Ashanti George-Faure, Sports Talent Manager -Talk/Q&A with year 10-13 Media and Btec Sports Student…

On Thursday 5 December 2019, Sports Talent Manager, Ashanti George-Faure came in to run a talk/Q&A session with our year 10-13 Media and Btec Sports Students.

Home life

Ashanti is from a single parent family in South London. He isn’t from money and had to work hard to achieve his success.His parents invested heavily in his education and he spent seven years in boarding school, only really seeing his parents fully in his late teens/twenties.

Journey

Ashanti started a degree at Loughborough University. He didn’t enjoy his time there and so left found his niche was working in the media. He then returned to university at Durham to study Business finance. Ashanti reinforced the importance of enjoying and achieving. He always did media things on the side while studying and believes that a lot of successful media management is about having confidence. He spent 1 1/2 years doing poorly paid internships before moving into athlete management. He is very grateful for the great mentors he has had - from his first boss to his media and sports mentors, they help him in a variety of ways to believe in himself and to succeed.

Career

Ashanti is now six years into his career. He believes firmly that hard work is the key to success.Ashanti’s clients past and present include:

• Ya Ya Toure

• Bradley Wiggins

• Cavendish Melbourne

• Colin Jackson

• Tyrone Mings and Nick Chapman - who recently ran a charity sports tournament in Barbados offering free food and clothes to the community - an event which Ashanti is particularly proud of.

Leon Mann