Who we are
Helping sport leaders, events and facilities run well – not just run
Sport Management Collective exists to support the people who keep sport going: the CEOs and GMs, the competitions and tournament leads, the facility advocates, the coaches and volunteers who are trying to do things properly with limited time and resources.
Rather than being “just another consultancy”, the focus is simple:
Give new executives a trusted thinking partner
Make tournaments bigger and easier to run
Turn facility pressure into realistic advocacy and strategy
Support high performance environments that are actually sustainable
Shape grant and funding work that fits your capacity, not just the guidelines
It’s practical, sport-specific support – designed to fit around real seasons, real budgets and real people.
Meeting with Mornington Peninsula Shire CEO, Mark Stoermer and Basketball Victoria.Meet Us
Ben White is a sport executive and founder of Sport Management Collective. As General Manager of Southern Peninsula Basketball Association, he oversees a complex, multi-department organisation of 3,500+ members, leads strategy and governance, secures major partnerships, and advocates with local, state and federal stakeholders for new indoor sport capacity. Ben has delivered large-scale domestic and representative tournaments with 1,000+ teams and multi-million dollar economic impact, built policy and governance frameworks, strengthened participation and performance pathways, and modernised data and operational systems.
Through Sport Management Collective, Ben works with sport CEOs, GMs and boards on first-time executive coaching and mentoring, tournament design and management, facilities and government advocacy, and high performance coaching support. He has served as Team Manager within Victorian and Australian junior programs and also works for the NBL and AFL, giving him insight across community, pathway and professional environments. Ben holds a Bachelor of Business (Sport Management) and is known for turning strategy into repeatable, on-the-ground operations that improve community access, safety, sustainability and performance.
Meeting with Upper House Member for Eastern Victoria, Tom McIntosh.Why this exists
Most of the problems in community and pathway sport aren’t caused by a lack of passion. They’re caused by:
leaders promoted into big roles with very little support,
tournaments that have outgrown the systems built for them,
facility demand that everyone feels but no one has properly mapped, and
a constant churn of grants, strategies and stakeholders to keep up with.
Sport Management Collective was created to sit alongside organisations and leaders who are dealing with all of that at once – and want someone who understands both the on-court and off-court reality.
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