Dr. Patty Raube Keller | Sport Administration Graduate Program Director | Boston College - One Question Leadership Podcast
One Question Leadership Podcast with Tai M. Brown
Release Date: 03/26/2025
Sean Frazier | VP of Athletics and Recreation | Northern Illinois University - One Question Leadership Podcast
One Question Leadership Podcast with Tai M. Brown
@1QLeadership Question: What exactly is the problem in college athletics? Sean Frazier, VP of Athletics and Recreation at NIU, discusses how and why the Huskies is restructured its conference affiliations, and also explores how new financial models can help sustain athletics without burdening the institution. Frazier explains NIU’s strategy to “decouple” football from its traditional all-sports conference, moving football to the Mountain West, Olympic sports to the Horizon League, and wrestling to the Pac-12 to reduce travel costs, increase media revenue, and better align...
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Charity Anderson | Assistant Athletics Director | UC San Diego - One Question Leadership Podcast
One Question Leadership Podcast with Tai M. Brown
How do you become indispensable to your athletics department and athletics director? , Assistant AD for Scholar-Athlete Success at UC San Diego, joins 1Q’s to offer insight into this question after serving for five years as an Executive Assistant to then-Tritons AD Earl Edwards. Anderson discusses the impact of collaboration and how she remains compassionately curious while staying rooted in her core values. 00:00 - Introduction 01:24 - You’ve been with the Titans for six years, including five years as executive assistant to the great Earl Edwards....
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Phil Wang | Sr. Associate AD for Externa Affairs | UC Irvine - One Question Leadership Podcast
One Question Leadership Podcast with Tai M. Brown
Question: What role do external partnerships, internal collaboration, and campus engagement play in growing the athletics program’s visibility, revenue, and fan base? From the 2024 PacNet Conference, , Sr. Associate Athletics Director for External Affairs at UC Irvine, talks about his almost 20 years at UCI. His transition from finance to external affairs, and how the department is maximizing automation and innovation with Learfield and Paciolan. Wang also covers collaboration with campus, the value of athletics within the university and broader community, and how the department...
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Dr. Marissa Nichols | Sr. Associate AD - Student-Athlete Experience | Cal - One Question Leadership Podcast
One Question Leadership Podcast with Tai M. Brown
Question: How can student-athlete development programs be effectively built and measured within collegiate athletics? Sr. Associate AD for Student-Athlete Experience and Director of the Cameron Institute at Cal, shares her approach to creating measurable student-athlete development initiatives—from conducting needs assessments and aligning with institutional strategic goals to setting clear metrics for measuring program outcomes like career placement, mental well-being, and alumni engagement. She also talks about the three skill sets she brings as a college athletics executive: ...
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Mimi Hill | Sr. Associate Athletics Director - Advancement | Hampton University - One Question Leadership Podcast
One Question Leadership Podcast with Tai M. Brown
Question: What are some useful elements of cultivation for fundraising in college athletics? Sr. Associate Athletics Director at Hampton University, talks with 1Q guest host about Hill's journey working in college athletics advancement. connect and listen to donors personalize your engagement cultivate each interaction Hill gives a few personal stories involving failure, success, mentorship and much more. - One Question Leadership Podcast - Tai M. Brown
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Brandon Fisher (UNT) and Colby Wilson (Pitt) | Former NCAA PGIP Interns - One Question Leadership Podcast
One Question Leadership Podcast with Tai M. Brown
Question: How can an internship directly impact your early years as a young professional? , Assistant Director of Student-Athlete Development at UNT, and , Assistant Director of Student-Athlete Development at Pitt, discuss the mindset and competencies they learned during the NCAA Post Graduate Internship Program, and now apply during their first full-time job as young professionals. Fisher - Understand how your supervisor operates Wilson - Advocate for yourself When asked where they see themselves in the future. Fisher wants to merge his passion for sport with his passion for leading...
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Dr. Jennifer Jacobs | Head Volleyball Coach | Augustana University - One Question Leadership Podcast
One Question Leadership Podcast with Tai M. Brown
Question: What role does leadership play in shaping feelings of inclusion (or exclusion) among Black women in college athletics administration? , Head Volleyball Coach at Augustana University, discusses her dissertation research outcomes after interviewing multiple Black women from all divisions of college athletics. One of the key findings is that the default for leadership is to be exclusionary, meaning helping people feel included is not automatic. There were no inclusionary moments that didn't have direct involvement with supervisors Inclusive leadership is an active process Dr. Jacobs...
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Caitlin Broadwell, APAA | Athletics Case Manager | Long Beach State - One Question Leadership Podcast
One Question Leadership Podcast with Tai M. Brown
Question: How can college athletics departments best support student-athletes in navigating the transition out of competitive sports, particularly in addressing the challenges of athlete identity and life after sports? , Athletics Case Manager at Long Beach State, discusses the curriculum used in a class for senior student-athletes on campus. The semester long class focuses on values, developing community, find hobbies away from sports, and other foundation building aspects that help athletes feel better prepared for retiring from competition and the inevitable "Athlete Identity...
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Henry Abbott | Journalist, Author, Founder | TrueHoop - Ballistic - One Question Leadership Podcast
One Question Leadership Podcast with Tai M. Brown
@1QLeadership Question: Are athlete injuries predictable? , Founder of TrueHoop, discusses his new book "" which follows the story of Dr. Marcus Elliott and the Peak Performance Project (P3). Abbott talks about how Dr. Elliott's research is being used by NBA athletes to prevent injury. Similar to the way biomarkers are used to inform of possible cardiac emergencies, P3 has developed a way to process data about body movement that can detect an impending athlete injury. Abbott also goes into the importance of storytelling and its impact on the world of sports. - One Question Leadership...
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Anthony Azama | Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs - Director of Athletics | WashU - One Question Leadership Podcast
One Question Leadership Podcast with Tai M. Brown
@1QLeadership Question: Is there a success blueprint for leadership in college athletics? Dr. Jacqui Schuman, Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics at UMASS-Boston, asks Anthony Azama, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Director of Athletics at WashU, about his blueprint for success as a leader in college athletics. Azama describes his view on college athletics and its benefits to all involved. Passion does not run on fumes the way purpose does College athletics teaches people how to respond to failure better than anybody else on a college campus Both Schuman and...
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Dr. Patty Raube Keller, Sports Administration Graduate Program Director at Boston College, discusses how her background and experiences shaped her approach to building the sports administration program. After working in college athletics, she transitioned to academia to be more present for her daughter. Her doctoral focus was on the marginalization of women in college athletics.
Raube Keller focuses on practical education as all classes in the program are taught by practitioners who work in sports. The program has a heavy emphasis on technical skills and soft skills as alumni work in all areas of sport. She also talks about the new graduate program in sports analytics. – One Question Leadership Podcst – Tai M. Brown