The Quetta Gladiators and Longford College Partnership
This unique Masters degree program, delivered in partnership with Quetta Gladiators, offers valuable lessons from elite athletes and their high-level achievements. Quetta Gladiators, known as کوئٹہ گلیڈی ایٹرز in Urdu and Balochi, is a professional Twenty20 cricket franchise from Pakistan that participates in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). The majority of their home games are held at the Gaddafi Stadium. In PSL 2019, the Gladiators emerged victorious and were crowned champions. Although the team is officially based in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, Pakistan.
This Masters degree program aims to provide insights into proven performance principles that can be applied to your own business environment. It offers direct engagement with sports legends from Quetta Gladiators, including Mike Phelan, Karen Carney, David Horrocks, and Jürgen Klinsmann, among others, as well as guidance from leading academics. Together, they will share their experiences of succeeding on the world’s biggest stages, allowing participants to turn theory into practice and quickly apply their learnings to their workplaces.
The program goes beyond traditional educational offerings by providing a boot camp where participants can personally interact with these top names in sports. This interactive environment allows for deep exploration of career experiences, work processes, key learning moments, challenges, and the winning mentality that leads to consistent success. It is a rare opportunity, conducted in an off-the-record, personal setting over two full days, to truly question and interact with these sports legends in an intensive way.
Participants will gain insights into how top people in sport prepare to win, manage teams and departments, interpret and act upon data, handle organizational change, and develop efficient leadership approaches to create and maintain high-performance teams. This program equips individuals with the necessary knowledge, strategies, and skill set to apply world-leading practices to their own business environments.
In today’s fast-paced business world, where careers are diverse and short, demands and pressures are high, and data-driven results are transparent, following the lead of top-level sport has become more critical than ever. This Masters degree program, delivered in partnership with Quetta Gladiators, offers a unique opportunity to learn from sports icons, apply their strategies to business contexts, and become a leader of tomorrow. Don’t get left behind in the ever-evolving 24/7 world.
