Power of operational efficiency for a football club | Lessons from Laurent Colette

Laurent Colette, former Group COO of Right to Dream, shares insights on building efficient operational systems for football clubs to achieve sustainable growth.

Laurent Colette, former Group COO of Right to Dream, shares insights on building efficient operational systems for football clubs to achieve sustainable growth.

The Sports Director Checklist is a strategic framework designed to empower football leaders in crafting vision, aligning culture, optimizing performance, and driving innovation to build sustainable success on and off the pitch.

Storytelling enables leaders to connect with diverse stakeholders—turns strategy into action, engages people emotionally, and helps everyone involved understand where the team or organization is headed and why they should care.

For any football club, a successful youth development strategy is essential both for sporting success and also for long-term financial sustainability.

Leadership in sports requires adaptability, emotional intelligence, and the ability to guide teams through different challenges. Understanding and applying the right leadership style at the right time is essential to driving high performance.

Discover the essential questions every Sporting Director must ask to create a recruitment strategy that aligns with club culture, business goals, and on-field success.

In today’s competitive football world, clubs often struggle to balance financial sustainability with success on the pitch. For clubs outside the top-tier elite, relying solely on revenue from commercial deals and broadcasting rights isn’t enough. Southampton FC, under the technical…
Fearlessly accepting the challenge, he embraced the role of a sporting director with a vision to shape the club's destiny. The wheels were set in motion, and thus commenced Luis Roggiero's incredible journey with Independiente del Valle.

Bundesliga's record champions, are coming off a strange season. While they did claim their 11th consecutive league title, they did so in an unusual fashion—by the skin of their teeth.

In this episode of FOCUS Talks, Ahmet Schaefer shared the most delicate parts of the achievements that they reached with Clermont Foot 63 and Austria Lustenau.