Karren Brady

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Karren Brady is a world class motivational and inspiration speaker. Covering subjects such as Motivation, Goal Achieving, Leading a Team, Delivering Change, Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship, Management Skills, Women in Business, Team Building as well as after dinner speaking.

She’s passionate, straight talking and delivers a genuine and personal account of who she built up her company and how she leads people towards change.

She speaks passionately about how she succeeded in a man’s world, shares funny anecdotes as well and giving practical and inspiration advice to companies and individuals.

biography

Karren Brady began her career at Saatchi & Saatchi when she was 18 years old and swiftly moved onto LBC as junior Account Executive.
Karren is now known as the first woman in football.  She has been Managing Director of Birmingham City Football Club since 1993 and has turned the Club’s fortunes around.  She took over Birmingham City when it was in administration, and in her first year at the helm, the Club recorded a financial trading profit.  In 1996 the Club made an overall profit for the first time in modern history and in February 1997 the Club launched on the Stock market valued at the time of float at £25,000,000; she was the youngest Managing Director of a PLC in the UK.  During the past years Karren has increased the average gate of the Club from 6,000 to a sell out capacity of over 30,000.  In 2007 her business was valued at over £60million.
Karren has attracted much media attention in her position, and was the subject of an hour long documentary ‘Inside Story’ - The Real Life Manageress’ shown on BBC 1.  She has hosted her own TV show, Brady Bunch, and has also presented both Loose Women and Live Talk on ITV and she has also presented Central Weekend Live.  She is regularly featured in the news, on TV and radio.  Karren has written four books; a factual account of her first season at Birmingham City, ‘Brady plays the Blues’ two novels, ‘United’ and ‘Trophy Wives’ and her latest book ‘Playing to Win’ is about successful women in business. 
Karren is a columnist for The Sun newspaper; the UK’s biggest selling national daily newspaper, The Evening Mail in Birmingham, and The Guardian.  She is a judge of the Cosmopolitan Women of Achievement Awards and the Sports Industry Awards.  She is on the business Board of Scope, and the Ambassador for Birmingham Women’s Aid.  She is Chairman of Kerrang! (EMAP), and a Board Director of Mothercare PLC, Channel 4 Television and Sport England.  She is an honoree Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing.  She was voted by Cosmopolitan as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world and in 2004 and again in 2006 attended The Queen’s lunch for Women Achievers and Business Leaders. She was acknowledged as one of the most influential women in Britain by the Daily Mail and voted as one of Britain’s Most Inspirational Women by Good Housekeeping magazine.
In November 2006 she won the Cosmopolitan Woman of the Year, in the category of Women Who Have Changed the World.
In March 2006 she was chosen as the team leader on BBC1’s The Apprentice, for Comic Relief, where she lead her team (Trinny Woodall, Jo Brand, Cheryl Cole and Maureen Lipman) to a resounding victory over the boys team (Alistair Campbell, Piers Morgan, Rupert Everett, Danny Baker and Ross Kemp) raising over £750k (the two teams together raising £1million for charity)
In December 2007 Karren was a guest on Desert Island Discs and February 2008 saw the launch of Karren Brady’s ‘Today’s Business Woman’ magazine.
In October 2007 Karren was voted Business Woman of the Year and in November 2008 she was named as one of the top leadership role models in a national poll. This recognition was quickly followed in December 2008 when she was presented with the coveted Spirit of Everywoman Award at the NatWest Everywoman Awards, acknowledging her outstanding achievements in changing the landscape for women in business.
During January 2009, Karren presented a series of features for ITV1’s GMTV called Just the Job, helping people back into work, and giving advice about looking for and retaining your job in this uncertain economic climate. 
Now, following appearances as one of Sir Alan Sugar’s interrogators on the popular BBC show ‘The Apprentice’, Karren is to replace Margaret Mountford as Sir Alan’s right-hand woman in the forthcoming Series 6.

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Testimonials

Carl Dalby, Vice President PCubed
‘Karren was spot on! Very good presentation, talk and superb questions answered.

Professional Cricketers Association (Business Event at Lords)
‘THANK YOU to Karren for her speech at the Annual PCA Business Summit at Lords on Tuesday. I was in the audience and was truly enthralled - she was FANTASTIC. I have described her talk as ‘Life Changing’ - so refreshing and motivational.’

JLA (Learning Skills Council)
‘Thanks for doing such a sterling job for the Learning Skills Council on Thursday – the client was delighted!’

Bill Manson, The Management & Leadership Network
‘Thank you for all your efforts to help make the Management & Leadership conference such a resounding success. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive – and I do mean overwhelmingly! The delegates were truly impressed.’

David Johns, Institution of Civil Engineers
‘Karren, thank you for making our dinner so memorable last week. You achieved what many consider to be unachievable – a silent audience during your talk! I have received many compliments saying that this was one of the best so far.’

Best Western Hotels
‘I wanted to email to say how inspired I felt on hearing your keynote address at the conference this week. You really hit the spot. Thank you for topping up my energy levels and enthusiasm.’

David Cameron, Conservatives
‘Thank you so much for sparing the time to come and speak at our Party Conference in Birmingham last week. What you had to say was well received by our members and how much they welcomed the opportunity to hear all about your passion for Birmingham and British Sport. Thank you once again.’

Margaret Tovey, Job Centre Plus
‘I wanted to say how much I appreciated your involvement in last week’s Local Employment Partnerships Awards. I know from speaking to employers and others who attended, how much they enjoyed the way in which the event was facilitated by you with your opening address.’

Leaders in London
‘Karren Brady was stunning and very inspirational, a real master class, very motivating. Inspirational, Brilliant, WOW!’

Capital One
’Just wanted to say thank you so much for taking the time to talk to the ladies at Capital One yesterday, they found your talk motivating, inspiring and refreshingly honest!’

The Chartered Institute of Marketing
‘Karren, thank you again for a superb speech that really inspired the delegates. We have had a lot of positive feedback about the day and your speech was the highlight for many. You certainly gave our event the direction and inspiration it needed to keep the delegates fully engaged and focused on what was a very packed and engaging day. Well done and thank you.’

ING
’It was absolutely delightful working with you and you really INSPIRED our ING International Programme. Thank you’

The Institute of Credit Management
’Many, Many thanks for speaking at our convention, you certainly went down a storm and all the delegates are unanimous in their praise for your session’.

Chief Nursing Conference
‘Fabulous session from Karren Brady. Superb content and delivery, one of our best speakers’.