Walt Norley on what drives him to help student athletes
ABOUT THE EPISODE
Walt Norley, OnBalance Founder and CEO, joins this episode of Athletes OnBalance as the guest with special host Dr. Ginger Gilmore, Director of Behavioral Medicine at the University of Alabama. Walt, a former student athlete who played quarterback at Ohio State University and the University of Georgia, is a tech entrepreneur with more than four decades of experience successfully building and running companies. OnBalance – a comprehensive platform for measuring, managing, and improving athletes’ mental health – is his sixth company. In this episode, Walt talks about his experience as a student athlete, his struggle to accept having a mental health disorder and how he learned to manage it, the reason he launched OnBalance, why OnBalance is a necessity for athletic departments, and the importance of breaking the stigma of mental health in sports.