Ep. 54 – Sport & Social Group President, Rob Davies
Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold
Second in Command with Cameron Herold
4.9 • 224 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The leadership dynamics of a CEO and COO can be likened to parents. You bicker behind the scene, but come out with a united front. Our guest for today, Rob Davies, is the President of Sport & Social Group. Sport & Social Group hosts sports leagues and events...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Second in Command, brought to you by COO Alliance, where top-level |
| 0:07.3 | COOs share their insights, tactics, and strategies that made them the chief behind the chief. And now, here and now here's your host, Cameron Herald. |
| 0:14.0 | Rob Davies is president. |
| 0:17.0 | Rob Davies is president of the Sport and Social Group. The Sport and Social Group |
| 0:25.4 | hosts sports leagues and events for adults. After graduating from Queens |
| 0:29.8 | University and Wilford Loyer, Rob began a career in management consulting, which he found particularly |
| 0:34.8 | spirit-crushing. |
| 0:36.4 | When he found the Sport and Social Club in its early years, he loved the entrepreneurial |
| 0:40.9 | feel and industry vibe. |
| 0:42.7 | Starting from three employees and 200 teams, |
| 0:45.6 | the Sport and Social Group has grown to host 10,000 teams |
| 0:49.2 | playing across seven markets, |
| 0:51.1 | and they have a goal of hitting 1 million members and are well on |
| 0:53.8 | their way to scaling the organization. Rob has been with the organization now for |
| 0:57.8 | 19 years as their second in command. So Rob, welcome to the Second in Command |
| 1:02.0 | podcast. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, thanks, Cameron. |
| 1:04.0 | Thrilled to be chatting with you today. |
| 1:06.0 | I think we've got a lot of fun stuff to talk about, starting with your sister. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, I was going to say, this has been interesting because I've been hearing of your name and met you a couple times, but I've heard of your name so many times because my sister is the CEO of the Sport and Social Group and has been running it now for about 20 years. |
| 1:24.4 | And I remember when you joined her and she was excited. |
| 1:28.6 | And then I remember the phone call where she really was trying to figure out how could she keep you forever. |
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