"Rural women are the backbone for families, communities and nations, but they're suffering the worst impacts of climate change and conflict and go unheard in legislation and remain unprotected and unsupported.""

"It’s incumbent on all of us to really struggle with OT history."

"I’m fascinated by what it means to be an embodied person in Western society."

"Younger people and children experience and consume reality differently today."

"There’s fantastic work being done at both national and diocesan level."

"It’s always important to me that any theology we do."

"You have to do a kind of audit of all your congregation’s needs."

"They will look very different for a different company that has a different geographic footprint. Even within the UK, that's true."

"One of the challenges is how you can get something that is meaningful and relevant to every single piece of that quite complex puzzle, which is why things like targets are quite difficult to set in isolation."

"If it’s not working, what would that look like? Does that then look like what you already have?"

"What is it that you are missing? Start with the premise that it's not working."

"Analysis Each step and then try and take a really lateral view."

"When I look now at my peers and my cohort, I could reel off in financial services, half a dozen female CEOs right now today, without thinking too hard about it, 20 years ago, that was not the case."

"It was just totally alien to the environment I grew up in."

"I didn't have a family background in financial services or indeed in business."

"I look back on my own journey, that feeling of being an outsider was definitely there for a big part of the beginning part of that journey."

"If we really crack this, if we get this right, if we truly have a diverse culture and inclusive culture, that eventually will lead you to a sense of belonging and belonging is about not feeling like you're in an alien environment."

"We haven't actually had any failures we only owe that to the commitment of our people."

"And when we sent almost all of our employees to work from home, I was impressed by how flexible our employees were."

"We rolled out Zoom across the company in just two weeks."

"At first we saw it as a regional problem, but when it turned into a global pandemic, we had some training."

"That is why we already dealt with COVID in January 2020."

"Maybe that's because we have a lot of employees on site in China."

"We each have to find out for ourselves what we like and good, and then simply more of it do."

"It's self-reliance and independence that count."

"When I was sent on a management skills training course for one of my previous employers, I realized that people are motivated by very different things."

"The individual parts are always the same, but someone may have shaken them together overnight."

"Sometimes such a lateral entry is also an advantage."

"I had never looked at a business newspaper like the Financial Times."

"The role with Greater Sport particularly appealed as it operated within my local community and I felt I could really help the organisation reach some of the communities in the area that had traditionally been harder to reach. The opportunity to drive this change in my local area was one I jumped at."

"My advice to other leaders in the private sector would absolutely be to volunteer and put themselves forward for these opportunities in sport."

"I understand how important it is for people to see themselves and their communities represented at senior levels of an organisation. Since coming onto the board, I have been able to advise Greater Sport on what they can do to be more inclusive, and act as a spokesperson to previously excluded communities to ensure that Greater Sport is as accessible to all."

"I showed them a photograph of me when I was at my most ill and they couldn't believe I’m the person in the picture. I went on that journey of nearly dying and then going on to have a child. I had my daughter, Aliyah in 2016 even though I was told I couldn’t have children. I’ve beaten the odds, basically.”"

"When it’s your own story, you live it, you breathe it and it becomes normal to you. When I speak to people I’m very open and frank about what’s happened to me, but when I see the impact it has on others, it makes me feel emotional myself. I realise how much I can help by telling my story.”"

"They said it meant a lot to them as it reminded them of their purpose and end goal. It was nice to hear that and to see their passion in terms of how they’re trying to find a better way of dialysing or finding medication that has less impact on the body.”"

"I started fundraising for Kidney Research UK after my transplant. It was my way of giving back because I found it really difficult emotionally and psychologically to say thank you to the donor family who had lost their loved one. I raised money at first by doing one of the charity’s Bridges Walks and then on my kidney transplant anniversary, I would do an event with family and friends at my house and raise money through that.”"

"There might be all sorts of obstacles, there might be legal documents you’re not aware of. That’s why having good advisors around who’ve been through this a number of times is invaluable.”"

"This wasn’t my first rodeo; I’d had other exits.” Previously, she’d co-founded and sold PR group Mantra for several million in 2007, and went on to co-found and exit Maidthorn Partners before starting Love Home Swap in 2011."

"It isn’t signed until the day it’s signed. There’s technical stuff that can really trip you up and the devil is in the detail. I’ve made mistakes when I’ve been in a rush – and I make a lot fewer now. You need someone at your elbow saying ‘don’t sign that, it’s not right"

"There’s a huge question for entrepreneurs when they’re raising funds as to whether they take ‘strategic money’ – that is money from a corporate that has an interest in your business, either because of what your business does or doesn’t do, or whether it takes them into a new area. But I had that decision very much baked into the growth journey.”"

"The real leadership challenge is how to deliver sustainable improvement year in and year out – someone said to me it’s more a marathon than a sprint.”"