Black Men Matter Series: The Link Between Sports, Education, and Black Genius | Dr. Dwayne B. Thomas

In this episode of The Male Perspective, host Lana Reid sits down with Dr. Dwayne B. Thomas, founder of Thomas Leadership Solutions, LLC and The Academic, Coaching, Enrichment, & Sports (ACES) Network. A former United States Marine, educator, and leadership strategist, Thomas earned his doctorate from Florida State University while serving with the Florida Department of Education and has spent more than three decades working across education, sports, business, and leadership development at the local, national, and international levels.Over the years, Thomas has made the case that the strategic thinking celebrated on the field is often the same thinking dismissed in the classroom. He reflects on how his own early exposure to sports shaped the way he learned to think, long before those observations became frameworks such as SportsGenius™ and Same Brain, Different Genius™. The conversation also touches on a scorecard he developed to identify communities facing educational crisis and connect those conditions directly to athletic culture, arguing that communities which celebrate athletic achievement may also be sitting on untapped intellectual capital that has not been fully recognized.𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗿. 𝗗𝘄𝗮𝘆𝗻𝗲 𝗕. 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀:https://www.aces-network.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-dwayne-b-doc-thomas-ph-d-35054a61...𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗱 𝗮𝘁:https://linktr.ee/theladylanareid. ..𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻:Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/4019OO6Amazon Music - https://bit.ly/41UlLI2iHeart Radio - https://ihr.fm/3BOmdx4Pandora - https://bit.ly/3CezvD8Spotify - https://spoti.fi/40eoPxr🔔 Want to be a guest or have a guest idea? 📝 GUEST SUBMISSION FORM: https://forms.gle/owz3k5i3xpwzsEZs6#BlackAthletes #BlackStudents #BlackEducation #BlackLeadership #BlackVoices #CommunityLeadership #BlackScholars