On this week's episode Sean catches up with Nick Holland from the EJ Whitten Foundation as part of the Sports Geek Podcast CEO Series. Sean chats with Nick about football, law, governance and blockbusters.
On this podcast you'll learn about:
- Nick's background as a professional footballer and how he prepared for life after sport whilst still playing AFL by studying law
- Nick's experience in sports law working on the Essendon case and working in sports governance for Australian Sports Commission
- Nick's involvement working on Nitro Athletics whilst at Athletics Australia and building a blockbuster event
- Nick joining the EJ Whitten Foundation and it's aim to raise awareness about prostate cancer whilst still working on big sporting events
- The EJ Whitten Legends Game as their marquee event of the year and what strategies they are using to take it to the next level
- How Sports Geek worked with EJ Whitten Foundation to increase raise the brand awareness and reach for the game
- How they tripled the donations from 2016
Resources from the podcast
- Thanks again to Nick Holland from EJ Whitten Foundation, follow him on Twitter @NickHolland02 and LinkedIn
- Follow EJ Whitten Foundation on Twitter @EJLegendsGame, Facebook and Instagram
- Buy your tickets to the EJ Whitten AFL Grand Final lunch
- Interested in the Blockbuster book Nick mentioned? Buy it here
- Attend #SBWeek17 sports business networking event in your part of the world.
- Other Sports Geek podcast episodes you might be interested in:
- Make a donation to the EJ Whitten Foundation
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Some tweets you may have missed
What a finish!
Can you believe the finish?! #EJWhittenLegendsGame pic.twitter.com/E2cAn803sE
— AFL (@AFL) September 1, 2017
Time to test
What a great night at #ejwhittenlegendsgame now it's time to test. To donate https://t.co/hPcrI6d7YZ pic.twitter.com/Oz2ETKNI7V
— Nick Holland (@nickholland02) September 1, 2017
Donate to save a life
If you felt good last night imagine how great you'd feel donating to save a life. Donate now text: LEGEND to 0477 333 444 pic.twitter.com/jZ9u5eEOW0
— EJW Legends Game (@EJLegendsGame) September 1, 2017
AFL greats back on the main stage
A collection of AFL greats return to the field for @EJLegendsGame to raise awareness for #menshealth 7.30pm AEST 7 7mate 💪🏉👏🏃🏻#EJWhitten pic.twitter.com/nkhRSA34vQ
— Channel 7 (@Channel7) September 1, 2017
Mr Football
EJ Snr – 84 Today, great memories pic.twitter.com/pNAMNHhNX7
— EJW Legends Game (@EJLegendsGame) July 27, 2017
Donate to EJ Whitten Foundation
Meet the CrowBot
Last week we launched CrowBot for the Adelaide Crows, the first AFL club to launch a Messenger Bot.
Learn more about CrowBot from Adelaide Crows, congrats to Kieron Turner and the Crows digital team in helping us pulling it together. We built the CrowBot in partnership with Tradable Bits as part of our Sports Geek Campaigns partnership. Stay tuned for more campaigns and chatbots as part of this partnership. Interested in getting your team a chatbot? Contact us.
Meet CrowBot, our new Facebook Messenger #ChatBot: https://t.co/Wjzeyi9nuC #weflyasone pic.twitter.com/O8DnLAKZ0O
— Adelaide Crows (@Adelaide_FC) September 7, 2017
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