“A professor affects eternity: he/she can never tell where their influence stops.” One such professor to IISM is Ms. Avanti Desai. Ms. Avanti is the ‘Incharge- Academic Outreach at IISM’ and have been associated to the institute for many years now. She is a Management Faculty, Soft Skills Trainer, Sales and Marketing Evangelist and Research Analyst.
Abhishek Kulkarni is IISM alumnus from PGP in Sports & Wellness Management Batch 2019-20. Abhishek is an ardent sports lover, cricketer and qualified fitness trainer. Hailing from a family of athletes, Abhishek always wished to do something remarkable in the field of sports.
Since 11 years, IISM through persistent efforts has encouraged students to take up entrepreneurial tasks and enhance their entrepreneurship skills. Some of the IISM students have established their own venture called the Sports Doyen. The Sports Doyen is a sports media organization where students provide a platform for fans and experts to voice their opinions, either through live shows on YouTube and Facebook or through their website.
Sports nutrition is application of nutrition knowledge in sports and exercise to help athletes enhance their performance, help in post exercise recovery and maintain good health. Sports nutrition helps active individual achieve their sports specific or exercise specific goals through proper nutrition.
Marketing as a concept could be used in a variety of ways focusing on the customers and consumers. However, Sports Marketing focuses on encountering requirement of sport customers and consumers which includes people involved in playing sport, watching or listening to sports programmes, buying merchandise (products), collecting mementos.
Sports Management has become a popular sector to work in since the advent and success of the Indian Premier League. This field is perfect for those who love sports and wishes to stay close to the arena forever. For the past 11 years, International Institute of Sports Management (IISM), is carving a niche for young sports aspirants and showing them a way forward in the world of sports.
Bhushan Malani is IISM alumnus from Bachelor’s Degree in Sports Management Batch 2017-20. He is a national level athlete who decided to pursue Sports Management and contribute towards the ever-increasing sector. While studying at IISM, Bhushan established a venture of his own named TheNurtureCulture.
Vedant Garg is a student of Master’s Degree in Sports Management from batch 2019-21. Vedant is an ardent sports lover who has been a professional cricketer. At IISM, he is getting acquainted with the sports industry in depth. This year, he will be all set to enter the Sports Industry with a formal sports education. However, prior to it, he has established himself as a Sports Entrepreneur with his venture- Sport It Down.
By 2025, it is estimated that 463 exabytes of data will be created each day globally, that’s the equivalent of 212,765,957 DVD’s per day, according to the World Economic Forum. Understanding of analytics will move from being a valuable skill to a somewhat mandatory one. Understanding data is a key skill for managers in the 21st century and IISM with its vision to transform the Indian sporting landscape has taken up the responsibility for providing well trained analysts to Indian sporting ecosystem.
Ms. Diksha Chillar & Mr. Ankit Nama are our students from PGP in Sports & Wellness Management Batch 2019-20. Diksha & Ankit have together founded Æthleti Circle, a Sports Management firm. With utmost passion, both alumni of IISM chose to become Sports Entrepreneurs.
