For more than four decades, Jamie Reynolds has helped shape how millions of people experience live sports.
As a longtime ESPN executive producer, Jamie oversaw massive production teams across tennis, basketball and other major sporting events—where hundreds of people, competing creative perspectives and the unpredictability of live television all had to come together in real time.
His philosophy on leadership? “90% of my job is ego management.”
Jamie joins Jack Myers and Tim Spengler to unpack what years behind the scenes at ESPN taught him about building high-performing teams, managing creative personalities, trusting people to make decisions under pressure and preparing for moments when a sporting event suddenly becomes a news event.
He also shares stories from an extraordinary career: the Malice at the Palace, working with Bill Walton, Mike Ditka’s unexpected generosity, secretly adjusting the audio of John and Patrick McEnroe so viewers could tell their voices apart, and the evolution of the US Open into one of the great spectacles in sports.
Along the way, Jamie reflects on something increasingly rare in modern media: the power of experiencing an event together, in full, rather than reducing it to an 18-second highlight.
Lead Human explores what it takes to lead people—not just manage organizations—and why the greatest competitive advantage may come from unleashing human potential.
Subscribe and share the episode with someone who thinks deeply about leadership, storytelling or the future of sports and media.
Lead Human is hosted by Jack Myers & Tim Spengler, produced by Wondir Studios (Desta Wondirad), in association with Acast.
#Leadership #ESPN #SportsMedia #LiveSports #LeadHuman
","author_name":"Jack Myers"}