OpenSesame presents:
Storytelling: The Internship
with Yogi Roth & Ashley Adamson
Yogi Roth is a storyteller.
He is seeking and uncovering the humanity in sports around the globe. A Pac-12 Network college football analyst, Award-Winning Filmmaker, Scholar, New York Times Best-Selling Author, accomplished Coach, Motivational Speaker, Media Personality, Host and World-Traveler. Yogi began his storytelling career after coaching football at USC, co-authoring the New York Times best-seller Win Forever with Pete Carroll. As a media personality, Yogi has been a host/college football analyst for ESPN, Fox and the Pac-12 Network. In 2017, he co-hosted the podcast Season of Sam with current NFL quarterback Sam Darnold. Yogi is the host of a podcast The Yogi Roth Show: How Great Is Ball, Ted & Yogi’s Pac-12 Adventure and the Pac-12 Perspective alongside Ashley Adamson. He has also hosted the Elite 11 for the last twelve years.
Yogi, who gave a TEDx Talk at the TEDx Austin Women’s Conference, has spoken around the globe alongside brands such as Nike, World Surf League, USC and the University of Washington. In 2018 Yogi spoke at the SXSW Festival addressing masculinity in sports.
Stay connected with @YogiRoth on social media.
Ashley is a storyteller.
Ashley Adamson is the lead host and reporter for the Pac-12 Network and has been covering the Conference of Champions since the Network’s launch in 2012. Throughout the football season, Adamson hosts "The Pregame," as Pac-12 Network’s takes its show on the road to all 12 campuses over a 13-week tour, as well as the Network’s studio coverage with "Pac-12 Football Game Break," "Pac-12 Football Postgame Report" and "Pac-12 Final Score." During the Pac-12 basketball season, Adamson hosts pre and post-game shows in studio, as well as on site coverage of the Pac-12's Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments in Las Vegas.
A storyteller by trade, Adamson helps oversee the Pac-12 Network’s original content as a senior feature producer. She serves as a reporter for the Network’s "Our Stories" long form storytelling franchise. Adamson also hosts the Pac-12 Perspective podcast with Yogi Roth as well as the Inside Pac-12 Women's Basketball podcast with Mary Murphy.
Stay connected with @AdamsonAshley on social media.
The style of this class seeks to create a new lesson each week, that exposes the students to an experience that has the essence of an ‘internship.’ Combining both Yogi and Ashley’s expertise and guest lecturers each Zoom class will be interactive, informative and experiential.
Past Guest Speaker
Taylor Kavanaugh
Past Guest Speaker
Ken Black
Ken Black is a designer of brand vision, products and processes that obsess and inspire consumers – always starting with the end-in-mind. A leader, who sparks ingenuity by crafting the vision that catalyzes the process and creates the space that fuels innovation and creativity - transforming opportunity into business reality. A creative who leverages deep understanding of how innovative product, brand and identity design expands market share and, more importantly, makes new markets.
Instagram: @iamkenblack
Past Guest Speaker
Kevin Carroll | Katalyst
Kevin is an author + instigator of inspiration + creative catalyst who brings a playful curiosity, a keen understanding of human nature and a lifelong love of competition to all of his endeavors. Kevin has given multiple TED talks and written four highly successful books published by ESPN, Disney Press, McGraw-Hill and A Kids Book About. He has helped turn creative ideas into reality for Fortune 500 companies, professional sports leagues, and global non-profits. Widely acclaimed for his desire and ability to change the world using play + positivity as a catalyst for positive change and self-improvement.
Instagram: @kckatalyst | Twitter: @kckatalyst
Past Guest Speaker
Dr. Michael Gervais
Gervais is a high performance psychologist working in the trenches of high-stakes environments with some of the best in the world, training the mindset skills and practices essential to pursuing and revealing one’s potential. His clients include world record holders, Olympians, internationally acclaimed artists and musicians, MVPs from every major sport and Fortune 100 CEOs.
Instagram: @findingmastery
Twitter: @michaelgervais