Speaker Profile

Shane Battier is an All-American scholar-athlete, two-time NBA champion, and proven business leader who turns groups into coherent teams and champions. Best known as the New York Times Sunday Magazine’s “No-Stat All-Star,” a moniker coined by acclaimed author Michael Lewis, he wins the things you can’t always measure: helping teams build the stamina to keep winning, learn to work together so everyone counts, and create places where every person can shine.

He put that deep analytics know-how to work as the Miami Heat’s Vice President of Analytics and Basketball Development—and now brings it to the boardroom, helping organizations of every kind raise their game, including YEXT, Garnett Station Partners, the BOA Acquisition Company, the Center for Ethics and Leadership at Duke University’s Fuqua School (COLE), the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), and several others.

Shane is widely recognized for helping organizations build trust and mission focus through the “unseen” intangibles—selfless play, relentless communication, and contagious effort—while using data as one of many tools to sharpen their edge. On the court, he was the first NBA player to blend advanced analytics with classic basketball instincts at a championship level, showing that while data creates the advantage, it’s the intangibles that seal championships.

That approach helped power title runs with the Miami Heat (2012, 2013) and the Duke Blue Devils (2001), where Shane was known as the ultimate glue guy—an elite defender, vocal leader, and culture-setter. A first-round NBA draft pick (6th overall) in 2001, his accolades include NBA All-Defensive Second Team (2008, 2009), NBA Teammate of the Year (2014), Final Four Most Outstanding Player, National Player of the Year, Academic All-American of the Year, and both the John Wooden and Naismith Awards (2001). He was inducted into the Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 2015 and the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.

Shane Battier has become the go-to voice on discovering and developing organizational catalysts. Harvard Business School turned his team-first secrets into a 2010 case study, and his influence powers the leadership playbook The Catalyst Effect (Tomer & Caldwell).

Today Shane keynotes for Fortune 500s and consults across industries, from mission-driven startups to global enterprises, while running the Take Charge Foundation, which opens educational doors for underserved youth.