The pressure to win has never been higher and how you lead matters!
Hosted by Dr. Rob Clark and inspired by the book, The Competitive Kindness Podcast explores how leaders build championship teams while building your teammates to reach their full potential.
Through candid conversations, research-backed insights, and real-world stories, you’ll learn how valuing, supporting, and empowering people drives both performance and wellbeing.
Dare to lead differently! Dare to be kind!
Innovation with Competitive Kindness; Guest - President Shane B. Smeed, Utah Tech University
Send us Fan Mail This episode focuses upon the culture, environment, and culture of innovation. Dr. Rob Clark hosts President Shane B. Smeed of Utah Tech University. Sharing experiences from his nearly 30 years in higher education, President Smeed offers insights into the environment for innovation, why students and people are always first, uses of technology and AI to grow, building a culture of innovation, community building, learning from failure, and the importance of college athletics at...
28 Sept 2026
Kindness with Boundaries; Guest - Coach Joanne Bowers (Washington, SJSU)
Send us Fan Mail This episode focuses upon the boundaries of Competitive Kindness. Dr. Rob Clark hosts guest Joanne Bowers, nationally renowned women's gymnastics head coach (San Jose State and formerly University of Washington) who has won numerous conference coach of the year and helped her teams advance in the NCAA gymnastics championships. Coach Bowers offers insights into setting boundaries for your kindness, how clarity and honesty build championship cultures, and how to talk to the mod...
22 Sept 2026
Real Connection & Competitive Kindness; Guest - Dr. Nate Meikle Professor at Kansas
Send us Fan Mail This episode focuses upon the power of real connection and Competitive Kindness. Dr. Rob Clark hosts guest Dr. Nate Meikle (Assistant Professor of Management at University of Kansas) who has interviewed hundreds of top leaders in education, corporations, NCAA and NFL leaders, and others in the Meikles and Dimes Podcast. Nate offers the keys to effective communication, conflict negotiation, and insights on how to overcome false social perception on kindness. His perspect...
15 Sept 2026
The Championship Blueprint & Competitive Kindness; Guest - Leon Costello, Montana State University
Send us Fan Mail This episode focuses upon the championship blueprint and Competitive Kindness. Rob Clark hosts guest Leon Costello (Director of Athletics at Montana State) who has had one of the most successful decade run in college athletics at an athletic director. Leon offers insights into culture, hiring for fit, building teams, insights on innovation in NIL/Revenue Share, and building relationships. His championship insights show why his teams thrived under his leadership while sh...
8 Sept 2026
The Courage to Care; Guest - Bryan Blair, AD at Syracuse University
Send us Fan Mail Here is the kickoff for Season 2 of the Competitive Kindness Podcast! This episode focuses on having the courage to care, which is critical to Competitive Kindness. Rob Clark hosts guest Bryan Blair, the Director of Athletics at Syracuse University. Bryan is a highly respected athletics administrator that has led successful teams and champions at Toledo prior to becoming the AD at Syracuse. He offers incredible insights on the perspective on how to build vision a...
1 Jul 2026
5 Principles of Competitive Kindness; All Guests from Season 1 (Finale)
Send us Fan Mail The Season 1 Finale episode focuses on the 5 key leadership principles of Competitive Kindness that emerged from the 10 guests of Season 1. The insights of compassion, integrity, humility, genuine authenticity, and vision-driven encouragement are designed to help you become the best version of yourself. Each of the 5 principles are briefly discussed and segments from all of the interviews from season 1 are utilized throughout the episode. A special Fast and Friendly Five sect...
16 Jun 2026
Dream Big & Believe; Guest - Kelly Damphousse, President Texas State
Send us Fan Mail This episode focuses one of the pillars of Competitive Kindness, vision that builds belief. Dr. Clark hosts guest Dr. Kelly Damphousse, President of Texas State University. Dr. Damphousse is a highly respected President that has led to the move to Research 1 status and PAC-12 Conference membership at Texas State. Kelly offers incredible insights on the perspective of university presidents, how vision builds belief, how to build buy-in, why adding Gymnastics was so...
3 Jun 2026
Excellence with Compassion; Guest - Andy Fee, Athletic Director UC San Diego
Send us Fan Mail This episode focuses on pursuing excellence with compassion, a pillar of Competitive Kindness. Rob Clark hosts guest Andy Fee (Director of Athletics at UC San Diego). Andy shares his insights on treating the people you lead as the main thing, not as merely instruments in a game. By leading with compassion, Andy offers advice on how people will buy into vision as trust is genuinely built. He also offers perspective on how intercollegiate athletics has outpaced its infrastructu...
20 May 2026
Genuine Authenticity & Competitive Kindness; Guest - Dr. Chuck Welch AASCU President & CEO
Send us Fan Mail This episode focuses one of the three foundations of Competitive Kindness, Genuine Authenticity. Dr. Clark hosts guest Dr. Chuck Welch, President and CEO of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. Dr. Welch is a national voice for university presidents and working with over 500 colleges and universities regarding higher education policy in the United States. Dr. Welch offers incredible insights on the perspective of university presidents...
Send us Fan Mail This episode focuses on empowering individual worth of our teammates, a pillar of Competitive Kindness. Rob Clark hosts guest Jamie Boggs (VP for Athletics at Grand Canyon University) who was recently named 2025-26 NACDA Athletic Director of the Year and secured membership for GCU in the Mountain West Conference. Jamie shares her insights on building an effective team, the people she surrounds herself with to be an effective leader, driving individual growth while thriving as...
22 Apr 2026
Unshakable Integrity & Competitive Kindness; Guest - Jeramiah Dickey, AD Boise State
Send us Fan Mail This episode focuses one of the three foundations of Competitive Kindness, the Unshakable Integrity. Dr. Clark hosts guest Jeramiah Dickey (Athletic Director at Boise State University) who is a national voice on the future of college athletics and has led an incredible run for Bronco Athletics. Jeramiah offers his perspective on integrity, being able to change, how to lift others, and how to lead the right way. The championship insights he shares are timeless and demons...
8 Apr 2026
The Humble Champion; Guest - Jeremy Foley, Florida AD Emeritus
Send us Fan Mail This episode focuses one of the three foundations of Competitive Kindness, the Humble Champion. Dr. Clark hosts guest Jeremy Foley (Athletic Director Emeritus, University of Florida) who is considered one of the most successful athletic directors in modern college athletics history. Jeremy offers insights into culture, ego, combating complacency, and leading with heart. His championship insights show why his teams thrived under his leadership while showing ways that he ...
25 Mar 2026
Visionary Leadership & Competitive Kindness; Guest - Tom Wistrcill, Big Sky Conference
Send us Fan Mail This episode focuses on a key characteristic of Competitive Kindness, the vision-driven encourager that actually drives results. Dr. Clark hosts guest Tom Wistrcill, who serves as the Commissioner of the Big Sky Conference and also on the NCAA Men's Basketball Committee (March Madness). Tom shares the how to lead with vision and drive leaders to work together to accomplish greatness. He further shares the impact of attitude, effort, and offers the best leadership advice that ...
11 Mar 2026
Your Response is Everything, E+R=O; Guest - Brian Kight, Founder DIGNVS
Send us Fan Mail This episode of the Competitive Kindness podcast shares how to lead with Competitive Kindness, even when circumstances are difficult. Dr. Clark hosts guest Brian Kight, renowned leadership expert and founder of DIGNVS, who has worked with championship teams (like Ohio State Football and the Seattle Mariners). BK shares the powerful championship mindset approach of Event + Response = Outcome. He further shares the impact of reputation, how to effectively "control the con...
3 Mar 2026
The Kind Warrior (Kind vs. Nice); Guest: Eric Kapitulik, CEO The Program & Marine
Send us Fan Mail This episode of the Competitive Kindness Podcast focuses upon what kindness is and how it’s different from being nice. Dr. Clark hosts guest Eric Kapitulik, CEO of The Program and who served in the US Marine Corps Special Operations. Kapitulik shares his perspective on why kindness can be a matter of life or death for your team, the importance of leading the right way, and powerful leadership advice from some top military leaders he encountered. The movement grows…
18 Feb 2026
What is Competitive Kindness? Guest: Dan Butterly, The Big West
Send us Fan Mail The inaugural episode of the Competitive Kindness podcast features the origin of Competitive Kindness and Dr. Clark hosts guest Dan Butterly, Conference Commissioner at the Big West. Butterly shares his perspective on why relationships, compassion, innovation, and integrity matter in leadership. The movement begins…
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