Host Beau Estes is joined by Sacramento Kings Assistant Coach, Former WNBA #1 Overall Pick and Duke Athletics Hall of Fame Member Lindsay Harding, UNLV Athletic Director Desiree Reed-Francois, and Assistant GM of the Capital City Go-Go (Washington Wizards NBA G-League Affiliate Team) Amber Nichols. Today’s episode features another recorded roundtable discussion recorded live on the SBC Web Show.

On the show, the panel discussed their professional journeys in the sports industry, what employers can do to make leadership opportunities more competitively available to women, as well as progress that has already been made and how much further we need to go.

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SHOW NOTES

• What can we do to become a more inclusive society (4:40)
• Amber speaks on some of the principals that she has learned regarding diversity (8:40)
• What can employers do to ensure that every leadership opportunity is available for woman (9:06)
• Lindsey shares the steps she’s taken to get to the position she is today (11:30)
• What Amber thinks is an important thing for employers to do to help ensure equal opportunity (14:15)
• Desiree shares her perspective of what her job is like in 2020 (16:00)
• Lindsey shares her perspective of how women are treated in the WNBA (18:00)
• Amber’s view from her position as a young woman in sports (20:00)
• Lindsey explains the progress of women in leadership roles in the NBA since graduating high school (22:09)
• What is the progress Amber has seen in today’s society and what does she want to see happen in the future (24:52)
• Desiree describes the change she has seen in leadership roles since law school (26:19)
• Amber talks about what she has learned from SBC that will help lift up other students (30:30)
• Desiree shares advice for what students, women in particular, during the pandemic (32:20)
• Lindsey shares what students can be doing now to get ahead (34:30)