Dan Beckler

Background

About Dan Beckler

VISIONARY LEADER | HIGH CHARACTER | RELIABLE | DRIVEN As an experienced professional with over 14 years of work experience in college athletics and the National Football League, I believe I possess a unique and thorough background that encompasses the necessary duties and responsibilities of leading. Throughout my career, I have earned increased levels of responsibility through hard work, integrity and by making considerable contributions to the teams I have worked on, including identifying new streams of revenue, increased ticket sales, content creation, and strategic communications. I have experience overseeing and mentoring employees, and possess impactful interpersonal skills with strength in maintaining and building productive relationships that ignite performance, drive improvement and produce results. AREAS OF EXPERTISE Revenue Generation, Strategic Communications, Crisis Management, Culture & Relationship Builder, Sport Administration & Program Development, Ideation & Brand Creation, Ticket Sales & Promotions, Strategic Risk Taker, Leadership KEY SKILLS ASSESSMENT Interpersonal Skills – I excel in building strong and trusting relationships with co-workers, university officials, local government and business professionals, student-athletes, coaches, front office executives and members of local and national media. I am a team player who is committed to leading teams through the exchange of knowledge, experience, culture of collaboration, and goal sharing. External Engagement and Revenue Generation – In an effort to identify and create new streams of revenue in college athletics, utilized the existing partnership with Learfield to build specialized content resulting in high-level sponsorships. In my first year at KU, we increased content output and ideation which resulted in over new users and digital advertising revenue increase of nearly Crisis Communications and Strategic Management – Strong experience in managing crisis communications on highly sensitive topics as well as implementing strategic communications and marketing plans related to those events.