General Sports Worldwide
Executive Search and Training
Sourcing the highest quality candidates from across the world, ensuring an excellent fit.
Sourcing the highest quality candidates from across the world, ensuring an excellent fit.
Leveraging our global network of sports industry connections and multi-sport experience to identify the best candidates to join their organizations. We ensure candidates are the best fit for our clients.
Using our extensive senior level experience of successfully overseeing sports business operations across multiple sports, leagues, teams, and venues to work hand-in-hand with clients to improve their business operations by sharing our experiences and best practices.
Combining our network and experience we help organizations identify the best candidates. During the process we ensure thorough consideration of: Culture fit, Leadership Style, DEI, Capabilities, Talent Evaluation and Personality Fit.
We provide our client’s leaders with tools to train, develop, and retain their staff. We also train Sales Teams to ensure an efficient and effective function that drives revenue opportunities.
Through each of our services we consider our clients and candidates Career Development. We have expanded our efforts here by purchasing theClubhouse® website. A career development platform for aspiring sports business professionals
Using our extensive senior level experience of successfully overseeing sports business operations across multiple sports, leagues, teams, and venues to work hand-in-hand with clients to improve their business operations by sharing our experiences and best practices.
Combining our network and experience we help organizations identify the best candidates. During the process we ensure thorough consideration of: Culture fit, Leadership Style, DEI, Capabilities, Talent Evaluation and Personality Fit.
We provide our client’s leaders with tools to train, develop, and retain their staff. We also train Sales Teams to ensure an efficient and effective function that drives revenue opportunities.
Through each of our services we consider our clients and candidates Career Development. We have expanded our efforts here by purchasing theClubhouse® website. A career development platform for aspiring sports business professionals
Many companies invest in sales training but neglect to set their leaders up for future success. We will provide your leadership with additional tools to train, develop, and retain their staff while maintaining the momentum from the training, ensuring your leadership team receives professional development as well.
We share key learnings and best practices from across the sports and entertainment industry in addition to our personal experience having “walked a mile in their shoes”.
We help our clients improve their business operations through consulting in these areas: Structure, Systems, and Staffing Review, Operations Diagnostic, Revenue Generation Analysis, Marketing & Brand Strategy, Ticketing RFP Assistance, Guest Experience Evaluation, Talent Evaluation, Culture Analysis, Entertainment Evaluation and more.
theClubhouse® is a new destination for current and aspiring sports business professionals. Here people can connect with each other, find or become mentors, share tips on sports industry success, learn about the hottest topics in sports business and get what they need to succeed in the sports industry.
Lou DePaoli
President, Executive Search and Team Consulting
Cuyler Holmquist
Vice President, Executive Search, Strategic Consulting & Analytics
Ryan Picou
Vice President, Executive Search and Team Consulting
Brock Appleby
Manager, Executive Search and Team Consulting
Kayla Lawson
Senior Manager, Executive Search and Team Consulting
Successfully placed on behalf of our clients; averaging 1 placement per week.
Of the total candidates we placed 40% were of a diverse background.
Entrusting us to work with them on executive search, consulting, training, or a combination of each.
For US and Canada sports organizations – providing Leadership and Sales Training
Successfully placed on behalf of our clients; averaging 1 placement per week.
Of the total candidates we placed 40% were of a diverse background.
Entrusting us to work with them on executive search, consulting, training, or a combination of each.
For US and Canada sports organizations – providing Leadership and Sales Training
“General Sports Worldwide has been a key factor in our efforts to grow our business. They have placed one SVP and three VP roles for our leadership team, while also filling in numerous Director roles, and their year-long training program for our leaders and sellers has been exceptional. Their experience, hustle, network, and training abilities make them very unique. We highly recommend GSW and look forward to continuing our relationship with them for years to come.” – Peter Kent, Chief Commercial Officer, Invited Clubs