Prof Miranda Brawn is a multi award-winning diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) leader, lawyer and British businesswoman with over 100+ awards to date including honorary doctorates. Today, her career portfolio of roles include being a multi-sector non executive director, chair, trustee, board advisor on a range of influential global boards.
She has advised the UK’s richest family when she was on the board of their electrical vehicle mature start-up company. She sits on the boards of the UK’s largest NHS healthcare organisation, financial services and AI technology companies. She is also an investor, venture capitalist, AI and technology start-up advisor.
As a social entrepreneur and philanthropist, she has supported over 20 charities as a board advisor, trustee and ambassador including launching her own non-profit Foundation called The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation’ (TMBDLF).
TMBDLF is the UK’s first diversity leadership organisation founded on 4th January 2016 that launched the first diversity lectures and first of its kind “innovative” and tailored diversity scholarships aimed at school children and university students. The aim is to improve the educational experience of students from disadvantaged and diverse backgrounds across all strands including race, socioeconomic, disability, faith and so on.
TMBDLF works with the UK’s top employers, professionals and academics to ensure that students from diverse backgrounds have access to mentoring, funding, work experience, networks, skills training, confidence building and also potentially employment opportunities during their time at school, college and university.
She is also an educator where she is the first Professor (Hon) in Business and Law at the University of Roehampton. She is the podcast host for ‘The D.A.R.E. Podcast’ (a successful mindset podcast), an international public speaker including two TEDx talks in Italy and a success mindset coach known as ‘The 60 Second Coach’ on instagram.
As an expert media contributor, she has featured across numerous media platforms both online and in print including Bloomberg TV, Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast, Sky News, CNBC, Forbes, Financial Times, The Times and a range of magazine cover interviews.
Her career background includes being a former investment banker, hedge fund derivatives sales trader and senior international financial services lawyer where she started her career as one of the first women on London’s trading floor including working for JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. She is often one of the first women and youngest person in global boardrooms across all sectors where she had also launched the UK’s first Black Women on Boards initiative in 2021 as part of TMBDLF.
She was also Senior Visiting Fellow residing at Oxford University researching, lecturing and group mentoring on ‘The Brawn Review: Boardroom sustainability, inclusion and governance’. This independent report launches in October 2025 at the UK House of Lords as part of TMBDLF’s 10th Annual Lecture Anniversary celebrations.
Miranda’s work has helped to empower thousands of people of all ages and backgrounds to succeed in their career and launch similar initiatives with a ripple effect of helping millions of people around the world.
Further information can be located on her website and her main social media platforms like Linkedin and Instagram.
Founder, President and CEO of The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation (TMBDLF) hosts conversations designed to empower listeners to turn real talk into real action to achieve true success.
The D.A.R.E. Podcast, founded, produced and hosted by the powerhouse Prof Miranda Brawn, is a successful mindset podcast that dares people to live their best lives and achieve their own version of success. Miranda brings her humour, openness, warmth, advice alongside mentoring and coaching to every episode, with her guests.
PROF MIRANDA BRAWN announced the launch of a monthly audio and video podcast called ‘The D.A.R.E. Podcast’ in January 2024 where she shares her own lessons and experiences building a successful multi-sector portfolio career in and out of influential boardrooms. She hosts thought-provoking conversations with some of the world’s most intelligent and successful mindsets belonging to global leaders and celebrities.
Brawn is a British businesswoman, board director, social entrepreneur, success mindset coach, investor, international public speaker with two TEDx talks, philanthropist, lawyer and former investment banker and hedge fund derivatives sales trader.
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On ‘The D.A.R.E. Podcast’ show, Millionaire Brawn, sits down with CEOs, founders, creatives, trailblazers, visionaries, changemakers, industry leaders of global organisations who share their philosophies, personal stories, daily success habits, advice and real-world strategies that have fueled their journeys from childhood to the top of their game. You get the opportunity to spend quality time with some of the most busiest people who are very hard to pin down and learn more about them behind their “successful” profile.
With friends in high places, the podcast guests are friends and associates within Miranda’s high-powered network. Season one in 2024 and season two in 2025 each consist of 10 episodes and have been powered by ‘City AM’ news publication in their podcast studio. Season three will be out in late 2025 to early 2026 with filming to commence during Summer 2025. This will include both business and non-business conversations for a more inclusive audience while catering for all sectors and interests around the world.
The guests have included the very first guest of the show, second female Lord Mayor of London, former Partner of CMS law firm and Patron of TMBDLF Dame Fiona Woolf; multi-millionaire businessman and former Aston Martin CEO Dr Andy Palmer CMG; former Managing Partner now Partner of Reed Smith law firm and board member, Tamara Box; KPMG’s first UK Black board member and Partner John McCalla-Lacey; Chair of the 30% UK Pavita Cooper, former Banker and Chair of the UK’s largest NHS Trust (Guy’s and St Thomas) Charles Alexander CBE; British businesswoman Baroness Sandy Verma; and once the UK’s most senior judge Baroness Brenda Hale.
Celebrities have also included a few familiar faces from the television screens like I’m a Celebrity Star, Global Sports Icon/British Olympian, Care Champion and Author Fatima Whitbread MBE; Actress, Comedian and Producer Chizzy Akudolu; former England footballer Andrew (Andy) Cole; and ITV’s The Chase Star and Barrister Shaun Wallace.
Season Three guests will continue to include some of the most successful and richest global leaders. These will include America’s first Black female billionaire Sheila Johnson; Co-Founder of Implement AI and former BBC Dragon’s Den investor Piers Linney, and co-founder of Last Minute.com and Lucky Voices, Philanthropist, British Businesswoman who sits on the boards of British Airways, Chanel and Multiverse, President of the British Chambers of Commerce and Chancellor of Open University Baroness Martha Lane Fox to name but a few.
Miranda’s engaging style draws out raw and honest insights about the challenges and triumphs of achieving true success. These include bad behaviour, abuse, homelessness, imposer syndrome to happiness, winning, early retirement lessons and becoming wealthy while giving back to help others.
Listeners will leave each episode feeling inspired with the confidence to dare to go out there and achieve their goals.
‘The D.A.R.E. Podcast’ is more than just your usual set of successful stories – it is a celebration of:
D – Daring to Dream bigger with bags of Determination to achieve your goals
A – Action is key with daily Affirmations
R – Resilience and a Realistic self-assessment of your skills gaps.
E- Energy (positive) and Enthusiasm are the most important in terms of who and what surrounds you.
“I had wanted to launch a podcast for a number of years and nearly launched a news focused podcast in 2020 with two former BBC presenters but our personal situations changed that summer. Another opportunity presented itself during Summer 2023 to enable the podcast filming to commence initially at a livery company in the City of London with two microphones and one camera. Within five to six months of filming and after a few weeks of officially launching the podcast, we had been invited to team up with ‘City AM’ for Seasons One and Two” and had filmed in their podcast studio with their team in 2024.
“I had wanted to take the tailored mentoring from my non-profit Foundation (TMBDLF) which is nearly 10 years old and to date has helped over 10,000 young diverse people with a ripple effect of millions and my professional success mindset coaching from ‘The 60 Second Coach’ platform on Instagram which launched in 2020 and scale them alongside my large network of successful mindsets. The main purpose of launching ‘The D.A.R.E. Podcast’ was to share the fantastic wisdom from everybody in my life who I have met either personally as friends and/or throughout my career.” said Brawn.
“Podcasts are experiencing a steady growth in popularity with a significant increase in listening numbers and engagement especially including more video podcasts with new podcasts launching on a regular basis. As of 2025, the global podcasting market is estimated to be worth billions of dollars with projections reaching USD 149.34 billion by 2030. Even though I have been called the female “Stephen Bartlett” who is the host of one of UK’s top podcasts called ‘DOAC’, there is definitely an opportunity and space for a voice and personality like mine. Someone who has faced continuous challenges, both professionally and personally, and continues to thrive throughout my career starting as one of the first women on London’s trading floor as a teenage banker to one of the first women and youngest at times in influential and global boardrooms as a board director.”
“This podcast is not just about the typical daily affirmations and meditations that you are starting to hear daily to achieve a positive mindset and make your goals a reality. It is really daring people to follow their dreams and to be inspired by the guests and I with our individual successful mindset stories. These conversations are full of laughter, tears and real talk set informally just like you’re catching up with a friend over lunch or a nice cup of tea. This is with practical guidance and tips to give people the confidence to get out there and achieve their goals.”
Tune in on your favourite podcast platform today by joining Miranda and her guests.
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They are available to full-time students at a UK education institution – from GCSE to PhD level – to pursue their own education and career ambitions.
A scholarship also includes high-level networking opportunities, funding, mentoring from leaders in the student’s chosen field and the possibility of work experience.
“TMBDLF shares a drive to promote diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging while also bridging the gap between education and the workplace. To date, we have helped over 10,000 young leaders both directly and indirectly through our mentoring, talks and workshops while providing thousands of pounds worth of education scholarship to young people from diverse backgrounds.” said Prof Miranda Brawn, a former Lambeth Equality Commissioner and Founder/President of TMBDLF.
“Scholarship recipients must have curiosity, passion, and drive, the genuine desire to improve diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, in and out of the workplace, in order to have a positive impact on the world.” she continued.
“This year, we have launched a few new scholarships for “Venture Capital (VC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)” which includes taking action on digital inclusion by awarding a scholarship applicant with a tablet at our UK House of Lords event later this year. We awarded our first tablet which was an Apple iPad to our youngest recipient in 2017. This was when we started to support digital inclusion with our next generation of diverse leaders to help fix the digital divide. We are keen to continue to play our part to improve the lives of young people cut off and left out today especially in light of the UK Government’s recent “Digital Inclusion Action Plan” which aims to close the digital divide in the UK, ensuring that the benefits of technology can be felt by all.” she continued.
“Other new scholarships for 2025 include Future Leaders on Boards, Kidney Healthcare in partnership with leading Charity Kidney Research UK, University of Roehampton Financial Services and London South Bank University Leadership.” she ended.
Scholarships are available across many fields of study and sectors for:
Law – sponsored by leading international law firm ‘Hogan Lovells’
Finance and business – supported by ‘Goldman Sachs’ with mentoring
STEAM – stands for science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM)
Disability and neurodiversity – sponsored by leading international law firm ‘Reed Smith’. This scholarship is also open to both part-time and full-time students who are unable to study full-time due to their disability
Medical – with mentoring support from ‘Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust’
Multi-Sector – for applicants in a sector not specifically listed
Future Leaders on Boards – for all industries and supporting diverse student leaders aiming for the boardroom membership
Venture Capital (VC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) – for those interested in working in the financial and technology start-up sector with a focus on digital inclusion
Kidney Healthcare – with support from leading UK Charity ‘Kidney Research UK’ for future leaders with an interest in working to bridge the kidney health gap and/or students on dialysis or kidney transplant recipients.
University of Roehampton Financial Services – supported by the ‘University of Roehampton’ for students who will be a ‘Business School’ student at the University of Roehampton from September 2025 to August 2026.
London South Bank University (LSBU) Leadership – supported by the ‘London South Bank University (LSBU)’ for students who will be a student at the LSBU from September 2025 to August 2026.
To be eligible for the scholarship programme, students must:
meet all the entry requirements for their full-time course
enrol as full-time students in the UK
have a good academic standard and/or aspire to achieve a good academic standard
be able to commit the time and effort necessary to complete the scholarship programme which includes 6 to 8 mentoring sessions from 2025 to 2026
have a demonstrable and genuine active interest in diversity.
Prof Miranda Brawn, Founder of The Brawn Review and The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation, says focus on DEI initiatives are dramatically falling and the crackdown will continue under the Trump administration. She speaks to Bloomberg’s Francine Lacqua on “The Pulse.” (Source: Bloomberg)
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Professor Miranda Brawn, recent winner of two awards for her inspirational leadership, is to launch a drive to promote gender equality and empower women in the UK and globally.
Prof Brawn is president of The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation (TMBDLF) which she founded eight years ago with a mission to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion gaps in the professional workplace through education and empowerment for future leaders.
Her new scheme, TMBDLF Global Gender Human Rights, has the goal of advancing women’s and girl’s human rights and eliminating gender discrimination and associated intersectional discrimination.
Due to launch officially on International Women’s Day, Friday 8 March, its aim is to “inspire inclusion”.
Prof Brawn was recently recognised with the African Leadership Organisation’s Top 50 Afro-Caribbean Leadership Award at a ceremony in the House of Lords.
Prof Miranda Brawn with Chair of UN Women UK Baroness Sandy Verma at the House of Lords in January 2024 after winning the Top 50 Afro-Caribbean Leadership Award 2023.
The award showcases inspirational leaders and change-makers who have positively influenced their local communities and the larger UK and global society, changing negative narratives often linked to minorities and people of colour.
Prof Brawn was also listed among the Top 100 UK Influential People 2024 for all nationalities across the UK.
The Top 100 programme highlights “truly influential people” who affect society and who are making the world a better place.
TMBDLF Global Gender Human Rights (TMBDLF GGHR) aims to fight injustice against women and girls, and support women and girls who face discrimination, stigma, violence and criminalisation.
The programme will encourage social, educational and behaviour change by working with women-led organisations like Action Aid and other gender-based charities as well as granting scholarships.
It complements Prof Brawn’s other roles in this sphere which include being a UN Women UK delegate and ActionAid UK Arise Fund advisory board member.
“Having had a history of supporting victims of sexual and gender-based violence, I have seen first-hand the difference that support can make to the lives of marginalised women,” said Prof Brawn.
“I am seeking to help support the change of the current status quo by allowing women and girls to claim their equal rights. Around the world and in the UK, women and girls face pervasive discrimination and violence.”
An international lawyer since 2011, she said she is keen to use her legal knowledge and background to fight outdated laws that criminalise “immoral” behaviour by women.
“Pervasive practices such as child marriage and sexual violence are lacking a concerted supportive response,” she said.
“Many women and girls face discrimination in the administration of justice or lack the means to access the system.
“Although governments around the world have promised to protect women in their constitutions and treaties, many women are not able to use the law to claim their rights. This includes right here in the UK!”
Prof Brawn said her advocacy work for equality, diversity and human rights spans nearly three decades, including her previous role as an equality commissioner for Lambeth.
An innovative scholarship “Global Gender Human Rights” will be added to The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation’s existing list of scholarships which include mentoring and funding.
It will help encourage the next generation of human rights leaders in advocacy work for girls and women “in education, the workplace and so much more,” said Prof Brawn.
The ninth Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Annual Lecture in 2024 will be titled “Global Gender Human Rights”.
“At the current rate, we risk leaving more than 340 million women and girls in abject poverty by 2030, and an alarming 4% could grapple with extreme food insecurity by that year,” she said.
“Growing vulnerability brought on by human-induced climate change is likely to worsen this outlook, as many as 236 million more women and girls will be food-insecure under a worst-case climate scenario.
“The gender gap in power and leadership positions remains entrenched and, at the current rate of progress, the next generation of women will still spend on average 2.3 more hours per day on unpaid care and domestic work than men.
“No country is within reach of eradicating intimate partner violence, and women’s share of workplace management positions will remain below parity even by 2050.
“Fair progress has been made in girls’ education, but completion rates remain below the universal mark. With the clock ticking, urgency mounts. Even with significant progress in certain sectors, as we approach the halfway mark of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, monumental challenges remain.
“The global pandemic, conflict, the climate crisis, and a harsh backlash against women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights are further diminishing the outlook for gender equality.
“Violence against women remains high; global health, climate, and humanitarian crises have further increased risks of violence, especially for the most vulnerable women and girls; and women feel more unsafe than they did before the pandemic.
“In countries as diverse as Afghanistan and the US, women and girls now have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers did.
“Gender equality, besides being a fundamental human right, is essential to achieve peaceful societies, with full human potential and sustainable development. Moreover, it has been shown that empowering women spurs productivity and economic growth.
“Every day, in every country in the world, women are confronted by discrimination and inequality.”
Email The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation – info@tmbdlf.com – for more information about the TMBDLF Global Gender Human Rights”initiative.
PROFESSOR MIRANDA K. Brawn has been awarded an honorary professorship in business and law which is the first honorary professorship for the University of Roehampton in August 2023.
She will work alongside academics while lecturing and mentoring the students at the Roehampton University’s Business School and Law School. She will share her experiences of being a highly successful businesswoman and senior corporate lawyer for decades while also raising the profile of her much-needed diversity, inclusion, equity and sustainability work.
The collaboration will enable Professor Brawn to complete her research report called ‘The Brawn Review: Sustainability, Inclusion and Corporate Governance’. This was commenced during her tenor at Oxford University between 2022 and 2023 as a senior visiting fellow.
The award was presented in recognition of Miranda’s contribution to business, finance, law, education, charity, diversity, inclusion, sustainability and boardroom equity for over three decades. This includes the charity which she founded on the 4th of January 2016 called ‘The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation’. They are launching a new podcast on the day of their 8th Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Annual Lecture during UK Black History Month next month called ‘D.A.R.E.’ (a podcast with Professor Miranda K. Brawn) interviewing the UK’s most successful and daring leaders.
She is a highly respected leader where her high profile, expertise, experience and influence will undoubtedly bring benefit and real positive impact to the University of Roehampton and the lives of people in the community.
Her work over the years have demonstrated a commitment to reducing inequalities across all sectors including healthcare as part of her new role starting on the 1st of January 2023 as a non-executive director on the board of Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust in London.
The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Annual Lecture hosted by global law firm Hogan Lovells International is called “Addressing ESG+H(ealth) Inequalities” this year with a list of influential healthcare CEO’s, House of Commons’ Wes Streeting MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom and Professor Miranda K. Brawn delivering the annual lecture sharing views on how to close the health inequalities gap. Music will be by ‘Black Living Donors’ where Miranda is their first Patron to help raise the awareness of the importance of black kidney donations among the black community to help save lives and improve health conditions overall for everyone of all races and backgrounds.
Further information is on the University of Roehampton Website about Professor Miranda Brawn’s Honorary Professorship:
PROFESSOR Miranda Brawn has launched a podcast series to encourage successful mindsets which she will herself host and produce featuring guests including actress and producer Chizzy Akudolu, Barrister and ITV The Chase’s Shaun Wallace, Former England Footballer Andrew Cole and Second Female Lord Mayor of London Dame Fiona Woolf, House of Lords Member and Breast Cancer Now CEO Baroness Delyth Morgan, Sixth Black Female King’s Counsel in the UK Nneka Akudolu, KPMG’s first Black Board Member John McCalla-Leacy, BBC’s Bargain Hunt’s Danny Sebastian, Reed Smith’s Senior Managing Partner Tamara Box, Actress and Writer Michelle Gayle – and many more.
Professor Miranda K. Brawn will host and produce The D.A.R.E. a successful mindset Podcast starting 11 January 2024.
The podcast will be available on all the usual podcasting platforms such as you tube, apple podcast, spotify, amazon music and audible.
The podcast is launching through Miranda’s registered charity, The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation (www.tmbdlf.com), which she founded eight years ago on 4th January 2016, aims to eliminate the diversity, equity and inclusion gaps in the professional workplace through education and empowerment for future leaders in the UK and around the world. It has helped thousands of diverse young people and organisations with a ripple effect of millions over the years where many scholarship winners have gone on to have launch their own diversity platforms to continue the work of helping our next generation of diverse leaders to succeed.
In a trailer for the new podcast series, Miranda discusses the battles, challenges and successes with her podcast guests including sharing their career journey and what they dare the audience which is aimed at everyone from students in the classroom to professionals starting their careers, aiming for promotion up to C-suite and boardroom while covering all industries with the right mindset to succeed and achieve their goals.
Available monthly from 11 January 2024, the D.A.R.E. Podcast will create a space where everyone who wants to achieve happiness and success in their lives – and those who wish to connect more with their mindset in the right way – can hear straight from the mouths of successful people living their own dreams while daring to trailblaze for others to follow.
Each month, celebrated leaders, as well as stars of stage and screen will invite listeners inside their own mindsets to share some secrets of success.
The first series of the podcast features Dame Fiona Woolf on 11th January 2024, followed by Chizzy Akudolu at the end of January 2024 who take us on their own personal journeys through what has dared them to influence their lives in a successful way to inspire, empower and motivate others to do the same.
The brand-new podcast series will delve into the hearts of the guests we love the most and will also feature contributions from Founder and CEO, Professor Miranda Brawn, who will let listeners in on some of her all-time favourite success tips and her own journey during our conversations.
Podcast guests have said: ‘I hope that this podcast will inspire listeners to new successful adventures…..help those wishing to change their lives for the better…..find the inspiration which set their imaginations and lives alight’
Professor Miranda Brawn: “By listening to this podcast, you will learn how to refocus your mindset and thought processes while being inspired and motivated to go out there and live your best life.”
The D.A.R.E. podcast host and producer Professor Miranda K. Brawn is the Founder & CEO of The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation (www.tmbdlf.com), global motivational speaker, the world’s fastest Success Mindset Coach also known as ‘The 60 Second Coach’ and a multi-sector boardroom advisor.
Miranda is also the creator of the “D.A.R.E.” Method. D.A.R.E. stands for having the determination to dream bigger and to decide to go it with a calculated risk focused action plan and daily affirmations while having a realistic assessment of your skills gap and the resilience to make it happen with the right energy full of positivity.
Her guests will include amazing global leaders and celebrities who are highly successful within their fields. This will be across all industries including law, business, entertainment, media, sports, charity, finance, technology, engineering, healthcare, entrepreneurship, politics, fashion, music and much more.
D.A.R.E. is an original podcast series, providing practical insights for people of all ages and backgrounds from the classroom to the boardroom and everything in between. So, whether you are at school thinking about your career plans, new to the world of work, an experienced professional looking to progress your career further or a board member looking to diversify your expertise and learn from others on how to have a greater impact, this podcast aims to help you!
You can get to know the people behind their success stories and hear some real talk about their journey, successful mindsets and what they “dare” the audience to do to be successful and happy in their lives.
Featuring some of the upcoming podcast guests who have already recorded their episodes:
• Dame Fiona Woolf, lawyer, former Lord Mayor of London and second female ever since 1189, CMS Partner and Patron of The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation (TMBDLF).
• Chizzy Akudolu, an award-winning British actress, writer, producer, comedienne and TV personality. Also, a celebrity ambassador and mentor for The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation.
• Shaun Wallace, the first and only black person to ever win Mastermind, Barrister, Dark Destroyer on ITV’s The Chase and celebrity ambassador for The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation.
Other podcast guests to be featured in 2024 with many more to be announced:
• Baroness Brenda Hale of Richmond, is a British judge who served as the first female President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2017 until her retirement in 2020. In 2004, she joined the House of Lords as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and the once again the only woman to have been appointed.
• Baroness Delyth Morgan of Drefelin, is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom and the current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Breast Cancer Now.
• Andrew Cole, former award-winning professional English footballer from 1998 to 2008, and is mostly remembered for his time with Manchester United and playing for England internationally also known as Andy Cole during this time. Also, a Kidney Research UK ambassador where he launched the Andy Cole Fund to help increase black kidney donors.
• John McCalla-Leacy, is Global Head of ESG at KPMG, Vice Chair of KPMG UK and the first black person on the board of a Big Four global professional services company.
• Nneka Akudolu KC, sixth Black Female King’s Counsel in the UK, a criminal practitioner who took silk in March 2022 and a mentor for The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation.
• Wes Streeting MP, a British politician and the Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and author sharing his rise from poverty in the East End of London to the Palace of Westminster via Cambridge University. He was also the keynote opening speaker for The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Annual Lecture 2023 on “Addressing ESG+H(ealth) Inequalities.
• Danny Sebastian, a self-taught antique dealer for nearly 20 years who was born in Dominica and is now an expert television presenter on BBC’s “Bargain Hunt”, “Junk Resecue” for Cbeebies and “Street Auction”. He is a celebrity ambassador for The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation.
• Tamara Box, a Managing Partner at global law firm Reed Smith and a board member. She is listed as the Financial News’s Fifty Most Influential Lawyers. She is also a supporter for The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation where Reed Smith sponsors their Neurodiversity and Disability Scholarship each year.
• Terri Duhon, a financial market expert with over 25 years of experience in financial markets, author, Associate Fellow at the Said Business School and she sits on the boards of Morgan Stanley International, Morgan Stanley Investment Management Ltd and Rathbone Brothers PLC board. She is an ambassador and mentor for The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation.
• Michelle Gayle, an actor, singer, writer and co-founder of ‘The World Reimagined’. She played Hattie Tavernier in Eastenders; had six top 20 hits; sold a million records, with Sweetness the biggest hit; and has been nominated for multiple Brit Awards. A regular television contributor and until 2023 played Hermione Granger in the multi award winning play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
• Jane Shepherdson CBE, Chair of My Wardrobe HQ (IUK’s top luxury fashion rental), Sustainable Fashion Industry Expert, Director of London Fashion Fund, Smartworks Trustee, Former CEO part-owner of Whistles and Topshop Brand Director where she was single-handedly responsible for the success story that is Topshop, also known as the fairy godmother of the high street.
• Ann Cairns, was formerly, the Global Chair of the 30% Club, lead non-executive board member of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ( BEIS ), President of International Markets for Mastercard and Chair of ICE Clear Europe having had an extensive and successful career in the financial sector. She is now a portfolio board director and continues to be gender equality advocate.
• Dr Andy PalmerCMG, an automotive executive and engineer with more than 40 years’ experience. He has been described as the ‘Godfather of EVs’ due to his work launching the Nissan Leaf in 2010 whilst COO of Nissan and CEO of Aston Martin Lagonda. Today, he is the Founder/CEO of Palmer Automotive Ltd and CEO of Podpoint, a UK provider of electric vehicle charging station. He is also an ambassador and mentor of The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation.
We have a waiting list of further highly successful podcast guests who will also be joining us throughout 2024/25.
You could say Miranda Brawn has everything a successful woman needs: legal and business degrees, a top role at Oxford University focused on ‘The Brawn Review’ to enable boardroom inclusion and sustainability to accompany her portfolio board career, a closet full of power suits that fits impeccably, and — always — a bold lipstick with a smile that lights up a room with her infectious positive energy while turning heads. The businesswoman’s strong pout and natural curls have become engrained into her signature style.
Coco Chanel’s “add more lipstick and attack” philosophy pretty much describes Miranda Brawn to a T. Between absolutely thriving in her own portfolio career, she has yet to reveal her secrets to juggling all her roles so gracefully. She has shattered every stigma that says makeup and stylish ladies like you and me will never be taken seriously.
Multi award-winning diversity, inclusion and sustainability superstar Professor Miranda K. Brawn has had a blockbuster 2022, bagging a few new board seats to accompany her current board roles such as a global electrical vehicle company called Switch Mobility Ltd which is led by Britain’s richest family Billionaire Hinduja Brothers, with Hinduja Group’s Ashok Leyland as their parent company.
Her new board roles include a LawTech start-up, an artificial intelligence start-up based in Singapore and one of the UK’s largest NHS Foundation Trusts while accepting the offer of a top role as a Senior Visiting Fellow at the UK’s number one university, The University of Oxford. She is researching, mentoring and lecturing on “The Brawn Review” which is an independent report on boardroom sustainability, inclusion and corporate governance backed by global organisations and leaders. She has also launched ‘Monday’s with Miranda’ which are group mentoring sessions held at Oxford University on Mondays to mentor our next generation of leaders in an informal setting and to accompany her 60 second success coaching.
Miranda has joined the elite rank of board directors who have served as both executive and non-executive to name a few accomplishments including being a candidate for the Alderman role in the City of London earlier this year. As a media contributor for various global media platforms including as one of Bloomberg’s New Voices last year and an international public speaker for over 10 years, Miranda speaks around the world at various schools, universities, organisations, seminars, conferences and in the media to share her expertise, experience and knowledge. This is mostly on how to make the boardroom and workplace more diverse, inclusive and sustainable through innovative growth with the appropriate risk management and corporate governance techniques. She does this while inspiring and motivating our next and current generation of leaders helping to make the transition from the classroom to the workplace and eventually the boardroom.
Miranda is emblematic of a bold new class of female board director stars (think Ann Cairns, Dame Helena Morrissey, Dame Sharon White in the UK or Melody Hobson, Debra Lee and Ursula Burns in the US to name but a few) who embrace an unapologetically leadership style that once fell exclusively under the domain of middle-aged white male board directors. Thousands of young female and diverse followers —whom Miranda calls “darlings” and “future leaders”—cannot get enough through her award-winning UK registered Charity, The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation (www.tmbdlf.com) which launched the UK’s first black women on boards initiative and first diversity leadership lecture of its kind in 2016.
While rising to the highest ranks within various industries including corporate where CEO’s now report into her within the Boardroom and within Academia, Miranda also has a social media tag called #CurlyHairProfessor. This is because she wants to redefine the way curly hair is perceived within professional environments. She wants to push the message and realisation that curly hair is professional. Instead of trying to fit in Miranda has built a successful personal brand on being her authentic self and on many occasions ahead of her time where she stands out as an innovative trailblazer leader inspiring many from all levels to follow.
Miranda was born and raised in Leytonstone, a diverse neighbourhood in East London where she was educated in Woodford Green and Loughton both based in Essex. A former fashion and beauty model, she entered the world of banking and became one of the first women of colour on London’s trading floor working for one of the top global investment banks. Throughout her career, she has worked with multiple billion-dollar and trillion-dollar global companies with a glamorous style that stands out proving that you can be beautiful and intelligent with a powerful voice that commands respect. She achieved her childhood dream of becoming a lawyer while being called to the Bar of England and Wales in her 30’s where she officially became a barrister-at-law. This proved that it is never too late to achieve a goal after spending the first part of her career as an investment banker, senior financial services executive and hedge fund sales trader. As part of her portfolio career, she has also been a brand ambassador for top luxury brands such as Jimmy Choo, Piaget, Chanel and female led founders The Fold London and Libby London.
Today, she is planning a 2023/24 book and public speaking world tour, where there is also Hollywood interest from film producers to produce a film on her life based upon her upcoming book. This includes the main success tips from some of the richest and most successful people in the world that Miranda has either worked or networked with over the years.
In Her Words on one of her Success Tips: “If you do not ask, you do not get” she says. “I like to spread kindness around like confetti and wish to leave a legacy to help others whereever I go especially through The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation. We have created our own family of amazing leaders who radiate kindness and are just good people. Life is too short to associate yourself with anyone less than that! I love the quote that states: ‘You are a true success when you help others. Be successful!’”
Success Edge: The unique variety that Miranda demonstrates throughout her career, as well as in her personal obligations, makes her stand out with her multi-sector portfolio career proving that having transferrable skills really does work and equate to success in the 21st century.
After nearly 30 years, I am literally just scratching the surface! Watch this space because I truly feel that I have only just began she says with a wink and a cheeky smile followed by her trademark laugh. As a self-confessed hugger, she departs with a warm hug and happy glow on her face on to her next diary appointment. This is to deliver her keynote talk at a ‘Women in the Boardroom’ global conference in her ‘The Fold London’ dress and ‘Jimmy Choo’ heels while clutching her black and gold ‘Hermes Birkin’ bag with her signature bold red lipstick and long naturally curly brown hair flowing behind her.
