Mr. Wallgren, who played golf professionally and has been
coaching various sports at the High School and college level for
20+ years, has just become a certified sports counselor (American
Institute for Learning and Cognitive Development,
criticalthinkingforsuccess.com) in cognitive learning and
development as well as nuero-feedback and concussions. In other
words he assists people with critical thinking "on and off the
field".
Mr. Wallgren came back to education and was the strategic
placement advisor to the Dean of the Business School at San Diego
State in a new MBA Sports Management program. He was able to
successfully place all the graduate students in the program with
great internships and jobs after graduation because of his many
contacts in the Sports World. In 2006 he became one of two managing
partners in a company called Kingdom Builders that has been working
on building Sports Centers of Excellence throughout the world. He
also taught at Concordia University in Irvine, California.
While at Concordia, through Kingdom Builders, he was contacted
by the Shanghai Sports Bureau to create a Management Certificate
program for all the Chinese sports executives who would be
operating Olympic facilities during the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Because of his sports management background he was quite successful
with this program, and it was the first of its kind with the
Chinese government. The Shanghai Sports Bureau is now working on a
golf management fulfillment program with Mr. Wallgren in order that
they will have enough managers for over 200 golf courses being
built in China.
