Prof Miranda K. Brawn – Updated Biography 2025

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.

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The D.A.R.E. Podcast: From the classroom to the boardroom and beyond with mentoring and coaching at your fingertips to develop your successful mindset, Prof Miranda Brawn style

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.  

New episodes of ‘The D.A.R.E. Podcast’ are released on the first Friday of each month on AppleSpotifyAmazon MusicAudibleBuzzsproutYouTube and everywhere podcasts are available including Linktree. https://linktr.ee/thedarepodcast

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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.

You can watch, follow, subscribe and get updates on social media platforms including Linkedin and Instagram.

If you would like to sponsor ‘The D.A.R.E. Podcast’ and recommend a guest, you can email The D.A.R.E. Podcast directly.

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