About Champion Path
A Division of Diable Consulting
Champion Path is a dedicated division of Diable Consulting, a strategist-led firm providing informed guidance, decision support, and advocacy in high-stakes environments across business, health & fitness, and elite athletics.
Our Mission
Champion Path is committed to protecting, guiding, and preparing athletes for the realities that come with playing elite football.
Through mentorship rooted in NFL championship experience and reinforced by education and advocacy, we help athletes and their families navigate NIL, professional competition preparation, financial responsibility, and the transition to life after football with clarity, integrity, and purpose.
Leadership & Founding Partners
Champion Path was co-founded by Elizabeth Diable and NFL Super Bowl Champion Ed Dickson to provide informed advocacy, mentorship, and strategic guidance for athletes navigating the most critical transitions of their careers.
Built within the Diable Consulting platform, Champion Path combines strategist-led decision support with championship-level lived experience—ensuring athletes are guided by both independent judgment and real-world insight from the highest levels of the game.
Co-Founder & Strategic Partner - Edward Dickson NFL Super Bowl Champion & Legend - 2010-2022
Ed Dickson is a Super Bowl Champion, NFL legend, and co-founder of Champion Path, bringing over a decade of professional football experience across three NFL franchises to the platform.
Throughout his career, Ed navigated every phase of elite athletics—from development and championship preparation to organizational transitions and life after the game. His perspective is grounded in lived experience at the highest level, not theory.
As a strategic partner in Champion Path, Ed plays a central role in shaping the vision, advocacy model, and mentorship approach that defines the platform. His work focuses on preparing athletes for NIL, draft preparation, professional expectations, financial responsibility, and long-term identity beyond football.
Ed’s leadership within Champion Path reflects his belief that talent alone is never enough—and that informed decisions, discipline, and preparation ultimately determine longevity and success.
Co-Founder & Strategic Partner - Elizbeth Diable
Elizabeth Diable is a business strategist, master negotiator and co-founder of Champion Path, bringing three decades of experience advising organizations and leaders through high-stakes decisions. As the founder of Diable Consulting, she has worked with thousands of organizations and professionals across business, healthcare, and elite performance environments.
Elizabeth co-founded Champion Path with NFL Super Bowl Champion Ed Dickson to provide athletes with informed advocacy and strategic guidance during career-defining transitions. Her role focuses on decision support, long-term planning, and ensuring athletes and families are equipped to navigate NIL, professional expectations, and life beyond football with clarity and integrity.
Our Why
Elite football creates opportunity — but it also introduces pressure, complexity, and life-altering decisions at a young age.
Too often, athletes are expected to navigate NIL, professional preparation, financial responsibility, and long-term identity without real guidance from people who have lived it. Champion Path exists to close that gap.
This division was created to support athletes at the exact moment football shifts from recreation to responsibility — when the stakes rise and the margin for error narrows. Our focus is not short-term gain, but long-term clarity, stability, and excellence.
Our Approach
Champion Path operates as an advocate and strategic partner during the most consequential phases of an athlete’s journey. Our approach is intentionally collaborative—working closely with athletes and their families to understand goals, pressures, and long-term interests before any decision is made.
We combine championship-level lived experience with disciplined strategy and independent judgment to provide guidance that is informed, unbiased, and grounded in reality. Clear communication, trust, and shared accountability are central to our work, ensuring athletes are supported with clarity—not urgency or external pressure.
Our role is not to dictate outcomes, but to help athletes navigate complexity with confidence, preparation, and a long-term perspective that extends beyond the game.
The Champion Path Difference
Our Approach
Our Core Values
Our Core Values
A mentorship-driven and advocacy-first — pairing championship-level lived experience with structured guidance, education, and accountability.
We focus on preparing athletes to:
- Understand the business of football before it controls them
- Make informed decisions around NIL and opportunity
- Develop professional standards early
- Build financi
A mentorship-driven and advocacy-first — pairing championship-level lived experience with structured guidance, education, and accountability.
We focus on preparing athletes to:
- Understand the business of football before it controls them
- Make informed decisions around NIL and opportunity
- Develop professional standards early
- Build financial awareness that lasts beyond a playing career
- Prepare for identity and purpose after the game
This is preparation for longevity — not just visibility.
Our Core Values
Our Core Values
Our Core Values
1. Advocacy Before Advantage
We exist to protect the athlete first.
Every decision we support is grounded in long-term interests, not short-term opportunity. We advocate with clarity, independence, and integrity—especially when pressure, money, or outside agendas are involved.
2. Informed Decision-Making
Talent opens doors. Judgment determi
1. Advocacy Before Advantage
We exist to protect the athlete first.
Every decision we support is grounded in long-term interests, not short-term opportunity. We advocate with clarity, independence, and integrity—especially when pressure, money, or outside agendas are involved.
2. Informed Decision-Making
Talent opens doors. Judgment determines outcomes.
We believe athletes deserve access to real information, honest context, and experienced guidance before making decisions that affect their careers, finances, and futures. No hype. No guesswork. No blind spots.
3. Championship Standards
Excellence is a discipline, not a moment.
Our standards are shaped by championship experience—preparation, accountability, consistency, and professionalism. We prepare athletes for what elite environments actually demand, not what they look like from the outside.
4. Long-Term Thinking
Football is a chapter, not the whole story.
We guide athletes with the full arc in mind—from NIL and draft preparation to financial literacy, identity, and life after the game. Longevity, stability, and purpose matter more than headlines.
5. Truth Over Comfort
Growth requires honesty.
We don’t offer flattery or false assurance. We provide clear, respectful truth—because the cost of being unprepared is far greater than the discomfort of hearing what’s real.
6. Responsibility & Ownership
Elite opportunity comes with responsibility.
We believe athletes must be equipped to own their decisions, behaviors, and outcomes. Our role is to guide and support—not to replace personal accountability.
7. Respect for the Game and the Person
Athletes are more than their position.
We honor the game of football while never reducing the athlete to performance alone. Character, values, and identity beyond the field are foundational to lasting success.
Champion Path is built on advocacy, discipline, and informed judgment—because the moments that define careers deserve nothing less.
Our Focus
Our Core Values
Our Focus
Champion Path Serves:
- High school athletes entering elite competition
- College athletes navigating NIL and professional pathways
- Athletes preparing for the NFL Draft
- Families seeking trusted guidance and advocacy
- Athletes focused on long-term success beyond football
Our work is most impactful for those who understand that preparation off the field is just as critical as performance on it.