Planning for an Athletes First Future — What is a National Olympic Committee (NOC)? NOC is a national constituent of the worldwide Olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, NOCs are responsible for organizing their people’s participation in the Olympic Games. In addition, they may nominate cities within their respective areas as candidates…

An Olympic Design System for Impact at Scale — In the post covid era, we all find our self’s living in two worlds. One world has the resources to keep growing its fortunes and the other world is playing catch up. And the gap between these two worlds is only growing. How can the Olympic phenomenon set the stage…

The next discussion on asset ownership In the pure sense of the term, ownership is to hold rights on assets and thus be able to keep, sell, transfer, or exchange them. We have been doing this for centuries for tangible goods, real estate, and more of any type since the…

Developing a Brand-Design Studio — Since the dawn of humankind, symbols and marks have been a way to express one’s identity, place and state of mind. The Olympic Rings along with the flag of Greece were my first references to symbol synonyms with self-identity. At the age of 16, I was first exposed — in…

What to be asking the leaders of tomorrow, today? — Typically, education programs focus on data delivery and miss their main objective — engaging students. How can an Olympic education program engage and inspire students? First, it needs to understand students fully.

150 years in the making! 2021 marks 150 years of the city that hosts the majoriy of the US Olympic and Paralympic Movements organizations, training sites and museum. The story begins sometime after the end of the US Civil war in the dawn of the industrial era as visionary ex-generals…

Stories to know Over the past year I dedicated time to learn more about people I am inspired by and what they do. Here is what I found! Tara Fortier In April of 2006, I was at Yale. This was my first memory of Tara amazing me with a suspension one leg…

Rethinking, Redefining — In the past year, the COVID-19 crisis has made the business imperative of making changes in education clear. In 2020, we all realized that we will need to tackle tomorrow’s problems — like climate change and global health — now. Nations need to alight efforts as our problems today transcend…

Big picture thinking, small steps doing. I knew nothing about AI for a very long time. My background was in sports. From a very young age, I worked at the Olympic Games. Ten thousand plus athletes, two hundred plus counties, billions of dollars in the making and the world watching…