Visa OIympics of the Imagination

Sydney 2000, Salt Lake City 2002, Athens 2004, Torino 2006, Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

An international art program created for children around the world to learn about the Olympic Movement while participating in an artistic competition. Winners attended the Olympic Games as guests of Visa. I was brought in to project manage this program for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and then it was to be retired. After we delivered a program with 33 students from 21 countries and exceptional media coverage, Visa executives added the program to the next four Olympic Games and I was retained to manage all of them, with a highlight of the program receiving over 1 Billion media impressions for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.