Laying the (Leadership) Foundation

Ayanna Tweedy, Associate Director of Athletics & Samantha Current, Compliance and Business Operations Coordinator, joined the show this week. Lots of great nuggets from this conversation! While Stephanie and I have spent a lot of time on our needs based assessment, these two have spent more time on their logic model! Links: Ayanna: Twitter | Wabash Bio Samantha: Twitter | Wabash Bio Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

Lamarr Pottinger, Associate Director of Leadership Development at the NCAA, joins this week's show. We talk about his time as a student-athlete, his transition to student-athlete development, and his time as a participant and facilitator in NCAA Leadership Development programs. Links: Lamarr: Twitter | NCAA Bio Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

This week Jackie Kelly, Director for Student-Athlete Wellness, Outreach and Inclusion, & Marc Dauphin, Big Ten Intern, of Rutgers join the podcast. We talk about the Rutgers Leadership program, leadership programs for credit, their experiences in NCAA LAW and their new building! Links: Rutgers Leadership Development: Twitter | Instagram Jackie: Rutgers Bio Marc: Rutgers Bio Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

This week Chad Levesque joins the podcast. Chad is an assistant coach for the AIC baseball team as well as working in the Student-Athlete Success department at AIC. He is also pursuing a masters degree at Western New England University. Links: Chad: AIC Bio | Twitter Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

After a short break, we are back with an interview with Cori Pinkett from Baylor University. Lots of fantastic information in the episode. This is an episode that we had to go back and listen to multiple times! Links: Cori: BU Bio | Twitter Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

This week we are joined by Kayla Lee and Ryan Griffin of Bethune-Cookman. We find out who dragged who into the program, how their program is coming along and their thoughts of the NCAA LAW modules so far. Links: Kayla: BCU Bio Ryan: BCU Bio Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

After not talking about our formation group for 2 months, we give you an update as to what has been happening! Links: Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

We are joined by Shelby McKay, Assistant Director of Athletics, Student-Athlete Development, and Derrick Mitchell, Coordinator, Student-Athlete Development and Wellbeing from Washington State join us this week! In the episode, we the Cougar Pursuit, the NCAA LAW program (surprise, surprise) and much more! Links: Shelby: Twitter | WSU Bio Derrick: Twitter | WSU Bio Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

George Midgett, Director of Student-Athlete Development, Leadership and Outreach, and Ben Wilson, Director of Student-Athlete Development, of Kansas University join the show. We talked about their student-athlete development programs that are already in place, the NCAA Law program, and their formation group. George also tells us what he learned from his MySpace days! Links: Ben: KU Bio George: Twitter | KU Bio Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

Jenn Cunningham, Assistant Athletic Director/External Relations, SAAC Advisor and Nick Sailor, Director of Training and Education For Diversity, Equity And Inclusion of Providence College joins us for our longest episode yet! We talk about their backgrounds, how they are building more than one leadership program, their coaches listening tour and so much more! These two gave us so many fantastic ideas that we are excited to put into practice! Links: Jenn: Twitter | PC Bio Nick: Twitter | PC Bio Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

This week Amanda Ekabutr, Director of Student-Athlete Development/Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the University of Massachusetts (UMass). We discuss her road from Scottsdale Community College to UMass, its winding road, and the social justice movement from the summer of 2020 sparked by the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd. We round out the interview discussing her experience in the NCAA Leadership Academy Workshop Links: Amanda Ekabutr' UMass Bio Amanda Ekabutr's Twitter Stephanie Jarosik's Twitter Thomas Pool's Twitter

This week Dr. Jeff O'Brien, Vice President of the Institute for Sport and Social Justice, joins the podcast. We find out how he went from a working class family in Upstate New York to Vice President of ISSJ. We discuss some of his favorite moments of his career and how he helped build the NCAA Leadership Academy Workshop program. Links: Dr. Jeff O'Brien's ISSJ Bio Dr. Jeff O'Brien's Twitter Stephanie Jarosik's Twitter Thomas Pool's Twitter

Chad Allen, Director of Student-Athlete Development at Morgan State joins us this week. He talks about his time as college student-athlete, coach, and how he ended up in student-athlete development. Chad, Stephanie, and Thomas then talk about the NCAA Leadership Academy Workshop and how their program are coming along. Links: Chad Allen Morgan State Bio Chad Allen's Twitter Stephanie Jarosik's Twitter Thomas Pool's Twitter

This week we go over how our first formation group meeting went! We discuss how we finalized our mission and vision statement and the thought process that went into the process!

This week Stephanie and Thomas discuss what a needs base assessment is, why it is important, and we are expecting to learn from our assessment.

Stephanie Jarosik and Thomas Pool discuss their backgrounds and reasoning for applying for the NCAA Leadership Workshop Academy

This week Stephanie and Thomas discuss what a formation group is, how to put one together and why it is important!

This week Tobruk Blaine, the Beyond Football Coordinator at San Jose State, discusses her time as a high school teacher, how becoming a mother helped her be a better leader and about the Beyond Football program at SJSU. You can follow Tobruk's progress on social media on Twitter at @Tobrukblaine_TB or @SanJoseStateBF, or on Instagram at @SanJoseStateBF. SJSU Beyond Football Website