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Greg Leedy

Assistant Teaching Professor of Sports Product Management | Manager, Innovation Lab
Affiliations: Sports Product Management
gleedy@uoregon.edu
Office: Innovation Building 200A, UO Portland
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Biography:

Greg Leedy has 20 years of experience in footwear design, development, and innovation at Nike. He worked in Nike's Innovation Kitchen for 15 years, making custom footwear for professional and elite athletes. Leedy holds an industrial design degree with a focus on product design from Ohio State University. He is the UO Sports Product Management program's Innovation Lab manager and oversaw an expansion that greatly increased the lab's technologies and capabilities.

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The student members of a Sports Product Management project team chat together while looking over several paires of ballet pointe shoes laid out on the table before them
A New Take on a Centuries-Old Design
A student team from the Sports Product Management program tackled the real-world challenge of rethinking the ballet pointe shoe.
SPM students, faculty, staff, and friends pose for a group photo
Sports Product Management Newsletter | September 2025
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From Classroom to Trail

Bringing innovation to life takes more than just an idea. It takes collaboration, expertise, and an industry network that opens doors.

New Sports Product Innovation Lab Opens
New Sports Product Innovation Lab Opens

Sports Product Management program students have a new Portland space to make shoes and apparel.

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