"“Encouraging someone to take part is really like giving them a gift for life. There are not many things where you can say, ‘I’m going to do that, I am going to do some good and I’m going to get a medal for it’.”"

"Citing moves in recent years to hold hearings in public and publish decision summaries."

"have always believed we have lots to gain and nothing to lose by being more open about our work."

"I think there are arguments for making changes to the criminal justice system."

"If somebody is recalled back to custody and actually the risk doesn’t warrant it, then an executive release is a much faster process."

"There must have been some kind of unconscious bias in those processes, we're not going to have those processes next time around."

"At the moment we have no black Parole Board members and that's of significant concern to me."

"We saw the departure of our previous chair in difficult circumstances, the board was subject to unprecedented amount of publicity, the like of which we haven't experienced before, and I think there was a loss of confidence amongst ourselves a little bit."

"It was obviously a very difficult period for the board."

"Loss of confidence" among board members."

"Unconscious bias" had affected recruitment for the board, which decides when serious offenders in England and Wales can leave jail."

"My mission is to continue to make sure the product offer is right for the high street retailer’s customers, and not “look over her shoulders” at what competitors are doing."

"I’m also proud of our team and their growth, having played a part in their progression as a manager. It’s very rewarding to help people achieve their career objectives."

"I did plan my move to digital as I thought it would offer me more longevity, but my career was never plotted out from start to finish."

"I was a working mum for a long time which affected my options, but I did make sure that I was abreast of changes that were happening as I looked for the best opportunities for me."

"I oversee any new customers at any level during the onboarding process – we run a very busy help desk for Premium account holders and end-users for myTrip."

"I’m Head of Customer Services and am responsible for the customer service team and all interactions between Passenger and customers."

"I’ve worked for Passenger for almost 3 years, beginning my career here in July 2018."

"I needed a third module to complete my degree and chose systems engineering, thinking that it was about computer systems,” she says. It was definitely not what she was expecting but in a good way and it moved her career firmly into the engineering sector. It is clear she now thrives on the opportunities engineering offers."

"Teachers and parents don’t see engineers in society. Most people who become engineers already have a family member in the industry"

"The general public still doesn’t see engineers in the way it does doctors or lawyers. You see doctors and lawyers portrayed on television and in fiction, but engineering only has visibility in documentary formats, so Inwed has an important role to promote the profession.”"

"It is important to remember that still only 16% of the engineering workforce are women but in society, women make up 51% of the population"

"Engineering is harder to get into as a girl. Schools will generally funnel girls towards law or medicine"

"Access what makes you happy"

"Being astute and positive"

"Remember kindness in business & in life"

"Have you done your best."

"Are you ready to go."

"Being kind will be considered cool"

"I was particularly interested in attending this series of talks because I personally love hearing about the journey that successful business people have taken to get to the positions they’re in now."

"So if we said to Erdem or Roksanda, “Help, we’ve run out of stock,” they would be incredibly helpful about making more for us."

"They were all quite new at the same time as we were launching on the internet."

"Tom smartly put computers in even back then and we gathered everyone’s address, and that became email, and so we already had all the data we were really connected to our customers by the time we launched online."

"I would spend my Saturdays rifling through thrift stores and saving up for things I couldn’t afford."

"I was always fascinated by the power of clothes and how clothes and fashion are evolving."

"They all had powerful personalities and a lot of it was expressed through their clothes."

"Art has been woven into our lives. The children have taken it up, too. Our 15-year-old does wonderful paintings."

"We have the same approach to art that we do when buying fashion."

"I remember one of the first artists I loved painted ballet dancers."

"For me it’s all about health and vitality and feeling really well; that makes a huge difference."

"I don’t mind being older, at all."

"I was very happy when we were just retail but our customers were travelling all over the world and it made sense that they could shop with us when they weren’t in London."

"We went online 10 years ago and it’s grown very organically."

"I get more and more confident about what we’re doing all the time."

"We’ve moved on from that, we’ve taken away uncertainty, which is good; that breeds positivity in British enterprise and the economy."

"I have also done a lot of work with the Prince’s Trust, working with more disadvantaged, or less advantaged, young people, helping them to become successful either in long-term employment or as entrepreneurs."

"I love investing in young entrepreneurs. I am a big supporter of entrepreneurial hubs and accelerators."

"What I saw in Ed when he came through the doors was a very raw young man, but someone with a lot of potential."

"I invested in Ed Hollands on Dragon’s Den; Ed has the ‘Driven Media’ business, which is a very simple business in the concept of advertising on the side of lorries."