James Hird - Premiership winning captain - Leadership Playbook Series

About this episode

James Hird shares leadership lessons from his premiership-winning season as captain of Essendon FC.

James Hird led the most successful year in the history of the AFL as captain of Essendon FC during their incredible premiership winning season of 2000. As you develop your own personal leadership playbook James shares with you lessons and wisdom from his own leadership journey including priceless lessons for his long time coach and Legend of the AFL Kevin Sheedy. Enjoy the episode and we wish you the best on developing your own leadership playbook. We appreciate any shares to help grow the channel and any follows and shares across

People in this episode

Guest: James Hird

Topics covered

• leadership
• AFL
• sports
• team dynamics

Keywords

• leadership playbook
• AFL history
• Kevin Sheedy

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