Meet Dr. Q
L. D. Frederick, EdD
Dr. Q reads rooms. She reads realms. And somewhere between the two, she usually finds something everybody else missed.
La Quita D. Frederick, EdD, known professionally as Dr. Q, is an alchemist, catalyst, and strategist who turns patterns, possibilities, pressure points, and plot twists into sharper reads, smarter moves, and expanded possibilities.
Her career has moved through locker rooms, classrooms, boardrooms, press rooms, arenas, universities, startups, and executive suites. She has worked inside professional sports with the Orlando Magic and Atlanta Braves, built and led collegiate athletics marketing operations, taught and directed sport management programs, advised executives and organizations, and led a $22.5 million graduate enterprise at Georgetown University. Across 25+ years, she has developed a panoramic view of sport from the inside out, spanning the business, culture, leadership, learning, and influence that shape the game.
That range is the runway for her work on stage.
Dr. Q speaks about intelligence, disruption, leadership, identity, opportunity, culture, commerce, and the wider forces reshaping sport and the people, organizations, and economies around it. Her talks move across industries, disciplines, markets, generations, and moments, connecting dots, reading movement, surfacing patterns, and giving language to ideas already taking shape beneath the surface.
Her signature topics include Uncommon Intelligence, Standard of One, The Q Wears a Cape, Crashing the Glass, and Beyond the Arc. Each begins from a wider field of vision and follows the read wherever it leads, from the room to the realm, from the obvious to the overlooked, from the center of the curve to what is taking shape at the tail.
She is Founder and CEO of The Qolosseum, a strategy studio for the global sports world, where she develops strategic intelligence, executive thought leadership, and original intellectual property across disruption, outliers, fluency, leadership, and decision-making. Her work extends across conference realignment, NIL, women’s sports, organizational strategy, market evolution, leadership, and the emerging economies forming around the game.
Her voice has traveled well beyond a single stage. Dr. Q has spoken, taught, and presented across the United States and internationally in France, Spain, and Qatar, reaching executives, athletes, students, educators, industry professionals, and emerging leaders. Her expertise has been featured or cited by Forbes, Reuters, NPR, The Washington Post, Sports Business Journal, Vox, Barron’s, Marketplace, and other national and international outlets.
Dr. Q holds a doctorate in Sport Leadership and Management and has taught, led, and lectured across undergraduate, graduate, executive, and international learning environments.
On stage, Dr. Q brings the reads, the receipts, the range, and the runway to help audiences see farther, think wider, and move with greater intelligence.
