Athletes As Educators

On this podcast Angie Lewis interviews current and former athletes who are doing extraordinary things outside of sports. On episode 32 she interviews Daron K. Roberts, the founding director of the Center for Sports Leadership & Innovation (CSLi) at the University of Texas. He spent seven years as an NFL and college football coach after graduating from Harvard Law School. He has been featured in ESPN the Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek and Sports Illustrated. As a lecturer at The University of Texas, Daron focuses on teaching leadership to nearly 200 students each year. His courses: Leadership Strategy in Sports, Disruptive Innovation in Sports, Weaponry of Words and A Gameplan for Winning at Life, are highly sought after. In the fall before his third year at Harvard Law School, Roberts decided to pursue a career in football coaching and wrote letters to college and professional football teams. The Kansas City Chiefs offered Roberts a training camp internship. He leveraged that unpaid position into an ass