Feb. 28, 2022 (NEW YORK) – Excel Sports Management, an industry-leading sports agency that represents iconic talent, blue-chip brands and marquee properties, has agreed to acquire sports and entertainment executive search firm Nolan Partners. Nolan Partners will continue to be…
In Sports Business Journal’s 2019 ranking of the 50 most influential people in sports business, commissioners reigned supreme, with the leaders of MLB, the NBA, NFL and NHL all ranked in the top seven spots. (MLS Commissioner Don Garber came…
To celebrate International Women’s Day, The Sponsorship Space asked Nolan Partners’ Carolyne Savini and 29 other female executives to offer their advice for the next generation of female marketers and to share what they might do differently if they were…
We say it all the time in the sports industry: “This is a people and relationship business.” People are a company’s key strategic advantage. Your competitors can build similar products, but they can’t clone your people. Your talent and culture…
Chad Biagini, Nolan Partners’ Global Head of Sport and MD North America, discusses a common challenge in organizations: how inertia from group think – the pressure to conform in a group - can interfere with individual critical thinking, resulting in…
Paul Nolan, Group Managing Director of Nolan Partners, discusses how technology disruptions are currently shaping the future of recruiting, but argues that these disruptions aren’t all good. Despite the promise big data offers, AI, machine-learning and other technology-based advances…
Nolan Partners’ Global Head of Performance, Stewart King, is interviewed in The Telegraph about the importance of the Sporting Director/Technical Director; how this established model in North America pro sport is now becoming standard in the English Premier League and…
In what is seen as a growing trend, sports teams continue to look outside their respective leagues – and countries – to find executive talent. Chad Biagini of Nolan Partners sits down with Hunt Scanlon Media to discuss transferring sports…
Could Gareth Southgate and Dan Ashworth’s success this summer be indicative of how the game is developing in England? Their attention to detail, meticulous planning and the use of a well thought through and holistic performance strategy, could be seen…
No manager, no players, no permanent stadium, no training ground, no offices or general infrastructure. And not even a team name. It is alien to the fluid nature of English football that you could be given 20 months to create…
