EPIC Global Solutions
Meg Popovic, PhD, currently serves as the Senior Director of Research at the Future of Sport Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University and as a Senior Professional Sports Manager for North America at EPIC Global Solutions, where involvement includes membership on the Pro Sport Advisory Board focusing on preventing gambling-related harm in sports. Previously, Meg held significant roles such as Performance Advisor at Leaders in Sport and Co-Founder & Chief Learning Officer at NextPlayU, a talent development agency for former athletes. Experience also includes a directorial position in Athlete Wellbeing & Performance with the Toronto Maple Leafs and instructional roles at Brescia University College and Western University, garnering multiple teaching awards. Education includes a PhD in Kinesiology from Western University and a specialized seminar at the International Olympic Academy.
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EPIC Global Solutions
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EPIC Global Solutions is the leading independent gambling harm-prevention consultancy in the UK, USA, Europe and internationally. We are a professional services business specialising in sector leading education, awareness raising, advisory and accredited training for the prevention of gambling harms. Where we work: Professional Sport - we work directly with numerous global player associations and sports. We are currently conducting the largest and most comprehensive gambling education and awareness programme ever conducted in world sport with Sky Bet and the EFL. Gambling Industry - working only with operators who are serious about social responsibility and making gambling fairer and safer. Our speciality is how to intervene and interact with gamblers who may be suffering harm. Financial Services - specialists in working with risk functions, fitness and propriety, recruitment, audit & compliance and Executive teams. Education - 55,000 children are classed as problem gamblers in the UK, while 37% of 11 to 16-year-olds in England and Scotland gamble. EPIC work across a fast-increasing number of schools, colleges and universities to provide professional, hard hitting seminars. Criminal Justice Sector - working directly in prisons and probation teams to reduce re-offending and signpost support.