Life's New Normal Podcast With Host Long Jump Silver Medalist John Register

Scott Blackburn is Interim Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Previously Scott led the My VA Task Task Force charged with reorganizing and transforming the Department of Veterans Affairs. Scott is formerly a Partner at McKinsey & Company where he served industrial companies on a wide range of topics related to large business-wide transformational change. Prior to joining McKinsey, Scott served as a Captain in the US Army and worked for the Cleveland Browns (and dreams of one day returning to pro sports to run a franchise). I caught up with Scott at the National Veterans Wheelchair Games and had the opportunity to ask him about how his process of transforming the VA paralleled transforming the lives of veterans through sport.  The National Veterans Wheelchair Games are an outgrowth of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ historic involvement in wheelchair sports. Wheelchair sports had their beginning in the aftermath of World War II, when young disabled Veterans began playing wheelchair basketball in