It’s not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It’s the setback. It’s the loss. Beth Brooke Read Quote
Sponsorship involves putting your own political capital at risk, so they are going to help that person to succeed. Women get promoted; they don’t get sponsored. Women know they are on their own if they get that promotion. Beth Brooke Read Quote
I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background. Beth Brooke Read Quote
We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership. Beth Brooke Read Quote
As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you’re going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward. Beth Brooke Read Quote
Research shows that women at that mid level tend to get promoted based on performance, and men tend to get promoted based on potential. Beth Brooke Read Quote
I think what you have to recognise is everybody has their own deal, and everybody has challenges. Do I think that it was easier for me because at a certain point in my career I didn’t have children? Yeah, I think absolutely so. But everybody has their own deal. Beth Brooke Read Quote
