The Sport Performance Summit

Luke enters his second season as head coach of the LA Lakers, and is tasked with rebuilding one of the NBA’s most successful ever franchises. In his first season at the helm, the team’s win total improved by nine games from the 2015-16 season, and his fast-paced, ball movement-focused offense resulted in an average of 104.7 points per game, the most by a Laker team since the 2008-09 season. Luke re-joined the Lakers after spending two seasons as an assistant coach on Steve Kerr’s staff with the Golden State Warriors, where they appeared in back-to-back NBA Finals, winning the NBA Championship in 2015.

What to expect?

• How is the coaching landscape changing?
• What are and how do you handle the pressures of being a young, first time coach?
• What are some of the key processes and approaches to rebuilding an organisation?
• Instilling winning mind-sets.

Amy is the Global Head of Learning & Development at Facebook where she has been at the organization since 2014. Amy has held various human resources and learning positions including Director and L &D Leader at PwC in Boston, London, and New York.

What to expect?

• How does one of the world’s biggest organizations work to get the best out of their talent? What are some of the processes?
• The importance of culture in this equation. How Facebook prevents stagnation by constantly scaling their culture…
• Case study from one of the biggest companies in the world.

Jim is a world renowned film producer and director, famously known for his work on Robin Hood (2010), Friday Night Lights (2004), The Finest Hours (2016) and A Wrinkle in Time (2018). Jim has been the Producer & Chairman at Whitaker Entertainment since 2010, after spending 16 years as President of Motion Picture Production. Jim Whitaker is also the founder and director of Project Rebirth. When he visited Ground Zero shortly after September 11, 2001, he was struck by the determination and resolve that he witnessed in the first responders and volunteers, and felt strongly that the process of rebuilding and recovery should be captured on film. Since 2002, Rebirth’s 14 time-lapse cameras have recorded the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site and chronicled the lives of nine people coping with 9/11.

What to expect?

• The art of storytelling and what sport can learn from his approach?
• What are some of the key processes and approaches to rebuilding an organisation?
• How human dynamics and emotions are portrayed within a character?
• How a film producer and director takes a vision and turns it into a reality.

Jeanne is the Senior Technology Advisor to the Mayor in the City of Los Angeles, where she works with teams throughout City government to develop breakthrough innovations to drive transformation. Prior to her role with the City of Los Angeles, Jeanne was the former Chief Knowledge Architect for NASA and ‘Tech Evangelist’ at The White House under President Obama.

What to expect?

• The Leaders Performance Institute network has identified the evaluation and implementation of new technologies the #1 biggest challenge for 2018.
• Formerly of NASA and the White House, Jeanne Holm has 20 years’ experience in dealing with exactly this.
• What are the processes and systems to make better decisions?

Brandon is a writer, performer, stage director and improv teacher in Los Angeles after 10 years doing all those things in New York. Brandon is a member of the UCB TourCo All-Stars with whom he occasionally performs and teaches workshops across the country. Brandon has been an instructor at UCB since 2009 and has taught workshops in improvisation at theaters and Universities around the world.

Hikaru Nakamura is an American chess Grandmaster. Hikaru is rated #1 in the United States and is the current world number eight by FIDE. What makes his style unique is the aggression, determination and will to win at all costs, while playing highly entertaining and combative chess. Hikaru has 33 titles to his name since starting his professional career in 2003.

What to expect?

• A look into elite performers from outside of sport.
• Decision making when you cannot control all of the variables.
• Processes to evaluating risk in competitive / high stress situations.

Ari has been a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre since 1997. He has been teaching at UCB since 2001 and has performed tens of thousands of hours of comedy at the organization. Alongside his work with UCB, Ari has contributed to Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update and has written for GQ, Grantland, SPY, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly and many other magazines.