Mr Nick Takos
Lecturer UniSA Business
email Nick.Takos@unisa.edu.au
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Dr Nick Takos is a lecturer and researcher within UniSA Business. Nick is a specialist in the areas of leadership, organisational culture, management, and sponsorship, particularly in the sport and recreation context.
Nick holds a BEc, a MBA in sport management, and has completed his PhD in leadership and organisational culture. Nick's research has been published in the leading international sport journal - Journal of Sport Management. He is consistently rated as a high performing teacher within the University of South Australia and continues to be committed to contributing to many of the ongoing successes of the business school including increasing the volume of high quality publications within the school.
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Nick has engaged with the local and national sport and recreation industry through his work with state and national sport organisations (in golf, triathlon, and table tennis), and AFL/SANFL club-based organisations. Nick brings a high quality of expertise in sport management, sport governance, and leadership to the UniSA Business School.
Finally, Nick's backgound in the sport and recreation industry includes 14 years in various senior roles with AFL team the Adelaide Crows, and he has also held senior management positions within netball (Adelaide Thunderbirds) and cricket (Adelaide Strikers, South Australian Redbacks and Scorpians). With his strong industry and academic background Nick brings years of experience as a proven practitioner and teacher within UniSA Business.
Master of Business (Sport Management) Deakin University
Bachelor of Economics Flinders University
And 3 Years with the Adelaide Strikers
I Am Also the Current Leadership and Culture Coach of the West Adelaide Football Club Who Play in the Sanfl. I Have Spent 14 Years with the Adelaide Crows
Managing Their Commercial Sponsorship Programs
Takos, N, O'Boyle, I & Murray, D 2015, 'The future: trends and challenges in sport leadership', in D Murray, I O'Boyle & CP Duncan (eds), Leadership in Sport, Routledge, UK, ch. 17, pp. 240-247.
Takos, N, Murray, D & O'Boyle, I 2018, 'Authentic leadership in nonprofit sport organization boards', Journal of Sport Management, 32, no. 2, pp. 109-122.
SPRC 2013 Sport and Recreation Facilities Management (2021)
SPRC 3016 Sport and Event Management (2021)
SPRC 1007 Recreation and Sport Event Programming (2020)
SPRC 3018 Leadership in Recreation and Sport (2021)
SPRC 2003 Fundamentals of Sport and Recreation (2020)
SPRC 3019 Business Development in Sport (2021)