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#1 May 21: Introductory Meeting – 45 minutes

So close, yet so far away.

I anticipate graduating with my Master’s in Business Administration from Tiffin University at the end of this year. To accomplish that, however, I must complete a couple more courses. One of those is a mentorship with a sports organization in which I work closely with someone on a project. This could have been taken care of with a trip to Tokyo this summer for the Olympics but as most of us know, it was tabled to next year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fortunately, I was able to make alternative plans and latch on to an organization that is closely related to the Olympic movement instead. It’s called the International Cultural Consortium (ICC), a not-for-profit group incorporated in Puerto Rico but operates out of Florida. There is a lot that I am not at liberty to share with you at the moment because it involves a product that has yet to be released to the public. And as I am just starting to work on it, I do not know a whole lot about it myself.

What I will say is that I am quite excited about the work because it fits nicely with my experience in the communications field, which I intend to continue long-term in some fashion. Today I held my first meeting with the individual who heads up the ICC, and we will be talking again tomorrow. He has a very interesting background himself, and I will tell you more about it in the next post.