#19 Great British Bosses: David Grevemberg, Commonwealth Games

This is the podcast that speaks to the men and women at the top of their game, at the head of their sport, making decisions behind the scenes that impact on everyone - staff, volunteers, athletes, supporters and you! This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy! In this episode, we hear from David Grevemberg CEO of the Commonwealth Games Federation about the future of multi-sport events like the Olympics, Paralympics and Commonwealths. He thinks the pandemic of 2020 will change the way everyone thinks about these events and how they're staged. He's told us nothing is off the table in terms of the future staging of his event, and thinks it'll be similar in the corridors of power at the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee, where he used to work in Bonn. David, now an honorary Scot after organising and delivering the Glasgow 2014 Games so successfully, admits he regrets not ensuring Birmingham 2022 had the right diversity on the board for the next instalment of the games in 2 years time and has promised change now and in the future. Find out how the one time schoolboy in Louisiana, worked his way up to the top job in the Commonwealth, via wrestling and being an agent, and how he really feels about working from home in lockdown - "you’re living at work"! If you like this episode, please subscribe and there's 18 more stories from the key decision makers in British Sport to download too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices