Mar 28, 2021
In today’s podcast, Patti Phillips shares a great conversation
with the Senior Director of Athletics at Auburn University at
Montgomery, Jessie Rosa.
Jessie’s childhood dream was to be the athletics director at AUM
and today, she is not only living that dream - but also inspiring
the next generation to follow their own dreams. Like many, her
journey to the chair did not come without hearing a few “no’s”
first and engaging in some crucial conversations with herself and
others.
A former dual-sport student-athlete at AUM, Jessie was dismissed
from the basketball team during her freshman year. Despite this
often being a taboo topic in athletics, she shares openly about how
that experience transformed her philosophy about providing others
second chances and why, “it’s your responsibility as the leader to
set the tone.”
In our conversation, Jessie opens up about how she used her
institutional knowledge as a selling factor in securing her
full-time role as AD and how the process of removing the “Interim”
tag from her title at AUM influenced the ways she looks at hiring
her own staff.
We also talk about how transparency and communication are the most
critical components of leadership, why evaluating a candidate’s
career trajectory during the interview process matters more than
wins and losses and why it’s important for women to “stop
considering it and just do it” for aspiring moms in athletics.
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