the 94%

<p><br></p><p><strong>94% of women working in C-suite executive roles played sport...</strong></p><br><p><strong>52% at university level*. </strong></p><br><p>Talking to some of your favourite and fabulous women from all walks of life about how their sporting experiences have shaped them in weird, wonderful and often quite witty ways. </p><br><p>With hosts Rachel Shelley (Helena Peabody on TV’s&nbsp;The L Word, gay icon and mother to a teen girl in London) and Dublin’s Nikki Symmons (former international hockey and cricket player for 13 years,&nbsp;Ireland’s first female athlete to come out as gay and a specialised DEI advisor).</p><br><p>In all walks of life, not just the C-Suite, participation in sport from an early age promotes professional excellence, in whatever field a woman moves into. And that’s a fact.</p><br><p>Sport helps develop resilience, discipline and teamwork. Together these form a holy trinity for success.</p><br><p>They discuss the wild and varied parallels they see between competitive sport and their real-life experiences.</p><br><p>How lessons learnt on the pitch shape their behaviour off the field.</p><br><p>How sport has made them the women they are today.</p><br><p>And how they got off the blocks at the very start.</p><br><p>But it’s not just the sporting elite in their new careers that we hear from, although our host Nikki will keep us anchored in that arena. Our guests include high-flyers from the world of entertainment, politics, media and corporate… wherever successful athletes find themselves.</p><br><p>And that’s everywhere.&nbsp;</p><br><p><strong>*</strong>EY Women Athletes Business Network and ESPN W 2014</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>