U-M to offer leadership seminar featuring Brandon, Hoke, Beilein, Hutchins
U-M will offer a seminar titled "Leaders and Best: Winning the Leadership Game" in June. It will feature Dave Brandon, Brady Hoke, John Beilein, and Carole Hutchins (by far, the winningest coach in history of U-M athletics).
The seminar will be a six day executive education program that will teach business leadership through lessons learned in U-M sports. It will include game-play enactments, team activities, and wellness exercises at Michigan Stadium and the Davidson Player Development center.
Estimated cost: $14,900.
I thought this was going to be awesome until I saw it was going to be a business focused seminar and the cost. Still, pretty cool.
of my price range.
I'd like to see where the money goes. Sounds like they're using U-M facilities and there must be other speakers. I'd be interested to see how the revenue is distributed . . .
Can't get training like that in many places, but damn... I guess the combination of that many multi-million dollar contracts forces the price higher. I'm sure hoke gold is worth the cost of admission. Can I hope they tape it and put the tapes on late night infomercials?
THat is more than the cost to prepay a year at UM for my kid.
Lets play a game called "which one does not belong":
Which one does not belong: Dave Brandon, Brady Hoke, John Beilein, or Carole Hutchins?
Hint: The outsider is not a coach . . .
I bet a dollar that Brandon will make himself the keynote speaker.
At least a few got my point . . .
Yea. Why would Dave Brandon speak at a business leadership seminar? What does he know about running a business!??!!! /s
Will Mark Dantonio pop up mid-seminar to state that "OK, here's what we're going to do, we're going to get other people up here. We're going to talk about more than the University of Michigan."?
his mere presence would significantly reduce the price tag!
I read "U-M to offer..." and got all excited.
a lot of folks can write it off as a business expense..
except for people who are hit by the AMT, apparently. Was very excited to write off my wife's malpractice 'tail' insurance...who knew it wasn't eligible?
For the other 99%, read "BO's Lasting Lessons". Great book, same theme.
They can charge an exorbant fee because those speakers have valuable stuff to say, and because there are tens of thousands of people who would want to attend, they have to price discriminate some people out of attending.
Sucks I'm in the latter half.
I can't imagine that the speaking fees for Hoke and Beilein are cheap, let alone the chairman of a company as big as Domino's. I don't know how they usually price these types of things, but that might not be far off just adding quotes together.
Featuring Izzo, Dantonio, and Hollis.
They are calling it: Whinning Strategies for Overatted Douchenozzles. No cost but you have to volunterr to clean up the swirling garbage mess and charred couch remains in East Landfill.
I wish I could go just to hear a Hoke ran seminar about business leadership. Even if sports leadership is involved, it will be tremendous. But the cost? Well, you know.