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Listen in as Johnny shares what he draws on to navigate challenges, why he loves serving as a CEO, and the practical wisdom he’d offer to inspire the next generation of leaders. Episodes are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.…
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Listen in as Sport Law Leadership Coach Lauren Brett shares how our upcoming Sport Leaders Lab provides a training ground for leaders to learn how to strengthen trust, communicate with clarity, and lead authentically. Episodes are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.…
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In this podcast, Jasmine shares the tools that helped her move from chaos to clarity, lead with values, and navigate the loneliness that often comes with leadership. She opens up about her own experiences and offers an encouraging message to new leaderSs: be brave, be curious, and be kind.…
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This week, Dina and Steve sit down with Michael Bartlett to explore how a defining leadership challenge transformed the way he thinks about failure. Michael inspires us to embrace vulnerability, build a shared vision, and cultivate a strong team ethos – all of which reflect the heart of his leadership philosophy.…
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This week, Dina and Steve, discuss conflict in sport, and solutions for moving away from binary thinking, that prevent leaders from achieving their desired outcomes. We offer practical wisdom and simple solutions to help you navigate the natural and healthy tension with greater skill, confidence, and humility.…
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This week, we welcome Mathieu Gentès, the Chief Executive Officer at Athletics Canada, and a devoted practitioner of values-based leadership. He reminds us that leading authentically creates high trust cultures where people feel valued, cared for, and trusted.…
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This week, we welcome Mike Fleurantin, one of our valued sport lawyers, who is also a certified Information Privacy Professional. Mike has a passion for youth sport and fostering inclusive, respectful, and legally sound sport environments for the benefit of all participants.…
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This week, hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig chat with Lorraine Lafrenière in the leadership series. Lorraine is the Chief Executive Officer at the Coaching Association of Canada. She is a respected and compassionate sport leader with over 30 years of experience, including senior roles with Canoe Kayak Canada, Cycling Canada and the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Committees.…
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This week, hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig kick off the Lessons on Leadership Series with Casey Wade, CEO of Canoe Kayak Canada for the last 12 years. Prior to that, Casey was the Director of Education and Planning at WADA and the Director of Drug-Free Sport at the CCES.…
This week, hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig discuss the importance of maintaining a healthy relationship between senior staff and volunteer Directors. Some of the most challenging aspects of leading is to ensure that decision-makers have a shared vision of where the organization is heading, a common sense of purpose and collective values that reflect who we’re serving.…
This week, hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig welcome Guy Bradbury, is an international instructor, educator and Olympic referee in volleyball and the creator of RefereeCoaching.com. Prior to that Guy was the CEO of the Ontario Soccer Association, and GM and COO of the Sport Alliance of Ontario.Guy…
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This week, hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig welcome Karen Dommett. Karen has extensive experience in sports administration, including GM of the 2024 Special Olympics Canada Winter Games, and Manager of Athlete services for the 2019 Canada Winter Games.…
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This week, hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig welcome Iain Murray from Triton Canada. Triton is a 100% Canadian-owned and operated background screening company, whose mission is to create safer communities. They proudly serve NSOs, PSTOs and local clubs across the country, by providing 15-minute Criminal Record Checks, Social Media Checks, and Digital Credentials to advance Safe Sport initiatives.…
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Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week, host Dina Bell-Laroche welcomes Megan Sheldon and Alayne Hing. Megan is the Co-Founder & CEO of Be Ceremonial, the world’s first guided ritual and ceremony app.…
September 23, 2025 – (Ottawa, ON) The latest episode of Sportopia: Conversations about healthy, human sport, titled “Give and Go Sports Education Making a Difference” is now available. Listen as we share insights to enhance the legal and leadership knowledge of sport leaders.…
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Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week, host Dina Bell-Laroche welcomes guest Cara Button to the show. Cara is the Senior National Manager of Game Plan, a total athlete wellness program that provides holistic support to national team athletes.…
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Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week, hosts Steve Indig and Will Russell are joined by special guest, Ron Yeung, Head of Domestic Development and 3x3 Development with Canada Basketball. In this episode the three discuss how Canada Basketball aligned programs with their PTSOs to improve capacity and program delivery.…
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Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week, hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig welcome Andrea Carey, a certified Inclusion Professional and Founder and Chief Inclusion Officer of INclusion INcorporated. Listen in as Andrea shares the key elements of creating an inclusive sport environment.…
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Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week, hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig welcome Cody McKay, competitive cyclist and founder of Project Heart. In the podcast Cody shares his life altering journey, what inspired him to launch Project Heart, and his vision for how sport can be a catalyst for heart health. …
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Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week, hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig welcome special guest, Philippe Marquis. Philippe is a two-time Olympian, Chair of the Canadian Olympic Committee athletes' commission and a Freestyle Next Gen Coach.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week, hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, continue their series of making examples of Exemplars. This week’s exemplar is Shauna Bookal. Shauna is the President and CEO of Inclusion in Canadian Sport Network (ICSN) an organization committed to the empowerment of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) within the Canadian amateur sports community.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week, hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, are so pleased to welcome this week’s leadership exemplar Carey Calder. Carey is a Senior executive and proud Anishinaabe member of Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek (Sand Point First Nation) with 20 years management experience in Indigenous not-for-profit organizations at the local, provincial and national levels.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week, hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, are joined by Team Member, Stephanie Potter. Stephanie is a trained researcher and coach, whose passion is to support wellness in the workplace.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week, hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, are digging into a topic near and dear to them focusing on how to fuel cultures of trust. They know that so often, when trust is low, everything slows down and the cost goes up.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week, hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, are joined by Sport Law Team Member Mel Knox. Mel is a lawyer at Sport Law and former soccer player for the Panama Women’s National Team.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week, hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, lead a discussion with special guests Angela Crowther and Katelynn Ramage from KidSport BC. Both guests share a belief that everyone should have the opportunity to access and participate in sport.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! In this week’s episode, host Dina Bell-Laroche leads a discussion with Team Member and Leadership Coach, Lauren Brett and special guest Ed Van Hoof, Head National Team Coach for Men’s Artistic Gymnastics at Gymnastics Canada.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! In this week’s episode, co-hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steven Indig share their views on how best to engage your people in a conversation on mission critical values. With Dina’s book, Values-in-Action as a guide, Steve and Dina offer a step by step approach to help organizations activate their values.…
February 20, 2024 – (Ottawa, ON) The latest episode of Sportopia: Conversations about healthy, human sport, titled “Proactively Preventing Fraud”, is now available. Listen as we share insights and enhance the legal and leadership knowledge of sport leaders. Episodes are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Amazon Music.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! In this week’s episode, co-hosts Dina Bell-Laroche and Steven Indig chat with Team Member, Kristin Noonan on how sport leaders can take practical steps to implement and activate their Safe Sport commitment with a goal of not only reducing harm but as importantly, creating a fun and positive culture for all participants.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! In this week’s episode, Social Scientist, Kai Scott, joins co-hosts Steve Indig and Dina Bell-Laroche to talk about trans and non-binary participant inclusion in sport. Kai is the co-founder of TransFocus, whose aim is to create greater inclusion of gender diversity in organizational cultures and structures.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode welcomes a conversation about the big idea that led to the creation of the podcast in the first place – a re-imagined sport system that we are calling Sport 2.0.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode is a recap of Sport Law’s favourite podcast episodes from 2023. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this final episode provides a reflection on the challenges faced by sport leaders as well as our hopes for greater collaboration in 2024 as we collectively move towards Sport 2.0. …
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode welcomes a conversation about how amalgamating sport organizations could benefit the sport system. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this episode brings an abundant mindset where our hosts discuss amalgamating sport organizations to make the sport experience better for participants. …
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This special two-part episode shares an update from the Hope on the Horizon Tour and welcomes several special guests. In collaboration with several sport partners, Sport Law and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) are hosting legal and leadership workshops across the country to increase the capacity of sport leaders to manage the complexities of leading an ethically driven and legally sound sport organization.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode welcomes a conversation about the gift of feedback. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this episode talks about the importance of giving thoughtful feedback and the impact that feedback can have.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode welcomes a conversation about the realities of risk management. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this episode covers how you can identify, assess, manage, monitor, and communicate risk within your sport organization.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode welcomes a conversation about how we can manage through conflict better than before. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this episode covers what needs to happen to manage conflict in a way that is productive, leads to higher trust, and enables positive change.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode welcomes a conversation about the world of leadership coaching with the help of the NOVA Profile. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, alongside Certified Integral Coach, Lauren Brett, this podcast explores how leadership coaching is needed to support sport leaders through the modernization of the sport system.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode welcomes a conversation about how measuring culture will elevate sport. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this podcast explores the tyranny of the immediate and its impact on sport leaders.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode welcomes a conversation about how measuring culture will elevate sport. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, alongside Bryce Tully, the Co-founder and CEO of innerlogic, this podcast explores the Sport Culture Index During and the power of data to leverage cultural change in sport.…
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Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode kicks off a conversation about how to find the right Directors for your Board and the implications of being a Director. For this episode, we welcome Mike Bruni, KC, Barrister and Solicitor, as well as the recent Nominations Committee Chair for Hockey Canada.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode explores “Special Meetings” and Annual General Meetings (AGMs) with the help of Sport Law team member, Jason Robison. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, alongside Jason, a Certified Parliamentarian, this podcast discusses the purpose of special meetings, how a parliamentarian can take your special meeting to the next level, what special meetings trends are we tracking, and some caveats to avoid along the way.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode explores policy requirements and recommendations for Canadian sport organizations. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this podcast discusses the purpose of having policies for your sport organization and what that means.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode explores the current landscape of safe sport. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this podcast discusses what is commonly being labelled as “safe sport”.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This special episode shares a special announcement. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, alongside Karri Dawson of the CCES, share the news of the Hope on the Horizon Tour.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode explores the possibility for sport system integration in Canada. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this podcast discusses the opportunities to integrate sport in Canada from grassroots to national levels.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode explores the current opportunities for change in sport. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this podcast discusses the pressing concerns of leaders in sport from a legal and leadership perspectives.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode explores the current opportunities for change in sport. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this podcast discusses the pressing concerns of leaders in sport from a legal and leadership perspectives.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode explored what it means to be a leader in sport right now. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this podcast discusses the systemic and individual opportunities facing sport leaders today.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode explored what it means to be a leader in sport right now. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this podcast discusses the systemic and individual opportunities facing sport leaders today.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode explored the topic of management by values. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this podcast discusses how to take your leadership to the next level with management by values.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode explored the topic of management by values. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this podcast discusses how to take your leadership to the next level with management by values.…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This is a bonus episode of Sportopia, where we tested the waters for the first time. This was our learning opportunity as we jump into the world of podcasting. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this podcast is all about how Sportopia came to be!…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This is a bonus episode of Sportopia, where we tested the waters for the first time. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this podcast is all about how Sportopia came to be!…
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode explored the topic of trust in sport. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this podcast discusses the importance of having trust in sport organizations, the current level of trust in the sport system, and how to restore trust. …
Welcome to Sportopia, the place to re-imagine the future of sport! This week’s episode explored the topic of trust in sport. Hosted by Dina Bell-Laroche and Steve Indig, partners of Sport Law, this podcast discusses the importance of having trust in sport organizations, the current level of trust in the sport system, and how to restore trust. …