E133: Nic Coward

Nic Coward currently chairs UK Athletics and England Golf and several other organisations both in and beyond sport. He began his career working as a lawyer for The FA and has since held leadership roles at many of the UK’s biggest sports rights holders including the Premier League, British Horseracing Authority and he advises an array of international rights holders across motorsport, football and a host of others. So it’s fair to say he’s thought long and hard about how sport works and when it doesn’t. This is a conversation about many different things, including people’s relationship with change, the effectiveness of sports organisations and the day to day job of leadership.If you like the podcasts, you’d really like the weekly Unofficial Partner newsletter, which goes in to greater depth on the topics and themes raised in the podcasts. You can sign up to that via UnofficialPartner.com where you can also delve in to the back catalogue of around 130 previous podcast conversations.Unofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of sport. A mix of entertaining and thought provoking conversations with a who's who of the global industry. To join our community of listeners, sign up to the weekly UP Newsletter and follow us on Twitter and TikTok at @UnofficialPartnerWe publish two podcasts each week, on Tuesday and Friday. These are deep conversations with smart people from inside and outside sport. Our entire back catalogue of 500 sports business conversations are available free of charge here. Each pod is available by searching for ‘Unofficial Partner’ on Apple, Spotify and every podcast app. If you’re interested in collaborating with Unofficial Partner to create one-off podcasts or series and live events, you can reach us via the website.