How lessons from the playing field translate to success at work.
Millions of working professionals were once athletes. They learned how to prepare, how to keep going when nothing was guaranteed, how to compete inside a system, how to be coached, and how to win.
Then they entered the workforce, and the habits stopped translating. The early-career years that should have launched them stalled instead. The drive was still there. The playbook wasn't.
The same instincts that made you a competitor are the ones that build a career. They just need a new field to run on.
FieldWork is the playbook no one handed you when your playing days ended. — From FieldWork
Eight chapters. Four Quarters.
One playbook for your career arc.
Scott Travasos has spent the first half of his career competing and coaching, and the second half running organizations. What struck him somewhere in between was how the same principles that drove success on the field were sitting dormant in the office.
He has held senior executive roles including CFO of Blue Shield of California Foundation, CFO of the Foundation for California Community Colleges, and Chief Administrative Officer at Business for Social Responsibility. He has been a client reference for Workday and FinancialForce, and was featured on the cover of CFO Magazine.
In sport, Travasos served as General Manager of the Carolina Courage in the Women's United Soccer Association, the first fully professional women's soccer league in the United States. Under his leadership the team transformed from worst-to-first in a single season. He co-founded and led GreaterGoal, an international sports-based humanitarian nonprofit working in Yemen, Myanmar, Thailand, and Northern Ireland, and served on the board of the Bay Area's Olympic bid committee.