Episode 13: Laurie Braden at LSU

Welcome to the Director Download, powered by Campus Rec Magazine. It’s time to go behind the curtain of the director role and have honest discussions with leaders in the campus recreation industry. In this episode, host Grady Sheffield, the director of campus recreation at Towson University and the senior advisor to the Campus Rec Mastermind Groups, gives you the listener real and authentic conversation between himself and special guest Laurie Braden, the executive director of University Recreation a Louisiana State University (LSU). With 30-plus years under her belt in the industry, Braden has found herself learning along the way. Whether it’s the challenge that was the COVID-19 pandemic, to the things she wouldn’t do differently, Braden gets vulnerable in sharing her takeaways. Plus, she goes into detail about the program Research in the Rec and how the “every campus is a park” mentality is changing the way UREC does things. All in all, the department is driven by service and the word “play” which Braden talks about in-depth. As you listen to the following conversation, get involved yourself. Ask what you can take away from it to apply to your leadership, department and more today.