Rob Vogel is the founding principal of J5 Partners, a sports and entertainment business firm. With nearly 20 years of high level sports and entertainment experience, Rob brings a wealth of relationships and valuable experience to his clientele, which includes being a key advisor on over $10 billion worth of sponsorship contracts. His views on sponsorship and stadium naming rights have appeared in numerous publications, including the SportsBusiness Journal, Forbes Magazine, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Boston Herald, and Denver’s Rocky Mountain News.
Here’s Rob Vogel’s True Calling™ Success Story:
I first met Nathan Teegarden through his wife, who was working for a sports marketing company at the time. Through her, I learned about what Nathan was doing, and I hired him to help me figure out how competitive my company was from an employee benefit standpoint. This was over a decade ago during a business boom, and we wanted to retain and attract good employees. My professional relationship with Nathan turned into a friendship, and I went to him for advice when I became frustrated with my work.
I began to wonder: Is there something better I could be doing with my life and work? Is there something else I should—or even could—be doing? I went through the program for the first time with Nathan in 2000, and it helped me understand what I’m good at, and what I’m not good at. I learned how to delegate the things I’m not good at to people who really excel in those areas. I thought I could reshape my professional life, and I was able to increase my satisfaction in the current role I was playing.
More recently, I went through the program with Nathan for a second time. I had a professional change—the company I was working for is no longer in existence—and I went out on my own. I went back to Nathan, essentially asking him how I could make lemonade out of lemons. I never thought I could do my own thing. But through Nathan’s coaching and guidance, I landed on an opportunity that fits with my experience, personality, and the lifestyle that’s important to me. I must say—I feel more energized than I have in years, and I owe that to Nathan’s leadership through this change.
Being aware of others who profess to be competitors, and as I look back on the two times I’ve gone through this program with Nathan, I realize the thing that sets him apart is that he’s not happy unless you’re happy. Others might want to help you spruce up your resume and then get you out the door. Nathan’s approach isn’t like an assembly line, he’ll work with you side-by-side until you get where you want to be. I consider Nathan a lifelong coach. I’ve never felt like just another appointment for him, and I think that’s because he’s really walking the walk—he’s living his True Calling™ in the process of helping others, like me, find theirs.
