Episode 03 - Measuring inclusion impact with Lauren Schwaar

🎬IN THIS EPISODE🎬

This is episode 03 and today I talk with Lauren Schwaar to explore how she's shaping the future of sport by measuring the impacts of what we do. Plus we talk about Lauren's coaching experience in multiple countries and how religion influences Lauren's life and work.

🎙️ About our guest

Lauren is a basketball coach turned tech entrepreneur that was inspired to solve the pain and measurement of evaluation after completing a master's degree in sport policy. Originally from the suburbs of Chicago, Lauren has lived in multiple countries, coached basketball around the world, and is building her tech startup Fathom Performance. Now, Fathom Performance is an app that aims to change the way we demonstrate impact both in the sporting industry and for our inclusion efforts everywhere. Lauren is working to make it possible to evaluate inclusion initiatives more effectively and accurately so they can be improved, scaled and reproduced.

🔎 Highlights

00:00 Sport is for Every Body Podcast Ep03 - Lauren Schwaar - cut

00:00 Introduction

02:46 About Lauren

06:03 Lauren's coaching experience

09:03 Role of religion in Lauren' s life

19:15 Religious tensions in sport

22:03 Getting into sport policy

27:12 Measurement challenges

35:44 What makes good impact measurement

46:28 Quickfire questions

50:25 Lauren's top inclusion tip

51:22 Wrap up

“So if everybody is able to see a little bit more clearly and objectively, What their efforts are translating into you know, that creates a wealth of benefits for everybody involved. So that's our goal is to make change more visible.”

“One of the best starting places though, for any organization that wants to do better monitoring and evaluation is to sit down and think about the outcomes that they actually theorize or think are, are being achieved through their programming.”

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