Dr. Nick Bontis: Importance of Sportsmanship and Rapport in Business | Sports to Business - a podcast by TBX Digital Inc.

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Dr. Nick Bontis is a Professional Keynote Speaker, Award-winning Business Professor, and the President of Canada Soccer. Dr. Bontis was an all-star soccer student-athlete at the University of Western Ontario.He is the world’s leading expert on intellectual capital and its impact on performance and was named as one of the Top 30 Management Gurus world-wide. He helps organizations leverage their most important intangible asset for sustainable competitive advantage. Dr. Bontis has been immersed in the field since 1991 when a cover story in Fortune Magazine, titled “Brainpower”, changed the course of his life. Risking a secure future, he left a promising banking career to pursue a Ph.D. in the field. His groundbreaking doctoral dissertation went on to become the #1 selling thesis in Canada. His accomplishments thus far could fill a volume.Today, Dr. Bontis is:



  • Award-winning academic researcher, Chair of Strategic Management at DeGroote School of Business

  • Recently appointed president of Soccer Canada!

  • Management consultant; Director at the Institute for Intellectual Capital Research

  • Professional keynote speaker who has been hand-picked by UN, Microsoft, IBM, Accenture, amongst many others


Dr. Bontis has over a dozen research/teaching awards, and Macleans has identified him as McMaster's most popular business professor for six years in a row. And was also awarded the 3M National Teaching Fellowship.Some Things Dr. Bontis Discusses In This Episode:



  • Why you need to build rapport, and how to do it in a digital world

  • Why he shook the hand of every single player of the opposing team after a tough loss during his college soccer career

  • Why the only way to thrive is to strive to become inimitable

  • How he manages his team as President of Canada Soccer and what business execs can learn from his strategy

  • What you should do when you're in a role that you don't like

  • How student-athletes can navigate the next few years post-Covid

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