and with it the sporting world, as we know it, has been going through dramatic changes. Within just a few weeks from each other, almost all countries imposed quarantine, social distancing measures, closed their borders, schools and public gathering places. Many went into complete lock-down and sporting events from grassroots level all the way up to the biggest tournaments in the world have been suspended until further notice. In light of these events, the SportWorks Podcast team has decided to do a special mini-series to showcase how SportWorkers and their activities were affected in different territories and domains. What challenges are they facing and what measures have they put in place to deal with this unprecedented situation?
As most of you, we are working from home now and cannot enjoy our studio facilities. Our hosts Sarah and Alexandra have been calling our guests remotely, from their homes. They have reached to different professionals from around the globe so you can hear how SportWorkers are doing in the current situation.
Episode EVENTS - Part I & Part II
The first episodes of our special series looks at how the postponement of major sporting events such as the Tokyo Olympic Games and the UEFA Euro 2020 has affected organisers and agencies. Sarah and Alexandra talked to Catherine Maher, UEFA EURO 2020 Project Manager from the Scottish FA (Part I) and Anna BAGROVA from Match Hospitality Russia (Part II).
They give interesting insights into how the postponement of the events has affected their lives as sports professionals.
Guests:
Anna Bagrova. Sales Director at MATCH Hospitality Russia.
Catherine Maher - UEFA EURO 2020 Project Manager, Scotland FA
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Sarah Crumbach and Alexandra Volkova
Podcast Team: Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos, Diogo Jurema
Guests:
Geert Hendricks
Geert worked for 20 years in the corporate industry, humanitarian aid and sport sector as a management consultant and project director. In 2016 he received the Peace & Sport Award with the project “From Refugee Camp to the Olympics”, a documentary of the participation of refugee athletes to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. He was the Head of Projects in AISTS, responsible for a range of applied research and consulting projects, working closely with the IOC, many international sport federations, Olympic Games Organising Committees, and professional sport leagues. He is the CEO and Founding Director of Sport and Sustainability International (SandSI), working on a Football4Climate programme and SDG Sport Lab. He also is Director of Blueshift Solutions, working with a variety of organisations on embedding sustainability as a key business principle throughout the global sports industry. As a Co-Founder of the Republic of Sports, he supports the use of sports to support the integration and empowerment of young migrants and refugees living in the Lausanne region, in Switzerland.
Mia Salvemini
Mia is a Project Manager at SchweryCade (https://schwery.com), an independent social entrepreneurship specialized in sport and sustainability and originator of the Responsiball Forum (responsiball.org), a platform used to discuss the key social and environmental issues facing the world of sport. At the inaugural forum in November 2018, key stakeholders from international sport, governments, NGOs, academia and the local refugee community in Switzerland came together to discuss the challenges involved in using the social value of sport to aid refugees, to promote good practice sharing, and to define future cooperation (sport4refugees.net).
Hosts: Christiaan Page and Diogo Jurema
Episode Team: Donata Taddia, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos, Diogo Jurema, Sarah Crumbach, Surbhi Kuwelker, Gustavo Arellano
Guests:
Christy Nicolay, has produced Sport Presentation & Victory Ceremonies for more Olympic & Paralympic Games than any other person in the world. While she has been the Executive Producer of Sport Presentation for seven out of the last nine Games (2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018), she has also executive produced the Rio 2007 Pan and Parapan American Games, the Doha 2011 Arab Games, Lima 2019 Pan and ParaPan American Games and most recently ran the Van Wagner Academy of Sport Presentation for Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games. In Vancouver 2010, Christy was the Vice President of Sport Production & Victory Ceremonies and additionally was responsible for producing Whistler Medals Plaza, Team Welcome Ceremonies and Medaling Athlete transport.
Nicolas Mandri, is a producer and director with extensive experience in large sporting and live events in a creative, producing and technical capacity. Starting his career in television in 2003 Nicolas worked as a broadcast coordinator, producer and director for fiction and documentary projects, later he jumped into the world of live events. Since 2013 Nick worked for the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014, Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Ashgabat 2017 Asian Games, PeyongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, Lima 2019 Pan American and ParaPan American Games and most recently in the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games. In his role as Sport Presentation video content manager, he was in charge of all the content that is sourced and originally produced for all the venue screens.
Hosts: Christiaan Page and Alexandra Volkova
Podcast Team: Diogo Jurema, Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Sarah Crumbach, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos.
Guests:
Marga Rico. Believing in getting the best of each individual and taking things to the next level, Marga Rico is an aerospace engineer and former elite tennis player. She comes back to her essence as an athlete where sport values shape the different areas of her life. Having a tireless passion for sports and businesses, Marga works full time as project and event manager for an international sport federation. In 2019, she wore the Spanish national colours in ITU World Champs (age group) and took a podium in the half distance in the half ironman in Madrid.
Greta Avola is well respected professional with over 10 years of experience in sports marketing and event management. Greta studied in USA, UK, Spain and currently lives in Switzerland. Greta works as sponsorship and marketing specialist managing sponsorship partnerships, account management, activation and rights delivery.
Hosts: Christiaan Page and Alexandra Volkova
Episode Team: Donata Taddia, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos, Diogo Jurema, Sarah Crumbach, Surbhi Kuwelker, Gustavo Arellano
Guests:
Philippe Furrer is a Swiss national and describes himself as a movement and sport activist. He worked for the IOC for more than 12 years as Head of Knowledge Management and Head of Engagement for the Youth Olympic Games. He is a senior advisor for the Global Active City Label and the founder and Director of InspoweredBy, an agency that supports cities, sports organisations and other clients to deliver sport events with sustainable legacies aimed at people’s well-being. As a father of 5 children, he is a passionate believer in using sport to improve mental and physical health of young people.
Yoan Noguier. Working as Procurement Manager for Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Yoan met Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Yunus while advocating about the social potential of sporting events and sport in general. After a first successful collaboration resulting in the signature of an agreement with Paris 2024 to organize inclusive and sustainable Olympics, the Yunus Sports Hub was created, to use sport and social business to solve human challenges. Yoan is 33 years old, grew up in the south of France and played rugby at semi-professional level.
Hosts: Christiaan Page, Sarah Crumbach, Diogo Jurema
Collaborators: Donata Taddia, Pablo Rosetti, Surbhi Kuwelker, Torin Koos, Alexandra Volkova
Guest: Bhavesh Pither.
Bhavesh is an entrepreneur turned author, a data guy who after working in the world of sport governance decided to pursue his journey in working for basic problem solving. His debut book takes you through a journey of a young boxer who encounters his real fight is not in the ring but in the real world.
Hosts: Christiaan Page and Diogo Jurema
Podcast team: Alexandra Volkova, Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos, Sarah Crumbach, Gustavo Arellano
Guests:
Joao Frigerio. Joao Frigerio is an experienced and creative strategic-thinker, problem-solver, entrepreneur and consultant in the sports industry. His expertise covers the fields of marketing, media rights, communications, digital media and sponsorship, and he is recognised as a skilful networker.
Joao speaks 5 languages (English, Portuguese, French, Italian and Spanish), has an Exec. MBA by the University of Sao Paulo (BRA) and a Master in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport, by De Monfort University (GBR), SDA Bocconi (ITA) and Université de Neuchâtel (SUI) – the FIFA Master.
He is co-author of ”Mobile Sports Rights in Europe 2006”, ”Sports on Broadband 2007: Video Rights, the Internet and IPTV” and “Soccerex Football Finance 100”. Before starting his own consultancy business, he’d been the General Manager of Sportcal Europe for four years and, prior to that, the senior editor for FIFA’s Fifaworldcup.com in Portuguese, before and during the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Joao is the founder of the first and most important international career fair for the sports industry in the world, the iWorkinSport Job Fair. He is also a former Vice President and currently Executive Director of the FIFA Master Alumni Association.
Oner Avara. With over 2 decades of experience in sports as a boxer, club owner, chairman and president of sport federations as well as advisor to the UK Parliament, Oner Avara is the CEO of My Next Match, a system he built and which was designed to increase the flow of information between medical professionals, federations, clubs, promoters and athletes in order to create a safer environment..
In his advisory role as a Sport Expert Advisor to All Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain at the UK Parliament, Oner ensures that the sport industry and society benefit from the full potential of blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies (DLT) making the UK a leader in Blockchain/DLT’s innovation and implementation. He also advises All Party Parliamentary Groups on Boxing aimed at engaging with government and Parliament to support all aspects of boxing and set out the benefits of boxing to individuals and wider society to reduce the barriers to participation in the sport.
He was recently appointed president of UK Obstacle Sports Federation, affiliated to FISO (International Obstacle Sports Federation). The mission of UKOSF is to unite individual OCR Athletes, event providers and clubs, to represent them and serve their needs throughout their lives whilst promoting sportsmanship.
Hosts: Christiaan Page and Diogo Jurema
Podcast Team: Alexandra Volkova, Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Sarah Crumbach, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos.
Guests:
Nikky Symmons. Digital and social media content specialist. Combining 13 years as an elite athlete with education and experience in sports administration. Nikky is 2017 EY WABN Mentee, 2015 EuroHockey Hall of Fame inductee, 2015 Sport Accord award nominee. In 2015 Nikky made it to the Sport for Business list of most Influential Women in Irish Sport.
Maria Ntanou. Multiple time Greek champion in cross-country skiing, Maria competed in 2010 and 2018 Winter Olympic Games. With a degree in Economic Science and Master of Advanced Studies in Sport Administration and Technology, Maria is currently working as Digital Communication Manager in the International Fencing Federation. As an IOC Athlete 365 Career educator Maria has conducted outreach workshops and acted as Athlete Role Model at 2020 Youth Olympic Games.
Pedro Cunha. A retired Brazilian beach volleyball player and Brazilian Champion, Pedro competed in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games and two World Championships. Pedro began his career transition with the programme delivered by the Brazilian NOC, based on the IOC Career+ programme. Later, Pedro worked for this programme as IOC intern. Currently, Pedro is currently working in sport sponsorship.
Hosts: Christiaan Page and Alexandra Volkova
Podcast Team: Diogo Jurema, Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Sarah Crumbach, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos.
Guests:
Tatjana IvanovaTatjana holds an MBA in Economics and a Master of Advanced Studies in Sports Administration and Technology. After 10 years in corporate marketing, she worked at the International Olympic Committee. Tatjana was the first Russian woman to finish the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii in 2003 and completed 18 races, including the extreme Swissman. Tatiana is a full-time life and performance coach: she is a Certified Ironman coach (WTC), Elite long distance triathlon coach (Germany, DTU), Level 2 TrainingPeaks coach and certified TriSutto coach. She is a certified Human Energy facilitator and Life Transformation coach. She runs Human Peak Performance, Burn-Out Preventio, My Company Fit seminars and motivational speeches.
Dominique Gobat
Dominique holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Sports Administration and Technology. For over 12 years, Dominique has been working in post-graduate education, supporting people primarily in career transition. He held roles in marketing, communications and information systems, especially in management of education programmes. In addition to being an ironman, he has finished different endurance races; he is a former competitive water polo athlete and swimmer. Dominique is an ICF certified coach and Erickson Certified Professional Coach.
Host: Christiaan Page
Podcast Team: Diogo Jurema, Alexandra Volkova, Donata Taddia, Surbhi Kuwelker, Tatiana Ghigonetto, Sarah Crumbach, Gustavo Arellano, Pablo Rosetti, Torin Koos.