Nomad Multisport School
A sports project with its own way of working, which adapts to seasonality and the conditions of the environment.
About Nomad School
Sector: Outdoor sports
Activity: School and multisport club
Location: Val d’Aran – Costa Brava
Web: escuelanomad.com
Nomad: A multisport school that does not follow schedules but seasons
Nomad was born as a sports project with a very clear vision: to adapt to seasonality and environmental conditions. Behind the project is Laia, a sports and teaching enthusiast, whose personal and professional background naturally explains how this way of understanding sport came about.
Since she was a little girl, Laia grew up in an environment closely linked to the world of sports. Her father has a windsurfing and ski store in Barcelona and organizes windsurfing camps in summer, where she learns the sport and discovers the value of sport as a space for learning and community. Over time, this experience will mark her way of teaching and relating to the sport.
At the same time, Laia trained as a ski instructor and gained experience in the field of teaching and sports management, creating and managing a ski club within another school. After several years living and working in the city, the saturation of the urban rhythm and the need for a change of life lead her to make a key decision: to leave Barcelona and move to the mountains to build a project aligned with a way of life more connected to nature.
This is how Nomad was born, conceived from the beginning as a school, club and multisport community. In winter, the activity goes far beyond alpine skiing and includes ski mountaineering, backcountry skiing and ice climbing. The rest of the year, the project continues with disciplines such as windsurfing, climbing and cycling. Nomad does not impose a sport: it reads the environment, adapts to each season and accompanies people in their learning throughout the year.
Nomad ski school and ski club: a busy season that requires organization
Winter is the key time for Nomad. This is when the school and the ski club concentrate a large part of the year’s activity and where organization becomes fundamental for everything to run smoothly.
The season starts long before the snow arrives. At the end of August, all the preparatory work begins: student enrollment, club planning, closing of the teaching staff and organization of all the necessary structure to face the winter months. During this period, every decision is important so that, once the season starts, daily operations run smoothly.
Currently, Nomad’s ski team is made up of about 30 teachers, with different profiles and ages, and a club that brings together more than 260 children. For Laia, the goal is not to simply grow, but to maintain the quality, close treatment and control of every detail, even with a high volume of students and teachers. Getting to know the families, the children and the team is an essential part of the project.
During the winter, the operational tempo is much more intense than in the summer. Last-minute changes, group coordination and day-to-day management require a clear view of everything going on in the school and the club.
Centralize management to be able to grow with peace of mind
It is in this context where management becomes critical. Laia herself sums it up bluntly:
“If one day Lueira crashes, I lose the school.”
For her, Lueira is the center of everything. Customers, receivables, outstanding payments, database, instructor documentation, class and teacher scheduling… everything is centralized in one place. In a school without a physical location, having control of payments and real-time information is a top priority.
One of the aspects she values most is the flexibility in the management of reservations. Being able to leave a reservation halfway through, retake it, modify schedules, add or subtract hours, change teachers or move classes without having to start from scratch saves a great deal of time. The calendar is always alive, adapting to the constant changes of the day to day, something essential in a school where students can book different durations and where the planning is continuously adjusted.
Team management is also key. Teachers have an application from which they can view their classes in real time, clock in and clock out, which facilitates coordination and control of hours. Closing quarters and tracking activity is greatly simplified, eliminating manual processes that previously required sheets, agendas or internal excels that were difficult to keep up to date.
By delegating management to a reliable and intuitive tool, Nomad has been able to devote time and energy to other areas of the project: improving the website, growing in social networks and reinforcing the school’s image beyond the administrative part.
A tool that accompanies the growth of the project
For a project like Nomad, marked by seasonality, diversity of disciplines and a high volume of management in winter, having a tool that centralizes all the information is not an option, but a necessity. Lueira has become a key part of the school’s day-to-day operations, allowing it to work with more order, more control and less administrative burden.
With management under control, Nomad can focus on what’s really important: the sport, the people and the community it has built around the mountain and each season of the year.
“The planning is alive, it is constantly moving, and that is key for us. Being able to change schedules, teachers or move classes at any time without redoing everything gives us a lot of peace of mind on a day-to-day basis.”
Laia Sol
Founder and CEO of Nomad
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