Disgraced former World Surf League CEO Erik Logan picks up job writing for Forbes

"I have had the privilege over my three-decade career to work alongside some of the biggest brands and monumental pioneers of our time,"

I just so happen to be in Oklahoma City, again, and am hopping mad. Last time I was here, driving my daughter’s Volkswagen from Cardiff by the Sea, California to Nashville, Tennessee, I was in the throes of thrill. I had limped into town, if you recall, searching for the mythical non-surfing professional surfing fan when none other than World Surf League CEO Erik Logan texted me, “Okc?!” He then proceeded to dangle a Barry Switzer meeting and I could not believe my fortune.

It turns out that Logan was boozed, or something, as he put me on a text chain with a random person and Barry Switzer’s wife who proclaimed to know nothing about surfing, or Logan, and stated she would reach out to the authorities if bothered again.

Months later, E-Lo, as he enjoyed being called, was ruthlessly fired in the most terse press release ever.

Though he had put himself front and center of everything surf, even going so far as to wear timid champion Filipe Toledo’s skin, Logan did not feel his vicious dismissal was worth sharing and kept hidden. Kept hidden, that is, until he considered it the right time to pop back up as a motivational speaker and, now, a Forbes writer.

“I have had the privilege over my three-decade career to work alongside some of the biggest brands and monumental pioneers of our time,” he began his biography. As president of The Oprah Winfrey Network & Harpo, I reported directly to Oprah Winfrey for a decade and oversaw the strategic shift that catapulted OWN to a top cable network. Prior to that, I served as president of Harpo Inc. & Harpo Studios, representing Oprah and Harpo on the Board of Directors for OWN. Most recently, I was CEO of World Surf League, the professional arm of surfing, and I held senior leadership positions at XM Satellite Radio and CBS Radio. Today, I am a founding partner of multiple companies, including the record company, Nashville Harbor, and I am a partner in the e-commerce company, OTD, and The Big Machine Music City Grand Prix. As an award-winning executive producer, the intersection of leadership, content, and culture is my passion.”

His first offering is 3 ways to Improve your Productivity as a Leader and is teased with “Doing the next right thing could be something mundane, such as taking out the trash or returning a call; the most minor completed tasks count!”

Is leaving surf fans bereft, without a goodbye, the right thing, Erik Logan?

Are we lower than trash?

Well?

You have my number and also Barry Switzer’s wife’s number.