Posts Tagged ‘Seminar’

Learn from the Best

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

This Saturday Diamond Sports will be presenting “The PreGame Show”, a sports career and education seminar, at the Bobby Valentine’s Sports Academy in Stamford, CT. Bobby Valentine, who will be the headline speaker, is one of the smartest most respected men in the world of sports. Aside from his many coaching accolades and successes in both the United States and Japan, Bobby Valentine has navigated the business world just as successfully. Bobby Valentine opened his first sports bar in 1980 in his hometown of Stamford. He also hold an immensely successful charity fund raiser in Fairfield Connecticut known as the “Bobby Valentine Celebrity Wine & Food Experience”.Valentine aside from being a successful manager in Japan also became one of the countries most popular and polarizing figures. He worked with several charities and was instrumental in aiding the education of young Japanese children.

At the seminar you can expect Bobby to share some of his insights on forward thinking that have made him so successful over the years. All attendees will be given the opportunity to ask questions to the panel and the best two questions will be awarded with a free lunch to Bobby Valentine’s Restaurant. For more information on registration please click here.

Saturday Double Feature

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

I have previously written on the benefits of seminars and workshops for students as well as professionals interested in the world of sports business. This Saturday Diamond Sports is hosting two great seminars back to back.

The first seminar is being presented by one of the top agents in the sports field, Bobby Barad, who will talk about his 20 years of experience being a sports agent. Well before the time of Jerry Maguire, the sports agent field was one of the most popular avenues of the sports business world. Bobby will be speaking about sports industry trends and developments as well as sharing some stories about representing some of the top players in all of sports including former AL rookie of the year Evan Longoria and World Champion second basement Robinson Cano. He will also stick around after for questions from the audience.

The next seminar is less area specific and will be more focused on the dramatically changing face of sports business as a whole. The landscape is shifting drastically with advanced technology and streaming media applications taking a much more active role in everyday business. Diamond Sports has embraced this change and will be showing live demonstrations of their own virtual studio and how it can be adapted to different businesses. This can also be a valuable tool for aspiring students as well as coaches and athletic directors.

For more information and how to register for these events please the upcoming events page of the Diamond Sports website.  For more information on the potential benefits of programs and some tips on how to extract the most from them please see my earlier blog post entitled “The value of seminars for students“.

I look forward to seeing you there!