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Matt Majka, president of Minnesota Wild, on listening well and celebrating Minnesota’s heritage
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Minnesota is known by many as “the State of Hockey.” It’s a moniker that Matt Majka, president of the Minnesota Wild, finds beautiful, as he says in the latest episode of the Off the Record podcast.
“It’s not marketing mumbo-jumbo. It’s true. You don’t have to explain it to a Minnesotan. They know it. They’re proud of it,” Majka says. “Some sports teams have a new brand or theme every year. Our brand has never changed.”
Listen to Majka’s conversation with hosts Kathy Robideau, market president and publisher of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, and Dave Faust, president and CEO of Platinum Bank, to hear more about:
- Majka’s parents’ reaction when they thought he was going to sell roller skates for a living.
- What it was like launching the Wild franchise in 1997.
- Why Majka’s role as a marketing leader doesn’t really involve the “product” — which is what happens on the ice.
- How the 32 NHL presidents share thinking and ideas.
- Three things Majka always tells young people as they are starting out in a business career.
- Why the Wild’s volunteer time off program is part of the organization’s DNA.
- Why Majka’s pickleball hobby doesn’t make him a bandwagon-jumper — and what he wants his legacy to be.
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