WABChats - 17. Mihir Warty - Building a successful strategy for a global sport and millions of stakeholders

17. Mihir Warty - Building a successful strategy for a global sport and millions of stakeholders

02/09/24 • 56 min

Mihir Warty is Chief Stategy Officer for World Rugby. Originally an economist and management consultant, Mihir joined World Rugby from the global advertising network MullenLowe Group.

Before this, Mihir was Director of Strategy & Research at Sport England. His introduction of new insight and tools to the sector helped boost sports participation by 700,000 adults, the first-ever recorded increase. Mihir has also worked as Head of Strategy for BBC Sport, where he worked on rights and genre strategy and was Deputy-Chair of Sporting Equals, the body responsible for racial inclusion in UK sport. Mihir has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University and was the gold medallist on SDA Bocconi’s MBA Programme.

Mihir spends time discussing how one might go about building a strategy for a Global sport such as rugby with millions of stakeholders. The stages involved in designing and implementing a strategy and how to effectively communicate it. We also discuss how you can engage stakeholders, something World Rugby is not short of, in this process.

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Mihir Warty is Chief Stategy Officer for World Rugby. Originally an economist and management consultant, Mihir joined World Rugby from the global advertising network MullenLowe Group.

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