Case Studies
Preserving Relationships While Resolving Disputes: Strategic Mediation Across Sports
Across professional, Olympic, and collegiate sports, conflicts threaten performance, relationships, and careers daily. Thr...
Elevating Sports Agent Negotiation Excellence Through Systematic Capability Building
When a leading global sports agency recognized that inconsistent negotiation approaches across their agent teams were limi...
Transforming Revenue Generation Through Strategic Negotiation Capability Building
When a professional basketball franchise recognized that inconsistent negotiation practices were limiting partnership reve...
Proactive Cultural Assessment Reveals Hidden Vulnerabilities in Division I Athletics
Following concerning incidents and recognizing potential systemic vulnerabilities, a major Division I athletics program en...
Restoring Trust After Crisis: Systematic Response to Institutional Hazing Through Assessment and Restorative Justice
When a major athletic department confronted evidence of systematic hazing across multiple teams, traditional punitive resp...
Protecting Multi-Million Dollar Investments: Systematic Acculturation for International Athletes
A professional soccer league faced mounting evidence that cultural adaptation failures were undermining multi-million doll...
Transforming Student-Athlete Assessment Systems: From Compliance to Championship Culture
When a major Division I athletic department struggled with ineffective post-season assessments yielding minimal actionable...
Building Championship Culture Through Collaborative Accountability Systems in Division I Football
A Division I football program facing escalating behavioral issues and accusations of cultural dysfunction engaged Sports C...
Bridging Labor-Management Divides Through Strategic Education and Shared Framework Development
A regional labor and employment relations association faced the challenge of delivering valuable content to an audience de...
Resolving Community Opposition to Major Sporting Event Changes Through Stakeholder Alignment
When a major metropolitan marathon implemented substantial route changes, the resulting community backlash threatened to d...
Blind and Visually Impaired Athlete Inclusion Project
When a qualified blind high school wrestler was prevented from competing in post-season competition despite meeting all at...
Optimizing Elite Collegiate Tennis Performance Through Behavioral Assessment and Cultural Alignment
A Division I women’s tennis program with a complex roster composition—international recruits, transfer athletes, and...
Achieving Historic Performance in Collegiate Golf Through Individual Optimization and Team Alignment
A nationally-ranked Division I women’s golf program sought to elevate both individual and team performance despite a...
Transforming Public Space Conflict Through Multi-Stakeholder Mediation and Interest-Based Negotiation
When competing recreational sports organizations escalated their dispute over shared public park space to political mobili...
Building Organizational Ombuds Capability in Professional Football Player Development
An NFL team’s player development department sought to enhance their capability to manage the complex personal, profe...
Developing Sustainable Conflict Resolution Capability in Student-Athlete Leadership Through Train-the-Trainer Programs
A Division I athletic program’s student-athlete advisory council sought to enhance their capacity to address conflic...
Realigning Behavioral Incentives in Student-Athlete Development Through Data-Driven System Redesign
A Division I athletic program discovered their comprehensive student-athlete development point system was inadvertently re...
Integrating Cognitive and Emotional Development into Youth Sports Camps Through Systematic Observation
A nationally-recognized youth basketball camp sought to enhance its programming beyond traditional skill development to in...
Reimagining Sportsmanship Policy Through Stakeholder-Driven Assessment and Design
A Division I athletics department recognized their existing sportsmanship policy had become disconnected from daily practi...
Transforming Racial Conflict into Educational Partnership Through Strategic Mediation
When a heated public exchange between a prominent collegiate coach and community members escalated to allegations of racia...
Building America’s First Youth Sports Ombuds Program: Systematic Conflict Prevention at Scale
When a large youth sports organization serving thousands of participants faced escalating conflicts across multiple sports...