Sports Equity Podcast

Some call her Coach, some Dr. J, but Jen has spent the past 20 plus years, coaching, training and developing people both in life and sport with an authentic leadership approach and a trailblazer in professional football.

Danyel Surrency Jones is the President of Power To Give Foundation & Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of POWERHANDZ, a global athletic training and rehabilitation product tech company that creates innovative athletic, fitness training and rehab products that increase overall human performance.

Danyel spent nearly 2 decades in corporate America working in various sales & marketing, operations, executive positions within fortune 500 medical tech companies. But while her corporate bosses asked her to temper her creativity, POWERHANDZ has given Surrency Jones the freedom to use her MBA & Wharton marketing training combined with natural grit as an entrepreneur to push her big ideas forward.

Since its launched, POWERHANDZ has grown their first product, a patented weighted anti-grip basketball glove, into training and rehabilitation tech for five sports and created 10 more products with 4 patents. Their products are sold in more than 86 countries and used by the NBA, NFL, MLB, WBO and other professional sports organization and thousands of youth. 

 The creative business strategist has led POWERHANDZ to e-commerce giants like Amazon, Walmart and Target, Academy Sports. She’s also created the Power to Give Foundation, a non-profit that provides athletic and academic programs to youth athletes in underserved communities. The foundation has partnered with the NFL, NBA, Boys & Girls Club, and other notable organizations.

Our guest Marty has spent the last twenty plus years working in sports, predominantly in the NHL and MLB, now the Vice President of Ticket Sales and Service for the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Marcus has been in the sports industry for over 20 years with a diverse background spending time in all five top professional sports leagues, the WNBA to now for the previous 3 and a half years leading NCAA sales and service programs for universities under Learfield IMG College Ticket Solutions. 

David has spent 13 years working in the sports and entertainment industry currently the Director of Premium Sales and Entertainment for the Jacksonville Jaguars and Daily’s Place Amphitheatre. 

Chad has spent over 20 years working in and around the sports industry, starting in minor league hockey growing through different leagues and teams, to pivot and give back helping candidates on the search side of the business.  

Casey has spent the last twenty years working in and around the sports industry and the advertising world, currently working in partnerships with the 2020 Eastern Conference Champion Miami Heat.

John has spent almost 15 years building something special in Hudl, a technology company that supports both coaches and athletes.

Diana has spent almost 15 years in the executive search field helping talent and organizations within the sports, entertainment and media industry find a great match.  

Named to the Sports Business Journal 2020 "Game Changers: Women in Sports Business"

Tim has spent over 15 years in the sports industry, with a diverse background in minor league hockey, the NCAA and currently leading the leading Premium and Ticket Revenue for the inaugural year of NFL Football in Las Vegas with the Raiders.