EP15: 1:1 Career Conversation with Chris Newsham - Founder and Managing Director - Sportsrooms - a podcast by Chris Robinson

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This week we chat to Chris Newsham. 


Chris is the Founder and Director of Sports rooms, a company that he set up to provide world-class travel solutions to sports fans, teams and groups. Alongside this, he also runs the wisteria hotel in Oakham with his wife Kirsty. Chris has had a really varied and interesting career, from working in gyms to transitioning his career into sales with the help of a few mentors. He also had the amazing opportunity to work on the organzing communities of the London 2012 Olympic games and also the Rugby world cup too.


In today’s podcast we talk about:



  • A Career in sport travel management

  • The London Olympic Games and Rugby World Cup

  • Re-branding a business

  • Pivoting a career


You can learn more about Chris here on his Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisnewsham1/ here are the links to the businesses we spoke about in the show:


Wisteria Hotel: https://www.wisteriahotel.co.uk/


Sportsrooms: https://www.sportsrooms.com/


You can also email the show at oneononeconversation@gmail.com


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