Tanya Vogel on Creating a Culture of Community

Tanya Vogel has been a distinguished leader in collegiate athletics for nearly 3 decades. Recently, she concluded her tenure as the Director of Athletics at George Washington University; she served in that position for 7 years. Her journey at GW began in 1992 as a student and All-American soccer player. She’s in GW’s hall of fame and she earned multiple degrees at GW including a BS, and MS, and an MBA. She’s also a recognized national figure; she’s served on key NCAA committees and chaired the Atlantic 10 Athletic Director’s Council.

Ashley Zaslav on Watershed Moments

Ashley Zaslav is the founder of Integrative Complexity, which is a high-performance coaching firm that works with made career high achievers ready to bet on themselves and test their potential. Ashley is an athlete, and she was a two-time captain of the Duke Women’s Soccer Team that was a national finalist in 2011. She competed globally with the US Youth National Team until she finished her career due to injuries.

Tiffany Thompson on Sparking Curiosity

Tiffany Thompson is a unique human being. Tiffany weaves the analytic rigor of her early career as a CIA analyst with the explorative creativity of her recording artist career. She is the founder and CEO of Artistic Leadership, which is a creative consultancy that uses the power of art to unlock creativity and connection.

Lauren Sisler on Learning from Tragedy

Lauren Sisler is an Emmy Award winning sports broadcaster, a former collegiate gymnast, an ESPN sideline reporter, an author, and a keynote speaker. While those accolades are super impressive and certainly her resume is impressive, this conversation gets into some of the challenges Lauren has faced personally.

Ruben Gonzalez on Olympic Mindset

Ruben Gonzalez is 61 years old and he is still attempting to make it to the next Olympics in the sport of luge. He’s competed in 4 different Olympics in the 3 different decades. He’s currently attempting to become the oldest Olympian to ever compete. He has experienced a lot in the sport of luge, but he’s also run with the bulls in Spain, he’s climbed Mount Kilimanjaro (the highest mountain in Africa), he was a torch bearer at the Salt Lake City Olympic Games, he has written books, he’s a keynote speaker, he is really a unique soul who is passionate.

Lindsay Czarniak on Sports Journalism

Lindsay Czarniak is an Emmy Award winning broadcaster who spent several years as the sports anchor and reporter for NBC Washington. After NBC, she decided to move to Connecticut, where she worked at ESPN from 2011-2017. She anchored SportsCenter, Sports Nation, and NASCAR Now. She’s also worked for the NFL on FOX and as a NASCAR reporter. Currently, she’s a freelancer, so she bounces around from different sporting events.

Zaza Pachulia on Consistent Authenticity

As I think about today’s conversation, it actually has less to do with Zaza Pachulia’s 16 years and over 1000 games that he played in the NBA, and more to do with his mindset and his curiosity and his desire to learn, grow, develop, be vulnerable, be willing to change, be willing to evolve, be willing to grow. At the core, that’s as much who Zaza is as winning 2 championship rings with the Golden State Warriors.

Chris Waddell on Embracing Vulnerability to Collaborate

Chris Waddell was Dalai Lama’s Unsung Hero for Compassion. He’s won 13 Paralympic medals. He’s in the Paralympic Hall of Fame. He’s in the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame. NPR credited him with one of the best graduation speeches ever for his keynote at Middlebury College in 2011. He has won more medals than any male monoskier in Paralympic history.

Devon Harris on Supreme Confidence

Devon Harris is an original member of the 1988 Jamaican bobsled team and captain of the 1992 and 1998 teams. He’s a 3-time Olympian, and he achieved something that he could only have dreamed of having been brought up in Kingston, Jamaica. And yes, Devon and his teammates were the inspiration for the movie Cool Runnings.

Dhani Jones on Exploring with Curiosity

Dhani Jones played football at the University of Michigan where he earned All-Big Ten Honors. He was selected in the 6th round of the NFL draft and he ended up playing 11 seasons, playing for the Philadelphia Eagles, the New York Giants, and finally for the Cincinnati Bengals. He’s not just a football player, he’s actually more of an artist; he’s an explorer, he has been a tv host with VH1 and with The Travel Channel and with CNBC, he is a venture capitalist and loves to make investments, he’s an entrepreneur, he loves to tinker and try new things.

Simon Mundie on Champion Thinking

Simon Mundie is on a mission to have discussions that reveal something important about life and how best to live it. He’s the host of the Life Lessons Podcast, and that’s where he uses that vehicle to learn from some of the best performers in the world about how they are not just successful at their craft, but what they’ve learned along the way, and even some of the dark sides that come with high achievement. He also worked for BBC Radio, where he covered sporting events like the World Cup and the Olympics.

Steve Clagett on High Performing Teams

Steve Clagett is the Director of Learning and Development with the Baltimore Ravens. Prior to arriving with the Ravens, he’s had quite a journey and quite an experience and a pretty incredible resume, which includes serving as a White House Fellow, where he got to interact with the President of the United States and a lot of other dignitaries and people that are making decisions that influence our daily lives. He also worked within the US Navy, rising to becoming a Lieutenant Commander where he also worked with the Navy SEAL Teams.

Mosheh Oinounou on True News

Mosheh Oinounou is an Emmy, Murrow, and Webby Award-winning Executive Producer. He worked in traditional news for quite some time. He was actually the youngest ever executive producer of the CBS Evening News in 2018 and 2019. He currently is the President of both Mo Digital and Mo News, where they provide a variety of outlets for us to digest content.

Topaz Adizes on Questions for Connection

Topaz Adizes is an Emmy Award winning writer, director, and experience design architect. Topaz is currently the founder and executive director of an experience design studio called “The Skin Deep,” which produces incredible, heartwarming, thoughtful, emotional videos that you can find on YouTube. His writing and directing works have been selected to Cannes, Sundance, IDFA, South by Southwest, and featured in New Yorker Magazine, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times.

Jared Freid on Stand-Up Comedy

Jared Freid is a comedian, he’s a podcaster, he’s a writer, he’s a TV host, and perhaps he may be best known at this point for his Netflix comedy special “Jared Freid: 37 and Single.” He’s also performed on TV; he’s been on The Today Show and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, so certainly he’s been on some big stages and arenas around the country.

Kyle Stark on Creating Culture

Kyle Stark spent a number of seasons in Major League Baseball. He started his career with the Cleveland Indians (now the Cleveland Guardians), and then went to the Pittsburgh Pirates for an amazing run. He started over there in 2007 and ended his run with the Pirates in 2019. In his 12 years with the Pittsburgh Pirates, he became the Assistant General Manager, he worked as the Vice President, and he started off in player development as a director.

Doug Lemov on Making People Better

Doug Lemov is the author of the International Bestseller Teach Like a Champion. Doug really does live at the intersection of sport and education, teaching and coaching, and that book, Teach Like a Champion, is now in its 3rd version and has had wild success, especially in the world of education and teaching and coaching. He also has written The Coach’s Guide to Teaching and is the co-author of many books. He’s a writer, he’s someone who likes to be with his computer and create theories, ideas, competencies, and concepts that can serve other people.

Jack Green on Wellbeing and High Performance

Jack Green is a Double Olympian, a formal global wellbeing lead, and a performance coach. His philosophy has become simple: if you are thriving personally, you will no doubt thrive professionally. He’s on a mission to help as many people as possible to be the best version of themselves.

Pablo Torre on Following Curiosity

Pablo Torre’s background involves deep journalism at Sports Illustrated as a staff writer and a fact checker. His work there won awards. He then went on to work at ESPN as a senior writer for both its website and its magazine. But you will probably recognize Pablo if you’re interested in sports because he has appeared on air quite a bit, whether it’s on the show Around the Horn as a regular contributor, or The Sports Reporters (which is what I grew up watching), or Pardon the Interruption with Tony Kornheiser, or even Outside the Lines or The Dan LeBatard Show.

Steve Shenbaum on Communication

Steve Shenbaum is the Founder and President of Game On Nation. For over 27 years, they’ve been helping sports teams, high performance organizations, government, and military personnel improve overall communication and relationship building by combining game-based exercises with practical techniques. Their end goal is to simplify the process and put words into action - moving from good to know to good to do - to enhance workplace behaviors, develop authentic connection, and improve overall team success.

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