Sports, Media, Entertainment
The sports, media and entertainment industry experiences an ongoing process of professionalisation and digitalisation while public interest, opportunity perception but also scrutiny from investors are on the rise.
Sports teams and organisations are run like corporate entities and embed the typical functions across finance, sales and marketing, digital and communication, legal, merchandising and licensing, corporate partnerships as well as the core areas of youth and talent development. In addition, an often slightly independent organisation built around the professional sports teams is operating 24/7 and across different locations.
Strong leadership and innovation to navigate the business in a transformation process
The entertainment industry is experiencing unprecedented levels of disruption and opportunity. The vast distribution power of emerging platforms and new global ways of communication are driving change and transformation at a fast pace.
We support clients in the following main areas:
- Professional Sports Teams, Associations and Leagues
- Media and Entertainment
- Start-up’s, Games and technology-based applications
Executive search at Professional Sports Teams and Organisations
We provide our clients with thought-provoking insights and extensive networks to address their most pressing leadership challenges. Sports is closely linked with emotions, and as such it is truly important to have structured decision-making processes, succession and scenario plans in place to act and respond facts and data based to ever changing situations in this highly dynamic environment.
Building robust and strong team cultures
As on the sportsground and in the changing room, leadership, organisational culture and team-spirit are crucial for sports executive teams at the C-suite level. The same applies for the entertainment industry where creativity meets rational business planning and daily operational realities. These are stretch assignments which demand strong team-cultures that we are helping organisations to build and understand.
Governance audits and board appointments
Media attention, regulation and public scrutiny are often intense and create additional demands and requests for executive teams. We help to put robust governance structures in place and to strengthen the board with competencies in the core business but also across the commercial and legal dimensions of the business.