NACDA Podcast

Original air date: October 1, 2020

Sponsored content session by StayBillety

Facing ‘future forward’, join Barbara Jones, CEO of StayBillety and Chris Smith, CEO of Athlete Network to learn about new and relevant ways to engage and connect your communities, and increase fundraising revenue. The presenters share solutions for athletics departments using home sharing and athlete engagement platforms. This webinar showcases how groups and organizations, particularly alumni athletes, can leverage technology to engage their communities and build fundraising initiatives: How home sharing and access to centralized resources can drive post-pandemic revenue; How domestic travel and short term rentals are bouncing back; How on-campus and virtual events - games, homecoming and commencement - can strengthen community engagement; How to grow global engagement 24/7; and How groups and organizations, including athletics departments, in the U.S. and Canada are tapping into these opportunities.

Original air date: September 29, 2020

Session presented by Paciolan

Leadership at the highest level is demanding and requires an extensive capacity to think critically and make decisions every day. While leaders certainly need to keep the organization’s interests at the forefront, the best leaders are often the individuals that keep people and relationships at the core of their leadership styles. In this session moderated by Jene Elzie, Chief Growth Officer, Athletes First Partners, former athletics director, NCAA executive and XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck shares tidbits of experiences through his leadership journey and offers key takeaways to consider as others seek to climb the professional ladder.

Original air date: September 23, 2020

As our country continues to face social injustices, it’s important that we recognize the efforts to effect change are not the sole responsibility of the oppressed or marginalized populations which are directly impacted. Allyship is a crucial piece in our ability to successfully incite positive and lasting change. This session explores what it means to be an ally and provides insight into the ways that we can take action to better serve our colleagues and student-athletes in this type of role. Speakers: Stevie Baker-Watson, Associate Vice President for Campus Wellness & Theodore Katula Director of Athletics and Recreational Sports, DePauw University (Moderator); Val Ackerman, Commissioner, Big East Conference; Kevin White, Vice President, Director of Athletics, & Adjunct Professor for Business Administration, Duke University; Dr. Dan Roller, Anti-Racism Activist & Managing Director, Acris Project.

Original air date: September 17, 2020

Sponsored content session by Derck & Edson, LLC

See results of two athletic planning systems – one focusing on physical enhancements and one focusing on analyzing the repercussions of bringing a new sport to your college or university. Hear from the consultants and the clients and see how you can jump-start your efforts in just four months' time. Speakers: Steve Sproles, Derck & Edson; Eric McNelley, Eastern University; Kathie Shafer, Messiah University.

Original air date: September 16, 2020

In this session, Drew Berst (Dimensional Innovations) and Kevin Boully (Persuasion Strategies) provide a quick review of their three surveys and discuss how fan sentiments have ebbed and flowed from April through August 2020. They also take a deep dive into how that information provides a foundation for actual gameday planning.

Original air date: September 15, 2020

Want to train your mind to reduce stress and increase focus, resilience, and confidence? Russ Rausch, Founder of Vision Pursue (VP), shares methods that impact automatic thoughts and emotions from the limbic brain. These methods include aligning expectations to reality, embracing emotions, and controlling the controllable. You’ll be able to improve your mental processing immediately after the session. Rausch has a 20-year background in corporate management and his corporate clients include MassMutual, Exelon, Splunk, and FedEx. His sports clients include the Miami Heat, Atlanta Falcons, Seattle Mariners, and the University of Alabama athletics department.  If you want to improve your performance and enjoy the journey more, you don’t want to miss this.

Original air date: September 8, 2020

Session presented by Paciolan

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of anxiety, stress, and fear in our world and especially in athletics. It has also wrecked our motivation as well, and it has truly been a struggle. This session provides some tools and strategies to help you and those you lead manage the uncertainty and emerge from the pandemic with renewed motivation and purpose. Speaker: Dr. Bhrett McCabe, Clinical & Sports Psychologist, Organizational Behavior Specialist.

Original air date: September 3, 2020

Sponsored content session by Fusion Sport

Illness screening, injury risk, training logistics, technology and the rise of the ‘bubble’ — How are college athletics departments around the country navigating the return to training and planning for the future during COVID-19? In this webinar, the panel of athletic trainers, coaches and AD staff discuss:  Pivoting your programs to get back to training during COVID-19; Risk mitigation, illness screening and the role of health technology, in particular the Smartabase Athlete Management System; The logistics of pushing back fall sports; balancing new training schedules and managing injury risk; and the biggest challenges and way forward for college sport in 2020. Speakers: Tricia Sterland, MS, CSCS, VP – Enterprise Solutions, Fusion Sport (Moderator); Mike Compton, Sport Science Consultant and Strength Coach, Fusion Sport; Lauren Green, Assistant Athletic Director, Sports Science, UC San Diego; Aaron Himmler, Assistant Athletics Director for Sports Medicine and Head Football Athletic Trainer at the University of Cincinnati; Mike Joseph, Assistant Athletics Director/Head Coach for Football Strength and Conditioning, West Virginia University.

Original air date: September 2, 2020

The ongoing challenges related to COVID-19 have forced the college athletics industry into uncharted waters. With recent announcements of the cancellations of fall sports competition, conferences and departments around the country at all divisions are now focused on how they might shift fall competition seasons to the spring semester. This session provides various perspectives and insights from those that have formally announced plans for the spring, as well as those that are still working through the process. The panelists share where they’ve been and where they’re going as our industry grapples with these unprecedented situations. Speakers: Mike Snyder, Illinois College (Moderator); Dr. Robert Helmer, Baldwin Wallace University; Dr. Charles McClelland, Southwestern Athletic Conference; David Sayler, Miami University.

Original air date: August 27, 2020

Sponsored content session by Legacy Building Solutions

Join Shannon Humbert, Building and Design Consultant at Legacy Building Solutions, as he discusses these key learning objectives: The materials used in fabric structure construction; Architectural features and alternative materials available for fabric buildings; Comparisons between engineered fabric buildings and engineered metal buildings; and how fabric structures are used for a variety of large-scale applications. Click here to view the slides in PDF format.