Strong Woman: The Truth About Getting To The Top

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Karren’s after luncheon speech was informative, motivational, humorous where needed and highly inspirational. She also agreed to a Q&A session as well and spent 30-40 minutes answering questions from the audience. The audience all commented on what an excellent speaker she was, how warm and engaging and extremely humorous. By far one of the best speakers we have enjoyed at City Luncheon. 10 out of 10.' Furthermore, Karren presented ITV1’s ‘ Give It A Year’, where she met entrepreneurs who started a new business. Karren Brady – Motivational Speaker: Karren Brady is Britain’s best-known business woman. An inspiration to women everywhere, her incredible success is borne of her passion, impressive business instinct, ambition, and her very genuine, honest, down-to-earth outlook.

Passionate and straight-talking, Karren Brady has become one of the business world’s most in-demand motivational speakers. Voted Business Woman of the Year, Ultimate Entrepreneur and rated among the 50 most inspirational people in the world, she is passionate about business and the promotion of women in business in the UK. The goal of reading Brady’s book therefore was to help myself regain my perspective on work whilst allowing myself to indulge with a little soul searching on the way. To these ends the book was useful to me and it reminded me on what it means to be female and successful within the word of work. There are unfortunately prices to pay and sacrifices to be made for this and Brady does not gloss over this viewpoint and nor does she fluff it up in any way. The honesty here will, I imagine, be appreciated by many.Motivated by her desire to create an impact in the industry, Brady chose not to go to university, instead taking up an advertising traineeship. A resilient and unrelenting worker, Brady’s work ethic paid dividends when she was appointed Managing Director of Birmingham City football club aged only 23, by the time she was 27 she was the youngest ever Managing Director of a UK plc, a testament to her business acumen and drive. Establishing herself as a formidable talent when it comes to the transformation of businesses, Brady has since achieved the same feat with West Ham, as Vice-Chairman of the club, leading them to sit in the top 5 fastest growing football brands globally.

Certainly she gives short shrift to the question that's clearly been the bane of her working existence: how could she stand up for women's rights (which she does at length in this book) but work so closely with people with interests in the porn business (Sullivan, Gold and Richard Desmond)? It isn't the stupidest question in the world, and Brady's response isn't the strongest – just some mumbling about organisations such as Sky having adult channels too. Karren has attracted much media attention throughout her career and was the subject of a BBC1 documentary ‘ Inside Story’– The Real Life Manageress’. She regularly appears on prime-time shows such as The Jonathan Ross Show and Piers Morgan’s Life Stories. The pinnacle of success is knowing you have reached your optimum output and reaped the rewards, a time Karren experienced in each of her ventures, whether it be club leadership, government adviser or author. Individual to each audience member is their ‘best’ and as a speaker, Karren focuses her talk on inspiring each person to reflect on whether they are achieving their best, and the small steps you can take to get there. How to Build a World Class Culture I've always thought of Brady as hard-working (of course!) and inspirational, she does what she can to provide and also raise the banner for us ladies to reach and join in. Elsewhere, it's admirable of Brady to admit that she was wrong to take only three days off after the birth of her first child because she felt fearful about her career. These days she feels that "having it all" is a ridiculous "pressurising concept" that does women no favours. Go Karren! Let's just hope that the female Apprentice contestants are listening.Karren is best known for the time she spent as the Managing Director of Birmingham City Football Club. Her appointment at the club sparked great attention, becoming the first female to be appointed such a role in a male-dominated sector. Since then, Karren is also well known for being the Vice Chairman of West Ham United Football Club and featuring on The Apprentice. Sitting alongside business magnate Lord Alan Sugar, as the interviewer in many series before becoming Lord Sugar’s new assistant. Karren Brady is the definition of an inspirational woman. The award winning business mogul is best recognised as the former Managing Director of Birmingham City and Vice-Chairman of West Ham United, a self made success who has since utilised her platform to champion others to achieve their ambitions. Working both in government and her personal ventures, Brady has not only continued to make an influential impact in business, but paved the way for others to make their mark. Named as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Britain in 2010 and 50 Most Inspirational People in the World, why not learn from the pioneer yourself, with a keynote speech from Brady. I think that this book was very helpful for many reason. Firstly because it is very genuine and personal as many of the rules that Karren states in this book and the way she explains them really appealed to me and I realised that I could take something away from that and use it in life especially because she uses many examples throughout the book which can be applied to day to day life and it made me think about it and I realized that I do those things and should use the rule she is stating to fix that so in that respect it has been very helpful.

Turning her distinguished business career into an opportunity to support others, Brady is now a highly sought after motivational speaker. Having spoken for the likes of Costa Coffee, Land Rover UK and Government conferences, she offers an experienced and bespoke talk at each engagement she attends. Speaking on a range of topics, from how to acquire an entrepreneurial spirit to turning a failing business into a world class brand, Brady is an invaluable asset to both individuals and corporate clients. With first hand experience of everything she discusses, Brady’s talks are guaranteed to be captivating and entertaining, as one of the best speakers in the world for the past decade. To date, Karren has written five books; these include novels and business titles. Karren’s most recent book, Strong Woman , traces her incredible rise from selling ad space to running a Premier League football club. Karren is one of the most sought after speakers in the world and has worked in over 30 countries, motivating and advising global businesses through her award-winning speeches. She is also author of Sunday Times best-selling autobiography Strong Woman.Obviously success only comes with hard work and she's shown us how she made and given ideas on how we can make it, as well as juggling family. I initially bought this book as a second option to Alan Sugar: What you see is what you get (I'm studying business in college and needed some inspiration/insight), thinking I'll read it after I've read his book but I couldn't tear away, I HAD to read hers first and I'm glad I did. She's opened doors for women and she expects younger generations of women to keep that door open; that we need to hold it open for the rest of us to walk through and make it.