Miranda Brawn

Miranda Brawn is ranked as one of the leading global DE&I and ESG+H(ealth) global thought and action leaders! As a pre-eminent thinker, she is recognised for her fresh and innovative ideas and highly respected for her unique perspectives, with her ability to turn various insights into investible, inclusive, equitable and sustainable ideas with her positive and inspiring energy.

Her extensive global expertise and experience spans across multiple fields within the private, public and third sectors over three decades. She serves on global influential boards as a highly sought after non-executive director and board advisor across many industries including healthcare, charity, finance, law, engineering and technology. She advises companies, corporate boards, CEOs and management on strategic decisions, risk management, responsible governance, diversity, inclusion and sustainability.

Her work has taken her to more than 35 countries over the years, during which time she has developed a unique knowledge on a range of topics. Miranda has worked with global governmental leaders and senior business leaders to develop and implement policies. She has supported, advised and led a number of DE&I, CSR and ESG initiatives and events across a range of topics with a focus on creating an equitable, sustainable, inclusive and just society in and out of the workplace.

Previous roles include where she was one of the first women of colour on the City of London’s trading floor as a teenager, a British senior financial executive, investment banker, hedge fund derivatives sales trader and international financial services lawyer after being Called to the Bar of England and Wales to become a Barrister. Also, a former senior Visiting Fellow at Oxford University lecturing, mentoring and researching ‘The Brawn Review: on Boardroom Sustainability, Inclusion and Corporate Governance’.

As a philanthropist, Miranda supports global charities and also founded award-winning ‘The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation’ – registered charity focused on DE&I next generation leadership as part of their ‘10,000 Young People’ strategy, helping thousands of people with a ripple effect of millions to succeed in their education and future careers.

On a mission to help people transform themselves using neuroscience and the laws of attraction, she is highly sought after as a reverted mindset coach. As the world’s fastest success mindset coach, Miranda launched #The60SecondCoach in 2020 to compliment her existing coaching programmes. She can be found speaking alongside famous motivational speakers such as Les Brown and Jack Canfield. When hired as a speaker, Miranda shares her expertise as a leading mindset coach, educating audiences on how to excel in both their personal and professional lives. Now, Miranda is also the host and producer of ‘The D.A.R.E. Podcast’, a successful mindset podcast sharing success tips and so much more with the most successful leaders and celebrities globally. (Note: D.A.R.E. stands for having the determination to dream bigger, with the an action plan, resilience and realistic self-assessment with the right energy and positivity.)

Miranda Brawn has an influential and motivating success story, both personally and professionally, that is guaranteed to inspire people from all walks of life. From East London to global corporate boardrooms via the Square Mile and Wall Street, Miranda is now a highly successful businesswoman with a huge network of influential people across the globe.

Also, a media-trained expert contributor for Bloomberg, Forbes and the BBC to name but a few. Miranda has appeared in Forbes, The Financial Times, CNBC, The Sunday Times Magazine etc and featured on the cover of a handful of magazines.

An international keynote and motivational speaker across 35-plus countries at top conferences, seminars, TEDx, universities, schools and global organisations. She is influential on strategic directions and public policy with interests in global boardrooms, responsible governance, regulations, risk management, corporate social responsibility (CSR), environment, social and governance + health (ESG+H) and diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) with a focus on women on boards, global gender human rights, empowerment and equality.

Miranda’s leadership and influential positive impact both nationally and internationally have been recognised with numerous awards including:

• She won the Top 50 Afro-Caribbean Leadership Award at the House of Lords, UK
• She is one of the Top 100 Most Influential Leaders in the World
• She won the ‘Woman of the Year’ Award and ‘Ambassador of the Year’ at the “Woman in Finance Awards” for ‘extraordinary and sustained achievement…within Finance’ and ‘voice for change’.
• Financial Times listed her as being one of the Top 30 Ethnic Minority leaders globally
• UK’s Prime Minister awarded her ‘Point of Light’ status due to the positive impact of her Diversity, Equity and Inclusion work through the launch of her registered Charity which made UK history by launching the first diversity lecture of its kind for young people
• The University of Brighton awarded her an honorary Doctor of Letters degree for great contributions to global diversity and inclusion
• The University of Law awarded her an honorary Doctor of Laws degree for contributions to global diversity and inclusion
• The University of Roehampton awarded her the first honorary Professor of Business and Law for contributions to diversity, inclusion and sustainability across all sectors including business and law

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