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C-Suite conversations on leadership, recruitment, onboarding and culture across global sport.<\/p>\n \n \n \n

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Sports and entertainment executive search specialists Nolan Partners speak to senior executives from LFP, the USTA, Dugout, the Chicago Cubs and the Toronto Blue Jays on their approaches to leadership, innovation, culture, and hiring best practice.<\/h4>\n

By James Emmett<\/h6>\n

The start of a new calendar year provides an opportunity to turn over a new leaf, begin afresh, make resolutions to be better, more fulfilled, happier, healthier, more successful.<\/p>\n

Individuals make personal vows to themselves, but the opportunity is there for organisations to refocus at this time of year too; to clarify purpose, update the corporate mission, breathe fresh life into a set of values, systems and behaviours that define organisational culture; to make plans, perhaps, to tweak the recruitment strategy and processes to reflect that evolution, that new ambition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no greater cultural signposts within an organisation than in the people it hires.\u201d The words belong to Paul Nolan, the eponymous chief of executive search firm Nolan Partners. Since 2006, Nolan\u2019s firm has conducted over 600 successful searches for executive positions at sports and entertainment organisations around the globe. Cultural fit, matching candidates not just on provable skillsets but on an intangible appropriateness for an organisation – a shared ethos \u2013 has become a speciality.<\/p>\n

In a series of \u2018C-Suite Conversations\u2019 recorded behind the scenes at the Leaders Sport Business Summit in New York in 2018, Nolan, alongside his colleagues Chad Biagini and Andrew Moss, talked to leaders of some of the most innovative organisations in the sports business to glean insight on how they define effective leadership in sport, how they hire for it, and how they\u2019ve adapted their recruitment processes to match their organisational ambitions to keep them ahead of the pack.<\/p>\n

Look for positivity, resolve and humility<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crane Kenney is President of Business Operations at the Chicago Cubs. The franchise is one of the founding baseball clubs in the US and the only one to remain in its home town. After an infamous 108-year drought, the Cubs finally won a World Series in 2016, and since that point, Kenney and his team have been busy capitalising on sporting success by harnessing the power of the Cubs\u2019 brand and the passion and loyalty of its fanbase to a set of enhanced business objectives and products that span the hospitality, entertainment and media gamut.<\/p>\n