How WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert is Seizing Soaring Momentum

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🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Episode 359: WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert joins Morning Brew Daily and explains how the league is ready to capitalize on their major momentum. Commissioner Engelbert discusses player pay and how they are working to increase league paychecks through sponsorship deals and media rights contracts. Plus she gets into how this year's rookie class including Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have brought a massive amount of media attention and how front offices and investors are trying to parlay that into popularity for years to come. Finally Cathy discusses her previous role at Deloitte as CEO and even what corporate lingo she things is the cringiest. Expand your world with Meta AI. Now on Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook and Messenger. Get your Morning Brew Daily Mug HERE: https://shop.morningbrew.com/products/morning-brew-daily-mug?utm_medium=youtube&utm_source=mbd&utm_campaign=mug Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://link.chtbl.com/MBD Watch Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have a question or need how to advice. Just ask Meta a I whether you want to design a marathon training program or learn what planets are visible in tonight's sky
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0:13.0	Good morning for your daily show.
0:17.0	I'm Neil Freiman.
0:18.0	And I'm Toby Howell.
0:19.0	Today emerge from your hot dog coma with a special interview episode from MBD.
0:23.6	You'll hear from the head of one of the fastest growing businesses in the world,
0:27.0	W. M.A. Commissioner Kathy Engelbert.
0:29.7	It's Friday, July 5th.
0:31.6	Let's ride.
0:37.1	The WMBA is on a roll.
0:39.4	Now in its 28 season, the League reported its highest
0:42.2	attended opening month since the 90s and
0:44.4	had its most watch start of the season across TV networks. It's clear that
0:48.7	Caitlin Clark and the rest of a star-studded rookie class is drawing a lot more eyeballs to the
0:53.7	W MBA. So how do you capitalize on that momentum? There's no better person to
0:58.4	ask than the Commission herself Kathy Engelbert. She joined Morningbrough
1:02.0	Daily to talk the Caitlin Clark effect, how she plans on fixing low pay for players, and career advice from her 33 years at Deloitte, where she rose to the ranks to become CEO.
1:12.0	It was a fascinating conversation about a business that finds itself
1:14.8	at the center of so many emerging trends
1:17.2	and how a leader thinks about navigating them.
1:19.6	You're gonna enjoy the heck out of it.
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