International AD Cultivates Global Community Online

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In just a few short months, Nick DeForest has made the world a smaller place. As assistant director of the activities office at the American International School Vienna, DeForest this year alone launched a podcast with fellow international AD Matt Fleming in Hungary, hosted webinars and organized an online conference for athletic directors and coaches at international schools serving English-speaking students all over the globe. During the two-day Globetrottin' ADs Conference in late April, 200 participants representing 92 countries took in a combined 78 sessions from 30 different presenters over 22 hours. AB senior editor Paul Steinbach asked DeForest — a Canadian who in 2000 abandoned his own American collegiate baseball career to coach the game in Austria — for a quick conference recap.

Where did the idea for an online conference come from?
It started with a podcast that we wanted to launch in the new year to reach and connect international ADs, because we are all over the world. Everything was so random. A webinar here, a webinar there. It was a bit overwhelming for a lot of people, considering the time zones. I thought, we've all had conferences cancel. Let's do an online conference, and let's make it available as long as we can to give people in Asia a chance to get on and then through Europe and into South America and North America. It was packed because we wanted to hit all those time zones.

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