The ‘C-Suite’ Executive Leader in Sport: Contemporary Global Challenges for Elite Professionals

The ‘C-Suite’ Executive Leader in Sport explores the challenges of this unique role within elite professional sport.

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book blends academic theory with practitioner interviews from leading figures working a range of elite sporting disciplines and organisations, enhancing understanding of the C-Suite executive within the world of elite sports, where the exploration of the role remains ambiguous and conflicted.

The ‘C-Suite’ Executive Leader in Sport studies a range of issues including global sport governance and best practice, high performance organisations, masterminding innovation and change, diversity and inclusion, current and future key challenges faced by sports organisations, C-Suite leader education and professional development, and the future of the C-Suite leader in elite sport.

Examining the lived experience of C-Suite executives, contributors analyse how this relates to existing research, seeking to inform and challenge those individuals responsible for identification, recruitment and promotion of C-Suite sports industry personnel. The book’s findings have far reaching implications for analysis of C-Suite effectiveness and efficiency across sporting sectors.