The host of the Holding the Ladder in Sport and leadership podcast, Dr. Tim Rice is the Lead Faculty for the Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) program, as well as a Lead Faculty Member in the Sport and Performance Psychology specialization in PsyD program at University of Arizona Global Campus. He came to the University of Arizona Global Campus after serving in a similar role at University of the Rockies. Dr. Rice grew up on the Alabama Gulf Coast in a small town about 25 miles from the Gulf of Mexico (Robertsdale). He has been in higher education for over 20 years at colleges and universities acros ..read more

Dr. Marty Durden has nearly five decades of athletic leadership experience. He is currently the athletic director at Calvary Christian School in Columbus, Georgia. Durden earned his Doctor of Education degree in sports management from the U.S. Sports Academy in 2016 and has written extensively about the “servant-leader” model of coaching, including in a 2019 Sport Digest piece titled "The Call for a Higher Standard Than Winning" and authoring "More Than Winning: The Servant-Leader Coach in Contemporary Society," released in December 2022: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/more-than-winning-mart ..read more

Eabha Rutledge is a successful county and club Gaelic footballer with Kilmacud Crokes and her county team Dublin. She has been part of Dublin's All-Ireland four-in-a-row panels and a recent Division 1 league final win against Cork. She is a Fund Accounting Supervisor at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and is also a sport entrepreneur as she set up a dry weather GAA gloves company, Great Grip Gloves. This idea goes back to her participation in an exchange visitor program in the United States on a J1 visa in Chicago in summer 2017 when she lined out with Aisling Gaels. Having always worn standard foam ..read more

Dr. David Tenney is the High Performance Director for Austin FC in Major League Soccer (MLS). He has a wealth of major league sport experience, including several successful seasons in MLS, and a long history in soccer in the U.S. and internationally.  He joined Austin FC after three years as the first High Performance Director for the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s Orlando Magic (2017-2020) following 11 seasons in MLS. During Tenney’s stewardship of the Magic’s high performance department, the Magic made back-to-back playoff appearances for the first time since 2012. Tenney joine ..read more

Hannah Thornton has always been passionate about sport. She played basketball for Ireland at the age of 14 and at the age of 17 obtained a sports scholarship with the University of Northern Colorado, playing in NCAA Division I's Big Sky Conference. She also devoted a little time to study, obtaining her Bachelor Degree in Sports and Exercise Science and a separate degree in Nutrition.​ After graduation, Hannah began work at an elite sports-specific training facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado where the focus was to transform young adults into top athletes. Here, she qualified as a ..read more

Tatiana Gallová is Slovakian FIBA licensed coach and lecturer, who finished FECC and ICAB program; and has a Ph.D. in basketball coaching. Her latest achievements are finishing best of the class 2013-2015 at the FIBA FECC program and winning the Austrian Cup and Championship 2015/2016 with Flying Foxes SVS Post. Since 2016/2017, she works for men's team Kapfenberg Bulls as an assistant coach and scout, and helped the team to win Austrian Cup (2017, 2018), Supercup (2018) and Championship (2017, 2018). She started her career in 1999 as a volunteer assistant coach for a women and junior team i ..read more

After 24 years of combined experience as a special operations veteran in both the Canadian and US militaries, Phil Kornachuk uses proven leadership principles to foster exceptional performance for individuals, leaders and teams from a variety of fields. He currently works for the Fargo, North Dakota-based Allegro Group as the Managing Director of Leadership Development. Solid leaders held the ladder for Phil (and sometimes pushed him up it) as he evolved from being a 17-year-old high school dropout to a Lieutenant Colonel in US Army Special Operations Command. Serving as a Ranger, Green Beret ..read more

Greg Prudhomme just completed his 15th season as the Grand Canyon women’s tennis head coach and 14th season as its men’s tennis head coach in 2021-22. Since joining the Division I ranks, Prudhomme has had nothing but success for his programs. The women's team were crowned WAC regular-season champions in 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2021. The men's team were crowned WAC champs in 2016, 2019, and 2021. This past season Dr. Prudhomme guided both of his teams to the Regular Season Conference Titles, the Conference Tournament Championships, and automatic bids into the NCAA National Championships. Prudho ..read more

Jen Croneberger is a former high school and college softball coach, sport entrepreneur and now a widely sought-after 4-time TEDx speaker and thought leader. She speaks and consults in the areas of compassionate leadership and culture change for corporations, schools, organizations and teams all over the country and is the Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of JLynne Consulting Group, LLC. Most of her last 15 years have been spent instilling confidence and building deeper connections and awareness. Her Master’s Degree is in Sports and Performance Psychology and some of Jen’s clients have inc ..read more

Terry Waldrop has extensive experience in coaching, sport administration, sport communication, teaching, and sport entrepreneurship. He had tremendous success during his 13-year tenure at National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas. He was honored during his time at TWU to be the only college basketball coach in Texas at the 4-year level to win a national championship since 1989. He was selected National Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), Rawlings, Hillyard and Basketball Times and was nominate ..read more