Shane Battier

As an All-American, champion, scholar-athlete, and high-performing executive, Shane Battier is renowned for his unique use of data and analytics to pinpoint optimal strengths and weaknesses to help teams of all kinds reach their full potential. He has deployed this understanding of analytics in a drive for success in his former role as vice president of analytics and basketball development for the Miami Heat and to power efficiency and efficacy as a board member for a diverse range of organizations.

Battier is highly regarded as a pioneering voice in how organizations can better incorporate analytics and data into their protocols and company cultures to reach the highest ranks of achievement. He made his mark on professional basketball as the first player in NBA history to combine ground-breaking analytic thinking with traditional basketball philosophies at an elite level, as a key member on championship teams both at the professional (Miami Heat, 2012 and 2013) and the collegiate (Duke Blue Devils, 2001) levels.

A 2001 first-round NBA draft pick (6th overall), his honors include the NBA All-Defensive Second Team (2008 and 2009), the NBA Teammate of the Year (2014), and the NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player, a First-Team All American spot, the consensus National Player of the Year, the Academic All-American of the Year, the John Wooden Award, and the Naismith Award (all in 2001). Battier was inducted into the Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 2015 and the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.

He is a speaker and consultant on the topic of discovering and supporting organizational catalysts.

Battier is also the founder of the Take Charge Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to providing resources for the development and education of underserved youth and teens.