Impactful Strategic Thinking With The NCAA’s Mario Morris

Summary

• - How was being on the same football team as Sean Frazier back at Alabama?
• - You and Sean crossed paths again while you were working in Wisconsin - what were you doing at the time?
• - It's interesting the perspective we have at different stages of our lives... people are die-hard fans of their athletic department but aren't fans of the NCAA when in reality, their AD is probably the one actually making the decisions that they're bashing.
• - If you look at your background and bio, you see a lot of finance, budgeting and revenue generation... but your role now is more strategic thinking and how you can make things best for student-athletes. How did your earlier career experience lead to the strategic thinking you're doing now?
• - How much of the strategic thinking takes up your role today?
• - Is there someone in the organization who is the "keeper of the records" - who keeps track of the status of all projects, proposals and initiatives?
• - What are the things that are important to you? How have you evolved in terms of leadership and strategy? Where do you see yourself going?
• - Tell me more about consensus building.
• - You mentioned helping student-athletes understand who they are versus what they do; what was that like for you when you were playing at Alabama and why that became important to you.
• - You were hired by the former leader of the NCAA. Did the role get redefined for you under the new president?
• - Tell me about how the possibility of making an impact was a deciding factor in taking this role.
• - How did you specifically bring impact to these projects you're referencing?
• - Tell me about evaluating an opportunity in terms of the desire to be "treated well" because you can't measure that until you're fully in the situation.
• - Growth, impact and being treated well - is that the lens you use when you hire people? Do you try to ensure that you're providing those things to your team?